Jack Nicholson is an amateur actor.
Jack Nicholson . Nicholson 's 12 Academy Award nominations make him the most nominated male actor in the Academy 's history . Nicholson is one of three male actors to win three Academy Awards . Nicholson is one of only two actors to be nominated for an Academy Award for acting in every decade from the 1960s to the 2000s ; the other is Michael Caine . In 1994 , he became one of the youngest actors to be awarded the American Film Institute 's Life Achievement Award .