As Good as It Gets As Good as It Gets As Good as It Gets is a 1997 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by James L. Brooks. It stars Jack Nicholson as a misanthropic and obsessive-compulsive novelist, Helen Hunt as a single mother with a chronically ill son, and Greg Kinnear as a gay artist. The screenplay was written by Mark Andrus and Brooks. The paintings were created for the film by New York artist Billy Sullivan. Nicholson and Hunt won the Academy Award for Best Actor and Best Actress, respectively, making "As Good As It Gets" the most recent film to win both of
Jack Nicholson he was now less driven to "be out there any more". On February 15, 2015, Nicholson made a special appearance as a presenter on "SNL 40", the 40th anniversary special of "Saturday Night Live". After the death of boxer Muhammad Ali on June 3, 2016, Nicholson appeared on HBO's "The Fight Game with Jim Lampley" for an exclusive interview about his friendship with Ali. In February 2017, it was reported that Nicholson would be starring in an English-language remake of "Toni Erdmann" opposite Kristen Wiig, his first feature film role since "How Do You Know". On August 20, 2018, Nicholson