A Beautiful Mind (DVD)

A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 American biographical drama film directed by Ron Howard. Written by Akiva Goldsman, its screenplay was inspired by Sylvia Nasar s 1997 biography of the mathematician John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics. A Beautiful Mind stars Russell Crowe as Nash, 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 watching the burden his condition brings on his wife Alicia and friends.

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.

Plot

In 1947, John Nash arrives at Princeton University as co-recipient, with Martin Hansen, of the Carnegie Scholarship for mathematics. He meets fellow math and science graduate students Sol, Ainsley, and Bender, as well as his roommate Charles Herman, a literature student.

Determined to publish his own original idea, Nash is inspired when he and his classmates discuss how to approach a group of women at a bar. Hansen quotes Adam Smith advocating every man for himself , but Nash argues that a cooperative approach would lead to better chances of success developing a new concept of governing dynamics. Publishing an article on his theory, he earns an appointment at MIT where he chooses Sol and Bender over Hansen to join him.

In 1953, Nash is invited to the Pentagon to study encrypted enemy telecommunications, which he deciphers mentally. Bored with his regular duties at MIT, including teaching, he is recruited by the mysterious William Parcher of the United States Department of Defense with a classified assignment: to look for hidden patterns in magazines and newspapers to thwart a Soviet plot. Nash becomes increasingly obsessive in his search for these patterns, delivering his results to a secret mailbox, and comes to believe he is being followed.

One of his students, Alicia Larde, asks him to dinner, and they fall in love. On a return visit to Princeton, Nash runs into Charles and his niece, Marcee. With Charles encouragement, he proposes to Alicia and they marry. Nash fears for his life after surviving a shootout between Parcher and Soviet agents, and learns Alicia is pregnant, but he is forced to continue his assignment. While delivering a guest lecture at Harvard University, Nash tries to flee from people he thinks are Soviet agents, led by psychiatrist Dr. Rosen, but is forcibly sedated and committed to a psychiatric facility.

Dr. Rosen tells Alicia that Nash has schizophrenia and that Charles, Marcee, and Parcher exist only in his imagination. Alicia backs up the doctor, telling Nash that no William Parcher is in the Defense Department and takes out the unopened documents he delivered to the secret mailbox. Nash is given a course of insulin shock therapy and eventually released. Frustrated with the side effects of his antipsychotic medication, he secretly stops taking it and starts seeing Parcher and Charles again.

In 1956, Alicia discovers Nash has resumed his assignment in a shed near their home. Realizing he has relapsed, Alicia rushes to the house to find Nash had left their infant son in the running bathtub, believing Charles was watching the baby. Alicia calls Dr. Rosen, but Nash accidentally knocks her and the baby to the ground, believing he s fighting Parcher.

As Alicia flees with the baby, Nash stops her car and tells her he realizes that Marcee isn t real because she doesn t age, finally accepting that Parcher and other figures are hallucinations. Against Dr. Rosen s advice, Nash chooses not to restart his medication, believing he can deal with his symptoms himself, and Alicia decides to stay and support him.

Nash returns to Princeton, approaching his old rival Hansen, now head of the mathematics department, who allows him to work out of the library and audit classes. Over the next two decades, Nash learns to ignore his hallucinations and, by the late 1970s, is allowed to teach again.

In 1994, Nash is awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his revolutionary work on game theory, and is honored by his fellow professors. At the ceremony, he dedicates the prize to his wife. As Nash, Alicia, and their son leave the auditorium in Stockholm, Nash sees Charles, Marcee, and Parcher watching him, but glances at them before departing.

