Yes. Nicholson's brief but memorable turn as doomed attorney George Hanson earned him a 1969 nomination for Best Supporting Actor. It was the first of his 12 Oscar nods, the most ever received by an actor.
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No. He won his first Best Actor nomination for the 1970 movie, but the Oscar choice was George C. Scott for "Patton" (who declined the honor).
A spot opened up in Fonda and Hopper's Easy Rider, it led to his first big acting break. Nicholson played hard-drinking lawyer George Hanson, for which he received his first Oscar nomination. The part of Hanson was a lucky break for Nicholson-the role had in fact been written for actor Rip Torn, who was a close friend of screen writer Terry Southern, but Torn withdrew from the project after a bitter argument with the film's director Dennis Hopper, during which the two men almost came to blows.[11]
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"With my glasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and seventy." -Jack Nicholson