This study aims at analyzing the needs experienced by the main character and identify the characteristics of self-actualization that reflected in Joy in Joy movie used Hierarchy of Needs theory by Abraham Maslow.

This study used a descriptive qualitative method. Primary data was from Joy movie script and secondary data was from international journals, articles, sites, essays, and books which have relation to the topic of the study. Some steps are used to collect the data by watching a movie, reading the movie script, identifying the data, classifying the data, and reducing the data.

This study finds the hierarchy of needs by Abraham Maslow’s theory of the main character. The first is the fulfillment of the needs experienced by Joy as the main character. The main character fulfill all the needs: physiological needs, safety needs, love and belonging needs, and esteem needs. The next is Joy reach his self-actualization. She becomes a self-actualized person, identified from 5 characteristics, namely: autonomy, problem centered, need privacy, social awareness, and creativeness.
Keywords: Hierarchy of Needs, Self-Actualization, Characteristics of Self-Actualized Person.