"film was ""The Graduate"" in 1967, starring then unknown actor Dustin Hoffman, alongside Anne Bancroft and Katharine Ross. The film was another critical and financial success, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1967 and receiving seven Academy Award nominations, winning Nichols the Academy Award for Best Director. Among the other films he directed were ""Catch-22"" (1970), ""Carnal Knowledge"" (1971), ""Silkwood"" (1983), ""Working Girl"" (1988), ""Wolf"" (1994), ""The Birdcage"" (1996), ""Closer"" (2004), and ""Charlie Wilson's War"" (2007). Along with an Academy Award, Nichols won a Grammy Award (the first for a comedian born outside the United States), four Emmy Awards and nine"
"Nearly five decades later, he won his sixth Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play with a revival of ""Death of a Salesman"" in 2012. During his career he directed or produced more than twenty-five Broadway plays. In 1966, Warner Brothers invited Nichols to direct his first film, ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"", starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. The groundbreaking and acclaimed film led critics to declare Nichols the ""new Orson Welles"". The film garnered 13 Academy Award nominations, winning five. It was also a box office hit and became the number 1 film of 1966. His next"
"Hawks, Fritz Lang and Jean Renoir. Nichols wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for films including ""Bringing Up Baby"" (1938), ""Stagecoach"" (1939), ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"" (1943), ""Scarlet Street"" (1945), ""And Then There Were None"" (1945), ""The Bells of St. Mary's"" (1945), ""Pinky"" (1949) and ""The Tin Star"" (1957). Nichols initially declined the Academy Award he received for ""The Informer"", due to a dispute between the Screen Writers Guild, of which he was a founder, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He collected the award at the 1938 Oscar ceremony. He served as president of the Screen"
"1963, foreshadowing many of the social tensions of the 1960s which the book would come to represent. Through this novel, the character of ""archetypal seductive older woman"" Mrs. Robinson has found a permanent niche in American cultural history. The novel was made into a hugely successful film in 1967 by Mike Nichols. Webb has stated that he never felt comfortable with the attention the movie brought him because he felt it distracted from his status as a serious artist. Webb sold the film rights for a one-off payment reported to be $20,000. He was rarely associated with the movie's publicity"
"In the Heat of the Night (film) In the Heat of the Night is a 1967 American mystery drama film directed by Norman Jewison. It is based on John Ball's 1965 novel of the same name and tells the story of Virgil Tibbs, a black police detective from Philadelphia, who becomes involved in a murder investigation in a small town in Mississippi. It stars Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger, and was produced by Walter Mirisch. The screenplay was by Stirling Silliphant. The film won five Academy Awards, including the 1967 awards for Best Picture and Rod Steiger for Best Actor."
"failure of ""Taking Off"", producers Michael Douglas and Saul Zaentz hired him to direct the adaptation of Ken Kesey's cult novel ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"". Forman later said they hired him because he was in their price range. Starring Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher, the adaptation was a critical and commercial success. The film won Oscars in the five most important categories: Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. One of only three films in history to do so (alongside ""It Happened One Night"" and ""The Silence of the Lambs""), it firmly established"
"(1973), ""Terms of Endearment"" (1983), ""As Good as It Gets"" (1997), ""About Schmidt"" (2002), and ""The Bucket List"" (2007); the neo-noir mystery ""Chinatown"" (1974); the horror film ""The Shining"" (1980); the biopic ""Reds"" (1981); the fantasy comedy ""The Witches of Eastwick"" (1987); the superhero film ""Batman"" (1989) as the Joker; the legal drama ""A Few Good Men"" (1992); the romantic horror film ""Wolf"" (1994); the science fiction comedy ""Mars Attacks!"" (1996); the comedy ""Anger Management"" (2003); the romantic comedy ""Something's Gotta Give"" (2003); and the crime drama ""The Departed"" (2006). Nicholson has not acted in a film since ""How Do"
"seven 1957 Oscars, including the Best Picture, and Best Actor for Alec Guinness. Boulle himself won the award for Best Adapted Screenplay despite not having written the screenplay and, by his own admission, not even speaking English. Boulle had been credited with the screenplay because the film's actual screenwriters, Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson, had been blacklisted as communist sympathizers. Boulle was neither a socialist nor a communist. The Motion Picture Academy added Foreman's and Wilson's names to the award in 1984. Kim Novak accepted the Oscar on behalf of Pierre Boulle. In 1963, following several other reasonably successful novels,"
