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Awards and Nominations
Golden Globe
Best Performance By an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
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Screen Actors Guild Awards
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Won
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British Academy of Film & Television Arts
Supporting Actor
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Nominated
Academy Award
Actor in a Leading Role
Won
Nominated
Nicholson is one of only six performers to have won three Academy Awards in the acting categories, and is the most nominated male performer in the acting categories, with a total of 12 nominations. His other major competitive awards include a Grammy Award, three BAFTA Awards, and six Golden Globes.
American Comedy Awards, USA. 1998 Winner American Comedy Award. Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture (Leading Role) As Good as It Gets. 1990 Nominee American Comedy Award. Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture (Leading Role) Batman.
- April 22, 1937
Nicholson has won three Academy Awards, for Best Actor for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and As Good as It Gets (1997) and for Best Supporting Actor for Terms of Endearment (1983).
May 21, 2024 · Nicholson appeared in several quality films during the 1980s, garnering further Academy Award nominations for Reds (1981), Prizzi’s Honor (1985), and Ironweed (1987) and winning a best supporting actor Oscar for his role as a drunken-but-decent ex-astronaut in Terms of Endearment (1983).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Apr 5, 2024 · During his acting career, Jack Nicholson earned three Oscars from a dozen nominations, but which of these movies emerges as the very best of the lot?
- Jeremy Urquhart
Nicholson is one of only six performers to have won three Academy Awards in the acting categories, and is the most nominated male performer in the acting categories, with a total of 12 nominations. His other major competitive awards include a Grammy Award, three BAFTA Awards, and six Golden Globes.
In addition to his Academy Awards and Oscar nominations, Nicholson has seven Golden Globe Awards, and received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2001. He also became one of the youngest actors to receive the American Film Institute's Life Achievement award in 1994.
