Nash Denies Film Is Whitewash

Dr. John Nash, the Nobel Prize winning mathematician whose life is portrayed in the Oscar-nominated film A Beautiful Mind, denies being anti–Semitic. His wife denies he’s homosexual. And a son denies he’s a bad father.

Critics of the box-office hit, based on a biography of the same name, have accused the filmmakers of whitewashing Nash’s life and leaving out depictions of that dark side of him.

But in an interview with correspondent Mike Wallace of the CBS News program 60 Minutes, Nash, who suffers from schizophrenia, his wife, Alicia, and son Johnny deny these allegations, which have made this Academy Award contender controversial in recent weeks.

This is the first time Nash has spoken out since the movie was released. CBS News