Cast

• Russell Crowe as John Nash
• Ed Harris as William Parcher
• Jennifer Connelly as Alicia Nash
• Christopher Plummer as Dr. Rosen
• Paul Bettany as Charles Herman
• Adam Goldberg as Richard Sol
• Josh Lucas as Martin Hansen
• Anthony Rapp as Bender
• Jason Gray-Stanford as Ainsley Neilson
• Judd Hirsch as Helinger
• Austin Pendleton as Thomas King
• Vivien Cardone as Marcee Herman
• Killian, Christian, and Daniel Coffinet-Crean as Baby

Production

Development

After producer Brian Grazer first read an excerpt of Sylvia Nasar s book A Beautiful Mind in Vanity Fair magazine, he immediately purchased the rights to the film. Grazer later said that many A-list directors were calling with their point of view on the project. He eventually brought the project to his long time partner and director Ron Howard.

Grazer met with a number of screenwriters, mostly consisting of serious dramatists , but he chose Akiva Goldsman because of his strong passion and desire for the project. Goldsman s creative take on the project was to avoid having viewers understand they are viewing an alternative reality until a specific point in the film. This was done to rob the viewers of their understanding, to mimic how Nash comprehended his experiences. Howard agreed to direct the film based on the first draft. He asked Goldsman to emphasize the love story of Nash and his wife; she was critical to his being able to continue living at home.

Dave Bayer, a professor of mathematics at Barnard College, Columbia University, was consulted on the mathematical equations that appear in the film. For the scene where Nash has to teach a calculus class and gives them a complicated problem to keep them busy, Bayer chose a problem physically unrealistic but mathematically very rich, in keeping with Nash as someone who really doesn t want to teach the mundane details, who will home in on what s really interesting . Bayer received a cameo role in the film as a professor who lays his pen down for Nash in the pen ceremony near the end of the film.

Greg Cannom was chosen to create the makeup effects for A Beautiful Mind, specifically the age progression of the characters. Crowe had previously worked with Cannom on The Insider. Howard had also worked with Cannom on Cocoon. Each character s stages of makeup were broken down by the number of years that would pass between levels. Cannom stressed subtlety between the stages, but worked toward the ultimate stage of Older Nash . The production team originally decided that the makeup department would age Russell Crowe throughout the film; however, at Crowe s request, the makeup was used to push his look to resemble the facial features of John Nash. Cannom developed a new silicone-type makeup that could simulate skin and be used for overlapping applications; this shortened make-up application time from eight to four hours. Crowe was also fitted with a number of dentures to give him a slight overbite in the film.

Howard and Grazer chose frequent collaborator James Horner to score the film because they knew of his ability to communicate. Howard said, regarding Horner, it s like having a conversation with a writer or an actor or another director . A running discussion between the director and the composer was the concept of high-level mathematics being less about numbers and solutions, and more akin to a kaleidoscope, in that the ideas evolve and change. After the first screening of the film, Horner told Howard: I see changes occurring like fast-moving weather systems . He chose it as another theme to connect to Nash s ever-changing character. Horner chose Welsh singer Charlotte Church to sing the soprano vocals after deciding that he needed a balance between a child and adult singing voice. He wanted a purity, clarity and brightness of an instrument but also a vibrato to maintain the humanity of the voice.

The film was shot 90% chronologically. Three separate trips were made to the Princeton University campus. During filming, Howard decided that Nash s delusions should always be introduced first audibly and then visually. This provides a clue for the audience and establishes the delusions from Nash s point of view. The historic John Nash had only auditory delusions. The filmmakers developed a technique to represent Nash s mental epiphanies. Mathematicians described to them such moments as a sense of the smoke clearing , flashes of light and everything coming together , so the filmmakers used a flash of light appearing over an object or person to signify Nash s creativity at work. Two night shots were done at Fairleigh Dickinson University s campus in Florham Park, New Jersey, in the Vanderbilt Mansion ballroom. Portions of the film set at Harvard were filmed at Manhattan College. (Harvard has turned down most requests for on-location filming ever since the filming of Love Story (1970), which caused significant physical damage to trees on campus.)

Tom Cruise was considered for the lead role. Howard ultimately cast Russell Crowe. For the role of Alicia Nash, Rachel Weisz was offered the role but turned it down. Charlize Theron and Julia Ormond auditioned for the role. According to Ron Howard, the four finalists for the role of Alicia were Ashley Judd, Claire Forlani, Mary McCormack and Jennifer Connelly, with Connelly winning the role. Before the casting of Connolly, Hilary Swank and Salma Hayek were also candidates for the part.

