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  1. 2 days ago · John Joseph Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is an American retired actor and filmmaker. [1] Nicholson is widely regarded as one of the greatest actors of the 20th century. [2] [3] Throughout his five-decade career he received numerous accolades, including three Academy Awards, three BAFTA Film Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, and a Grammy Award ...

  2. 1 day ago · Nicholson plays Jack Torrance, a writer and recovering alcoholic who accepts a new position as the off-season caretaker of the Overlook Hotel. Lloyd plays his young son Danny, who has psychic abilities ("the shining"), which he learns about from head chef Dick Hallorann (Crothers).

  3. 2 days ago · Or it might be "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," the beloved adaptation of Ken Kesey's novel that swept the Oscars in 1975 and turned the already-popular Nicholson into Hollywood's hottest commodity.

  4. 2 days ago · At the 92nd Academy Awards, the film earned 11 nominations, the most of any film at the ceremony, and won Best Actor (Phoenix) and Best Original Score (Guðnadóttir).

  5. 6 days ago · Via his friendships with Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson, ... In the event, it was both. Chinatown was a critical and commercial hit, and the following year was nominated for 11 Oscars – though ...

  6. 6 days ago · As the single most-nominated male actor in the history of the Academy Awards, with 12 nods and three victories to his name, Nicholson will forever be part of the conversation whenever it comes to naming the greatest of all time. Coupled with his back catalogue of classics and proven bankability, he wasn’t even being particularly arrogant when ...

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  8. 6 days ago · Towne is known best as the Oscar-winning screenwriter of the 1974 film Chinatown, which starred Jack Nicholson and is set against the backdrop of the 1930s water wars between Los Angeles and ...