John Forbes Nash Jr. (Russell Crowe) was a brilliant economist -- when his mind was clear. But life changed forever with the revelation that he was a schizophrenic. Nash's brilliance persisted amidst the anguish his mental illness caused for him and his wife (Jennifer Connolly), and 40 years after his diagnosis, he won the Nobel Prize for economics. Connolly's acting and Ron Howard's direction won Oscars, and the film was named Best Picture.
This film also received significant criticism for distorting the life of John F. Nash. For those interested in Nash's background from Nash's perspective, he's written his own biography which is available via the Nobel Website and was originally published in Les Prix Nobel/Nobel Lectures.
Mr. Nash's faculty page at Princeton also provides a glimpse into his work on Economics.
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