The Graduate director Mike Nichols will receive the DGA lifetime achievement award at the ceremony on 7 February.

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Director Mike Nichols is an old hand at lightly poisoned comedy, but when it comes to violence he shies away.

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Patrick Marber has adapted his own hit play, of the same name, and given the lucky director, Mike Nichols, a script that he can chew on.

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L. Mencken, movie director Mike Nichols, New York Times publisher Adolph Ochs, pharmaceutical entrepreneur Charles Pfizer, architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, slugger Babe Ruth, cartoonist Charles M.

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