Mike Nichols succeeded, which is granted only to the very few in Hollywood and on Broadway. He won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, several Emmy and Tony awards. He was an icon of American film and theater: The Berlin-born director Mike Nichols died on Wednesday at the age of 83 years. According to information of the “Hollywood Reporter” Nichols suffered a cardiac arrest. Movies such as “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton or “The Graduate” with Dustin Hoffman made him famous.
Nichols is considered to be a keen observer of the American psyche and “soul research” Hollywood. Perhaps also because he was no American, he has durchexerziert the psyche in all its facets.
director, screenwriter, producer and comedian
The news of his death was on Thursday by ABC disseminated at the Nichols’ wife Diane Sawyer works as a prominent news anchor. ABC News chief James Goldston praised Nichols as a “true visionary who won the highest honor of the culture as a director, screenwriter, producer and comedian.”
The all-rounder had succeeded in doing what all of Hollywood and Broadway dreams. He was honored with an Oscar, a Grammy and several Emmys and Tony Awards for his Broadway work. Only a few others, including Mel Brooks, Barbra Streisand and the composer Richard Rogers, also the highest quartet of US cultural prizes won.
“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”, “The Graduate”, “Silkwood”
Nichols wrote, directed and produced dozens of films with Hollywood’s biggest stars. Elizabeth Taylor, Meryl Streep, Annette Bening, Richard Burton, Harrison Ford and Gene Hackman were standing in front of his camera. Nichols was the then unknown Dustin Hoffman a chance and made him the star of the award-winning rich social satire “The Graduate” (1967). He was honored with the Director Oscar.
Last committed Nichols Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman for his political satire “Charlie Wilson’s War” (2007). The director thus ventured to the explosive true story of the Texan deputies and CIA man Charlie Wilson, of the struggle of Afghan rebels against the Soviet-backed in the 80s with multi-million dollar arms deals.
breakthrough in 1966
Previously, Nichols had staged with “Closer” (2004) a relationship war, in which Jew Law, Julia Roberts, Natalie Portman and Clive Owen in sex, infidelity and lies entangle.
Nichols, of the American Way of Life bitingly ironic commented with treffendem view, was just 35 years old, than the American magazine “Newsweek” to “America’s only star director” named him and Hollywood’s rediscovery devoted a cover story , With the sensational film adaptation of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in the lead roles breakthrough in 1966 he had succeeded.
favorite city New York
The director staged since then – on Broadway and in Hollywood – regularly hits, such as the nuclear thriller “Silkwood”, the satirical career-farce “The woman’s arms “the gay comedy” The Birdcage – A paradise for birds shrill “or the political satire” with a vengeance – Primary Colours “with John Travolta as sexbesessenem US presidential candidate.
As a seven-year-old Michael Igor Pechkowsky born in Berlin of Jewish parents were fleeing from the Nazis in the United States. His only vocabulary at the time: “I do not speak English” and “Please do not kiss me,” Nichols later as the “New York Times” said. After dropping studying psychology in Chicago, he moved to New York, his favorite city, he always preferred Hollywood.
Hoffman as a star of American cinema established
springboard for his career was in the late 1950s, vaudeville. On the side of the comedienne Elaine May he advanced with biting humor on Broadway quickly become firm favorites. But Nichols wanted to direct. His first attempt, the theater production of “Barefoot in the Park” with Robert Redford in 1963 was an immediate hit. Redford as the role offer for “The Graduate” beat out, casted Nichols Dustin Hoffman. Together they achieved a timeless masterpiece that makes fun of the hypocritical society funny, breaks sexual taboos and Hoffman established himself as a star of American cinema.
Throughout his career, Nichols seven Tony- Awards, an Oscar, a Grammy and multiple Emmy Awards, as well as a reputation as a quick-witted entertainer and interlocutor deserved. Added to this is the praise of its stars. Meryl Streep raved in the “New York Times” about the “great” filmmakers: “filmmakers often want to have control over everything, but Mike has the ability to stay out at the right moment and to make things happen”. Since 1988, the father of three children with his fourth wife, the celebrity journalist Diane Sawyer was married.
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