Awards: Academy Awards: Best Original
Screenplay Golden Globes: (4) Best Director-Motion
Picture, Best Picture-Drama, Best Actor-Drama, Best
Screenplay
National Society of Film Critics Awards: Best
Actor
Writer's Guild of America: Best Drama
Written Directly for the Screen
The scene where Polanski slits Jack Nicholson's
nose was extremely complex to film. The two
men involved got so tired of explaining how it was
done that they began to claim Nicholson's nose was
actually cut.
Jake Gittes was named after Jack Nicholson's friend,
producer Harry Gittes.
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