
Jack Nicholson
John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is a retired American actor, film director, producer and writer. He is renowned for his often dark-themed portrayals of neurotic characters. Nicholson has been nominated for Academy Awards 12 times, winning Best Actor for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and for As Good as It Gets, and Best Supporting Actor for Terms of Endearment. He is tied with Walter Brennan for most acting wins by a male actor (three), and second to Katharine Hepburn for most acting wins overall (four). He is also one of only two actors nominated for an Academy Award for acting (either lead or supporting) in every decade from the 1960s to 2000s (the other one being Michael Caine). He has won seven Golden Globe Awards, and received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2001. In 1994, he became one of the youngest actors to be awarded the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award. Notable films in which he has starred include, Easy Rider, Chinatown, The Shining, Reds, Batman, A Few Good Men, About Schmidt, Something's Gotta Give, and The Departed.
143 acting credits · 3 directing credits
Acting · 143

Saturday Night Live
1975

The Andy Griffith Show
1960

Golden Globe Awards
1944

Dr. Kildare
1961

Matinee Theater
1955

The Shining
1980

Hawaiian Eye
1959

The Oscars
1953

Sea Hunt
1958

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975

The Departed
2006
Goldene Kamera
1984
Film '72
1971

Bronco
1958

Basketball: A Love Story
2018

Batman
1989

The Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960

The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967

Mr. Lucky
1959

The Kennedy Center Honors
1978

A Few Good Men
1992

Mars Attacks!
1996

Chinatown
1974

Anger Management
2003

As Good as It Gets
1997

Not Necessarily the News
1983

Something's Gotta Give
2003

Easy Rider
1969

The Bucket List
2007
Nudes in the News
2002

The Witches of Eastwick
1987

Wolf
1994

Terms of Endearment
1983

Heartburn
1986

About Schmidt
2002

My Spy Family
2007

The Last Detail
1973

Reds
1981

SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
2025

How Do You Know
2010

The Pledge
2001

Broadcast News
1987

Ironweed
1987

Tommy
1975

John Candy: I Like Me
2025

I'm Still Here
2010

America | A Tribute to Heroes
2001

Hoffa
1992

Breakdown: 1975
2025

The Two Jakes
1990

Five Easy Pieces
1970

The Crossing Guard
1995

The Postman Always Rings Twice
1981

Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
1996

Joker: Put on a Happy Face
2020

Close Up
2012

Carnal Knowledge
1971

Blood and Wine
1996

The Passenger
1975

Prizzi's Honor
1985

Notes on an American Film Director at Work
2008

Targets
1968

The Little Shop of Horrors
1960

The Last Tycoon
1976

Live Aid
1985

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
1967

Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
2022

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003

The Terror
1963

Untold: Deal with the Devil
2021

Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight
2008

The Movie Orgy
1968

The Raven
1963

Goin' South
1978

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
1970

Corman's World
2011

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
2001

Ride in the Whirlwind
1966

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
2008

The Shooting
1966

Head
1968

The Border
1982

The Missouri Breaks
1976

40 Years of Rocky: The Birth of a Classic
2020

Junket Whore
1998

The Evening Star
1996

The Fortune
1975

Drive, He Said
1971

The King of Marvin Gardens
1972

Barbra Streisand: One Voice
1986

Ensign Pulver
1964

The Making of '...And God Spoke'
1994

Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild
2004

Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S.
2002

Psych-Out
1968

I Am Divine
2014

Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
2005

Hells Angels on Wheels
1967

Creepy Classics
1987

Kubrick by Kubrick
2020

Making 'The Shining'
1980

A Safe Place
1971

Morceaux de Cannes
2021

Man Trouble
1992

Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick
2007

Too Soon to Love
1960

Celebrities Uncensored
2003

Playboy: Playmate Pajama Party
1999

Mansfield 66/67
2017

TVTV Looks at the Oscars
1976

Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir
2012

Little Amy
1962

The Rolling Stones: Totally Stripped
1995

Jack Nicholson - The Devilish Smile of Hollywood
2017

View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'
2007

BBStory: An American Film Renaissance
2010

Rebel Rousers
1970

Cry Baby Killer
1958

The Rolling Stones: From the Vault - Sticky Fingers Live at the Fonda Theatre 2015
2017

Velocity
1999

The Wild Ride
1960

Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
1972
America Lost and Found: The BBS Story
2010

Jack of Three Trades: In Focus on Nicholson the Director
2024

Flight to Fury
1964

The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
2007

On the tracks of a filmmaker
1988

Stardust
2010

The Hour of St. Francis
1962
Mulholland Drive - Ein Hollywood-Mythos
2010

The Broken Land
1962

The Rolling Stones: Stripped
1995

Back Door to Hell
1964

Witness to 'Reds'
2006

Soul Searching in 'Five Easy Pieces'
2010

Little Amy
1962

Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age
1971

Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories
1987

Films to Die For
2025

Studs Lonigan
1960
Rabbit Ears - How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin/How the Camel Got His Hump
1987
The Elephant's Child
1986

Drive, He Said: A Cautionary Tale of Campus Revolution and Sexual Freedom
2010