Writing

The narrative of the film differs considerably from the events of Nash s life, as filmmakers made choices for the sense of the story. The film has been criticized for this aspect, but the filmmakers said they never intended a literal representation of his life.

One difficulty was the portrayal of his mental illness and trying to find a visual film language for this. As a matter of fact, Nash never had visual hallucinations: Charles Herman (the roommate ), Marcee Herman and William Parcher (the Defense agent) are a scriptwriter s invention. Sylvia Nasar said that the filmmakers invented a narrative that, while far from a literal telling, is true to the spirit of Nash s story . Nash spent his years between Princeton and MIT as a consultant for the RAND Corporation in California, but in the film he is portrayed as having worked for the Department of Defense at the Pentagon instead. His handlers, both from faculty and administration, had to introduce him to assistants and strangers. The PBS documentary A Brilliant Madness tried to portray his life more accurately.

Few of the characters in the film, besides John and Alicia Nash, correspond directly to actual people. The discussion of the Nash equilibrium was criticized as over-simplified. In the film, Nash has schizophrenic hallucinations while he is in graduate school, but in his life he did not have this experience until some years later. No mention is made of Nash s homosexual experiences at RAND, which are noted in the biography, though both Nash and his wife deny this occurred. Nash fathered a son, John David Stier (born June 19, 1953), by Eleanor Agnes Stier (1921–2005), a nurse whom he abandoned when she told him of her pregnancy. The film did not include Alicia s divorce of John in 1963. It was not until after Nash won the Nobel Memorial Prize in 1994 that they renewed their relationship. Beginning in 1970, Alicia allowed him to live with her as a boarder. They remarried in 2001.

Nash is shown to join Wheeler Laboratory at MIT, but there is no such lab. Instead, he was appointed as C. L. E. Moore instructor at MIT, and later as a professor. The film furthermore does not touch on the revolutionary work of John Nash in differential geometry and partial differential equations, such as the Nash embedding theorem or his proof of Hilbert s nineteenth problem, work which he did in his time at MIT and for which he was given the Abel Prize in 2015. The so-called pen ceremony tradition at Princeton shown in the film is completely fictitious. The film has Nash saying in 1994: I take the newer medications , but in fact, he did not take any medication from 1970 onwards, something highlighted in Nasar s biography. Howard later stated that they added the line of dialogue because they worried that the film would be criticized for suggesting that all people with schizophrenia can overcome their illness without medication. In addition, Nash never gave an acceptance speech for his Nobel prize.

Release and response

A Beautiful Mind received a limited release on December 21, 2001, receiving positive reviews, with Crowe receiving wide acclaim for his performance. It was later released in the United States on January 4, 2002.

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, A Beautiful Mind holds an approval rating of 74% based on 213 reviews and an average score of 7.20/10. The website s critical consensus states: The well-acted A Beautiful Mind is both a moving love story and a revealing look at mental illness. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 72 out of 100 based on 33 reviews, indicating generally favorable reviews . Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of A- on an A+ to F scale.

Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times gave the film four out of four stars. Mike Clark of USA Today gave three-and-a-half out of four stars and also praised Crowe s performance, calling it a welcome follow-up to Howard s previous film, The Grinch. Desson Thomson of The Washington Post found the film to be one of those formulaically rendered Important Subject movies . The portrayal of mathematics in the film was praised by the mathematics community, including John Nash himself.

John Sutherland of The Guardian noted the film s biopic distortions, but said:

Howard pulls off an extraordinary trick in A Beautiful Mind by seducing the audience into Nash s paranoid world. We may not leave the cinema with A level competence in game theory, but we do get a glimpse into what it feels like to be mad - and not know it.

Writing in the Los Angeles Times, Lisa Navarrette criticized the casting of Jennifer Connelly as Alicia Nash as an example of whitewashing. Alicia Nash was born in El Salvador and had an accent which is not portrayed in the film.

