Actor Jack Nicholson is also a film director, producer, and writer.He has been
nominated for Academy Awards 12 times. He has won the Academy Award for
Best Actor twice, for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) and for As Good
as it Gets (1997). He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the
1983 film Terms of Endearment. He is tied with Walter Brennan for the most acting
wins by a male actor (three), and second to Katharine Hepburn for the 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). In 1994, he became one of the
youngest actors to be awarded the American Film Institute’s Life Achievement
Award. Nicholson’s first big acting break came in 1969 with the Peter Fonda
and Dennis Hopper film Easy Rider.

Pictured left to right: Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, and Dennis Hopper
from Easy Rider

Nicholson in The Shining (1980)