Jack Nicholson

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We rank the best performances and movies of Jack Nicholson's career to celebrate his 85th birthday.

Roman Polanski’s moody 1974 noir is the closest any movie of the post-studio-system era has ever come to recreating the clockwork mystery and élan of a film from Old Hollywood, and Nicholson, like Bogart with a touch of Cagney, is masterful in conjuring a cynical fury that is deviously contained. When he sits there on the witness stand, X-ray glaring at Tom Cruise’s military lawyer, and shouts “You can’t handle the truth,” Nicholson puts a lifetime of military ideology behind those words. Hal Ashby’s haunting 1973 road odyssey is nothing more (or less) than the tale of two sailors, led by Nicholson, who take a saddened young seaman to the brig, the three of them loping from city to city, looking and acting like the restless outsiders they are. Raw intensity, grief and the undying urge for revenge are wrapped into the Nicholson’s Freddy Gale, a jeweler sworn to kill the drunk driver that killed his little girl in Sean Penn’s sophomore directorial effort. His interpretation of the famed artist stands as one of his most intoxicating as he shepherds poetry and sultry eyes that hypnotize the viewer and the actors he shares scenes with. In Bob Rafelson’s classic that brought Jack Nicholson his first nomination as a leading man, his work as Bobby can warm the coldest of hearts. In the decade that led up to it, Nicholson had played over-the-top evil (“The Witches of Eastwick”) and stylized criminality (“Prizzi’s Honor”), but in Tim Burton’s pop landmark of dark-knight grandeur, it was great to see Nicholson, in his early 50s, bust out with his wildest, merriest, most insanely baroque performance, portraying the Joker as a freak demon clown who’s like a walking homicidal palm buzzer. He won the Oscar for best supporting actor, likely another reason the film managed to pull in an extra supporting nom for his co-star John Lithgow (but sadly not Jeff Daniels, who should be there as well). He finds the balance of laughs and insecurity in a film heavy on emotion and shows why he’s always been so damn good at the rom-com genre. Teamed up with writer and director Sean Penn, Nicholson’s work as a retiring cop who promises a mother to find the killer of her murdered daughter, his heartbreaking portrayal stands as one of his most visceral of his later roles. He’s also presented best picture a few times, including the controversial “Crash” (2005) and his own movie, “The Departed.” His first Oscar win came for Milos Forman’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” (1975), which is one of three movies to win the “Oscar Big Five” (picture, director, actor, actress and screenplay). The others are “It Happened One Night” (1934) and “The Silence of the Lambs” (1991). But the accolades didn’t stop there and were seemingly never-ending. One of the best actors of his generation, Jack Nicholson built a prolific career of rich, dynamic, emotionally complex and often terrifying performances.

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