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As Good As It Gets is a 1997 film which tells the story of an obsessive-compulsive, cranky writer named Melvin Udall who forms a relationship with a waitress who is a single mother. It stars Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear, Cuba Gooding Jr., Shirley Knight , Skeet Ulrich and Yeardley Smith.

The screenplay was written by Mark Andrus and James L. Brooks, and directed by Brooks.

It won Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Jack Nicholson) and Best Actress in a Leading Role (Helen Hunt). It was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Greg Kinnear), Best Film Editing, Best Music, Original Musical or Comedy Score, Best PictureThe Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; the awards are voted on by other people within the industry. As is the customary practice in and Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the ScreenThe Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best script not based upon previously published material. Before 1940 there was an Academy Award for Best Story for writing. For 1940 it and the award in this article were sepa.

External links

The IMDB entry on As Good As It Gets: http://us.imdb.com/Title?0119822

1997 films

As Good As It Gets is also a novel by British author Simon Nolan (BooksEnthsiast.com).

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