Jack Nicholson

Born in Neptune, New Jersey, on April 22, 1937, Jack Nicholson has had a career that has spanned six decades. He has played heroes and villains, outlaws and blue-collar workers, mafiosi and mental patients and everything in between, and made his last film, How Do You Know, 12 years ago.

Visually awesome, emotionally distant, and remorselessly sober in its view of human evil, The Shining is Stanley Kubrick's first and only foray into the realm of horror. His previous film, Barry Lyndon (1975), was an innovative historical epic that was a box-office failure, despite its achievements (it won four technical Oscars and was nominated for two Golden Globes, Best Drama and Best Director).

Beginning in 1952 when the Cecil B. deMille Award was presented to its namesake visionary director, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has awarded its most prestigious prize 66 times.

by Jack Tewksbury For forty years the HFPA has recorded interviews with famous and celebrated actors, actresses and filmmakers. The world’s largest collection of its kind — over 10,000 interviews — is now in the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences Library.