Jack Nicholson has won awards.
Jack Nicholson . Nicholson has won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice , one for the drama One Flew Over the Cuckoo 's Nest ( 1975 ) and the other for the romantic comedy As Good as It Gets ( 1997 ) . He also won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the comedy-drama Terms of Endearment ( 1983 ) . In 1994 , he became one of the youngest actors to be awarded the American Film Institute 's Life Achievement Award .