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Good Will Hunting is a 1997 American drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. It stars Robin Williams , Damon, Affleck, Stellan Skarsgård and Minnie Driver . The film tells the story of janitor Will Hunting, whose mathematical genius is discovered by a professor at MIT .
The film Good Will Hunting, co-starring and co-written by Affleck and Damon, was released in 1997 to widespread acclaim and won the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. At the age of 25, Affleck became the youngest writer to ever win an Oscar for screenwriting.
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are American actors, screenwriters, and producers from Cambridge, Massachusetts who have frequently collaborated throughout their careers. The duo first gained recognition in 1997 after they won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Good Will Hunting, which they wrote and starred in together.
The best friend duo had their defining moment 19 years ago when they accepted the Academy Award for Original Screenplay for "Good Will Hunting," a win that catapulted the pair's already burgeoning ...
Affleck gained wider recognition when he and Matt Damon won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for writing Good Will Hunting (1997), which they also starred in. He established himself as a leading man in studio films, including the disaster film Armageddon (1998), the action crime thriller Reindeer Games (2000), the war drama Pearl ...
He has received several awards including an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for three BAFTA Awards and seven Primetime Emmy Awards. Damon and Ben Affleck co-wrote Good Will Hunting (1997), a screenplay about a young math genius, [ 1 ] which received nine Academy Awards nominations ...
"It repeatedly appears in the top 100 movies, best movies ever made," she says of the 1997 film. "It was great." Good Will Hunting led to another "iconic" moment in Driver's life.
The film was followed by As Good as It Gets ($92.6 million), Good Will Hunting ($68.9 million), L.A. Confidential ($39.7 million), and finally The Full Monty ($38.7 million). [34] Of the top 50 grossing movies of the year, 40 nominations went to 15 films on the list.