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
Lorraine Nicholson Lorraine Nicholson Lorraine Broussard Nicholson (born April 16, 1990) is an American actress and director. Besides being known for being the daughter of Jack Nicholson, she is known for playing Alana Blanchard in the biographical film "Soul Surfer" (2011). Nicholson was born in Los Angeles to actor Jack Nicholson and actress Rebecca Broussard. She was named after her father's aunt. She has a younger brother, Raymond, as well as three older half-siblings through her father; two half-sisters, Jennifer Nicholson and Honey Hollman, and a half-brother, Caleb Goddard. She was four years old when her parents separated. In 2008, she graduated