Academy Award Best Actor · birth-card coordinate
Jack Nicholson's Birth Card: The Queen of Clubs
The Nurturing Leader
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict an Academy Award.
In the record
John Joseph Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is an American retired actor and filmmaker. The birth-card coordinate for April 22 is the Queen of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1976 Best Actor — One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; 1998 Best Actor — As Good as It Gets win.
Academy Award record
- 1976 Best Actor — One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- 1998 Best Actor — As Good as It Gets
The Queen of Clubs coordinate
Jack Nicholson's birthday maps to the Queen of Clubs (The Nurturing Leader). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about an Academy Award and not a verdict on Jack Nicholson. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You teach from what you actually know, without making people earn the right to hear it.
Jack Nicholson in the public record
Nicholson is widely regarded as one of the greatest actors of the 20th century, often playing charismatic rebels fighting against the social structure. Over his five-decade-long career, he received numerous accolades, including three Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, and a Grammy Award. Nicholson won Academy Awards for Best Actor for playing Randle McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and an author with OCD in As Good as It Gets (1997), as well as for Best Supporting Actor for playing an aging playboy in Terms of Endearment (1983). He received further Oscar nominations for Easy Rider (1969), Five Easy Pieces (1970), The Last Detail (1973), Chinatown (1974), Reds (1981), Prizzi's Honor (1985), Ironweed (1987), A Few Good Men (1992), and About Schmidt (2002). Nicholson made his film debut in Roger Corman's The Cry Baby Killer (1958). His other notable roles were in Psych-Out (1968), Carnal Knowledge (1971), The King of Marvin Gardens (1972), The Passenger (1975), The Missouri Breaks (1976), The Shining (1980), Broadcast News (1987), Batman (1989), Hoffa (1992), Mars Attacks! (1996), Anger Management, Something's Gotta Give (both 2003), The Departed (2006), and The Bucket List (2007). He also had a cameo in Corman's cult classic The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), which has been heavily promoted on home video releases. As a director, Nicholson has helmed three films: Drive, He Said (1971), Goin' South (1978), and The Two Jakes (1990).
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Jack Nicholson (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the Queen of Clubs
A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Jack Nicholson, and not a forecast of an Oscar.
Cards in Jack Nicholson's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- Q♣ — Birth Card: The Nurturing Leader
- 10♦ — Karma — Environment: The Wealthy Master
- 3♥ — Karma — Displacement: The Creative Heart
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 10♠ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 3♦ — Life Spread — Mars
- A♠ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 7♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 7♦ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 5♠ — Life Spread — Neptune
- J♥ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 9♣ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
Deep wisdom and thoughtful guidance
Nicholson won Academy Awards for Best Actor for playing Randle McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and an author with OCD in As Good as It Gets (1997), as well as for Best Supporting Actor for playing an aging playboy in Terms of Endearment (1983).
Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: author.
Also on the record
- Nicholson has also written several films, including The Monkees' vehicle Head (1968).
- He retired from acting after starring in How Do You Know (2010).
- Nicholson is one of four male actors to win three Academy Awards and one of only two actors to be nominated for an Academy Award for acting in films made in every decade from the 1960s to the 2000s (the other is Michael Caine).
- His 12 Academy Award nominations make him the most nominated male actor in the Academy's history.
Other winners with this card
- Cher — 1988 Best Actress — Moonstruck
- Ginger Rogers — 1941 Best Actress — Kitty Foyle
- Halle Berry — 2002 Best Actress — Monster's Ball
- Helen Hayes — 1933 Best Actress — The Sin of Madelon Claudet
- James Stewart — 1941 Best Actor — The Philadelphia Story
- Jessica Chastain — 2022 Best Actress — The Eyes of Tammy Faye
FAQ
- What is Jack Nicholson's birth card?
- The Queen of Clubs. April 22 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict an Oscar?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.
- Where do Jack Nicholson's dates come from?
- Birth date 1937-04-22 is the day-precision date on Jack Nicholson's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Winner identity comes from the Wikipedia Best Actor / Best Actress lists, which cite Oscars.org ceremony pages. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: Oscars.org (AMPAS ceremony record) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Best Actor list, Best Actress list, Jack Nicholson) + Wikidata CC0 (Q39792). Birth date 1937-04-22 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).