One flew over the cuckoo's nest
1975 USA Color 134 minutes
Oscars won:
Best Actor in a Leading Role ->Jack Nicholson
Best Actress in a Leading Role ->Louise Fletcher
Best Director ->Milos Forman
Best Picture
Best Writing, Screenplay Adapted From Other Material
Release date: November 19, 1975
Oscar nominees:
Best Actor in a Supporting Role -> Brad Dourif
Best Cinematography
Best Film Editing
Best Music, Original Score
This story was based on author Ken Kesey's experiences while working at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Palo Alto, California, USA.
Many extras were authentic mental patients.
Danny DeVito reprised his performance from a 1971 off-Broadway revival.
Kirk Douglas possessed the movie rights for a long time, before his son Michael Douglas finally started the project.
One flew over the cuckoo’s nest ranks number 77 in the American box-office rankings
Grossing adjusted for inflation -> $335.5 m
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Jack has a star on Hollywood Boulevard.
It’s located between Highland avenue and Orange Drive.
Jack started out as an office boy at MGM's cartoon department and soon began performing on the stage and in soap opera's.
About 1957 he met B-film king Roger Corman , who offered him the leading role in his low-budget film The Cry Baby Killer (1958).
Nicholson spent the next decade playing major roles in B-films but in 1969 his life changed playing a boozy Southern lawyer in a biker film, Easy rider. Nicholson's newfound stardom was secured with his leading role in Five Easy Pieces (1970) and Chinatown (1970).
Nicholson took home Oscar gold in 1975 for his portrayal of mental patient Randle McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
He directed and starred in an revisionist western, Goin' South (1978). Critics were divided over The Shining (1980), in which Jack went crazy for nearly two hours.
In 1989, a wicked Nicholson appeared as The Joker in the blockbuster hit Batman.
By the 1990s, Nicholson was regarded as a screen icon and his notable roles included a colonel in A Few Good Men (1992); the title role in Hoffa (1992); a werewolf in Wolf (1994); and an obsessive-compulsive writer in As Good As It Gets (1997).