A Beautiful Mind (film)

A Beautiful Mind
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Ron Howard
Screenplay by	Akiva Goldsman
Based on	A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar
Produced by	Brian Grazer Ron Howard
Starring	Russell Crowe Ed Harris Jennifer Connelly Paul Bettany Adam Goldberg Judd Hirsch Josh Lucas Anthony Rapp Christopher Plummer
Cinematography	Roger Deakins
Edited by	Daniel P. Hanley Mike Hill
Music by	James Horner
Production companies	Universal Pictures[1] DreamWorks Pictures[1] Imagine Entertainment[1]
Distributed by	Universal Pictures[1] (North America) DreamWorks Pictures[1] (International)
Release dates	December 13, 2001 (2001-12-13) (Beverly Hills premiere) December 21, 2001 (2001-12-21) (United States)
Running time	135 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$58 million[2]
Box office	$316.8 million[2]

A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 American biographical film about the mathematician John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics, played by Russell Crowe. The film is directed by Ron Howard based on a screenplay by Akiva Goldsman, who adapted the 1998 biography by Sylvia Nasar. In addition to Crowe, the film's cast features Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany, Adam Goldberg, Judd Hirsch, Josh Lucas, Anthony Rapp, and Christopher Plummer in supporting roles. The story begins in Nash's days as a brilliant but asocial mathematics graduate student at Princeton University. After Nash accepts secretive work in cryptography, he becomes liable to a larger conspiracy, through which he begins to question his reality.

A Beautiful Mind was released theatrically in the United States on December 21, 2001. It went on to gross over $313 million worldwide and won four Academy Awards, for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress for Connelly. It was also nominated for Best Actor, Best Film Editing, Best Makeup, and Best Original Score.