"Adam 1966: ""The Blue Max"" – Wilfred Shingleton 1967: no award given 1967: ""A Man for All Seasons"" – John Box Best Production Design (and Art Direction) 1968: """" – Ernest Archer, Harry Lange, and Anthony Masters 1970: ""Waterloo"" – Mario Garbuglia 1971: ""Death in Venice (Morte a Venezia)"" – Ferdinando Scarfiotti 1972: ""Cabaret"" – Rolf Zehetbauer 1973: ""The Hireling"" – Natasha Kroll 1974: ""The Great Gatsby"" – John Box 1975: ""Rollerball"" – John Box 1976: ""Bugsy Malone"" – Geoffrey Kirkland 1977: ""Fellini's Casanova (Il Casanova di Federico Fellini)"" – Danilo Donati and Federico Fellini 1978: ""Close Encounters of the"
"critics, while ""Closer"" and ""Charlie Wilson's War"" received generally positive reviews and were both nominated for Academy Awards, BAFTA and Golden Globe awards. Nichols also directed widely acclaimed adaptations of ""Wit"" (2001) and ""Angels in America"" (2003) for television, winning Emmy Awards for both of them. In 2012, Nichols won the Best Direction of a Play Tony Award for Arthur Miller's ""Death of a Salesman"". In April 2013, it was announced that he would direct Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz in a Broadway revival of Harold Pinter's ""Betrayal"". The play began its limited run on October 1 at the Ethel"
"in 1975, Miloš Forman directed a screen adaptation, which won the ""Big Five"" Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Actor (Jack Nicholson), Best Actress (Louise Fletcher), Best Director (Forman) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman). Kesey originally was involved in creating the film, but left two weeks into production. He claimed never to have seen the movie because of a dispute over the $20,000 he was initially paid for the film rights. Kesey loathed the fact that, unlike the book, the film was not narrated by the Chief Bromden character, and he disagreed with Jack Nicholson's being cast"
"the Edge"" (1990) starring Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine; ""Primary Colors"" (1998) starring John Travolta and Emma Thompson; and ""The Birdcage"" (1996), an American remake of the 1978 French film ""La Cage aux Folles"" starring Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Gene Hackman and Dianne Wiest. Both ""The Birdcage"" and ""Primary Colors"" were written by Elaine May, Nichols' comedy partner earlier in his career. Other films directed by Nichols include ""Regarding Henry"" (1991) starring Harrison Ford and ""Wolf"" (1994) starring Jack Nicholson and Michelle Pfeiffer. When he was honored by Lincoln Center in 1999 for his life's work, Elaine May—speaking once again"
"Charles Dickens novel ""Oliver Twist"". After directing several contributions to the BBC's ""Wednesday Play"" anthology series, Ken Loach began his feature film career with the social realist ""Poor Cow"" (1967) and ""Kes"" (1969). Meanwhile, the controversy around Peter Watkins ""The War Game"" (1965), which won the Best Documentary Film Oscar in 1967, but had been suppressed by the BBC who had commissioned it, would ultimately lead Watkins to work exclusively outside Britain. American studios cut back on British productions, and in many cases withdrew from financing them altogether. Films financed by American interests were still being made, including Billy Wilder's"
"Awards: including six for Best Director of either a play or a musical, one for Best Play, and one for Best Musical. In 1966, Nichols was a star stage director and ""Time"" magazine called him ""the most in-demand director in the American theatre."" Although he had no experience in filmmaking, after befriending Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Warner Bros. invited Nichols to direct a screen adaptation of Edward Albee's ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"" starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, and Sandy Dennis. The film was critically acclaimed, with critics calling Nichols ""the new Orson Welles"", and a financial"
"You Know"" in 2010, but does not consider himself to be retired. He has also directed three films, including ""The Two Jakes"" (1990), the sequel to ""Chinatown"". Nicholson's 12 Academy Award nominations make him the most nominated male actor in the Academy's history. Nicholson has won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice - one for the drama ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"" (1975), and the other for the romantic comedy ""As Good as It Gets"" (1997). He also won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the comedy-drama ""Terms of Endearment"" (1983). Nicholson is one of three"
"production of Oscar Wilde's ""The Importance of Being Earnest"" and acted in a revival of George Bernard Shaw's ""St. Joan"". In 1963, Nichols was chosen to direct Neil Simon's play ""Barefoot In The Park"". He realized at once that he was meant to be a director, saying in a 2003 interview: ""On the first day of rehearsal, I thought, 'Well, look at this. Here is what I was meant to do.' I knew instantly that I was home"". ""Barefoot in the Park"" was a big hit, running for 1530 performances and earning Nichols a Tony Award for his direction. This"
