Honoree Mike Nichols speaks onstage during the 38th AFI Life Achievement Award honoring Mike Nichols

 

Mike Nichols, director of Broadway Stage and Movies, dies at 83

 

Mike Nichols, died at the age of 83. Nichols won the best director Oscar for his 1967 classic The Graduate, although his cabinet also contained a Golden Globe, a Grammy, four Emmys and nine Tony awards. His career embraced comedy and drama and straddled film, TV and theatre. He began as a stand-up, and comedy would remain the base to his sensibility and sense of timing. His 1966 film directing debut, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” captured the vicious and outrageous dialogue of Albee’s play, as a couple Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor torment each other over deep-seated guilt and resentment, the film always made you look for a large glass of red wine. He will be missed by Broadway and Hollywood alike he has left one very bit hole to fill. Nichols died of a heart attack on November 19, 2014, at his apartment in Manhattan

 

Mikes Theatre Work

Year	Stage	Role	Notes
1963	Barefoot in the Park	Director	Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play
1964	Luv	Director	Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play
1965	The Odd Couple	Director	Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play
1966	The Apple Tree	Director	Nominated–Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical
1967	The Little Foxes	Director
1968	Plaza Suite	Director	Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play
1971	The Prisoner of Second Avenue	Director	Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play
1973	Uncle Vanya	Director	Nominated–Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play
1976	Streamers	Director	Nominated–Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play
1976	Comedians	Director	Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play Nominated–Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play
1977	Annie	Producer	Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical Tony Award for Best Musical
1977	The Gin Game	Director and producer	Nominated–Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play Nominated–Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play Nominated–Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play Nominated–Tony Award for Best Play
1980	Billy Bishop Goes to War	Producer
1981	Fools	Director
1981	Grown Ups	Producer	Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play
1984	The Real Thing	Director	Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play Nominated–Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play
1984	Hurlyburly	Director
1984	Whoopi Goldberg	Director
1986	Social Security	Director
1992	Death and the Maiden	Director
2001	The Seagull	Director
2003	The Play What I Wrote	Producer	Nominated–Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience Nominated–Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event
2004	Whoopi	Producer	Nominated–Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event
2005	Spamalot	Director	Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical Nominated–Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Musical
2008	The Country Girl	Director
2012	Death of a Salesman	Director	Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play
2013	Betrayal	Director

 

Films

 

Year	Film	Academy Award Nominations	Academy Awards	Golden Globe Nominations	Golden Globe Awards
1966	Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	13	5	7	0
1967	The Graduate	7	1	7	4
1968	Teach Me!
1970	Catch-22
1971	Carnal Knowledge	1	0	3	1
1973	The Day of the Dolphin	2	0	1	0
1975	The Fortune			1	0
1980	Gilda Live
1983	Silkwood	5	0	5	1
1986	Heartburn
1988	Biloxi Blues
	Working Girl	6	1	6	4
1990	Postcards from the Edge	2	0	3	0
1991	Regarding Henry
1994	Wolf
1996	The Birdcage	1	0	2	0
1998	Primary Colors	2	0	2	0
2000	What Planet Are You From?
2001	Wit (TV)	n/a	n/a	2	0
2003	Angels in America (TV)	n/a	n/a	7	5
2004	Closer	2	0	5	2
2007	Charlie Wilson’s War	1	0	5	0

 

 

 

Leslie Caron presents Mike Nichols with his Oscar. Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis

 

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