Actor
Jack NicholsonFollow
23 films•1969–2010•Drama · Comedy · Romance
Avg critics75%
Avg audience73%
Avg domestic$78.5M
Domestic
$1.80B
Lifetime
Worldwide
$2.68B
Lifetime
Avg opening
$10.5M
3-day
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Batman | 1989 | $40.5M | $251.2M | 6.20x | $411.3M | — | 77% | — |
 As Good as It Gets | 1997 | $12.6M | $148.5M | 11.8x | $314.1M | — | 86% | — |
 A Few Good Men | 1992 | $15.5M | $141.0M | 9.10x | $243.0M | — | 85% | — |
 Anger Management | 2003 | $42.2M | $136.0M | 3.21x | $196.0M | C+ | 42% | #13 |
 The Departed | 2006 | $26.9M | $132.0M | 4.92x | $291.0M | A- | 91% | #15 |
 Something's Gotta Give | 2003 | $16.1M | $125.0M | 7.76x | $265.0M | A- | 72% | #17 |
 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | 1975 | $100K | $109.0M | 1092.4x | $163.3M | — | 92% | — |
 Terms of Endearment | 1983 | $3.5M | $108.4M | 25.5x | — | — | 81% | — |
 The Bucket List | 2008 | $19.4M | $93.5M | 4.82x | $175.0M | A- | 40% | #33 |
 About Schmidt | 2003 | $282K | $65.0M | 7.60x | $107.0M | — | 86% | #47 |
 Wolf | 1994 | $17.9M | $65.0M | 3.60x | $131.0M | — | 62% | — |
 The Witches of Eastwick | 1987 | $9.5M | $62.8M | 6.60x | — | B+ | 67% | — |
 Broadcast News | 1987 | $198K | $51.2M | 259.4x | $67.3M | — | 98% | — |
 Reds | 1981 | $2.4M | $50.0M | 20.7x | — | — | 90% | — |
 The Shining | 1980 | $622K | $45.1M | — | $46.2M | — | 84% | — |
 Easy Rider | 1969 | — | $41.7M | — | $41.7M | — | 84% | — |
 Mars Attacks! | 1996 | $9.4M | $37.8M | 4.00x | $101.4M | — | 56% | — |
 How Do You Know | 2010 | $7.5M | $30.2M | 4.00x | $49.6M | — | 32% | — |
 Prizzi's Honor | 1985 | $4.2M | $26.7M | 6.30x | — | — | 85% | — |
 Hoffa | 1992 | $6.4M | $23.4M | 3.60x | $28.4M | — | 52% | — |
 Chinatown | 1974 | — | $23.2M | — | $23.2M | — | 98% | — |
 The Pledge | 2001 | $5.8M | $19.7M | 3.40x | $29.4M | — | 78% | — |
 Five Easy Pieces | 1970 | — | $18.1M | — | — | — | 89% | — |
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Film by film
DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 1.9 years
Profitability
Return on budget
3.2x
$2.62B worldwide on $825.8M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs international split
Domestic $1.49BInternational $1.13B
Return by film
Worldwide ÷ budget0x2.5x breakeven74.2x
Budgets are reported production costs and exclude marketing, so this is a gross-to-budget ratio rather than studio profit. Films with no reported budget, and streaming releases with no real theatrical run, are left out of this section entirely, including from the totals, rather than counted as zero.
Records held
All records#12Most weekends in the top 10Terms of Endearment22 weekends#18Biggest April openingsAnger Management$42.2M#20Most weeks at #1Terms of Endearment6 weeks
3 placings across 3 all-time charts. Where a film places on the same chart in consecutive weekends, only its best placing is shown.
What’s next
Full scheduleNo upcoming movies announced yet.
Connected
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.
