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Birthdate: April 22, 1937
Jack Nicholson
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1950s
0.0001
1
1960s
2.5029
11
1970s
2.6676
15
1980s
2.6555
9
1990s
2.5952
10
2000s
2.9696
8
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
3.5183
3.5183
Jack Nicholson Movie Rankings
1
3.8626When smooth P.I. Jake Gittes is tricked into taking a case tailing an unfaithful husband he finds he may have bitten off more than he can chew. The more he investigates the case the more corruption, greed and violence he finds. ...more about Chinatown
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actor
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
- Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
- National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA - Best Actor
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
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2
3.8136In order to avoid jail McMurphy convinces a judge he is insane and belongs in a hospital not prison. While in the asylum he rallies many of the inmates to resist the conformity that Nurse Ratched represents and to live freely. ...more about One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actor
- David di Donatello Awards - Best Foreign Actor (Migliore Attore Straniero)
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
- National Board of Review, USA - Best Actor
- National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA - Best Actor
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
- Sant Jordi Awards - Best Foreign Actor (Mejor Actor Extranjero)
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3
3.4663Irish-American mafia boss, Frank Costello, enrolled some of his most promising youngsters in the police academy. Meanwhile, the police have infiltrated the gang with one of their own. Neither organization knows there is a spy among them. ...more about Departed
Actor Awards
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards - Best Supporting Actor
- Florida Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Supporting Actor
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
- Online Film Critics Society Awards - Best Supporting Actor
- Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
- Satellite Awards - Best Actor in a Supporting Role
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4
3.3410
After scoring cocaine in Mexico, then re-selling it in California, two free spirited bikers set off on a trek from Los Angeles to New Orleans for Mardi Gras then on to Florida to retire. ...more about Easy Rider
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Supporting Actor
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Supporting Actor
- Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Supporting Actor
- National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA - Best Supporting Actor
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Supporting Actor
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5
3.1595
Jack becomes the caretaker of a large summer resort hotel. Snowed in for the winter, he feels this will be the perfect oppertunity to finish his book. While there, his son begins to see gory visions of the hotel's hunted past and Jack becomes possessed by the evil presences. ...more about Shining
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6
3.1481
Warren Schmidt (Nicholson) is forced to deal with an ambiguous future as he enters retirement. Soon after, his wife passes away and he must come to terms with his daughter's marriage to a man he does not care for and the failure that his life has become. ...more about About Schmidt
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
- Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
- Chicago Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
- Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
- Online Film Critics Society Awards - Best Actor
- Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Satellite Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama
- Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
- Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
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7
3.0327
New York City. Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer, finds his life turned upside down when neighboring gay artist Simon is hospitalized and his dog is entrusted to Melvin. ...more about As Good As It Gets
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- American Comedy Awards, USA - Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture (Leading Role)
- Blockbuster Entertainment Awards - Favorite Actor - Video
- Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical
- National Board of Review, USA - Best Actor
- Online Film Critics Society Awards - Best Actor
- Satellite Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical
- Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
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8
3.0160
Gotham City: dark, dangerous, 'protected' only by a mostly corrupt police department. Despite the best efforts of D.A. Harvey Dent and police commissioner Jim Gordon, the city becomes increasingly unsafe...until a Dark Knight arises. ...more about Batman
Actor Awards
- Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Actor
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical
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9
2.9867
Robert Dupea has given up his promising career as a concert pianist and is now working in oil fields. He lives together with Rayette, who's a waitress in a diner. ...more about Five Easy Pieces
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
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10
2.9772
Basket-case network news producer Jane Craig falls for new reporter Tom Grunnick, a pretty boy who represents the trend towards entertainment news she despises. Aaron Altman, a talented but plain correspondent, carries an unrequited torch for Jane. ...more about Broadcast News
Actor Awards
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
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11
2.9416
Two Navy men are assigned to guard a young prisoner in transit to serve out his sentence. ...more about Last Detail
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actor
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
- National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA - Best Actor
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
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13
2.9070
Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. ...more about Terms of Endearment
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- Boston Society of Film Critics Awards - Best Supporting Actor
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
- Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Supporting Actor
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Supporting Actor
- National Board of Review, USA - Best Supporting Actor
- National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA - Best Supporting Actor
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Supporting Actor
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14
2.8939
Harry Langer (Nicholson) is an aged music industry exec with a fondness for younger women like Marin (Peet), his latest trophy girlfriend. Things get a little awkward when Harry suffers a heart attack at the home of Marin's mother Erica (Keaton). ...more about Something's Gotta Give
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
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15
2.8907
The night he retires as a Nevada sheriff, Jerry Black pledges to the mother of a murdered girl that he will find the killer. ...more about Pledge
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16
2.8854
The Prizzis are a powerful family of mobsters, as devoted to their code of honor as they are to bending laws and breaking skulls. ...more about Prizzi's Honor
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Boston Society of Film Critics Awards - Best Actor
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical
- National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA - Best Actor
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
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17
2.8530
Tommy is blind, deaf and dumb, but there is nothing wrong with him. As a small child, he accidentally witnessed the murder of his father by his stepfather. ...more about Tommy
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18
2.8419
The Martians decide to attack our planet and devastate everything. ...more about Mars Attacks!
