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Full awards and nominations of Good Will Hunting

Good Will Hunting

1997

Gus Van Sant

Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Minnie Driver, Ben Affleck ...

7.5

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Drama. Romance

Drama. Romance

Matt Damon stars as Will Hunting, a closet math genius who ignores his gift in favor of nightly boozing and fighting with South Boston buddies (co-writer Ben Affleck among them). While working as a university janitor, he solves an impossible calculus problem scribbled on a hallway blackboard and reluctantly becomes the prodigy of an arrogant MIT professor (Stellan Skarsgård). Damon only avoids prison by agreeing to see psychiatrists, ... [+]

70th Academy Awards (1998) - Movies from 1997

nom.

Best Picture

nom.

Best Director (Gus Van Sant)

nom.

Best Leading Actor (Matt Damon)

winner

Best Supporting Actor (Robin Williams)

nom.

Best Supporting Actress (Minnie Driver)

winner

Best Original Screenplay (Matt Damon, Ben Affleck)

nom.

Best Film Editing (Pietro Scalia)

nom.

Best Original Dramatic Score (Danny Elfman)

nom.

Best Song (Elliott Smith (Miss Misery))

55th Golden Globes Awards (1998) - Movies from 1997

nom.

Best Picture - Drama

nom.

Best Leading Actor Drama (Matt Damon)

nom.

Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture (Robin Williams)

winner

Best Screenplay (Matt Damon, Ben Affleck)

48th Berlin International Film Festival 1998

nom.

Golden Bear - Best Picture

winner

Silver Bear - Outstanding Single Arhievement (Matt Damon)

Writers Guild Awards (WGA) - Movies from 1997

nom.

Best Original Screenplay (Matt Damon, Ben Affleck)

2nd Satellite Awards8

nom.

Motion Picture, Drama

nom.

Best Director (Gus Van Sant)

nom.

Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama (Matt Damon)

nom.

Actor in a Supporting Rol, Drama (Robin Williams)

nom.

Actress in a Supporting Rol, Drama (Minnie Driver)

winner

Screenplay, Original (Ben Affleck, Matt Damon)

4 Screen Actors Guild Awards (Movies from 1997)

nom.

Best Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

nom.

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role (Matt Damon)

winner

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role (Robin Williams)

nom.

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role (Minnie Driver)

Producers Guild Awards (PGA) 1998 - Movies from 1997

nom.

Best Film (Outstanding Production)

NBR (National Board of Review) - Awards for 1997

nom.

Top Ten Films

winner

Special Achievement Award (Ben Affleck, Matt Damon)

Directors Guild of America (DGA) - 1997 Productions

nom.

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film (Gus Van Sant)

3rd Critics' Choice Awards

nom.

Best Picture

winner

Best Original Screenplay (Matt Damon, Ben Affleck)

winner

Breakout Artist of the Year (Matt Damon)

Chicago Film Critics Awards 1997

winner

Most Promising Actor (Matt Damon)

Boston Society of Film Critics Awards 1997

nom.

Best Screenplay (Matt Damon, Ben Affleck)

22nd Japan Academy Film Prize

nom.

Best Foreign Language Film