Did you know...

Ken Kesey wrote the book One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest in 1962. It was an immediate success.

In 1963, it was adapted into a successful stage play by Dale Wasserman starring Kirk Douglas.  Douglas brought the screen rights and later gave them to his son Michael.  Douglas snr. hoped to re-create his stage role as McMurphy but his son deemed him too old and made the inspired decision to cast Jack Nicholson.

In 1975, Miloš Forman directed the screen adaptation, which won the 'Big Five' Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Actor (Jack Nicholson), Best Actress (Louise Fletcher), Best Director (Forman) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman).