MUMBAI: Director Mike Nichols has been selected to receive the American Film Institute‘s Lifetime Achievement Award. The highest honor will be presented at a tribute, broadcast by TV Land Prime in Los Angeles next summer.

Nichols has received four best director Academy Award nominations, and won the Oscar in 1968 for directing The Graduate. He was also nominated for a best picture award in 1994 as one of the producers of The Remains of the Day.

During the course of his career, which he began in the ‘50s when he partnered with Elaine May for a comedy act, he has also won an Emmy, a Tony and a Grammy.

Nichol‘s film career began with Who‘s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 1966. He also made Catch-22, Carnal Knowledge, Silkwood, Working Girl, Primary Colors, the HBO film Angels in America, Closer and the most recent Charlie Wilson‘s War.