His most known and celebrated films include dramas such as the road drama Easy Rider (1969), the drama Five Easy Pieces (1970), and the psychological drama One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975); the comedy-dramas Terms of Endearment (1983), As Good as It Gets (1997), and About Schmidt (2002); the neo-noir mysteries Chinatown (1974) and The Pledge (2001); the Kubrick groudbreaking The Shining (1980); the 1st of the saga  Batman (1989); the legal drama A Few Good Men (1992); the comedy Anger Management (2003); the romantic comedy Something's Gotta Give (2003); and the Scorsese crime drama The Departed next to Leonardo DiCaprio (2006). He has also directed three films, including The Two Jakes (1990), a sequel to Chinatown.

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