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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Elaine_May_-_publicity1.jpg/220px-Elaine_May_-_publicity1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="277" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Elaine_May_-_publicity1.jpg/330px-Elaine_May_-_publicity1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Elaine_May_-_publicity1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="389" data-file-height="490" /></a><div class="infobox-caption">May performing in 1959</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Elaine Iva Berlin</div> (1932-04-21) April 21, 1932 (age 92) <div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a>, Pennsylvania, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Other names</th><td class="infobox-data nickname">Esther Dale, Elly May</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupations</th><td class="infobox-data role"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ul{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist .mw-empty-li{display:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dt::after{content:": "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li::after{content:" · ";font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .hlist 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dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"><ul><li>Actress</li><li>comedian</li><li>writer</li><li>film director</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years active</th><td class="infobox-data">1955–present</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/A_New_Leaf_(film)" title="A New Leaf (film)">A New Leaf</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Heartbreak_Kid_(1972_film)" title="The Heartbreak Kid (1972 film)">The Heartbreak Kid</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mikey_and_Nicky" title="Mikey and Nicky">Mikey and Nicky</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ishtar_(film)" title="Ishtar (film)">Ishtar</a> (1987)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouses</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Marvin Irving May </div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1948; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> 1960)</div></li><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1151524712"> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Sheldon_Harnick" title="Sheldon Harnick">Sheldon Harnick</a> </div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1962; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> 1963)</div></li><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1151524712"> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">David L. Rubinfine </div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1963; died 1982)</div></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Partner</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Stanley_Donen" title="Stanley Donen">Stanley Donen</a> (1999–2019; his death)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Jeannie_Berlin" title="Jeannie Berlin">Jeannie Berlin</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Elaine_May" title="List of awards and nominations received by Elaine May">Full list</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Signature</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/File:Elaine_May_signature.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Elaine_May_signature.svg/150px-Elaine_May_signature.svg.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="59" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Elaine_May_signature.svg/225px-Elaine_May_signature.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Elaine_May_signature.svg/300px-Elaine_May_signature.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="201" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table> Elaine Iva May (née Berlin; born April 21, 1932) is an American actress, comedian, writer, and director. She first gained fame in the 1950s for her <a href="/wiki/Improvisational_comedy" class="mw-redirect" title="Improvisational comedy">improvisational comedy</a> routines with <a href="/wiki/Mike_Nichols" title="Mike Nichols">Mike Nichols</a> before transitioning her career, regularly breaking the mold as a writer and director of several critically acclaimed films. She has received <a href="/wiki/List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Elaine_May" title="List of awards and nominations received by Elaine May">numerous awards</a>, including a <a href="/wiki/British_Academy_Film_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="British Academy Film Award">BAFTA Award</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Grammy Award">Grammy Award</a>, and a <a href="/wiki/Tony_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Tony Award">Tony Award</a>. She was honored with the <a href="/wiki/National_Medal_of_Arts" title="National Medal of Arts">National Medal of Arts</a> from President <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> in 2013, and an <a href="/wiki/Honorary_Academy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Honorary Academy Award">Honorary Academy Award</a> in 2022.