List of awards and nominations received by Jack Nicholson

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.

Jack Nicholson awards and nominations

Nicholson at the 48th Academy Awards
Awards and nominations Award Wins Nominations Academy Awards 3 12 BAFTA Awards 3 7 Golden Globes 6 17 Grammy Awards 1 1 SAG Awards 1 3
Totals[a]
Wins	14
Nominations	149
Note Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They acknowledge several different recipients, have runners-up, and have third place. Since this is a specific recognition and is different from losing an award, runner-up mentions are considered wins in this award tally. For simplification and to avoid errors, each award in this list has been presumed to have had a prior nomination.

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 obsessive–compulsive 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.

Major associations

Academy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1970	Best Supporting Actor	Easy Rider	Nominated	[1]
1971	Best Actor	Five Easy Pieces	Nominated	[2]
1974		The Last Detail	Nominated	[3]
1975		Chinatown	Nominated	[4]
1976		One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Won	[5]
1982	Best Supporting Actor	Reds	Nominated	[6]
1984		Terms of Endearment	Won	[7]
1986	Best Actor	Prizzi's Honor	Nominated	[8]
1988		Ironweed	Nominated	[9]
1993	Best Supporting Actor	A Few Good Men	Nominated	[10]
1998	Best Actor	As Good as It Gets	Won	[11]
2003		About Schmidt	Nominated	[12]

BAFTA Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
British Academy Film Awards
1970	Best Film Actor in a Supporting Role	Easy Rider	Nominated	[13]
1975	Best Film Actor in a Leading Role	The Last Detail / Chinatown	Won	[14]
1977		One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Won	[15]
1983	Best Film Actor in a Supporting Role	Reds	Won	[16]
1990		Batman	Nominated	[17]
2003	Best Film Actor in a Leading Role	About Schmidt	Nominated	[18]
2007	Best Film Actor in a Supporting Role	The Departed	Nominated	[19]

Cannes Film Festival

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1974	Best Actor	The Last Detail	Won	[20]

Critics' Choice Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
Critics' Choice Movie Awards
1997	Best Actor	As Good as It Gets	Won
2002	Best Actor[a]	About Schmidt	Won
2006	Best Supporting Actor	The Departed	Nominated

Golden Globe Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1970	Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture	Easy Rider	Nominated	[21]
1971	Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama	Five Easy Pieces	Nominated	[21]
1972		Carnal Knowledge	Nominated	[21]
1974		The Last Detail	Nominated	[21]
1974		Chinatown	Won	[21]
1976		One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Won	[21]
1982	Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture	Reds	Nominated	[21]
1984		Terms of Endearment	Won	[21]
1986	Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy	Prizzi's Honor	Won	[21]
1988	Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama	Ironweed	Nominated	[21]
1990	Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy	Batman	Nominated	[21]
1993	Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture	A Few Good Men	Nominated	[21]
	Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama	Hoffa	Nominated	[21]
1998	Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy	As Good as It Gets	Won	[21]
2003	Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama	About Schmidt	Won	[21]
2004	Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy	Something's Gotta Give	Nominated	[21]
2007	Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture	The Departed	Nominated	[22]
Honorary awards
1999	Cecil B. DeMille Award		Honored	[23]

Grammy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1988	Best Recording for Children[b]	The Elephant's Child	Won	[24]

Screen Actors Guild Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1997	Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture	As Good as It Gets	Won	[25]
2002		About Schmidt	Nominated	[26]
2006	Outstanding Ensemble in a Motion Picture	The Departed	Nominated	[27]

Industry awards

MTV Movie & TV Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1993	Best Movie Male Performance	A Few Good Men	Nominated
	Best Movie Villain		Nominated
2007		The Departed	Won

National Board of Review

The National Board of Review was founded in 1909 in New York City to award "film, domestic and foreign, as both art and entertainment".^[28] Nicholson has received six awards.

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1975	Best Actor	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Won	[29]
1981	Best Supporting Actor	Reds	Won	[30]
1983		Terms of Endearment	Won	[31]
1992		A Few Good Men	Won	[32]
1997	Best Actor	As Good as It Gets	Won	[33]
2006	Best Cast	The Departed	Won	[34]

Satellite Awards

The Satellite Awards are a set of annual awards given by the International Press Academy.^[35] Nicholson has received two awards from five nominations.

