The film, A Beautiful Mind, is known well as a biographical drama based on a screenplay by Akiva Goldsman that was adapted by the 1998 biography written by Sylvia Nasar. The core of the background highlights debilitating paranoid schizophrenia in a time where mental health kn0wledge was budding. He did not know he was sick when reality did not see his.
Cast - Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany, Adam Goldberg, Judd Hirsch, Josh Lucas, Anthony Rapp, Christopher Plummer
Director - Ron Howard
Released in theaters in the U.S. in December 2001 ... Grossed over $313 million worldwide
4 Academy Awards -
- Best Picture
- Best Director
- Best Adapted Screenplay
- Best Supporting Actress (Jennifer Connelly)
4 Academy Nominations -
- Best Actor
- Best Film Editing
- Best Makeup
- Best Original Score
(Russell Crowe lost to Denzel Washington for Best Actor that year and was a huge upset to fans as well as a questioned win. Silver lining for Russell - he did win Best Actor for Gladiator.)
John Nash - His brilliant academic mind earned him a Nobel Prize in Economics. He was not allowed to speak due to his illness and the Nobel committee wanted to maintain proper impression. Sadly, John and his wife, Alicia (portrayed by Jennifer Connelly), passed away in a car crash a few years ago.
His story and their story together is one of hope to triumph over ultimate odds.
As the biography, from text to screen, goes -
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