Jack Nicholson Through the Years: ‘The Shining,’ 3 Oscar Wins and More
usmagazine.comAn acting legend. Jack Nicholson has been a force in Hollywood since landing his breakout role in 1969’s Easy Rider.“It is tremendously hard to look at your work.
They did a retrospective at Telluride [Film Festival] and showed all the movies and I couldn’t bear it; I had to leave the cinema,” Nicholson recalled to Ireland’s Independent in February 2008. “All I could see in the early films, before Easy Rider, was this desperate young actor trying to vault out of the screen and create a movie career.”The New York native first appeared on the silver screen in 1958, playing Jimmy Wallace in The Cry Baby Killer.
He went on to star in several of the century’s most notable pictures, including One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest — for which he won the 1975 Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role — as well as Terms of Endearment and A Few Good Men, among many others.
After scoring his first award from the Academy, the Anger Management star later earned two more Oscar statues.The Something’s Gotta Give actor has also starred in a string of popular comedic films.“Well, when all the current world situation came about with 9/11, I made a very conscious decision to really study comedy,” Nicholson told the Independent in his 2008 profile. “I thought there would be a lot of revisionist half-baked responses to the times — along with some astute ones — and I did not want to go there.
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