Director and writer
Jack Nicholson averages 5.97, Robert Towne averages 6.48. Apart that suggests 6.23; together they average 5.85, a lift of −0.37.
Lift is the average of their films together minus the mean of their two career averages.
1973
1974
1976
1990BestDot size shows IMDb votes; lines are rolling five-film averages. Films with fewer than 1,000 votes are left out.
| Drive, He Said | 1971 | 5.6 | 1,943 | Writer, Director, Producer | as Richard, Writer |
 The Last Detail | 1973 | 7.5 | 31,628 | as Buddusky | Writer (not counted) |
 Chinatown | 1974 | 8.1 | 381K | as J.J. Gittes | Writer (not counted) |
 The Missouri Breaks | 1976 | 6.5 | 14,092 | as Tom Logan | Writer (not counted) |
 The Two Jakes | 1990 | 6.1 | 15,882 | as Jake Gittes, Director | Writer |
