For the album, see Deniece Williams discography. For the 1997 professional wrestling event, see ECW As Good as It Gets.
As Good as It Gets
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
James L. Brooks
Screenplay by
Mark Andrus
James L. Brooks
Story by
Mark Andrus
Produced by
James L. Brooks
Bridget Johnson
Kristi Zea
Starring
Jack Nicholson
Helen Hunt
Greg Kinnear
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Skeet Ulrich
Shirley Knight
Cinematography
John Bailey
Edited by
Richard Marks
Music by
Hans Zimmer
Production companies
TriStar Pictures
Gracie Films
Distributed by
Sony Pictures Releasing
Release dates
December 6, 1997 (1997-12-06) (Regency Village Theatre)
December 25, 1997 (1997-12-25) (United States)
Running time
139 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$50 million[1]
Box office
$314.1 million[1]
As Good as It Gets is a 1997 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by James L. Brooks from a screenplay he co-wrote with Mark Andrus. It stars Jack Nicholson as a misanthropic, bigoted and obsessive–compulsive novelist, Helen Hunt as a single mother with a chronically ill son, and Greg Kinnear as a gay artist. The film premiered at the Regency Village Theatre on December 6, 1997, and was released theatrically in the United States on December 25, 1997, and was a critical and box office hit, grossing $314.1 million on a $50 million budget.
Nicholson and Hunt won the Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Actress, respectively, making it the most recent film to win both of the lead acting awards, and the first since The Silence of the Lambs (1991). It was also nominated for Best Picture.[2] It is ranked 140th on Empire magazine's "The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time" list.[3]
^ ab"Box office statistics for As Good as It Gets (1997)" Archived July 14, 2019, at the Wayback Machine Box Office Mojo. Retrieved June 11, 2010.
^Garner, Chris (March 24, 1998). "A 'Titanic' winner". Gannett News Service. Iowa City Press-Citizen. p. 17. Archived from the original on May 6, 2023. Retrieved May 6, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
^"Empire Features". Empire. Archived from the original on October 14, 2012. Retrieved October 17, 2009.
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