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Which role won J.K. Simmons’s several awards?

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J.K. Simmons’s major award-winning role was as Terence Fletcher, the sadistic and perfectionist music instructor in Damien Chazelle’s drama Whiplash (2014), which had Miles Teller in the lead role of an aspiring jazz drummer. Simmons’s performance was menacing and unnerving, winning him an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe Award.