Mike Nichols: American Masters

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| writer = Susan Lacy

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| director = Elaine May

| starring = Mike Nichols

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| language = English

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| producer = Julian Schlossberg
Michael Kantor
Roy Furman

| editor = Michael Claeys
Phillip Schopper

| cinematography = Michael Claeys

| runtime = 54 minutes

| company = Jumer Productions
Witnesses Documentary Productions
Bennington Productions
Thirteen Productions

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| network = PBS

| released = {{Start date|2016|01|29}}

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Mike Nichols: American Masters is a 2016 documentary film directed by Elaine May about the life of Mike Nichols{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/blog/first-documentary-on-mike-nichols-will-launch-30th-season-of-american-masters/ |title=First Documentary on Mike Nichols Will Launch 30th Season of American Masters |work=pbs.org |date=November 2, 2015 |accessdate=January 19, 2016}} broadcast on the PBS series American Masters. It is derived from a lengthy interview with Nichols conducted by producer Julian Schlossberg. Brian Lowry of Variety has called it "the last memorable Nichols-May collaboration."{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2016/tv/reviews/american-masters-mike-nichols-review-pbs-elaine-may-1201681395/ |last=Lowry |first=Brian |title=TV Review: 'American Masters: Mike Nichols' |work=Variety |date=January 26, 2016 |accessdate=January 30, 2016}} Richard Brody said that although it is not a major contribution to May's life's work, it "is nonetheless distinctive in its sparseness, its fixed and almost obsessive concentration on Nichols’s face and voice... [it's] May’s highest tribute to Nichols."{{cite magazine |last=Brody |first=Richard |title=A Lovingly Obsessive Tribute to Mike Nichols, by Elaine May |url=http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/a-lovingly-obsessive-tribute-to-mike-nichols-by-elaine-may |magazine=The New Yorker |date=January 29, 2016 |accessdate= February 2, 2016}}