"for Best Picture, Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and the Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay. Ginger Rogers won for Best Actress. It was also nominated for Best Director (Sam Wood), Best Sound (John Aalberg). In 1951, in a series of articles examining film adaptation, Lester Asheim notes that some films ""reproduce the costume, housing, and appearance of the novel's prototypes without softening or heightening,"" but that ""Kitty Foyle"" shows the more typical ""glamorizing"" process of film adaptation: Kitty Foyle is typical, in every aspect of the adaptation, of the daydream character of film characterization. The"
"Academy. Nicholson's acting career spans over sixty years. He has won three Academy Awards, and with twelve nominations, he is the most nominated male actor in the Academy's history. Among his most notable films are ""Easy Rider"" (1969), ""Five Easy Pieces"" (1970), ""The Last Detail"" (1973), ""Chinatown"" (1974), ""The Passenger"" (1975), ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"" (1975), ""The Shining"" (1980), ""Terms of Endearment"" (1983), ""Batman"" (1989), ""A Few Good Men"" (1992), ""As Good as It Gets"" (1997), ""About Schmidt"" (2002), ""Something's Gotta Give"" (2003), ""The Departed"" (2006), and ""The Bucket List"" (2007). Jack Nicholson John Joseph Nicholson (born April"
"of the 2015 Oscars, in anchor position. Nichols left a painting titled ""Horse with Groom"" by John Frederick Herring Sr. to his son Max Nichols. Mike Nichols Mike Nichols (born Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky; November 6, 1931 – November 19, 2014) was an American film and theater director, producer, actor, and comedian. He was noted for his ability to work across a range of genres and an aptitude for getting the best out of actors regardless of their acting experience. Nichols began his career in the 1950s with the comedy improvisational troupe, The Compass Players, predecessor of The Second City, in"
"""The List of Adrian Messenger"" in 1963. Douglas had previously filmed another A.B. Guthrie novel, ""The Big Sky"". Filming took place in Tucson, Arizona, and various places in Oregon, including Bend and Crooked River Gorge. The Way West (film) The Way West is a 1967 American western film based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by A. B. Guthrie, Jr.. The film stars Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, and Richard Widmark, and features Sally Field in her first major film role. The film was directed by veteran television director Andrew V. McLaglen and featured on-location cinematography by William H. Clothier. Sam"
"""Stranger than Paradise"" (Jim Jarmusch, 1984), ""Blue Velvet"" (David Lynch, 1986), ""The Civil War"" (Ken Burns, 1990), ""The Crying Game"" (Neil Jordan, 1992), ""Mulholland Drive"" (David Lynch, 2001), ""Brokeback Mountain"" (Ang Lee, 2005), ""The Imitation Game"" (Morten Tyldum, 2014), ""Sully"" (Clint Eastwood, 2016), ""Moonlight"" (Barry Jenkins, 2016), and ""Lady Bird"" (Greta Gerwig, 2017). Since 1995 a special medallion has also been presented annually, usually to a non-filmmaker who has had a major impact on American or international film culture. Past recipients include Milos Stehlik (founder of Facets Multi-Media), HBO, the French film magazine ""Positif"", Ted Turner, and Janus Films. Each"
"film ""A Soldier's Story"" and for his Academy Award-nominated performance in the film ""Ragtime"". Substance abuse problems led to fewer Rollins' appearances on the series, and he eventually was fired. The Tibbs family was written out of the series. All novels were written by John Ball. Virgil Tibbs Virgil Tibbs is one of the two fictional main characters in John Ball's 1965 novel ""In the Heat of the Night"". He is also the protagonist in six sequels to that novel. On screen, Tibbs is the protagonist in the Oscar-winning 1967 film ""In the Heat of the Night"" and in its"
"the slow disintegration of an upper-middle class family, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director. Redford was credited with obtaining a powerful dramatic performance from Mary Tyler Moore, as well as superb work from Donald Sutherland and Timothy Hutton, who also won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. Redford did not direct again until ""The Milagro Beanfield War"" (1988), a well-crafted, though not commercially successful, screen version of John Nichols' acclaimed novel of the Southwest. ""The Milagro Beanfield War"" is the story of the people of Milagro, New Mexico (based on the real town of Truchas in"
"as the kidnapped wife. The film received Oscar nominations for Brooks' screenplay and direction, and for Conrad Hall's cinematography. It has been lauded as one of the most entertaining westerns ever filmed. Brooks landed the property of the decade when author Truman Capote selected him to adapt his best-selling book ""In Cold Blood"". Once again rejecting the methodical pace that had slowed him with other productions, Brooks worked quickly to adapt the ""nonfiction novel,"" as Capote called it. As a reporter, Brooks also conducted his own research into the murders of four members of a Kansas farm family and the"
"approached him to write a play for the National Theatre, Nichols offered them the slightly revised work, retitled ""The National Health"". It premiered in 1969 and proved to be a critical and commercial success, named Best New Play by the Evening Standard. The BBC then asked Nichols if he would like to adapt the play for a television production. In 1973, Nichols adapted his play for a film version directed by Jack Gold. It starred Jim Dale, Bob Hoskins, Lynn Redgrave, Donald Sinden, Clive Swift, Mervyn Johns, Eleanor Bron, Gillian Barge and Colin Blakely. It won the Evening Standard British"