<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-awardsdatabase.oscars.org-2">[2]</a><a href="#cite_note-mayhonored-3">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-governorawards-4">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-hollywoodreporter.com-5">[5]</a> In 1955, May moved to Chicago and became a founding member of the <a href="/wiki/Compass_Players" title="Compass Players">Compass Players</a>, an improvisational theater group. She began working alongside Nichols and in 1957, they both quit the group to form their own stage act, <a href="/wiki/Nichols_and_May" title="Nichols and May">Nichols and May</a>. In New York, they performed nightly in clubs in <a href="/wiki/Greenwich_Village" title="Greenwich Village">Greenwich Village</a> alongside <a href="/wiki/Joan_Rivers" title="Joan Rivers">Joan Rivers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Woody_Allen" title="Woody Allen">Woody Allen</a>, as well as on the <a href="/wiki/Broadway_(theatre)" class="mw-redirect" title="Broadway (theatre)">Broadway</a> stage. They also made regular appearances on television and radio broadcasts. They released multiple comedy albums and received four <a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Grammy Award">Grammy Award</a> nominations, winning <a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Comedy_Album" title="Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album">Best Comedy Album</a> for <a href="/wiki/An_Evening_with_Mike_Nichols_and_Elaine_May" title="An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May">An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May</a> in 1962. Their collaboration was covered in the <a href="/wiki/PBS" title="PBS">PBS</a> documentary <a href="/wiki/Nichols_and_May:_Take_Two" title="Nichols and May: Take Two">Nichols and May: Take Two</a> (1996). May infrequently acted in films, including <a href="/wiki/Luv_(film)" title="Luv (film)">Luv</a>, <a href="/wiki/Enter_Laughing_(film)" title="Enter Laughing (film)">Enter Laughing</a> (both 1967), <a href="/wiki/California_Suite_(film)" title="California Suite (film)">California Suite</a> (1978), and <a href="/wiki/Small_Time_Crooks" title="Small Time Crooks">Small Time Crooks</a> (2000). She became the first female director with a Hollywood deal since <a href="/wiki/Ida_Lupino" title="Ida Lupino">Ida Lupino</a> when she directed the 1971 black screwball comedy <a href="/wiki/A_New_Leaf_(film)" title="A New Leaf (film)">A New Leaf</a>.<a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a> Experimenting with genres, she directed the dark romantic comedy <a href="/wiki/The_Heartbreak_Kid_(1972_film)" title="The Heartbreak Kid (1972 film)">The Heartbreak Kid</a> (1972), the gangster film <a href="/wiki/Mikey_and_Nicky" title="Mikey and Nicky">Mikey and Nicky</a> (1976), and adventure comedy <a href="/wiki/Ishtar_(film)" title="Ishtar (film)">Ishtar</a> (1987). May later earned acclaim writing the screenplays for <a href="/wiki/Warren_Beatty" title="Warren Beatty">Warren Beatty</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Heaven_Can_Wait_(1978_film)" title="Heaven Can Wait (1978 film)">Heaven Can Wait</a> (1978), and Mike Nichols' <a href="/wiki/The_Birdcage" title="The Birdcage">The Birdcage</a> (1996) and <a href="/wiki/Primary_Colors_(film)" title="Primary Colors (film)">Primary Colors</a> (1998). Heaven Can Wait and Primary Colors each earned her a nomination for the <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Adapted_Screenplay" title="Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay">Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay</a>, while the latter won her the <a href="/wiki/BAFTA_Award_for_Best_Adapted_Screenplay" title="BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay">BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay</a>.<a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a> May returned to acting in <a href="/wiki/Woody_Allen" title="Woody Allen">Woody Allen</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Amazon_Prime_Video" title="Amazon Prime Video">Amazon Prime</a> series <a href="/wiki/Crisis_in_Six_Scenes" title="Crisis in Six Scenes">Crisis in Six Scenes</a> (2016) and on <a href="/wiki/Broadway_(theatre)" class="mw-redirect" title="Broadway (theatre)">Broadway</a> in the revival of the <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Lonergan" title="Kenneth Lonergan">Kenneth Lonergan</a> play <a href="/wiki/The_Waverly_Gallery" title="The Waverly Gallery">The Waverly Gallery</a> (2018)<a href="#cite_note-autogenerated5-8">[8]</a> the latter of which earned her the <a href="/wiki/Tony_Award_for_Best_Actress_in_a_Play" title="Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play">Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play</a>.<a href="#cite_note-autogenerated2-9">[9]</a><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated3-10">[10]</a> The win made May the second-oldest performer behind <a href="/wiki/Lois_Smith" title="Lois Smith">Lois Smith</a> to win a Tony Award for acting.<a href="#cite_note-autogenerated4-11">[11]</a> In 2022, the <a href="/wiki/Academy_of_Motion_Pictures_Arts_and_Sciences" class="mw-redirect" title="Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences">Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences</a> gave May an <a href="/wiki/Honorary_Academy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Honorary Academy Award">Honorary Academy Award</a> for her "bold, uncompromising approach to filmmaking, as a writer, director, and actress".<a href="#cite_note-awardsdatabase.oscars.org-2">[2]</a><a href="#cite_note-mayhonored-3">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-governorawards-4">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-hollywoodreporter.com-5">[5]</a> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_years_and_personal_life">Early years and personal life</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Elaine_May&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early years and personal life">edit</a>]</div> Elaine Iva Berlin was born on April 21, 1932, in <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a>, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Jewish parents, theater director and actor Jack Berlin and actress Ida (Aaron) Berlin.<a href="#cite_note-Quart-12">[12]</a>: 39 <a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a> As a child, May performed with her father in his traveling <a href="/wiki/Yiddish_theatre#Yiddish_theatre_in_the_Americas" title="Yiddish theatre">Yiddish theater</a> company, which he took around the country. Her stage debut on the road was at the age of three, and she eventually played the character of a generic little boy named Benny.<a href="#cite_note-Life-14">[14]</a> Because the troupe toured extensively, May had been in over 50 schools by the time she was ten, having spent as little as a few weeks enrolled at any one time. May said she hated school and would spend her free time at home reading fairy tales and mythology.