Mike Nichols Overview:

Director, Mike Nichols, was born Michael Igor Peschkowsky on Nov 6, 1931 in Berlin, Germany. Nichols died at the age of 83 on Nov 19, 2014 in New York City, NY .

HONORS and AWARDS:

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Mike Nichols was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning one for Best Director for The Graduate in 1967.

Academy Awards

YearAwardFilm nameRoleResult
1966Best DirectorWho's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)N/ANominated
1967Best DirectorThe Graduate (1967)N/AWon
1983Best DirectorSilkwood (1983)N/ANominated
1988Best DirectorWorking Girl (1988)N/ANominated
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Biloxi Blues (1988, )

By Andrew Wickliffe on Oct 29, 2019 From The Stop Button

Biloxi Blues has some rather peculiar, rather significant third act problems. Like, it doesn?t have a third act. Did they cut a bunch to keep the PG rating or something? Because at a certain point the rising action stalls out and the film goes into montage summary overdrive. After giving lead Matthe... Read full article


Biloxi Blues (1988, )

By Andrew Wickliffe on Oct 29, 2019 From The Stop Button

Biloxi Blues has some rather peculiar, rather significant third act problems. Like, it doesn?t have a third act. Did they cut a bunch to keep the PG rating or something? Because at a certain point the rising action stalls out and the film goes into montage summary overdrive. After giving lead Matthe... Read full article


Biloxi Blues (1988, )

on Oct 29, 2019 From The Stop Button

Biloxi Blues has some rather peculiar, rather significant third act problems. Like, it doesn?t have a third act. Did they cut a bunch to keep the PG rating or something? Because at a certain point the rising action stalls out and the film goes into montage summary overdrive. After giving lead Matthe... Read full article


Biloxi Blues (1988, )

on Oct 29, 2019 From The Stop Button

Biloxi Blues has some rather peculiar, rather significant third act problems. Like, it doesn?t have a third act. Did they cut a bunch to keep the PG rating or something? Because at a certain point the rising action stalls out and the film goes into montage summary overdrive. After giving lead Matthe... Read full article


Becoming (2016)

By Beatrice on Dec 30, 2018 From Flickers in Time

Becoming Directed by Douglas McGrath 2016/US HBO Documentary Films First viewing/Amazon Instant In the last interview he gave before his death, the multi-talented talked with theater director Jack O’Brien about his life and work. ?The conversation spans ?his family&... Read full article


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Mike Nichols Facts
Was interested to direct First Blood (1982) with Dustin Hoffman as John Rambo.

According to Jack Nicholson's April 1972 Playboy Magazine interview, Nichols asked Nicholson and other cast members not to smoke marijuana while filming Carnal Knowledge (1971) on location in Vancouver, British Columbia, where cannabis was easily available. Nichols thought that it dulled an actor's performance.

Directed Postcards from the Edge (1990), which was written by Carrie Fisher and based on her relationship with her real-life mother, Debbie Reynolds. He later directed Closer (2004/I), with featured Fisher's on-screen Star Wars mother, Natalie Portman.

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