"Virgil Tibbs Virgil Tibbs is one of the two fictional main characters in John Ball's 1965 novel ""In the Heat of the Night"". He is also the protagonist in six sequels to that novel. On screen, Tibbs is the protagonist in the Oscar-winning 1967 film ""In the Heat of the Night"" and in its sequels, ""They Call Me Mister Tibbs!"" (1970) and ""The Organization"" (1971). He is also portrayed in the 1988-1995 television series. In the novels, Tibbs works for the police force of Pasadena, California. In the films, portrayed by Academy Award winner Sidney Poitier, he first works in"
"Best Director Oscar for the film. Isabella Rossellini won an Independent Spirit Award for the Best Female Lead in 1987. David Lynch and Dennis Hopper won a Los Angeles Film Critics Association award in 1987 for ""Blue Velvet"" in categories Best Director (Lynch) and Best Supporting Actor (Hopper). In 1987, National Society of Film Critics awarded Best Film, Best Director (David Lynch), Best Cinematography (Frederick Elmes), and Best Supporting Actor (Dennis Hopper) awards. Although it initially gained a relatively small theatrical audience in North America and was met with controversy over its artistic merit, ""Blue Velvet"" soon became the center"
"to the play's then-controversial use of profanity and sexual themes, and overruled the award's advisory committee, awarding no Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1963. A film adaptation of the play was released in 1966. It was directed by Mike Nichols and starred Elizabeth Taylor as Martha, Richard Burton as George, George Segal as Nick and Sandy Dennis as Honey. All four major actors were nominated for Academy Awards: Taylor and Burton for Best Actress and Actor and Dennis and Segal for Supporting Oscars. Both actresses won - Elizabeth Taylor won the Oscar for Best Actress but Richard Burton was passed"
"Writers Guild in 1937 and 1938. He also co-wrote the documentary ""The Battle of Midway"", which won the 1942 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Nichols produced and directed three films—""Government Girl"" (1943), ""Sister Kenny"" (1946) and ""Mourning Becomes Electra"" (1947)—for which he also wrote the screenplay. In 1954 he received the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement from the Writers Guild of America. He died in Hollywood of cancer in 1960 and was interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Dudley Nichols Dudley Nichols (April 6, 1895 – January 4, 1960) was an American screenwriter and director. Dudley Nichols was born"
"In 1967, immediately after wrapping up principal filming on ""The Tiger Makes Out"", Hoffman flew from New York City to Fargo, North Dakota, where he directed productions of William Gibson's ""Two for the Seesaw"" and William Saroyan's ""The Time of Your Life"" for the Fargo-Moorhead Community Theatre. The $1,000 he received for the eight-week contract was all he had to hold him over until the funds from the movie materialized. In 1966 director Mike Nichols auditioned Hoffman for a lead role in the Broadway musical ""The Apple Tree"" but rejected him because he could not sing well enough and gave"
"based on the life of whistleblower Karen Silkwood. The film was a financial and critical success, with film critic Vincent Canby calling it ""the most serious work Mike Nichols has yet done."" The film received five Academy Award nominations, including a Best Director nomination for Nichols. That same year, Nichols and Peter Stone helped to fix up and rewrite the musical ""My One and Only"" just days before its Boston premiere. The show eventually went to Broadway and ran for 767 performances, winning Tony Awards for Best Actor, Best Choreography (both for Tommy Tune) and best Supporting Actor (Charles ""Honi"""
"National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director The National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director is an annual award given by National Society of Film Critics to honor the best film director of the year. American director Martin Scorsese and Swedish director Ingmar Bergman won this award a record three times. Scorsese won for ""Taxi Driver"" (1976), ""Raging Bull"" (1980), and ""Goodfellas"" (1990); Bergman won for ""Persona"" (1967), ""Shame (Skammen)"" + ""Hour of the Wolf (Vargtimmen)"" (1968), and ""The Passion of Anna (En passion)"" (1970). Robert Altman, Luis Buñuel, David Cronenberg, Clint Eastwood, Mike Leigh, Terence"
"17th Golden Globe Awards The 17th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1959 films, were held on March 10, 1960. ""' Anthony Franciosa - ""Career"" ""' Jack Lemmon - ""Some Like It Hot"" ""' Elizabeth Taylor - ""Suddenly, Last Summer"" ""' Marilyn Monroe - ""Some Like It Hot"" ""' William Wyler - ""Ben-Hur"" ""' ""Ben-Hur"" ""' ""Some Like It Hot"" ""' ""Porgy and Bess"" Ernest Gold - ""On the Beach"" ""' Stephen Boyd - ""Ben-Hur"" ""' Susan Kohner - ""Imitation of Life"" ""' ""The Diary of Anne Frank"" Barry Coe Troy Donahue George Hamilton James Shigeta"" Angie"