Jack Nicholson shows his range in Oscar-nominated parts in Chinatown and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Paranoid thrillers like The Conversation, The Parallax View, Three Days of the Condor and All The President’s Men draw parallels to political times. By the end of the decade, blockbusters begin to overtake the New Hollywood, as Jaws, Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind capture the audience’s imagination and set the course for future filmmaking.