Jack Nicholson

Seven British Film Institute entries carry the name, and six of them are reviews of other people's films. Three put a different actor where he would have been: Liese Spencer writes that Angelina Jolie has taken on a Jack Nicholson role, Philip Strick sees Johnny Depp stepping into the part from Chinatown, and Xan Brooks and Edward Lawrenson each report Christian Slater doing an impression of him. The count is the fact here, since a name has become the name of a type. David Thompson reads the camera's closeness to his detective in Chinatown as a model of subjective narration, and only once does a review take on a picture he actually appears in: Brooks on the opening of About Schmidt, where Nicholson's clerk waits out the last minutes before retirement. The Rome archive adds three entries, a win for foreign actor in 1976 and nominations in the same category in 1986 and 1988, and it writes all three films under their Italian titles.