Box office

During the five-day weekend of the limited release, A Beautiful Mind opened at the #12 spot at the box office, peaking at the #2 spot following the wide release. The film went on to gross $170,742,341 in the United States and Canada and $313,542,341 worldwide.

Awards and nominations

Award	Category	Recipient	Result
Academy Awards	Best Picture	Brian Grazer and Ron Howard	Won
	Best Director	Ron Howard	Won
	Best Actor	Russell Crowe	Nominated
	Best Supporting Actress	Jennifer Connelly	Won
	Best Screenplay – Based on Material Previously Produced or Published	Akiva Goldsman	Won
	Best Film Editing	Mike Hill and Daniel P. Hanley	Nominated
	Best Makeup	Greg Cannom and Colleen Callaghan	Nominated
	Best Original Score	James Horner	Nominated
Amanda Awards	Best Foreign Feature Film	Ron Howard	Nominated
American Cinema Editors Awards	Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic	Mike Hill and Daniel P. Hanley	Nominated
American Film Institute Awards	Movie of the Year		Nominated
	Actor of the Year – Male – Movies	Russell Crowe	Nominated
	Featured Actor of the Year – Female – Movies	Jennifer Connelly	Won
	Screenwriter of the Year	Akiva Goldsman	Nominated
Artios Awards	Outstanding Achievement in Feature Film Casting – Drama	Jane Jenkins and Janet Hirshenson	Nominated
ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards	Top Box Office Films	James Horner	Won
Australian Film Institute Awards	Best Foreign Film	Brian Grazer and Ron Howard	Nominated
Awards Circuit Community Awards	Best Actor in a Leading Role	Russell Crowe	Won
	Best Actress in a Supporting Role	Jennifer Connelly	Won
	Best Adapted Screenplay	Akiva Goldsman	Nominated
	Best Original Score	James Horner	Nominated
	Best Cast Ensemble	Paul Bettany, Jennifer Connelly, Russell Crowe, Adam Goldberg, Jason Gray-Stanford, Ed Harris, Judd Hirsch, Josh Lucas, Austin Pendleton, Christopher Plummer, and Anthony Rapp	Nominated
British Academy Film Awards	Best Film	Brian Grazer and Ron Howard	Nominated
	Best Direction	Ron Howard	Nominated
	Best Actor in a Leading Role	Russell Crowe	Won
	Best Actress in a Supporting Role	Jennifer Connelly	Won
	Best Adapted Screenplay	Akiva Goldsman	Nominated
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards	Best Film		Nominated
	Best Director	Ron Howard	Nominated
	Best Actor	Russell Crowe	Nominated
	Best Supporting Actress	Jennifer Connelly	Nominated
	Best Screenplay	Akiva Goldsman	Nominated
	Best Original Score	James Horner	Nominated
Christopher Awards	Feature Film		Won
Critics Choice Awards	Best Picture		Won
	Best Director	Ron Howard	Won
	Best Actor	Russell Crowe	Won
	Best Supporting Actress	Jennifer Connelly	Won
	Best Screenplay	Akiva Goldsman	Nominated
Czech Lion Awards	Best Foreign Film		Nominated
Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards	Best Picture		Won
	Best Director	Ron Howard	Won
	Best Actor	Russell Crowe	Won
	Best Supporting Actress	Jennifer Connelly	Nominated
	Best Screenplay	Akiva Goldsman	Won
Directors Guild of America Awards	Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures	Ron Howard	Won
DVD Exclusive Awards	Best Audio Commentary – New Release		Nominated
	Original Retrospective Documentary – New Release	Colleen A. Benn and Marian Mansi	Nominated
Empire Awards	Best Actress	Jennifer Connelly	Nominated
Golden Eagle Awards	Best Foreign Language Film	Ron Howard	Nominated
Golden Globe Awards	Best Motion Picture – Drama		Won
	Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama	Russell Crowe	Won
	Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture	Jennifer Connelly	Won
	Best Director – Motion Picture	Ron Howard	Nominated
	Best Screenplay – Motion Picture	Akiva Goldsman	Won
	Best Original Score – Motion Picture	James Horner	Nominated
