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Mike Nichols - Later projects: Wit , Angels in America , Spamalot , and Death of a Salesman

Which Emmy Award did Mike Nichols win for directing Wit?

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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. — Mike Nichols American director Mike Nichols in 2010. He was one of only a few people to have ever earned an EGOT, having won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony over the course of his career.

For his work on the 2001 HBO production of Wit, Mike Nichols won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special.1