F. Murray Abraham earned a Best Actor Oscar for his imperious performance as Antonio Salieri, a mediocre composer whose churlish young rival, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce), wins immortality with his musical genius. Not happy to see his talent eclipsed, Salieri dons a disguise and deviously plots revenge, obsessed with muffling Mozart's maddening laughter. Milos Forman's masterful drama also won Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director.

Will Hunting (Matt Damon) spends his days as a janitor at MIT, but the aimless young man is also a mathematical genius. So when his talents are discovered, a therapist (Robin Williams) helps Will confront the demons that have been holding him back. Damon and co-star Ben Affleck -- who appears in a small role as Will's best friend -- won an Oscar for their screenplay about friendship and risk in this uplifting drama from director Gus Van Sant.

In this edition of the PBS series, John Nash -- often called one of the most remarkable mathematicians in history -- tells his version of the strange, tragic and inspiring events that took him from genius to immobilizing illness to the Nobel Prize. Suffering a devastating breakdown at the age of 30 and later diagnosed with schizophrenia, Nash was the focus of the Oscar-winning film A Beautiful Mind (2001). Liev Schreiber narrates.