<a href="#cite_note-Nachman-15">[15]</a>: 331  Her father died when she was 11 years old, and then she and her mother moved to Los Angeles, where May later enrolled in <a href="/wiki/Hollywood_High_School" title="Hollywood High School">Hollywood High School</a>. She dropped out when she was fourteen years old. Two years later, at the age of sixteen, she married Marvin May, an engineer and toy inventor. They had one child, <a href="/wiki/Jeannie_Berlin" title="Jeannie Berlin">Jeannie Berlin</a> (born 1949), who became an actress and screenwriter. The couple divorced in 1960, and she married lyricist <a href="/wiki/Sheldon_Harnick" title="Sheldon Harnick">Sheldon Harnick</a> in 1962; they divorced a year later. In 1964, May married her psychoanalyst, David L. Rubinfine; they remained married until his death in 1982.<a href="#cite_note-Nachman-15">[15]</a>: 332  May's longtime companion was director <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Donen" title="Stanley Donen">Stanley Donen</a>, from 1999 until his death in 2019.<a href="#cite_note-Feeney-16">[16]</a> Donen said he proposed marriage "about 172 times".<a href="#cite_note-Heilpern09-17">[17]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Elaine_May&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1950–1957:_Stage_career_and_Compass_players">1950–1957: Stage career and Compass players</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Elaine_May&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 1950–1957: Stage career and Compass players">edit</a>]</div> After her marriage to Marvin May, she studied acting. She also held odd jobs during that period, such as a roof salesman, and tried to enroll in college. She learned, however, that colleges in California required a high school diploma to apply, which she did not have.<a href="#cite_note-Quart-12">[12]</a>: 39  After finding out that the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Chicago" title="University of Chicago">University of Chicago</a> was one of the few colleges that would accept students without diplomas, she set out with seven dollars and hitchhiked to Chicago.<a href="#cite_note-Life-14">[14]</a> Soon after moving to Chicago in 1950, May began informally taking classes at the university by <a href="/wiki/Academic_audit" title="Academic audit">auditing</a>, sitting in without enrolling. She nevertheless sometimes engaged in discussions with instructors and once started a huge fight after saying that Socrates' apology was a political move. <a href="/wiki/Mike_Nichols" title="Mike Nichols">Mike Nichols</a>, who was then an actor in the school's theatrical group, remembers her coming to his philosophy class, making "outrageous" comments, and leaving.<a href="#cite_note-Nachman-15">[15]</a>: 324  They learned about each other from friends, eventually being introduced after one of his stage shows. The director <a href="/wiki/Paul_Sills" title="Paul Sills">Paul Sills</a> brought May to Nichols and said, "Mike, I want you to meet the only other person on the campus of the University of Chicago who’s as hostile as you are: Elaine May." Six weeks later, they bumped into each other at a train station in Chicago and soon began spending time together over the following weeks as "dead-broke theatre junkies."<a href="#cite_note-Nachman-15">[15]</a>: 324f  In 1955, May joined a new, off-campus improvisational theater group in Chicago, The <a href="/wiki/Compass_Players" title="Compass Players">Compass Players</a>, becoming one of its charter members. The group was founded by Sills and <a href="/wiki/David_Shepherd_(producer)" title="David Shepherd (producer)">David Shepherd</a>. Nichols later joined the group, wherein he resumed his friendship with May. At first, he was unable to improvise well on stage, but with inspiration from May, they began developing improvised comedy sketches together.<a href="#cite_note-Nachman-15">[15]</a>: 333  Nichols remembered this period: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote">From then on it became mostly pleasure because of Elaine's generosity. The fact of Elaine—her presence—kept me going. She was the only one who had faith in me. I loved it... We had a similar sense of humor and irony... When I was with her I became something more than I had been before.<a href="#cite_note-Nachman-15">[15]</a>: 333  </blockquote> Actress <a href="/wiki/Geraldine_Page" title="Geraldine Page">Geraldine Page</a> recalled they worked together with great efficiency, "like a juggernaut."<a href="#cite_note-Nachman-15">[15]</a>: 336  Thanks in part to Nichols and May, the Compass Players became an enormously popular satirical comedy troupe. They helped the group devise new stage techniques to adapt the freedom they had during the workshop.<a href="#cite_note-Seham-18">[18]</a>: 16  <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Elaine_May_Mike_Nichols_Dorothy_Loudon_Laugh_Line_1959.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Elaine_May_Mike_Nichols_Dorothy_Loudon_Laugh_Line_1959.JPG/240px-Elaine_May_Mike_Nichols_Dorothy_Loudon_Laugh_Line_1959.JPG" decoding="async" width="240" height="183" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Elaine_May_Mike_Nichols_Dorothy_Loudon_Laugh_Line_1959.JPG/360px-Elaine_May_Mike_Nichols_Dorothy_Loudon_Laugh_Line_1959.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Elaine_May_Mike_Nichols_Dorothy_Loudon_Laugh_Line_1959.JPG/480px-Elaine_May_Mike_Nichols_Dorothy_Loudon_Laugh_Line_1959.JPG 2x" data-file-width="957" data-file-height="731" /></a><figcaption>May, Nichols and <a href="/wiki/Dorothy_Loudon" title="Dorothy Loudon">Dorothy Loudon</a>, 1959</figcaption></figure> May became prominent as a member of the Compass's acting group, a quality others in the group observed. Bobbi Gordon, an actor, remembers that she was often the center of attention: "The first time I met her was at Compass... Elaine was this grande dame of letters. With people sitting around her feet, staring up at her, open-mouthed in awe, waiting for 'The Word'."