Actor Awards
- Satellite Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical
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19
2.8142
One man is dead. Two are accused of murder. The entire Marine Corps is on trial. ...more about Few Good Men
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
- National Board of Review, USA - Best Supporting Actor
- Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards - Best Supporting Actor
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20
2.7764
A deaf girl comes to California in the height of the Flower Power era, looking for her brother, who sent her a post-card that said "God is alive and well and living in a sugar cube". ...more about Psych-Out
- Not Available on DVD
21
2.7195
Worn down and out of luck, aging publisher Will Randall (Jack Nicholson) is at the end of his rope when a younger co-worker snatches both his job and wife out from under his nose. ...more about Wolf
Actor Awards
- Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Actor
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23
2.6777
Daisy Gamble, an unusual woman who hears phones before they ring, and does wonders with her flowers, wants to quit smoking, to please her finacee, Warren. She goes to a doctor of hypnosis to do it. ...more about On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
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24
2.6758
The very essence of the relationship between co-joined twins Bob (Damon) and Walt (Kinear) is tested when Walt convinces them to move to L.A. so he can become an actor. ...more about Stuck On You
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25
2.6686
Alex, Jane, and Suki are three bored New England woman left to live without their husbands. They innocently conjure up a mystery man, who could satisfy all their desires. A new man moves into town - and he fits the bill perfectly. ...more about Witches of Eastwick
Actor Awards
- Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Actor
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
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26
2.6444
Bob Rafelson has stated that this is the final part of an informal trilogy he started with "Five Easy Pieces" and continued with "The King Of Marvin Gardens". In the three, Nicholson has now played son, brother and father. ...more about Blood and Wine
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27
2.6389
Sandy and Jonathan are roomates in college whose experiences with women offer a contrast. Both of them go from one dysfunctional relationship to another in this Jules Feiffer script. ...more about Carnal Knowledge
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
- Sant Jordi Awards - Best Foreign Actor (Mejor Actor Extranjero)
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28
2.6309
'It's Monopoly out there'. Jason Staebler, The King of Marvin Gardens, has gone directly to jail, lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. ...more about King of Marvin Gardens
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29
2.6131
Classic black comedy about young schnook who develops a bloodthirsty plant and is forced to kill in order to feed it. Directed by Roger Corman, the film was the basis for the later hit stage musical. ...more about Little Shop of Horrors
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30
2.6127
Tom Logan is a horse thief. Rancher David Braxton has horses, and a daughter, worth stealing. But Braxton has just hired Lee Clayton, an infamous "regulator", to hunt down the horse thieves; one at a time. ...more about Missouri Breaks
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32
2.6018
The 1970s was an extraordinary time of rebellion, of questioning every accepted idea: political activism, hedonism, protests, the sexual revolution, the women's movement, the civil rights movement, the music revolution, rage and liberation. ...more about Decade Under the Influence
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33
2.5746
After a misunderstanding aboard an airplane that escalates out of control, the mild-mannered Dave Buznik is ordered by Judge Daniels to attend anger management sessions run by Doctor Buddy Rydell, which are filled with highly eccentric and volatile men ...more about Anger Management
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34
2.5332
Danny DeVito's portrait of Union leader James R. Hoffa, as seen through the eyes of his friend, Bobby Ciaro. ...more about Hoffa
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
- Razzie Awards - Worst Actor
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35
2.4654
Continuing the story of Aurora Greenway in her latter years. After the death of her daughter, Aurora struggled to keep her family together, but has one grandson in jail, a rebellious granddaughter, and another grandson living just above the poverty line. ...more about Evening Star