Golden Reel Awards	Best Sound Editing – Dialogue & ADR, Domestic Feature Film	Anthony J. Ciccolini III, Deborah Wallach, Stan Bochner, Louis Cerborino, and Marc Laub	Nominated
	Best Sound Editing – Music (Foreign & Domestic)	Jim Henrikson	Nominated
Golden Schmoes Awards	Best Actor of the Year	Russell Crowe	Nominated
	Best Supporting Actress of the Year	Jennifer Connelly	Won
GoldSpirit Awards	Best Soundtrack	James Horner	Nominated
	Best Drama Soundtrack		Nominated
Grammy Awards	Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media	A Beautiful Mind: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack – James Horner	Nominated
Humanitas Prize	Feature Film Category	Akiva Goldsman	Nominated
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards	Best Supporting Actress	Jennifer Connelly	Won
Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards	Best Supporting Actress		Nominated
London Film Critics Circle Awards	British Supporting Actor of the Year	Paul Bettany	Nominated
MTV Movie Awards	Best Male Performance	Russell Crowe	Nominated
Online Film & Television Association Awards	Best Picture	Brian Grazer and Ron Howard	Nominated
	Best Actor	Russell Crowe	Nominated
	Best Supporting Actress	Jennifer Connelly	Won
	Best Adapted Screenplay	Akiva Goldsman	Nominated
	Best Original Score	James Horner	Nominated
Online Film Critics Society Awards	Best Actor	Russell Crowe	Nominated
	Best Supporting Actress	Jennifer Connelly	Won
Producers Guild of America Awards	Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures	Brian Grazer and Ron Howard	Nominated
Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards	Best Picture		Nominated
	Best Director	Ron Howard	Nominated
	Best Actor in a Leading Role	Russell Crowe	Won
	Best Actress in a Supporting Role	Jennifer Connelly	Won
	Best Screenplay – Adaptation	Akiva Goldsman	Nominated
	Best Original Score	James Horner	Nominated
Russian Guild of Film Critics Awards	Best Foreign Actor	Russell Crowe	Nominated
San Diego Film Critics Society Awards	Best Actor		Nominated
Satellite Awards	Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama		Nominated
	Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama	Ed Harris	Nominated
	Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama	Jennifer Connelly	Won
	Best Adapted Screenplay	Akiva Goldsman	Nominated
	Best Editing	Mike Hill and Daniel P. Hanley	Nominated
	Best Original Score	James Horner	Nominated
	Best Original Song	All Love Can Be Music by James Horner; Lyrics by Will Jennings	Won
Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture	Paul Bettany, Jennifer Connelly, Russell Crowe, Adam Goldberg, Jason Gray-Stanford, Ed Harris, Judd Hirsch, Josh Lucas, Austin Pendleton, Christopher Plummer, and Anthony Rapp	Nominated
	Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role	Russell Crowe	Won
	Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role	Jennifer Connelly	Nominated
Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards	Best Picture		7th Place
	Best Supporting Actress	Jennifer Connelly	Won
Teen Choice Awards	Choice Movie – Drama/Action Adventure		Nominated
Turkish Film Critics Association Awards	Best Foreign Film		12th Place
USC Scripter Awards		Akiva Goldsman (screenwriter); Sylvia Nasar (author)	Won
Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards	Best Actor	Russell Crowe	Nominated
Voices in the Shadow Dubbing Festival	Best Male Voice	Fabrizio Pucci (for the dubbing of Russell Crowe)	Nominated
World Soundtrack Awards	Soundtrack Composer of the Year	James Horner	Nominated
Writers Guild of America Awards	Best Screenplay – Based on Material Previously Produced or Published	Akiva Goldsman	Won
Yoga Awards	Worst Foreign Director	Ron Howard	Won

• In 2006, it was named No. 93 in AFI s 100 Years... 100 Cheers. In the following year, it was nominated for AFI s 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition).

Home media

A Beautiful Mind was released on VHS and DVD, in wide- and full-screen editions, in North America on June 25, 2002. The DVD set includes audio commentaries, deleted scenes, and documentaries. The film was also released on Blu-ray in North America on January 25, 2011.

Condition

New

Actor

Akiva Goldsman, Brian Grazer, Dan Hanley, Mike Hill, Ron Howard

Publisher

Universal Studios Home Entertainment

Published Date

2002-01-01

Rating MPA

Pg-13

Recording Length

136

Recording Studio

Universal Studios Home Entertainment

Format

DVD

Brand

Universal Studios Home Entertainment

Age Group

Adult

Amazon ASIN

B00005JKQZ

UPC / EAN

025192145025

Year

2001

ReleaseDate

2002-01-04

RuntimeMins

135

RuntimeStr

2h 15min

Awards

Top rated movie #143 , Won 4 Oscars, 37 wins & 69 nominations total

Directors

Ron Howard

Writers

Akiva Goldsman, Sylvia Nasar

Stars

Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly

Produced by

Brian Grazer, Todd Hallowell, Ron Howard, Karen Kehela Sherwood, Kathleen McGill, Maureen Peyrot, Aldric La auli Porter, Louisa Velis

Music by

James Horner

Cinematography by

Roger Deakins

Film Editing by

Daniel P. Hanley, Mike Hill

Casting By

Janet Hirshenson, Jane Jenkins

Production Design by

Wynn Thomas

Art Direction by

Robert Guerra

Set Decoration by

Leslie E. Rollins

Costume Design by

Rita Ryack

Makeup Department

David P. Barton, John Brown, Dale Brownell, Colleen Callaghan, Kymbra Callaghan, Greg Cannom, Antoinette Carr, Alexei Dmitriew, Dennis Eger, Glen Hanz, Claudia Hardy, John Kim, Mary Kim, Todd Kleitsch, Linda Lazar, Harvey Lowry, Neal Martz, Suzy Mazzarese-Allison, Mark Nieman, Cristina Patterson, Michael Peterson, Art Pimentel, Brian Sipe, Laura Smith, Richard Starke, Froylan Tercero, Todd Tucker, Wesley Wofford, Mary Aaron, Patrick Alemi, Gary Archer, Francesca Buccellato, Christine Domaniecki, Francie Fillatti, Scott Hersh, Christopher Allen Nelson, Larry Odien, James Parr, Eva Polywka, Keith VanderLaan

Production Management

Steve Castellano, Lori Johnson, Kathleen McGill, Ron Lynch

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Kristin Bernstein, Joe Burns, Noreen R. Cheleden, Jane Ferguson, Todd Hallowell, Aldric La auli Porter, Shea Rowan

Art Department

Tommy Allen, Lisa Barnstone, Martin Bernstein, Richard Bryan Douglas, Warren Drummond, Ann Edgeworth, Jeffrey L. Glave, Leo Holder, Tyler Kim, Betsy Klompus, Erik Knight, Brick Mason, Bradley Mayer, Christine Moosher, Anthony Munafo, Arne Olsen, Joseph Proscia, Paul Weathered, Nancy Winters, Kristin Costa, Dan Janssen, Julio Palma, Peter John Petraglia, Gerarda Pizzarello, Rick Reeder, John Tartaglino, Karen Wiswell

Sound Department

Joel Roi Aronowitz, Stan Bochner, Allan Byer, Nancy Cabrera, Claudia Carle, Louis Cerborino, Anthony J. Ciccolini III, Missy Cohen, Kenna Doeringer, Dean Drabin, Patrick Dundas, Ginger Geary, Chris Jenkins, Marc Laub, Eytan Mirsky, Frank A. Montaño, Douglas Murray, Bob Olari, Daniel Pagan, Harry Peck Bolles, Don Peebles, Livia Ruzic, Anthony Starbuck, Michael Thompson, Alfredo Viteri, Deborah Wallach, Paul J. Zydel, Patricia Brolsma, Joe DeAngelis, Matthew Fleece, Phillip Fuller, Bill Meadows