<a href="#cite_note-Nachman-15">[15]</a>: 330f  A similar impression struck Compass actor Bob Smith: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote">May would hold court, discussing her days as a child actor in the Yiddish theater, as men hung on her every word. Every guy who knew her was in love with her. You'd have been stupid not to have been.<a href="#cite_note-Nachman-15">[15]</a>: 329  </blockquote> As an integral member of their group, May was open to giving novices a chance, including the hiring of a black actor and generally making the group "more democratic". And by observing her high level of performance creativity, everyone's work was improved. "She was the strongest woman I ever met," adds Compass actor Nancy Ponder.<a href="#cite_note-Nachman-15">[15]</a>: 330  In giving all her attention to acting, however, she neglected her home life. Fellow actress <a href="/wiki/Barbara_Harris_(actress)" title="Barbara Harris (actress)">Barbara Harris</a> recalled that May lived in a cellar with only one piece of furniture, a ping-pong table. "She wore basic beatnik black and, like her film characters, was a brilliant disheveled klutz."<a href="#cite_note-Nachman-15">[15]</a>: 330  Group actor Omar Shapli was "struck by her piercing, dark-eyed, sultry stare. It was really unnerving", he says. Nichols remembers that "everybody wanted Elaine, and the people who got her couldn't keep her." Theater critic <a href="/wiki/John_Lahr" title="John Lahr">John Lahr</a> agrees, noting that "her juicy good looks were a particularly disconcerting contrast to her sharp tongue."<a href="#cite_note-Nachman-15">[15]</a>: 329  <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224211176">.mw-parser-output .quotebox{background-color:#F9F9F9;border:1px solid #aaa;box-sizing:border-box;padding:10px;font-size:88%;max-width:100%}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft{margin:.5em 1.4em .8em 0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright{margin:.5em 0 .8em 1.4em}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.centered{overflow:hidden;position:relative;margin:.5em auto .8em auto}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft span,.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright span{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox>blockquote{margin:0;padding:0;border-left:0;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-title{text-align:center;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote>:first-child{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote:last-child>:last-child{margin-bottom:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:before{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" “ ";vertical-align:-45%;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:after{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" ” ";line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .left-aligned{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .right-aligned{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .center-aligned{text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quote-title,.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quotebox-quote{display:block}.mw-parser-output .quotebox cite{display:block;font-style:normal}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .quotebox{width:100%!important;margin:0 0 .8em!important;float:none!important}}</style><div class="quotebox pullquote floatright" style="width:25em; ; color: #202122;background-color: Cornsilk;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> "Elaine was too formidable, one of the most intelligent, beautiful, and witty women I had ever met. I hoped I would never see her again." </blockquote> <cite class="left-aligned" style=""><a href="/wiki/Richard_Burton" title="Richard Burton">Richard Burton</a><a href="#cite_note-Nachman-15">[15]</a>: 331 </cite> </div> May's sense of humor, including what she found funny about everyday life, was different from others' in the group. Novelist <a href="/wiki/Herbert_Gold" title="Herbert Gold">Herbert Gold</a>, who dated May, says that "she treated everything funny that men take seriously... She was never serious. Her life was a narrative."<a href="#cite_note-Nachman-15">[15]</a>: 329  Another ex-boyfriend, James Sacks, says that "Elaine had a genuine beautiful madness." Nevertheless, states Gold, "she was very cute, a lot like <a href="/wiki/Debra_Winger" title="Debra Winger">Debra Winger</a>, just a pretty Jewish girl."<a href="#cite_note-Nachman-15">[15]</a>: 329  May was considered highly intelligent. "She's about fifty percent more brilliant than she needs to be," says actor Eugene Troobnick. Those outside their theater group sometimes noticed that same quality. British actor <a href="/wiki/Richard_Burton" title="Richard Burton">Richard Burton</a>, who was married to <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Taylor" title="Elizabeth Taylor">Elizabeth Taylor</a> at the time, agreed with that impression after he first met May while he was starring in <a href="/wiki/Camelot_(musical)" title="Camelot (musical)">Camelot</a> on Broadway.<a href="#cite_note-Nachman-15">[15]</a>: 331  <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1957–1961:_Nichols_and_May_comedy_team">1957–1961: Nichols and May comedy team</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Elaine_May&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 1957–1961: Nichols and May comedy team">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Nichols_and_May" title="Nichols and May">Nichols and May</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Elaine_May_and_Mike_Nichols_1960.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Elaine_May_and_Mike_Nichols_1960.JPG/220px-Elaine_May_and_Mike_Nichols_1960.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="267" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Elaine_May_and_Mike_Nichols_1960.JPG/330px-Elaine_May_and_Mike_Nichols_1960.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Elaine_May_and_Mike_Nichols_1960.JPG/440px-Elaine_May_and_Mike_Nichols_1960.JPG 2x" data-file-width="612" data-file-height="742" /></a><figcaption>Nichols and May, 1960</figcaption></figure> Nichols was personally asked to leave the Compass Players in 1957 because he and May became too good, which threw the company off balance, noted club manager Jay Landsman. Nichols was told he had too much talent.