“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolfe?”
Nichol’s 1966 directorial debut starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton as a bitter aging couple landed 13 Academy Award nominations, including Best Director, and won five.
“The Graduate”
This 1967 comedy, starring Dustin Hoffman as a recent college grad who becomes entangled in an affair with his older neighbor, Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft), earned Nichols an Oscar for Best Director, and still remains a topic in film buffs’ conversations to this day.
“Carnal Knowledge”
Jack Nicholson and Art Garfunkel led the cast in Nichols’ 1971 comedy that explored the changing attitudes about sex over three decades by following two life-long friends carnal desires.