John "Jack" Joseph Nicholson

Known by most people as Jack Nicholson,he was a versatile personality in Hollywood.He is known to be an efficient director,producer and a well known face as an actor.He is one of the male actors who has won the maximum number of oscars.He has been nominated 12 times for an Oscar.He won 2 oscars for Best Actor and 1 for his role as a Best Supporting Actor.The movies which earned him the oscars include the following:

'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest': Best Actor in the year 1975
'Terms of Endearment':Best Supporting Actor in the year 1983
'As Good as It Gets':Best Actor in the year 1997

Nicholson is also the first actor to have earned the Stanislavsky Award at the Moscow International Film Festival in the year 2001.

The longest acceptance speech at the Oscars

A very interesting fact-The longest speech ever made while receiving the Oscar.

The longest speech was delivered by Greer Garson in 1942 when she won the Best Actress Award for her performance in the movie "Mrs Miniver".The speech lasted for 5 mins 30 seconds and it is recorded in the Guiness Book of Records.Here full name is Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson and she was an extremely popular actress during the time of Second World war.In the movie, Mrs. Miniver she portrayed a character of a strong British woman,as a wife and a mother.

The longest movie to win an Oscar

The Russian movie "War and Peace" (Voyna i mir in Russian) is the longest movie with a duration of 8 hours to win the Academy Awards.The movie which won the award in the year 1968 for the Best Foreign Language Film film is based on Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace.