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Directed by | Ron Howard |
Produced by |
Brian Grazer Ron Howard |
Screenplay by | Akiva Goldsman |
Based on |
A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar |
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Music by | James Horner |
Cinematography | Roger Deakins |
Edited by |
Daniel P. Hanley Mike Hill |
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Distributed by |
Universal Pictures (North America) DreamWorks Pictures (International) |
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Running time
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135 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $58 million |
Box office | $313 million |
A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 American biographical drama film based on the life of John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics. The film was directed by Ron Howard, from a screenplay written by Akiva Goldsman. It was inspired by a bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-nominated 1998 book of the same name by Sylvia Nasar. The film stars Russell Crowe, along with 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 graduate student at Princeton University. Early in the film, Nash begins to develop paranoid schizophrenia and endures delusional episodes while painfully watching the loss and burden his condition brings on wife Alicia and friends.
The film opened in the United States cinemas 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. It was also nominated for Best Actor, Best Film Editing, Best Makeup, and Best Original Score.