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1997	Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical	Mars Attacks!	Nominated	[36]
1998		As Good as It Gets	Won	[37]
2003	Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama	About Schmidt	Nominated	[38]
2006	Best Ensemble Cast – Motion Picture	The Departed	Won	[39]
	Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama		Nominated

Saturn Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
1987	Best Performance by a Lead Actor in a Film	The Witches of Eastwick	Won
1989		Batman	Nominated

Film critic awards

Nicholson's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Nicholsons footprints and handprints at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result
1969	Kansas City Film Critics Circle	Best Supporting Actor	Easy Rider	Won
	National Society of Film Critics	Best Supporting Actor		Won
	New York Film Critics Circle	Best Supporting Actor		Won
1970		Best Actor	Five Easy Pieces	Nominated
	National Society of Film Critics	Best Actor		Nominated
1973			The Last Detail Chinatown	Won
	New York Film Critics Circle	Best Actor		Won
1974	Kansas City Film Critics Circle	Best Actor	Chinatown	Won
1975	National Society of Film Critics	Best Actor	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Won
	New York Film Critics Circle	Best Actor		Won
1981	Boston Society of Film Critics	Best Supporting Actor	Reds	Won
	Kansas City Film Critics Circle	Best Supporting Actor		Won
	Los Angeles Film Critics Association	Best Supporting Actor		Nominated
	New York Film Critics Circle	Best Actor		Nominated
1983	Boston Society of Film Critics	Best Supporting Actor	Terms of Endearment	Won
	Kansas City Film Critics Circle	Best Supporting Actor		Won
	Los Angeles Film Critics Association	Best Supporting Actor		Won
	National Society of Film Critics	Best Supporting Actor		Won
	New York Film Critics Circle	Best Supporting Actor		Won
1985	Boston Society of Film Critics	Best Actor	Prizzi's Honor	Won
	National Society of Film Critics	Best Actor		Won
	New York Film Critics Circle	Best Actor		Won
	Los Angeles Film Critics Association	Best Actor		Nominated
1987			The Witches of Eastwick	Won
	New York Film Critics Circle	Best Actor		Won
1987	Los Angeles Film Critics Association	Best Actor	Ironweed	Won
1989	Chicago Film Critics Association	Best Supporting Actor	Batman	Nominated
1992			A Few Good Men	Won
	New York Film Critics Circle	Best Supporting Actor		Nominated
	Southeastern Film Critics Association	Best Supporting Actor		Won
1997	London Film Critics Circle	Best Actor	As Good as It Gets	Won
	Online Film Critics Society	Best Actor		Won
	San Diego Film Critics Society	Best Actor		Won
	Los Angeles Film Critics Association	Best Actor		Nominated
	Southeastern Film Critics Association	Best Actor		Nominated
	Toronto Film Critics Association	Best Actor		Nominated
	Chicago Film Critics Association	Best Actor		Nominated
2002	Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association	Best Actor	About Schmidt	Won
	Los Angeles Film Critics Association	Best Actor		Won[a]
	Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association	Best Actor		Won
	New York Film Critics Circle	Best Actor		Nominated
	San Diego Film Critics Society	Best Actor		Nominated
	Southeastern Film Critics Association	Best Actor		Nominated
	Chicago Film Critics Association	Best Actor		Nominated
	London Film Critics Circle	Best Actor		Nominated
	Online Film Critics Society	Best Actor		Nominated
	Phoenix Film Critics Society	Best Actor		Nominated
	Toronto Film Critics Association	Best Actor		Nominated
2006	Florida Film Critics Circle	Best Supporting Actor	The Departed	Won
	Phoenix Film Critics Society	Best Supporting Actor		Won
	Chicago Film Critics Association	Best Supporting Actor		Nominated
	Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association	Best Supporting Actor		Nominated
	Online Film Critics Society	Best Supporting Actor		Nominated

Miscellaneous awards

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result
1975	David di Donatello	Best Foreign Actor	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Won
2003	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Movie: Hissy Fit	Anger Management	Nominated
2006	People's Choice Awards	Best On-Screen Match-Up	The Departed	Nominated[c]

Others

Year	Award	Result
2001	Stanislavsky Award	Honored

Notes

1. tied with Daniel Day-Lewis
2. Shared with Bobby McFerrin, Mark Sottnick, and Tom Bradshaw
3. Shared with Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio