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Mike Nichols, wearing a black tuxedo and bow tie, stands smiling at a podium with a star-shaped award in front of him at the AFI Lifetime Achievement Awards. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Dustin Hoffman as Benjamin Braddock stands barefoot in a room, looking at a woman's outstretched leg in the foreground, in a scene from The Graduate (1967). Jack Nicholson, Art Garfunkel, and Carol Kane sit in a modern living room with large windows in a scene from the film Carnal Knowledge (1971), directed by Mike Nichols. Meryl Streep as Hannah Pitt stands beside Al Pacino as Roy Cohn, who lies in a hospital bed with an oxygen tube, in a scene from HBO's Angels in America. Charlie Wilson's War Katharine Ross in a wedding dress and Dustin Hoffman run from a church, with guests watching through glass doors, in a scene from The Graduate (1967). Director Mike Nichols, wearing sunglasses, sits beside a film camera at a pool's edge, directing Dustin Hoffman, who is lying on a swim float, during filming of The Graduate. Anne Bancroft, wearing a leopard print coat, and Dustin Hoffman, in a suit, sit together at a hotel bar table in a scene from the 1967 film The Graduate.
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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: PBS - American Masters - Mike Nichols. Aug 28, 2026
Anniversary information added. Nov 15, 2025
Anniversary information added. Nov 02, 2025
Add new Web site: Fresh Air Archive - Mike Nichols. Jun 27, 2025
Add new Web site: New York Film Academy - The Life and Films of Mike Nichols. May 16, 2025
Add new Web site: CNN Entertainment - ‘Becoming Mike Nichols’: The making of a legend. Mar 17, 2025
Added cross-references. Nov 15, 2024
Add new Web site: CBS News - The improbable life of Mike Nichols. Oct 24, 2024
Added a cross-reference to Angels in America. Jul 22, 2024
Add new Web site: NPR - Legendary Director Mike Nichols Is As Brilliant As He Is Enigmatic In New Biography. May 10, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Mar 28, 2024
Add new Web site: Senses of Cinema - Mike Nichols. Feb 16, 2024
Added cross-reference. Jun 16, 2023
Added a cross-reference to Melanie Griffith. May 05, 2023
Links added. Mar 30, 2023
Changed his original first name from “Michael” to “Mikhail.” Dec 16, 2019
Added photograph. May 08, 2015
Article revised. May 08, 2015
Updated for his death. Nov 20, 2014
Article thoroughly revised. Jun 09, 2014
Add new Web site: AllMovie - Mike Nichols. Jan 17, 2013
Add new Web site: Public Broadcasting Service - Biography of Mike Nichols. Jan 17, 2013
Add new Web site: Turner Classic Movies - Mike Nichols. Jan 17, 2013
He won a Tony Award in 2012. Jun 11, 2012
Added the Broadway shows Monty Python's Spamalot and Death of a Saleman. Changed "2nd" to "Second" in the title The Prisoner of Second Avenue. Mar 16, 2012
Article revised and updated. Oct 03, 2008
Article revised and updated. Apr 04, 2007
Added new Web site: PBS - American Masters - Mike Nichols. Sep 13, 2006
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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