A Beautiful Mind

Ron Howard's film follows the Nobel laureate John Nash from his Princeton years through the onset of paranoid schizophrenia, staged so that the viewer shares his conviction before the ground gives way.

It renders psychosis from the inside, its persistence, and the long, unglamorous work of learning to live alongside it rather than waiting for a cure. Adapted from Sylvia Nasar's biography. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture.