Best Actor and Actress Academy Awards went to Jack Nicholson as a curmudgeonly, psychologically obsessed New York author and Helen Hunt as the caring waitress and single mother who helps draw him out of his successful but isolated existence in writer/director James L. Brooks' acclaimed seriocomedy. With Greg Kinnear as Nicholson's gay neighbor, Shirley Knight, and Cuba Gooding, Jr. 139 min. Widescreen; Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital stereo, French Dolby Digital stereo; Subtitles: English, French, Spanish; audio commentary.