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 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.

As Good as It Gets premiered at the Regency Village Theatre on December 6, 1997, and was released theatrically in the United States on Christmas Day. A critical and box office hit, it grossed $314.1 million on a $50 million budget. At the 70th Academy Awards, the film was nominated for seven awards, including Best Picture. 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.^[2]