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Golden Globe Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical 1998 · Winner
Academy Award Actor in a Leading Role 1998 · Winner
Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role 1998 · Winner
Golden Globe Best Performance By an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy 1998 · Winner
Academy Award Actress in a Leading Role 1998 · Winner
Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role 1998 · Winner
Golden Globe Best Performance By an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy 1998 · Winner
Academy Award Writing (Screenplay Written Directly 1998 · Nominated
Academy Award Actor in a Supporting Role 1998 · Nominated
Amandaprisen Best Foreign Film 1998 · Nominated
Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role 1998 · Nominated
Academy Award Music (Original Music or Comedy Score) 1998 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Director - Motion Picture 1998 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Screenplay - Motion Picture 1998 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Performance By an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture 1998 · Nominated
Academy Award Film Editing 1998 · Nominated
Academy Award Best Picture 1998 · Nominated
What was the official certification given to As Good as It Gets (1997) in Japan? As Good as It Gets (1997) - Awards, nominations, and wins.
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Nicholson won for Best Actor and Hunt for Best Actress, making As Good as It Gets the most recent film to win both of the lead-acting awards. It is ranked 140th on Empire magazine's "The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time" list.
AwardCategoryNominee (s)ResultJames L. Brooks, Bridget Johnson, and ...NominatedWonWonNominatedAs Good as It Gets: Directed by James L. Brooks. With Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear, Cuba Gooding Jr.. A single mother and waitress, a misanthropic author, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.
- (321K)
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- James L. Brooks
- 1997-12-25
- This Redemption Story Is as Good as It Gets
- Jack Nicholson’s Academy Award-Winning Performance
- Helen Hunt’s Academy Award-Winning Performance
Ranked on Empire’s list of “The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time,” the romantic-dramedy has certainly sealed its legacy as a true icon of its era. As Good as it Gets is a feel-good storyof redemption, love, and unlikely friendship. The film follows Melvin Udall, a misanthropic writer suffering from extreme OCD and hypochondria, who is seemingly at w...
Nicholson undoubtedly deserved an Academy Award for his performance in The Shining, and perhaps in Five Easy Pieces as well, but those wins were not to be. Instead, 22 years after busting his Oscar virginity with his rendition of Randle McMurphy in Miloš Forman’s screen adaptation of Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Nicholson got ...
Helen Hunt plays Carol, a waitress with a heavily asthmatic son. Hunt’s depiction of a working-class mother struggling to make ends meet is both authentically class-consciousand heartbreaking. Rundown and exhausted by her relentless routine of waitressing and nursing her chronically ill son, her resilience in the unforgiving face of adversity makes...
Mar 3, 2018 · While “Titanic” swept almost everything, “As Good As It Gets” took home a pair of important trophies: It was the last time that two lead actors (Nicholson and Hunt) from the same movie received...
Awards Database. 6 Nominations. 3 Wins. As Good as It Gets. New York City. Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer, finds his life turned upside down when neighboring gay artist Simon is hospitalized and his dog is entrusted to Melvin.
With terrific lead performances by Jack Nicholson as a demonic novelist and Helen Hunt as a Manhattan waitress, As Good as It Gets is as good as mature adult entertainment gets on...
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- Romance, Comedy, LGBTQ+
- PG-13