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The Graduate is a 1967 American independent [6] romantic comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols [7] and written by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham, [8] based on the 1963 novella by Charles Webb, who wrote it shortly after graduating from Williams College. The film tells the story of 21-year-old Benjamin Braddock, a recent college graduate ...
He also received numerous honors including the Film Society of Lincoln Center Gala tribute in 1999, Peabody Award in 2001, Kennedy Center Honors in 2003, and AFI Life Achievement Award in 2010 Nichols received five Academy Award nominations, winning Best Director for The Graduate (1967).
The 22nd British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1969, honoured the best films of 1968. The Graduate won Best Film , Best Director , Best Screenplay and Best Editor , plus Most Promising Newcomer for Dustin Hoffman .
The Graduate became the seventh film to win Best Director and nothing else, and the last until the 94th Academy Awards. For the first time since the introduction of the Academy Award for Best Costume Design in 1948 , Edith Head did not receive a nomination, after tallying 30 nominations and 7 wins over the previous 18 years.
Forty graduate students and 900 undergraduates make up the program, with Oscar-nominated film historian Steven Kovacs among the faculty. — M.G. Update Aug. 5, 3 p.m.
Combined with his second film, The Graduate, in 1967, the two films had already earned a total of 20 Oscar nominations, including two for Best Director, and winning it for The Graduate. Nichols was able to get the best out of actors regardless of their acting experience, whether an unknown such as Dustin Hoffman or a major star like Richard Burton.
This is a list of Academy Award–winning films. If a film won the Academy Award for Best Picture, ... The Graduate: 1967: 1: 7 Thoroughly Modern Millie: 1967: 1: 7 ...
The film had its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival on June 10, 2023. [5] It went on to screen at the Deauville American Film Festival on September 5, 2023. [6] [7] In September 2024, The Future of Film Is Female acquired distribution rights to the film, which was released on November 1, 2024.