Special Effects by

Wilfred Caban, Gilbert H. Gertsen, Steven Kirshoff, Fred Kraemer, Harold McConnell Jr., Emmanuel Prévinaire, John Stifanich

Visual Effects by

Paul Abatemarco, Nancy Adams, Krista Benson, Nancy Bernstein, Shannan Burkley, Matthew E. Butler, Gimo Chanphianamvong, Thomas R. Dickens, Jason Doss, Greg Duda, Scott Edelstein, Swen Gillberg, Jessica Harris, Claas Henke, Keith Huggins, Nikos Kalaitzidis, Jeffrey Kalmus, Kelly L Estrange, Dan Lemmon, Chris Logan, Kevin Scott Mack, Brandon McNaughton, Bekki Misiorowski, Heather J. Morrison, Katie Nook, Laura Ormsby, Marian Rudnyk, Steve Siracusa, Eliot Sirota, Doyle Smith, Perri Wainwright, Jessica Dara Westbrook, John L. Anderson, Chad E. Collier, Lisa de la Garza, Molly Hansen, Mike Leben, Bradford Lipson, Scott Lukowski, Evangeline Monroy, Dan Patterson, Rod Ripley, Robert Rowles, Todd Sarsfield, Tess Spaulding, Nick Swartz

Stunts

Bill Anagnos, Jay Boryea, Paul Bucossi, Peter Bucossi, Frank Ferrara, Tim Gallin, Don Hewitt, Steve Mack, Brennan McKay, John Patrick McLaughlin, Mick O Rourke, Charles Page, Stephen A. Pope, John Roney, Philip Rudolph, Michael Russo, Keith Siglinger, Brian Smyj

Camera and Electrical Department

Greg Addison, James R. Belletier, Braden Belmonte, James Boniece, Paul Candrilli, Edward Cohen, Ben Dailey, Howard Davidson, David M. Dunlap, Greg Edwards, Kris Enos, Andrew J. Farley, Richie Ford, Samuel G. Friedman, Kenneth Fundus, Jim Galvin, Gabriel Goodenough, Joseph Grimaldi, John Halligan, Bruce Hamme, Andy Harris, George Hines, Keith Kastner, Jeff Keaton, Todd S. Klein, Jeremy Knaster, Sal Lanza, Mitchell Andrew Lillian, Charlie Marroquin, Rick Marroquin, Michael J. Maurer, Michael A. McFadden, Thomas McGrath Woods, Kevin McKenna, Fred Muller, Brian Murphy, Tim Norman, Jonathan Nussbaum, Bill O Leary, Louis Petraglia, Ray Preziosi, Gerardo Puglia, Patrick Quinn, Eli Reed, Edward A. Robinson Jr., Chris Rosen, Kyle Rudolph, Michael Rudolph, Lance Shepherd, Andrew Sweeney, Christopher Vaccaro, Peter Walts, Glen Weinstein, Franz Yeich, Michael T. Banner, Paul Colangelo, Marshall Coles, Kathleen Corgan, Riad Deeb, Chris Drechsler, Glenn Fishel, Derek Gross, Susan Heller, Gregory F. Johnson, Jennifer Koestler, Timberlake Lewis, Scott Maher, Robert McKenna, Simeon Moore, Melissa O Brien, Nate Ranger, Lance Rieck, Lowell Schulman, Ezra Venetos, Lee Vickery

Casting Department

Bill Dance, Kristen McTigue, Wendy Goodman Thum, Amy McKee

Costume and Wardrobe Department

Kevin Brainerd, Laurie Buehler, William A. Campbell, Harper Della-Piana, Kevin Draves, MJ McGrath, Winsome G. McKoy, Marcia Oste, Pete White, Marta Font, Addie Hall, Joan Joseff, MJ McGrath, Barbara Presar, MaryAnn D. Smith

