LA, Oct 23: Brooding singer-songwriter Elliott Smith, who earned an Oscar nomination and widespread notice for his 1997 single "Miss Misery" from the film "Good Will Hunting," has died at age 34 in an apparent suicide, officials said on Wednesday. The body of the musician, who had appeared to have stabbed himself in the chest, was found by his live-in girlfriend at their Los Angeles home on Tuesday, city police spokeswoman Grace Brady said.

She said there was no sign of foul play and Smith's death was being treated as an apparent suicide, pending an investigation by the Los Angeles County Coroner.
Smith had battled drug and alcohol addiction for years, a subject he used as a metaphor in some of his songs. But Luke Woode, a DreamWorks Records executive who knew him, said Smith had been sober during the past year and seemed upbeat. Bureau Report