The world of film has its auteurs and icons, and loyal viewers will line up to see a movie based on a director’s name alone. But the name of Mike Nichols guaranteed a film experience above almost all ...

More than a decade after his death, treasured American filmmaker Mike Nichols still inspires contemporary masters like Noah Baumbach. Writer-director Baumbach was honored for 30 years’ worth of ...

The Graduate is a milestone film (the third highest grossing movie ever) for Baby Boomers, who felt for the first time that Hollywood understood their generation and what it was striving to achieve.

A distraught young Mike Nichols is dabbing his eyes with a handkerchief and talking to a brisk and very efficient Elaine May. A few seconds into their improvised comedy chat, she announces: “I’m Miss ...

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Broadway and Hollywood director Mike Nichols died today at 83. He was best known for his films The Graduate and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? but was also one of only about a dozen people in the ...

Rebecca Schriesheim is an Author for Collider. She's a graduate of DePaul University where she studied Cinema and Media, and currently resides in Chicago. Her expertise lies in her fascination with ...

CULVER CITY, Calif. -- Julia Roberts hurled a four-letter word at Mike Nichols to get things rolling for the American Film Institute’s life-achievement honor for the director. "Mike is one of the few ...