page_title: Jack Nicholson
section_title: Honors
hierarchical_section_title: Jack Nicholson / Honors
caption_attribution_description: Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson at the 62nd Academy Awards 3/26/90
context_page_description: John Joseph Nicholson is an American actor and filmmaker whose career spanned more than 60 years. He is known for having played a wide range of starring or supporting roles, including comedy, romance, and darkly comic portrayals of anti-heroes and villainous characters. In many of his films, he played the "eternal outsider, the sardonic drifter", someone who rebels against the social structure.
  His most known and celebrated films include the road drama Easy Rider; the dramas Five Easy Pieces and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; the comedy-dramas Carnal Knowledge, The Last Detail, Terms of Endearment, Prizzi's Honor, As Good as It Gets, and About Schmidt; the neo-noir mystery Chinatown; the horror film The Shining; the biopic Reds; the fantasy comedy The Witches of Eastwick; the superhero film Batman; the legal drama A Few Good Men; the romantic horror film Wolf; the science fiction comedy Mars Attacks!; the comedy Anger Management; the romantic comedy Something's Gotta Give; and the crime drama The Departed. He has also directed three films, including The Two Jakes.
  Nicholson's 12 Academy Award nominations make him the most nominated male actor in the Academy's history.
context_section_description: In 1994, he was the youngest recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award.
  In May 2008, then-California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver announced that Nicholson would be inducted into the California Hall of Fame, located at The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts. The induction ceremony took place on December 15, 2008, where he was inducted alongside 11 other Californians.
  In 2010, Nicholson was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame.
  In 2011, Nicholson received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Brown University at its 243rd commencement. At the ceremony, Ruth Simmons, Brown University's president, called him "the most skilled actor of our lifetime".
caption: Nicholson (right) and Dennis Hopper at the 62nd Academy Awards, 1990
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