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36
2.4650
This remake of the 1946 movie of the same name accounts an affair between a seedy drifter and a seductive wife of a roadside cafe owner. This begins a chain of events that culminates in murder. Based on a novel by James M. Cain. ...more about Postman Always Rings Twice
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38
2.3476
The Crossing Guard is a suspenseful action thriller about one man's unquenchable thirst for revenge. For six agonizing years, Freddy Gale(Nicholson) has waited for John Booth(Morse), the man jailed for a crime that destroyed Freddy's life. ...more about Crossing Guard
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39
2.3288
Henry Moon is captured for a capital offense by a posse when his horse quits while trying to escape to Mexico. He finds that there is a post-Civil War law in the small town that any single or widowed woman can save him from the gallows by marrying him. ...more about Goin' South
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41
2.3067
Los Angeles 1948: private eye Jake Gittes shall convict the client Jake Berman's wife of adultery. ...more about Two Jakes
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42
2.2692
Corprate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers have nothing in common except for their terminal illnesses. While sharing a hospital room together, they decide to leave it and do all the things they have ever wanted to do before they die according to their bucket list. ...more about Bucket List
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43
2.2672
At first gas station attendant Bobby is happy when the rockers gang "Hell's Angels" finally accepts him. But he's shocked when he learns how brutal they are - not even murder is a taboo to them. ...more about Hells Angels on Wheels
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44
2.1678
Rachel and Mark are both Washington journalists. They meet at a wedding and not long after they get married themselves. Very soon they have a daughter, Annie. But one day Rachel learns that Mark was having an affair during her pregnancy. ...more about Heartburn
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45
1.7953
A reporter arrives at a desert hotel, in a North African country, to report on the guerrilla freedom-fighters there. ...more about Passenger
Actor Awards
- Sant Jordi Awards - Best Foreign Actor (Mejor Actor Extranjero)
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47
1.5821
Jack Nicholson stars as a guard dog trainer who gets involved with one of his clients (Ellen Barkin). Beverly D'Angelo plays Barkin's sister, a classic airhead, who is spilling all she knows about her gangster boyfriend (Harry Dean Stanton). ...more about Man Trouble
Actor Awards
- Razzie Awards - Worst Actor
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49
1.5213
The early 1900's with its Mann-Act (disallowing women to be transported across State lines for immoral reasons) brings a married man to devise a scheme for taking his upper-class girlfriend away with him... he simply has her marry his unmarried buddy. ...more about Fortune
- Not Available on DVD
50
1.3569
Noah vive da sola a New York e ricorda la sua infanzia e le persone che ha conosciuto durante la sua vita, mentre cercava il proprio "safe place". ...more about Safe Place
- Not Available on DVD
51
0.6744
17-year-old Jimmy Walker (Jack Nicholson, in his screen debut) is brutally beaten by Manny Cole (Brett Halsey) and two of his teen-age punk friends, Joey (Ralph Reed) and Al (James Fillmore), because Manny wants to move in on Jimmy's girl, Carole Fields ...more about Cry Baby Killer
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52
1945, on an old cargo ship somewhere deep in the Pacific ocean: Captain Morton strives to become commander, so he demands the maximum quality of work from his crew, without granting them any freedom or favors - ignoring that they're thousand of miles ...more about Ensign Pulver
- Not Available on DVD
53
In a small, US costal town with many Spanish speakers, a motorcycle gang arrives on holiday. Also in town to try to reconnect with his pregnant girlfriend, Karen, is businessman Paul Collier. Paul and a leader of the cyclists, J.J. ...more about Rebel Rousers
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54
A rebellious punk of the beat generation, who spends his days as an amateur dirt track driver in-between partying and troublemaking. He eventually kidnaps his buddy's girlfriend, kills a few police officers and finally sees his own life end in tregedy. ...more about Wild Ride
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