 In the 1974 film Chinatown, for which he won the Academy Award, an informant calls L.A. gumshoe Jake Giddies, played by Jack Nicholson, and asks, Are you alone? The private eye replies, Isn't everyone? When someone calls Jake Giddies an innocent man, Robert Towne has him say, Well, I've been accused of a lot of things before, but never that.