---
name: "Mark Andrus"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mark-andrus"
fi1m_id: "mark-andrus"
imdb_id: "nm0029125"
tmdb_id: 28780
wikidata_id: "Q1899904"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "13 December 1955"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T22:17:56.742049+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Mark Andrus

## Identity

Mark Andrus

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/mark-andrus
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** mark-andrus
- **IMDb ID:** nm0029125
- **TMDB ID:** 28780
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1899904
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Andrus, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1899904, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0029125/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/28780

Writer. Born 13 December 1955 in Los Angeles.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 13 December 1955, Los Angeles
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Andrus, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1899904, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0029125/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/28780

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*As Good as It Gets*](https://film.one/film/as-good-as-it-gets.md) (77)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Mark Andrus is an American screenwriter. He was born on 13 December 1955 in Los Angeles. After earning an MBA from the University of California, Riverside, he took a creative writing class and went on to complete a Master of Professional Writing at the University of Southern California.

Andrus received his first screen credit for the 1991 film *Late for Dinner*. He wrote the original screenplay *Old Friends*, which was rewritten with James L. Brooks to become *As Good as It Gets* (1997). The pair shared the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Original Screenplay, and received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for Best Original Screenplay.

His other credits include the original screenplays for *Life as a House* (2001) and *Georgia Rule* (2007), the adaptation *Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood* (2002), *And So It Goes* (2014) and *Otherhood* (2019).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, biographies.net.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *As Good as It Gets* (1997), Fi1m 77, Screenplay, Story — [page](https://film.one/film/as-good-as-it-gets.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Otherhood* (2019), Writer
- *And So It Goes* (2014), Screenplay
- *Georgia Rule* (2007), Writer
- *Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood* (2002), Adaptation
- *Life as a House* (2001), Screenplay
- *As Good as It Gets* (1997), Screenplay, Story — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/as-good-as-it-gets.md)
- *Late for Dinner* (1991), Writer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1998: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (nominated), for *As Good as It Gets*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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