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 Mike Nichols: Nominated for AFI's Life Achievement Award
Director Mike Nichols has been chosen by the Board of Trustees of the American Film Institute, to receive the 38th annual AFI Life Achievement Award.
The Oscar-winning director joins a list of AFI Life Achievement Award recipients that includes Sean Connery, George Lucas, Meryl Streep , Dustin Hoffman, Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg , Elizabeth Taylor and Sidney Poitier.
Directors John Ford , Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese have also received the AFI's highest honor for a career in film.
Accoding to Howard Stringer, Chairman of the AFI Board of Trustees- Nichols, who won an Academy Award in 1967 for directing "The Graduate," would receive the award in Los Angeles in 2010.
Speaking of Nichols, Stringer said: "Genius is a word often overused in our world, but surely not in the case of Mike Nichols, his artistry has spanned the mediums of modern storytelling - movies, television and the stage - and his gifts across five decades continue to inspire artists and audiences alike."
The seventy seven-year-old filmmaker, who earned fame with Elaine May in stand-up comedy, received his first Oscar nomination with 1966's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" The following year, he won the Oscar for "The Graduate." He also was nominated for Oscars for "Silkwood" and "Working Girl."
Nichol's other directing credits include 1971's "Carnal Knowledge," 1983's "Silkwood," 1988's "Working Girl" and 1998's "Primary Colors."
He has been nominated for 14 Tony Awards, winning seven directing Tonys, including one in 2005 for "Monty Python's Spamalot." He has won four Emmy Awards, two each for producing and directing "Angels in America" and "Wit," and he and May received a Grammy for "An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May."
In a statement on Sunday Nichols said: "I am surprised and pleased. The AFI award is truly an honor.
I was watching 'The Graduate' on my BlackBerry last week and it really holds up," he added. |
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