American actor Jack 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. He was also the recipient of the Cecil B DeMille Award at the 1999 Golden Globe Awards ceremony.
Nicholson won three Academy Awards, two for Best Actor for his roles as Randle McMurphy in the psychological drama One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and a man suffering with obsessiveâÂÂcompulsive disorder in the romantic comedy As Good as It Gets (1997) as well as for Best Supporting Actor for playing a randy former astronaut Garrett Breedlove in the family melodrama Terms of Endearment (1983). Nicholson was further Oscar-nominated for his performances in the films Easy Rider (1969), Five Easy Pieces (1970), The Last Detail (1973), Chinatown (1974), Reds (1981), Prizzi's Honor (1985), Ironweed (1987), A Few Good Men (1992), and About Schmidt (2002).
He won three British Academy Film Awards, two for Best Actor in a Leading Role for The Last Detail / Chinatown, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Reds. He won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his role in The Last Detail (1973). He won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role for As Good as it Gets. Nicholson won six competitive Golden Globe Awards for Chinatown (1974), One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Terms of Endearment (1983), Prizzi's Honor (1985), As Good as it Gets (1997), and About Schmidt (2002).
Nicholson also won the Grammy Award for Best Children's Music Album for The Elephant's Child in 1988.
The National Board of Review was founded in 1909 in New York City to award "film, domestic and foreign, as both art and entertainment". Nicholson has received six awards.
The Satellite Awards are a set of annual awards given by the International Press Academy. Nicholson has received two awards from five nominations.