He won the Oscar for Best Director at the age of 36: Who is Mike Nichols?

Mike Nichols, an American film director, producer, and screenwriter, was one of the 12 directors who were deemed worthy of all Oscar, Emmy, Golden Globe, Tony, and Grammy awards.

Nichols, who expressed his love for his wife, Diane Sawyer, whom he said "gave me endless happiness" at every opportunity, had been married for 25 years.

He was born Michael Igor Peschkowsky in Berlin, Germany. He is the child of a German-Russian Jewish family. They came to the USA in 1939. In 1967, he won the Academy Award for Best Director for the film The Graduate. He received the Golden Globe and BAFTA for the same film and won an Emmy award for the TV series Angels in America in 2004 and Wit in 2001. He won 8 awards at the Tony Awards, known as theater awards. In addition, he received the Best Comedy Album award at the Grammy Awards with his album An Evening With Mike Nichols And Elaine May.

Mike Nichols (born Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky; November 6, 1931 – November 19, 2014) was an American film and theatre director. He worked across a range of genres and had an aptitude for getting the best out of actors regardless of their experience. He is one of 19 people to have won all four of the major American entertainment awards: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (EGOT). His other honors included three BAFTA Awards, the Lincoln Center Gala Tribute in 1999, the National Medal of Arts in 2001, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2003, and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2010. His films received a total of 42 Academy Award nominations, and seven wins.

The legendary director of Broadway and Hollywood passed away at his home in New York on Wednesday, November 19, 2014. American director Mike Nichols, who has made wonderful films such as 'The Graduate', 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf', 'The Closer' and wonderful series such as 'Angels in America', has won Oscar, BAFTA, Emmy, Golden Globe, Tony and He was one of the rare names to receive Grammy awards.

Mike Nichols won the Oscar for Best Director at the age of 36 with the movie 'The Graduate starring Dustin Hoffman. Having achieved great commercial success with his films Working Girl', 'Silkwood' and 'The Birdcage', Nichols directed 'Barefoot in the Park', 'The Odd Couple', 'Spamalot' and 'Death of Death' starring Dustin Hoffman on Broadway. He was awarded 9 Tony awards for his play 'Salesman'.

During his 50-year film career, Nichols worked with many famous names from Broadway and Hollywood, such as Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tom Hanks, Kevin Spacey, Robert Redford, Jack Nicholson, Emma Thompson, and Natalie Portman.

Who is Mike Nichols?

Nichols, whose real name is Michael Igor Peschkowsky, was born in 1931 in Berlin, the capital of Germany, as the child of a Jewish family who immigrated to the USA in 1939. Born in Vienna as the son of a Russian immigrant family, his father was a doctor. His mother, Brigitte, was a German Jew. Nichols was a 7-year-old boy when he immigrated to the United States from Germany.

When the Nazis began arresting Berlin Jews in April 1938, Michael (Mike) and his older brother Robert, who was three years older, set out for the United States alone. Their father, who emigrated a few months before them, welcomed them there. Their mother, who escaped via Italy, joined the family in 1940. The father, who changed the name Pavel Nikolaevich Peschkowsky to Paul Nichols, became successful in the USA and settled with his family in a house near Central Park.

Mike Nichols, a legendary name in Broadway and Hollywood as a director and screenwriter, was married three times and had three children. He was very happy with his third wife, journalist Diane Sawyer, with whom he lived for 26 years until the day he died.