<a href="#cite_note-Nachman-15">[15]</a>: 338  Nichols then left the group in 1957, with May quitting with him. They next formed their own stand-up comedy team, <a href="/wiki/Nichols_and_May" title="Nichols and May">Nichols and May</a>. After contacting some agents in New York, they were asked to audition for <a href="/wiki/Jack_Rollins_(producer)" title="Jack Rollins (producer)">Jack Rollins</a>, who would later become <a href="/wiki/Woody_Allen" title="Woody Allen">Woody Allen</a>'s manager and executive producer. Rollins said he was stunned by how good their act was: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote">Their work was so startling, so new, as fresh as could be. I was stunned by how really good they were, actually as impressed by their acting technique as by their comedy... They were totally adventurous and totally innocent, in a certain sense. That's why it was accepted. They would uncover little dark niches that you felt but had never expressed... I'd never seen this technique before. I thought, My God, these are two people writing hilarious comedy on their feet!<a href="#cite_note-Nachman-15">[15]</a>: 340  </blockquote> By 1960, they made their Broadway debut with An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May, which later won a Grammy. After performing their act a number of years in New York's various clubs, and then on Broadway, with most of the shows sold out, Nichols could not believe their success: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote">We were winging it, making it up as we went along. It never even crossed our minds that it had any value beyond the moment. It was great to study and learn and work there. We were stunned when we got to New York... Never for a moment did we consider that we would do this for a living. It was just a handy way to make some money until we grew up.<a href="#cite_note-Nachman-15">[15]</a>: 333  </blockquote> His feelings were shared by May, who was also taken aback by their success, especially having some real income after living in near-poverty. She told a Newsweek interviewer, "When we came to New York, we were practically barefoot. And I still can't get used to walking in high heels."<a href="#cite_note-Nachman-15">[15]</a>: 343  The uniqueness of their act made them an immediate success in New York. Their style became the "next big thing" in live comedy. <a href="/wiki/Charles_H._Joffe" title="Charles H. Joffe">Charles H. Joffe</a>, their producer, remembers that sometimes the line to their show went around the block. That partly explains why <a href="/wiki/Milton_Berle" title="Milton Berle">Milton Berle</a>, a major television comedy star, tried three times without success to see their act.<a href="#cite_note-Nachman-15">[15]</a>: 341  Critic Lawrence Christon recalls his first impression after seeing their act: "You just knew it was a defining moment. They caught the urban tempo, like Woody Allen did."<a href="#cite_note-Nachman-15">[15]</a>: 343  They performed nightly at mostly sold-out shows, in addition to making TV program and commercial<a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a><a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a> appearances and radio broadcasts.<a href="#cite_note-Nachman-15">[15]</a>: 346  Their relatively brief time together as comedy stars led New York talk show host <a href="/wiki/Dick_Cavett" title="Dick Cavett">Dick Cavett</a> to call their act "one of the comic meteors in the sky". Woody Allen said, "the two of them came along and elevated comedy to a brand-new level".<a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a> Technique <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nichols_and_May_-_1961.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/bd/Nichols_and_May_-_1961.jpg/220px-Nichols_and_May_-_1961.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="260" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/bd/Nichols_and_May_-_1961.jpg/330px-Nichols_and_May_-_1961.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/bd/Nichols_and_May_-_1961.jpg/440px-Nichols_and_May_-_1961.jpg 2x" data-file-width="987" data-file-height="1167" /></a><figcaption>Theater program from 1961</figcaption></figure> Among the qualities of their act, which according to one writer made them a rarity, was that they used both "snob and mob appeal", which gave them a wide audience. Nachman explains that they presented a new kind of comedy team, unlike previous comedy duos which had an intelligent member alongside a much less intelligent one, as with <a href="/wiki/Laurel_and_Hardy" title="Laurel and Hardy">Laurel and Hardy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fibber_McGee_and_Molly" title="Fibber McGee and Molly">Fibber McGee and Molly</a>, <a href="/wiki/Burns_and_Allen" title="Burns and Allen">Burns and Allen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Abbott_and_Costello" title="Abbott and Costello">Abbott and Costello</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Martin_and_Lewis" title="Martin and Lewis">Martin and Lewis</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Nachman-15">[15]</a>: 322  What differentiated their style was the fact that their stage performance created "scenes," a method very unlike the styles of other acting teams. Nor did they rely on fixed gender or comic roles, but instead adapted their own character to fit a sketch idea they came up with. They chose real-life subjects, often from their own life, which were made into satirical and funny vignettes.<a href="#cite_note-Nachman-15">[15]</a>: 322  This was accomplished by using subtle joke references which they correctly expected their audiences to recognize, whether through clichés or character types. They thereby indirectly poked fun at the new intellectual culture which they saw growing around them. They felt that young Americans were taking themselves too seriously, which became the subject of much of their satire.<a href="#cite_note-Nachman-15">[15]</a>: 321  Nichols structured the material for their skits, and May came up with most of their ideas.