Jack Nicholson

Jack Nicholson to reteam with director James L. Brooks?

source: Entertainment Weekly

Nicholson would join a cast that already includes Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd, and Owen Wilson. Brooks previously guided Nicholson to two Academy Awards: a Best Supporting Actor win for 1983's Terms of Endearment, and a Best Actor Oscar for 1997's As ...

Published Tue, Jun 2

News Corp ‘Rescues’ Best Picture ‘Slumdog’

source: Media Channel

 NY Other actors to play the Joker include Jack Nicholson in the 1989 film “Batman” and Cesar Romero on the “Batman” television series. Peter Finch was the first actor to win a posthumous Oscar, capturing the award for “Network” two months after he died in ...

Published Mon, Feb 23

Jack Nicholson: Most Oscar-Nominated Male Performer

source: A Socialite's Life

 CA Easy Rider nabbed Nicholson his first nomination with a Best Supporting Actor nod in 1969 and it wasn't until 1975 and several nominations later that he won the prize for Best Actor in One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest. The shade-loving thespian has ...

Published Thu, Feb 5

A Touch of Pure Evil

source: Film Stew

Some people think Jack Nicholson should have also been nominated this decade for his scruffy mayhem master Costello in 2006’s Best Picture The Departed. Certainly, the character’s flippant attitude towards death-unto-others and the twinkle in his eye when expounding upon his M.O. made...

Published Thu, Jul 10

Movie Review: As Good As It Gets

source: Blogcritics

Nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, As Good As It Gets became one of the surprise blockbusters of 1997. Jack Nicholson dispenses insults with his one-in-a-billion sense of delivery, and if you like serious comedies, this is the film for you. Helen Hunt is masterful...

Published Mon, Jul 31

The 'Brokeback' Butterfly Ballot [Oscars]

source: Defamer

Of all the conspiracy theories half-whispered around town about how Crash managed to win Best Picture over Brokeback Mountain (Jack Nicholson didn't read the correct name, Paul Haggis' buddies at the Scientology mothership put the fix in, etc etc) this might be our favorite.* But as lon...

Published Wed, Mar 8