Which film marked Mike Nichols’s debut as a movie director?

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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.

Mike Nichols’s debut as a movie director was the 1966 film Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.12

An adaptation of the 1962 play by Edward Albee, the film was a significant critical and commercial success. It starred Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton as a dysfunctional married couple, and its release was notable for its use of explicit language and the high-profile nature of its cast. The film received numerous Academy Award nominations, including one for Nichols for his direction.132