Puzzle #749: Oscar Isaac → Jack Nicholson
Thursday, September 3, 2026
Oscar Isaac
Jack NicholsonOn Thursday, September 3, 2026, the daily puzzle asked players to link Oscar Isaac and Jack Nicholson. The two have never been credited in the same movie, so there's no one-move answer. But 11 actors have worked with both of them in their best-known films, so it can be done in just 2 moves.
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Play puzzle #749The shortest solution
Show the 2-move answer (spoiler)
- Oscar Isaac as Bassam in Body of Lies (2008), which also stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Roger Ferris.
- Leonardo DiCaprio as Billy in The Departed (2006), alongside Jack Nicholson as Costello.
The full chain: Oscar Isaac → Body of Lies (2008) → Leonardo DiCaprio → The Departed (2006) → Jack Nicholson.
Other ways to solve it
Show 3 more 2-move routes (spoilers)
- Oscar Isaac → Annihilation (2018) → Natalie Portman → Mars Attacks! (1996) → Jack Nicholson
- Oscar Isaac → Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) → Billy Dee Williams → Batman (1989) → Jack Nicholson
- Oscar Isaac → Suburbicon (2017) → Matt Damon → The Departed (2006) → Jack Nicholson
About Oscar Isaac
- Born
- March 9, 1979 in Guatemala City, Guatemala
- Film career
- 2000–2026
- Widely seen films
- 41 (films with a sizeable audience on TMDB)
Best-known films, which are often the quickest places to start a chain:
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) as Poe Dameron
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) as Poe Dameron
- Dune (2021) as Duke Leto Atreides
- Ex Machina (2015) as Nathan
- X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) as En Sabah Nur / Apocalypse
- Drive (2011) as Standard
About Jack Nicholson
- Born
- April 22, 1937 in Manhattan, New York, USA
- Film career
- 1960–2010
- Widely seen films
- 50 (films with a sizeable audience on TMDB)
Best-known films, which are often the quickest places to start a chain:
- The Shining (1980) as Jack Torrance
- The Departed (2006) as Costello
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) as Randle Patrick McMurphy
- Batman (1989) as Joker / Jack Napier
- Mars Attacks! (1996) as President Dale / Art Land
- Chinatown (1974) as J.J. 'Jake' Gittes