History YMMV / ABeautifulMind

* AwardSnub: Many felt Creator/RussellCrowe should have won the UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Best Actor. Then again, he had won the year before for ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'', and Creator/DenzelWashington (who was the one who eventually won that year for ''Film/TrainingDay'') [[ConsolationAward had been passed over a few times already...]]

* AwardSnub: Many felt Creator/RussellCrowe should have won the UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Best Actor. Then again, he had won the year before for ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'', and Creator/DenzelWashington [[ConsolationAward had been passed over a few times already...]]
* ItWasHisSled: Aside from the TropeNamer, this may be the most spoiled movie ever made.
** The fact Nash was a paranoid schizophrenic was part of the trailers, but the surprise is discovering certain characters to be imaginary.

* HarsherInHindsight: John and Alicia were both killed in a car accident in 2015, while he was coming home from winning the Abel Prize, adding a rather sour grace note to the uplifting ending of his winning the Nobel Prize. It can also make the hallucinated car chase pretty hard to watch.
** Likewise hearing that Marcee's parents supposedly died in a car crash now sounds more like ominous foreshadowing.

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: Very deliberately averted. The real Nash never started taking medication for his psychosis again, but towards the end of the film Nash makes a reference to taking "the newer medications". Creator/RonHoward didn't want to send the message that someone with severe mental illness ought to simply learn to put up with it, or attempt to overcome it through sheer willpower.

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: Very deliberately averted. The real Nash never started taking medication for his psychosis again, but towards the end of the film Nash makes a reference to taking "the newer medications". Ron Howard didn't want to send the message that someone with severe mental illness ought to simply learn to put up with it, or attempt to overcome it through sheer willpower.

* AwardSnub: Many felt Creator/RussellCrowe should have won the UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Best Actor. Then again, he had won the year before, and Creator/DenzelWashington [[ConsolationAward had been passed over a few times already...]]

* AwardSnub: Many felt Russell Crowe should have won the UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Best Actor. Then again, he had won the year before, and DenzelWashington [[ConsolationAward had been passed over a few times already...]]

* HarsherInHindsight: John and Alicia were both killed in a car accident fourteen years after the film was made while he was coming home from winning the Abel Prize, adding a rather sour grace note to the uplifting ending of his winning the Nobel Prize. It can also make the hallucinated car chase pretty hard to watch.

* TearJerker: John's goodbye to his hallucinated best friend and niece (though not so much his 'boss').
** The scenes where Alicia - and us - realize that most of what - and ''who'' - we've seen is a delusion. The treatment scenes also count.

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Early in the film, John is talking to Helinger and sees someone receiving pens to commemorate the Achievement of a Lifetime. Near the end of the film, he suddenly is presented with them.
** And the speech devoted to his wife.

* FridgeHorror: Think about the premise for a bit... [[BreakingTheFourthWall How can you be]] ''[[BreakingTheFourthWall sure]]'' [[BreakingTheFourthWall those you know are real]]?

* HarsherInHindsight: John and Alicia were both killed in a car accident fourteen years after the film was made while he was coming home from winning the Abel Prize, adding a rather sour grace note to the uplifting ending of his winning the Nobel Prize.

* HarsherInHindsight: John and Alicia were both killed in a car accident fourteen years after the film was made, adding a rather sour grace note to the uplifting ending.

* AwardSnub: Many felt Russell Crowe should have won the AcademyAward for Best Actor. Then again, he had won the year before, and DenzelWashington [[ConsolationAward had been passed over a few times already...]]

* DudeNotFunny: While Nash is walking along school grounds, minding his own business. Some kids think it'd be ''funny'' to pretend to be hallucinations and taunt him. Not cool guys...

* TearJerker: John's goodbye to his hallucinated best friend and niece (though not so much his 'boss').

** [[ShutUpHannibal They age.]]

* TheWoobie: John Nash.
** In RealLife he was more of a JerkassWoobie.
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* TearJerker: John's goodbye to his hallucinated best friend and niece(though not so much his 'boss').

* TearJerker: John's goodbye to his hallucinated 'boss', best friend, and niece.

** In real life he was more of a JerkassWoobie.