<a href="#cite_note-Life-14">[14]</a> Improvisation became a fairly simple art for them, as they portrayed the urban couple's "Age of Anxiety" in their sketches, and did so on their feet.<a href="#cite_note-KashnerVanFair08-22">[22]</a> According to May, it was simple: "It's nothing more than quickly creating a situation between two people and throwing up some kind of problem for one of them."<a href="#cite_note-Life-14">[14]</a> Nichols noted that after coming up with a sketch idea, they would perform it soon after with little extra rehearsal or writing it down. One example he remembered was inspired simply from a phone call from his mother. I called Elaine and I said, "I've got a really good piece for us tonight." They created a six-minute-long, mostly improvised, "mother and son" sketch, which they performed later that night.<a href="#cite_note-Nachman-15">[15]</a>: 335 <a href="#cite_note-MotherSon1960-23">[23]</a> May helped remove the stereotype of women's roles on stage. Producer <a href="/wiki/David_Shepherd_(producer)" title="David Shepherd (producer)">David Shepherd</a> notes that she accomplished that partly by not choosing traditional 1950s female roles for her characters, which were often housewives or women working at menial jobs. Instead, she often played the character of a sophisticated woman, such as a doctor, a psychiatrist, or an employer.<a href="#cite_note-Nachman-15">[15]</a>: 337  Shepherd notes that "Elaine broke through the psychological restrictions of playing comedy as a woman."<a href="#cite_note-Nachman-15">[15]</a>: 322  May and Nichols had different attitudes toward their improvisations, however. Where Nichols always needed to know where a sketch was going and what its ultimate point would be, May preferred exploring ideas as the scene progressed. May says that even when they repeated their improvisations, it was not rote but came from re-creating her original impulse. Such improvisational techniques allowed her to make slight changes during a performance.<a href="#cite_note-Life-14">[14]</a> Although May had a wider improvisational range than Nichols, he was generally the one to shape the pieces and steer them to their end. For their recordings, he also made the decision of what to delete.<a href="#cite_note-Nachman-15">[15]</a>: 323  Team break-up <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:May_and_Nichols-1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/May_and_Nichols-1.jpg/220px-May_and_Nichols-1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="286" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/May_and_Nichols-1.jpg/330px-May_and_Nichols-1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/May_and_Nichols-1.jpg/440px-May_and_Nichols-1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="1298" /></a><figcaption><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Nichols and May</div></figcaption></figure> Audiences were still discovering May and Nichols in 1961, four years after they arrived. However, at the height of their fame, they decided to discontinue their act that year and took their careers in different directions: Nichols became a leading Broadway stage and film director; May became primarily a screenwriter and playwright, with some acting and directing. Among the reasons they decided to call it quits was that keeping their act fresh was becoming more difficult. Nichols explained: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote">Several things happened. One was that I, more than Elaine, became more and more afraid of our improvisational material. She was always brave. We never wrote a skit, we just sort of outlined it: I'll try to make you, or we'll fight—whatever it was. We found ourselves doing the same material over and over, especially in our Broadway show. This took a great toll on Elaine.<a href="#cite_note-Nachman-15">[15]</a>: 349 </blockquote> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1224211176"><div class="quotebox pullquote floatleft" style="width:25em; ; color: #202122;background-color: Cornsilk;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> "Nichols and May are perhaps the most ardently missed of all the satirical comedians of their era. When Nichols and May split up, they left no imitators, no descendants, no blueprints or footprints to follow. No one could touch them." </blockquote> <cite class="left-aligned" style="">Author <a href="/wiki/Gerald_Nachman" title="Gerald Nachman">Gerald Nachman</a><a href="#cite_note-Nachman-15">[15]</a>: 319 </cite> </div> Nichols said that for him personally the breakup was "cataclysmic", and he went into a state of depression: "I didn't know what I was or who I was." It was not until 1996, thirty-five years later, that they would work together again as a team, when she wrote the screenplay and he directed <a href="/wiki/The_Birdcage" title="The Birdcage">The Birdcage</a>. It "was like coming home, like getting a piece of yourself back that you thought you'd lost," he said.<a href="#cite_note-Nachman-15">[15]</a>: 353  He adds that May had been very important to him from the moment he first saw her,<a href="#cite_note-Nachman-15">[15]</a>: 325  adding that for her "improv was innate," and few people have that gift.<a href="#cite_note-Nachman-15">[15]</a>: 359  Director <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Penn" title="Arthur Penn">Arthur Penn</a> said of their sudden breakup, "They set the standard and then they had to move on."<a href="#cite_note-Nachman-15">[15]</a>: 351  To New York talk show host <a href="/wiki/Dick_Cavett" title="Dick Cavett">Dick Cavett</a>, "They were one of the comic meteors in the sky."<a href="#cite_note-Nachman-15">[15]</a>: 348  They reunited for a <a href="/wiki/Madison_Square_Garden" title="Madison Square Garden">Madison Square Garden</a> benefit for <a href="/wiki/George_McGovern_1972_presidential_campaign" title="George McGovern 1972 presidential campaign">George McGovern for President</a> in June, 1972. The event, titled "Together Again for McGovern," also featured two musical groups that had recently broken up, <a href="/wiki/Simon_and_Garfunkel" class="mw-redirect" title="Simon and Garfunkel">Simon and Garfunkel</a> and <a href="/wiki/Peter,_Paul_and_Mary" title="Peter, Paul and Mary">Peter, Paul and Mary</a>, as well as singer <a href="/wiki/Dionne_Warwick" title="Dionne Warwick">Dionne Warwick</a>.