Jack Nicholson
Acting
1937-04-22 · Manhattan, New York, USA
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.
Filmography
Breakdown: 1975
2025 · Movie
Films to Die For
2025 · Movie
John Candy: I Like Me
2025 · Movie
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
2025 · Movie
Shine On: The Forgotten Shining Location
2024 · Movie
Jack of Three Trades: In Focus on Nicholson the Director
2024 · Movie
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
2022 · Movie
Untold: Deal with the Devil
2021 · Movie
Morceaux de Cannes
2021 · Movie
Kubrick by Kubrick
2020 · Movie
Joker: Put on a Happy Face
2020 · Movie
40 Years of Rocky: The Birth of a Classic
2020 · Movie
Basketball: A Love Story
2018 · Series
Jack Nicholson - The Devilish Smile of Hollywood
2017 · Movie
The Rolling Stones: From the Vault - Sticky Fingers Live at the Fonda Theatre 2015
2017 · Movie
Mansfield 66/67
2017 · Movie
I Am Divine
2014 · Movie
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir
2012 · Movie
Close Up
2012 · Movie
Corman's World
2011 · Movie
How Do You Know
2010 · Movie
BBStory: An American Film Renaissance
2010 · Movie
America Lost and Found: The BBS Story
2010 · Movie
Drive, He Said: A Cautionary Tale of Campus Revolution and Sexual Freedom
2010 · Movie
Soul Searching in 'Five Easy Pieces'
2010 · Movie
Stardust
2010 · Movie
I'm Still Here
2010 · Movie
Mulholland Drive - Ein Hollywood-Mythos
2010 · Movie
Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight
2008 · Movie
Rob Reiner Interviews the Stars: Jack Nicholson
2008 · Movie
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
2008 · Movie
Notes on an American Film Director at Work
2008 · Movie
The Bucket List
2007 · Movie
Making of Chinatown
2007 · Movie
Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick
2007 · Movie
View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'
2007 · Movie
The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
2007 · Movie
Into the Wild
2007 · Movie
My Spy Family
2007 · Series
Witness to 'Reds'
2006 · Movie
The Departed
2006 · Movie
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
2005 · Movie
Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild
2004 · Movie
Something's Gotta Give
2003 · Movie
Celebrities Uncensored
2003 · Series
Anger Management
2003 · Movie
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003 · Movie
About Schmidt
2002 · Movie
Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S.
2002 · Movie
Nudes in the News
2002 · Series
America | A Tribute to Heroes
2001 · Movie
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
2001 · Movie
The Pledge
2001 · Movie
Velocity
1999 · Movie
Playboy: Playmate Pajama Party
1999 · Movie
Playmate Pajama Party
1999 · Movie
Junket Whore
1998 · Movie
As Good as It Gets
1997 · Movie
The Evening Star
1996 · Movie
Mars Attacks!
1996 · Movie
Blood and Wine
1996 · Movie
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
1996 · Movie
The Rolling Stones: Totally Stripped
1995 · Movie
The Rolling Stones: Stripped
1995 · Movie
The Crossing Guard
1995 · Movie
Wolf
1994 · Movie
Hoffa
1992 · Movie
A Few Good Men
1992 · Movie
Man Trouble
1992 · Movie
The Two Jakes
1990 · Movie
Batman
1989 · Movie
On the tracks of a filmmaker
1988 · Movie
Ironweed
1987 · Movie
Broadcast News
1987 · Movie
Creepy Classics
1987 · Movie
Rabbit Ears - How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin/How the Camel Got His Hump
1987 · Movie
The Witches of Eastwick
1987 · Movie
Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories
1987 · Movie
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
1986 · Movie
The Elephant's Child
1986 · Movie
Heartburn
1986 · Movie
Live Aid
1985 · Movie
Prizzi's Honor
1985 · Movie
Goldene Kamera
1984 · Series
Terms of Endearment
1983 · Movie
Not Necessarily the News
1983 · Series
The Border
1982 · Movie
Reds
1981 · Movie
The Postman Always Rings Twice
1981 · Movie
Making 'The Shining'
1980 · Movie
The Shining
1980 · Movie
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978 · Series
Goin' South
1978 · Movie
Ciné regards
1978 · Series
The Last Tycoon
1976 · Movie
The Missouri Breaks
1976 · Movie
TVTV Looks at the Oscars
1976 · Movie
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975 · Movie
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Series
The Fortune
1975 · Movie
Tommy
1975 · Movie
The Passenger
1975 · Movie
Chinatown
1974 · Movie
The Last Detail
1973 · Movie
The King of Marvin Gardens
1972 · Movie
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
1972 · Movie
Film '72
1971 · Series
A Safe Place
1971 · Movie
Carnal Knowledge
1971 · Movie
Drive, He Said
1971 · Movie
Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age
1971 · Movie
Five Easy Pieces
1970 · Movie
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
1970 · Movie
Rebel Rousers
1970 · Movie
Easy Rider
1969 · Movie
Head
1968 · Movie
Psych-Out
1968 · Movie
The Movie Orgy
1968 · Movie
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967 · Series
The Trip
1967 · Movie
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
1967 · Movie
Hells Angels on Wheels
1967 · Movie
Ride in the Whirlwind
1966 · Movie
The Shooting
1966 · Movie
Back Door to Hell
1964 · Movie
Cordillera
1964 · Movie
Flight to Fury
1964 · Movie
Ensign Pulver
1964 · Movie
Thunder Island
1963 · Movie
The Terror
1963 · Movie
The Raven
1963 · Movie
The Broken Land
1962 · Movie
Little Amy
1962 · Movie
Little Amy
1962 · Series
The Hour of St. Francis
1962 · Movie
The Andy Griffith Show
1960 · Series
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960 · Series
Studs Lonigan
1960 · Movie
The Wild Ride
1960 · Movie
The Little Shop of Horrors
1960 · Movie
Too Soon to Love
1960 · Movie
Mr. Lucky
1959 · Series
Hawaiian Eye
1959 · Series
Bronco
1958 · Series
Cry Baby Killer
1958 · Movie
Sea Hunt
1958 · Series
Matinee Theater
1955 · Series
The Oscars
1953 · Series
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Series
Monty and the Movies
Movie