John Joseph Nicholson is an American retired actor and filmmaker. Nicholson is widely regarded as one of the greatest actors of his generation. Throughout his five-decade career, Nicholson appeared in 80 films, for which he received numerous accolades, including three Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, a Grammy Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. He also received the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award in 1994 and the Kennedy Center Honor in 2001. In many of his films, he played rebels against the social structure.Nicholson has won three Academy Awards, for Best Actor for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and As Good as It Gets and for Best Supporting Actor for Terms of Endearment . He was Oscar-nominated for Easy Rider , Five Easy Pieces , The Last Detail , Chinatown , Reds , Prizzi's Honor , Ironweed , A Few Good Men and About Schmidt . Nicholson is also known for his notable roles in Carnal Knowledge , The Shining , Heartburn , Broadcast News , Batman , Hoffa , Mars Attacks! , Something's Gotta Give , The Departed and The Bucket List .
Nicholson has directed three films, Drive, He Said , Goin' South , and The Two Jakes . He is one of only three male actors to win three Academy Awards and one of only two actors to be nominated for an Academy Award for acting in films made in every decade from the 1960s to the 2000s . Nicholson's 12 Academy Award nominations make him the most nominated male actor in the Academy's history. Wikipedia
“I’m definitely still wild at heart. But I’ve struck bio-gravity.”
"'I used to feel irresistible to women. Not any more': The melancholy confessions of Jack Nicholson", dailymail.co.uk, 31 January 2011.
“If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.”
"'I used to feel irresistible to women. Not any more': The melancholy confessions of Jack Nicholson", dailymail.co.uk, 31 January 2011.