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1962–1969:_Playwright_and_actor">1962–1969: Playwright and actor</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Elaine_May&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 1962–1969: Playwright and actor">edit</a>]</div> May has also acted in comedy films, including <a href="/wiki/Enter_Laughing_(film)" title="Enter Laughing (film)">Enter Laughing</a> (1967), directed by <a href="/wiki/Carl_Reiner" title="Carl Reiner">Carl Reiner</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Luv_(film)" title="Luv (film)">Luv</a> (1967), costarring <a href="/wiki/Peter_Falk" title="Peter Falk">Peter Falk</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jack_Lemmon" title="Jack Lemmon">Jack Lemmon</a>. The latter film was not well received by critics, although Lemmon said he enjoyed working alongside May: "She's the finest actress I've ever worked with," he said. "And I've never expressed an opinion about a leading lady before... I think Elaine is touched with genius. She approaches a scene like a director and a writer."<a href="#cite_note-Life-14">[14]</a> Film scholar <a href="/wiki/Gwendolyn_Audrey_Foster" title="Gwendolyn Audrey Foster">Gwendolyn Audrey Foster</a> notes that May is drawn to material that borders on dry Yiddish humor. As such, it has not always been well received at the box office. Her style of humor, in writing or acting, often has more to do with traditional Yiddish theater than traditional Hollywood cinema.<a href="#cite_note-foster-24">[24]</a> Following the break-up, May wrote several plays. Her greatest success was the one-act Adaptation (1969). Other stage plays she has written include Not Enough Rope, Mr Gogol and Mr Preen, Hotline (which was performed off-Broadway in 1995 as part of the anthology play Death Defying Acts), <a href="/wiki/After_the_Night_and_the_Music" title="After the Night and the Music">After the Night and the Music</a>, Power Plays, Taller Than A Dwarf, The Way of All Fish, and Adult Entertainment. In 1969, she directed the off-Broadway production of Adaptation/<a href="/wiki/Next_(play)" title="Next (play)">Next</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1970–1999:_Career_as_a_writer_and_director">1970–1999: Career as a writer and director</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Elaine_May&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 1970–1999: Career as a writer and director">edit</a>]</div> May made her film writing and directing debut in 1971 with <a href="/wiki/A_New_Leaf_(film)" title="A New Leaf (film)">A New Leaf</a>, a black comedy based on a short story which she read in an <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock" title="Alfred Hitchcock">Alfred Hitchcock</a> Mystery Magazine called The Green Heart which the author <a href="/wiki/Jack_Ritchie" title="Jack Ritchie">Jack Ritchie</a> would later retitle A New Leaf. The unconventional romance with <a href="/wiki/Walter_Matthau" title="Walter Matthau">Walter Matthau</a> as a Manhattan bachelor faced with bankruptcy, also starred May herself as the awkward botanist-heiress, Henrietta Lowell, who Matthau cynically woos and marries to salvage an extravagant lifestyle. Director May originally submitted a 180-minute work to <a href="/wiki/Paramount_Pictures" title="Paramount Pictures">Paramount</a>, but the studio cut it back by nearly 80 minutes for release. The film has since become a cult classic. <a href="/wiki/Vincent_Canby" title="Vincent Canby">Vincent Canby</a> cited the two-reelers of the 1930s and Depression-era screwball comedies when he called it "a beautifully and gently cockeyed movie that recalls at least two different traditions of American film comedy... The entire project is touched by a fine and knowing madness." May received a <a href="/wiki/Golden_Globe" class="mw-redirect" title="Golden Globe">Golden Globe</a> nomination for her portrayal of the shy botanist in the project from which she fought studio exec <a href="/wiki/Robert_Evans" title="Robert Evans">Robert Evans</a>, unsuccessfully, to have her name removed.<a href="#cite_note-NYT01-25">[25]</a> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:John_Cassavets_e_Peter_Falk,_1971_(cropped).tif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/John_Cassavets_e_Peter_Falk%2C_1971_%28cropped%29.tif/lossy-page1-190px-John_Cassavets_e_Peter_Falk%2C_1971_%28cropped%29.tif.jpg" decoding="async" width="190" height="253" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/John_Cassavets_e_Peter_Falk%2C_1971_%28cropped%29.tif/lossy-page1-285px-John_Cassavets_e_Peter_Falk%2C_1971_%28cropped%29.tif.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/John_Cassavets_e_Peter_Falk%2C_1971_%28cropped%29.tif/lossy-page1-380px-John_Cassavets_e_Peter_Falk%2C_1971_%28cropped%29.tif.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1647" data-file-height="2195" /></a><figcaption>Lead actors <a href="/wiki/John_Cassavetes" title="John Cassavetes">John Cassavetes</a> (left) and <a href="/wiki/Peter_Falk" title="Peter Falk">Peter Falk</a> (right) in 1971</figcaption></figure> May quickly followed her debut film with 1972's <a href="/wiki/The_Heartbreak_Kid_(1972_film)" title="The Heartbreak Kid (1972 film)">The Heartbreak Kid</a>. She limited her role to directing, using a screenplay by <a href="/wiki/Neil_Simon" title="Neil Simon">Neil Simon</a>, based on a story by Bruce Jay Friedman. The film starred <a href="/wiki/Charles_Grodin" title="Charles Grodin">Charles Grodin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cybill_Shepherd" title="Cybill Shepherd">Cybill Shepherd</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eddie_Albert" title="Eddie Albert">Eddie Albert</a>, and May's own daughter, <a href="/wiki/Jeannie_Berlin" title="Jeannie Berlin">Jeannie Berlin</a>. It was a major critical success, and holds a 90% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. In 2000, it was listed at No. 91 on <a href="/wiki/American_Film_Institute" title="American Film Institute">AFI</a>'s <a href="/wiki/AFI%27s_100_Years...100_Laughs" title="AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs">100 Years... 