Editorial Department

Glenn Allen, Guy Barresi, Gary Burritt, Kate Eales, Richard Friedlander, Nicole Macagna, Mike Milliken, Tim Streeto

Location Management

Patty Carey, Jason Farrar, Chris George, Nicole Klett, Michael Kriaris, Randy Manion, Evan Perazzo, Lyn Pinezich, Andrew D. Cooke, Robin F. Samson

Music Department

Bob Bornstein, Sandy DeCrescent, Jim Henrikson, The Hollywood Studio Orchestra, The Hollywood Studio Symphony, James Horner, Randy Kerber, London Symphony Orchestra, Tom MacDougall, Barbara McDermott, Julyce Monbleaux, Chris Montan, Kathy Nelson, Christopher Page, Simon Rhodes, Cassandra Richburg, Sebastian Toettcher, Booker White, James Horner, Bryan Pezzone, James Thatcher

Script and Continuity Department

Eva Z. Cabrera, Lynne Twentyman

Transportation Department

Robert Buckman, Michael Hyde, J.J. McGrane, Bobby Alberga, Dan Buckman, David Conelli, Kevin Harrigan, Tom Heilig Jr., Noel Lawlor, Herb Lieberz, Robert Bull Maher, Bobby Marsh, Daniel Palmer, Joe Parvis, Dan Paustian, Kevin Reilly, John Riggins, Mike Robinson, Michael B. Russell

Additional Crew

Geoff Abadee, LaChanda Alexander, Tamara Bally, David Bausch, Dave Bayer, Marianne Bell, Lourene Bevaart, Wally Bruce, Cat Burkley, Eva Burkley, David Catalano, David Colbert, Chris Collins, Anna Culp, Judy Dickerson, Mark Dumbrell, Aaron Dunsay, Kathleen Fellegara, Rich Fellegara, Ganious, Meredith Garlick, Marianne Gillow, Steve Ginsburg, Steven Gordon, Tom Gravel, Tony Hernandez, Jeanne Jirik, Jason Kadlec, Yoon Kim, Kimie Kimura-Heaney, Jane Kelly Kosek, Julie Kuehndorf, Harold Kuhn, Brian Lennon, Michelle Macirella, Rachel May, Darren Maynard, Edmund Nardone, Tara O Connor-Roche, Melissa Brides Ockman, Macall B. Polay, Audra Polk, Mehgan Porter, Jeremy D. Pratt, Judy Pursley, Gary S. Rake, Lynne Redding, John Silvestri, David Tomasini, Kevin Williams, Mikki Ziska, Sally Ann Brooks, Boris Cifuentes, Daniel Feighery, Andrew Fiero, Derek Gross, Jane Han, Giuppy Izzo, Randee Lynne Jensen, Thomas Maxwell, Steven R. Molen, Reese Nanavati, Brian Palatucci, Fabrizio Pucci, Guillaume Renberg, Peter Pamela Rose, Scott Ross, Lisa Shriver, Frank Slaten, Kirsten Smith, Frederick William Springer III, Adrian Tridel, Eva Vedock, Kimberli Wong, Robert Zorella

Thanks

Graydon Carter, Max Fink, Eric Hamblin, Peter Kuran

Genres

Biography, Drama

Companies

Universal Pictures, Dreamworks Pictures, Imagine Entertainment

Countries

USA

Languages

English

ContentRating

PG-13

ImDbRating

8.2

ImDb Rating Votes

924140

Metacritic Rating

72

Short Description

A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 American biographical drama film directed by Ron Howard. Written by Akiva Goldsman, its screenplay was inspired by Sylvia Nasar s 1997 biography of the mathematician John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics. A Beautiful Mind stars Russell Crowe as Nash, 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 watching the burden his condition brings on his wife Alicia and friends.

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.

Box Office Budget

$58,000,000 (estimated)

Box Office Opening Weekend USA

$367,151

Box Office Gross USA

$170,742,341

Box Office Cumulative Worldwide Gross

$316,791,257

Keywords

Mathematician,mental illness,schizophrenia,game theory,nobel prize