As Good as It Gets (1997)

#6709 worldwide · charting in 12 countries

Movie · 139 min · B · cmy, drm, rma

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A misanthropic author, a single mother and waitress, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.

  • 7.7 IMDb
  • 7.4 TMDB
  • 86% Rotten Tomatoes
  • 94 JustWatch

Where to watch As Good as It Gets

Available on 15 platforms across 12 countries.

Chart positions today

Currently charting in 12 countries, best placed at #555 in Croatia.

Available languages

Audio: Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish

Subtitles: Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, MK, Malay, NB, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese

Chart history

As Good as It Gets has spent 2 days in a top 3, 3 days in a top 10 and 21 days in a top 100 across the markets we track. Its best position anywhere is #1.

Cast

Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear, Cuba Gooding Jr., Shirley Knight, Jesse James, Yeardley Smith, Lupe Ontiveros, Skeet Ulrich, Harold Ramis, Lawrence Kasdan, Bibi Osterwald, Ross Bleckner, Bernadette Balagtas, Jaffe Cohen, Laurie Kilpatrick, Alice Vaughn, Brian Doyle-Murray

Crew

James L. Brooks (director,screenplay), Mark Andrus (screenplay), Bridget Johnson (producer), Kristi Zea (producer)

Awards

4 wins from 11 nominations.

  • Academy Award for Best Actor 1998 — won
  • Academy Award for Best Actress 1998 — won
  • National Board of Review: Top Ten Films — won
  • National Board of Review: Top Ten Films — won
  • Academy Award for Best Film Editing 1998 — nominated
  • Academy Award for Best Original Musical or Comedy Score 1998 — nominated
  • Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor 1998 — nominated
  • Academy Award for Best Picture 1998 — nominated
  • Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay 1998 — nominated
  • Academy Award for Best Actor 1998 — nominated
  • Academy Award for Best Actress 1998 — nominated