Rare Photos Of Directors On The Set Of Their Iconic Films

Mike Nichols & Dustin Hoffman On 1967’s The Graduate

Mike Nichols directed the romantic comedy-drama film The Graduate, which was based on the novel of the same name. It centers on a recent college graduate (Dustin Hoffman), who is seduced by an older woman and then falls in love with her daughter. Nichols won an Academy Award for the film. Prior to making films, Nichols was an accomplished director on Broadway. He was dubbed the “new Orson Welles” after directing Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 1966. He went on to make several popular films, including Catch-22 (1970), Carnal Knowledge (1971), Silkwood (1983), and Working Girl (1988).