Mike Nichols Articles

Orson Welles in Welles' own Citizen Kane (top); Gregory Peck, Brock Peters in Robert Mulligan's To Kill a Mockingbird (middle); Barbra Streisand in William Wyler's Funny Girl (bottom) This list of AFI Life Achievement Award winners was culled from Wikipedia. The number on the right represents the honorees' age at the time of the award. Shirley MacLaine will be 78 next June 7. 1973 John [...]

Emma Thompson, John Travolta, Primary Colors Primary Colors (1998) Antonio Capuano's PIANESE NUNZIO: Sex Scandals and Politics at the Movies Pt. 4 Directed by Mike Nichols and written by Elaine May, adapting Newsweek political columnist Joe Klein's novel, Primary Colors is a surprisingly effective fictionalized account of Bill Clinton's run for the White House. In the film, Southern senator Jack Stanton (John Travolta) is an [...]

CLOSER (2004) Direction: Mike Nichols Cast: Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Clive Owen, Natalie Portman Screenplay: Patrick Marber; from his own 1997 play Oscar Movies Clive Owen, Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Closer THE PERFECT DYSFUNCTIONAL DATE MOVIE Mike Nichols' first feature film, an adaptation of Edward Albee's acclaimed play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, is a harrowing dissection of two married couples whose inner [...]

Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, The Lion in Winter Turner Classic Movies' Christmas daytime programming includes George Cukor's 1933 classic Little Women, the 1938 version of A Christmas Carol, and the tedious 1959 version of Ben-Hur. William Wyler was a great director, but this multi-Oscared epic pales in comparison to Fred Niblo's more concise, less pretentious, and (mercifully) dialogue-less 1925 version starring Ramon Novarro (who was [...]