As Good as It Gets is a
1997 American
romantic comedy film directed by
James L. Brooks and produced by
Laura Ziskin. It stars
Jack Nicholson as a
misanthropic,
obsessive-compulsive novelist,
Helen Hunt as a single mother with an
asthmatic son, and
Greg Kinnear as a
homosexual artist. The screenplay was written by
Mark Andrus and
James L. Brooks.
The film was nominated for 7 Academy Awards, including
Best Picture, and won the Academy Awards for
Best Actor and
Best Actress. It is the second film of the 1990s to win both of these awards, following
The Silence of the Lambs in 1991, and is currently the last film to have won both acting categories. It is ranked 140th on Empire's "The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time" list.