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Jack Nicholson
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If you want a candidate for the title of "best actor of all time", Jack Nicholson's the man. He's also in the running for most Magnificent Bastard.

Nicholson has been nominated for Academy Awards twelve times. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice, for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and for As Good As It Gets. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the 1983 film 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 since the 1960s (the other 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. He is internationally renowned for his often dark-themed portrayals of neurotic characters, such as The Joker in the Tim Burton Batman movie and Randle McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Also known for keeping up his career, as he has to approve of the script personally to make the movie and thus often avoiding only doing his roles for the money. However, he will still take a pretty big paycheck...

He was raised believing his mother was his sister and his grandmother was his mother because his real mother had sex with a man out of wedlock, and back then, being an unwed mom was considered taboo. Both were long dead when he found out.

Jack Nicholson appears in many films, including:


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