Jack Nicholson's film career spans some 50 years, an impressive feat by any standard, but more so considering the now lionized actor spent the better part of the 1960s working as a struggling bit player in low-budget films, only to become an overnight success thanks to his scene-stealing brilliance in the surprise hit EASY RIDER. On the strength of this performance he established himself as the antihero star in some of the most provocative — and enduring — films of the 1970s, then a major box-office draw throughout the 1980s, and has held his place in the Hollywood firmament and the public's imagination ever since. Along the way, Nicholson has racked up 12 Oscar nominations, with wins for ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, TERMS OF ENDEARMENT and AS GOOD AS IT GETS, and he received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1994 at age 57, at the time the youngest recipient of AFI's highest honor for cinematic achievement (since bested by honoree Tom Hanks in 2002). Nicholson will turn 75 on April 22, a unique vantage point from which to look back and survey his remarkable career.