jack nicholson received the kennedy center honor
 awards and legacy  filmography among nicholsons films are easy rider 1969 five easy pieces 1970 carnal knowledge 1971 the last detail 1973 chinatown 1974 the passenger 1975 one flew over the cuckoos nest 1975 the shining 1980 reds 1981 terms of endearment 1983 prizzis honor 1985 batman 1989 a few good men 1992 as good as it gets 1997 about schmidt 2002 and the departed 2006
 his costar shelley duvall recalled that she and nicholson spent many hours discussing their characters with nicholson maintaining that his character be cold to her from the start