100 Laughs</a> list.<a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a> May followed the two comedies by writing and directing the gangster film <a href="/wiki/Mikey_and_Nicky" title="Mikey and Nicky">Mikey and Nicky</a>, starring <a href="/wiki/Peter_Falk" title="Peter Falk">Peter Falk</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Cassavetes" title="John Cassavetes">John Cassavetes</a>. Budgeted at $1.8 million and scheduled for a summer 1975 release, the film cost $4.3 million and was not released until December 1976. [<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] May ended up in a legal battle with Paramount Pictures over post-production costs, at one point hiding reels of the film in her husband's friend's Connecticut garage and later suing the company for $8 million for breach of contract.<a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a> May worked with <a href="/wiki/Julian_Schlossberg" title="Julian Schlossberg">Julian Schlossberg</a> to get the rights to the film and released a director's cut in 1980. In 2019, May worked with <a href="/wiki/The_Criterion_Collection" title="The Criterion Collection">The Criterion Collection</a> to create the newest director's cut. The film has gained appreciation by many critics and audiences in recent years.<a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a><a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a> In <a href="/wiki/Herbert_Ross" title="Herbert Ross">Herbert Ross</a>'s <a href="/wiki/California_Suite_(film)" title="California Suite (film)">California Suite</a> (1978), written by <a href="/wiki/Neil_Simon" title="Neil Simon">Neil Simon</a>, she was reunited with A New Leaf co-star Walter Matthau, playing his wife Millie.<a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a> In addition to writing three of the films she directed, May received an Oscar nomination for updating the 1941 film <a href="/wiki/Here_Comes_Mr._Jordan" title="Here Comes Mr. Jordan">Here Comes Mr. Jordan</a> as <a href="/wiki/Heaven_Can_Wait_(1978_film)" title="Heaven Can Wait (1978 film)">Heaven Can Wait</a> (1978). May reunited with Nichols for a stage production of <a href="/wiki/Who%27s_Afraid_of_Virginia_Woolf%3F" title="Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?">Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?</a> in <a href="/wiki/New_Haven,_Connecticut" title="New Haven, Connecticut">New Haven</a> in 1980. She contributed (uncredited) to the screenplay for the 1982 megahit <a href="/wiki/Tootsie" title="Tootsie">Tootsie</a>, notably the scenes involving the character played by <a href="/wiki/Bill_Murray" title="Bill Murray">Bill Murray</a>. <a href="/wiki/Warren_Beatty" title="Warren Beatty">Warren Beatty</a> worked with May on the comedy <a href="/wiki/Ishtar_(film)" title="Ishtar (film)">Ishtar</a> (1987), starring Beatty and <a href="/wiki/Dustin_Hoffman" title="Dustin Hoffman">Dustin Hoffman</a>. Largely shot on location in <a href="/wiki/Morocco" title="Morocco">Morocco</a>, the production was beset by creative differences among the principals and had cost overruns. Long before the picture was ready for release, the troubled production had become the subject of numerous press stories, including a long cover article in <a href="/wiki/New_York_(magazine)" title="New York (magazine)">New York magazine</a>. Some of the opposition to the film came from <a href="/wiki/David_Puttnam" title="David Puttnam">David Puttnam</a>, the studio head,<a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a><a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a> making Ishtar a prime example of studio suicide. The advance publicity was largely negative<a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a> and, despite some positive reviews from the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times" title="Los Angeles Times">Los Angeles Times</a> and <a href="/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post">The Washington Post</a>, the film was a box office disaster.<a href="#cite_note-NYT-34">[34]</a><a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a> The film Ishtar has been positively re-evaluated in the 21st century by multiple publications including the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times" title="Los Angeles Times">Los Angeles Times</a>, <a href="/wiki/Slate_(magazine)" title="Slate (magazine)">Slate</a>, <a href="/wiki/Indiewire" class="mw-redirect" title="Indiewire">Indiewire</a>, and <a href="/wiki/The_Dissolve" title="The Dissolve">The Dissolve</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Murray-36">[36]</a><a href="#cite_note-Labuza-37">[37]</a><a href="#cite_note-Hillis-38">[38]</a><a href="#cite_note-Haglund-39">[39]</a><a href="#cite_note-Olsen-40">[40]</a> Richard Brody of <a href="/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a> called Ishtar a "wrongly maligned masterwork" and raved, "There's a level of invention, a depth of reflection, and a tangle of emotions in Ishtar which are reached by few films and few filmmakers."<a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a> May acted in the film <a href="/wiki/In_the_Spirit_(film)" title="In the Spirit (film)">In the Spirit</a> (1990), in which she played a "shopaholic stripped of consumer power"; Robert Pardi has described her portrayal as a "study of fraying equanimity [that] is a classic comic tour de force."<a href="#cite_note-PardiFds16-42">[42]</a> She also contributed to the screenplay for the drama <a href="/wiki/Dangerous_Minds" title="Dangerous Minds">Dangerous Minds</a> (1995).<a href="#cite_note-43">[43]</a> May reunited with her former comic partner, <a href="/wiki/Mike_Nichols" title="Mike Nichols">Mike Nichols</a>, for the 1996 film <a href="/wiki/The_Birdcage" title="The Birdcage">The Birdcage</a>, an American adaptation of the classic French farce <a href="/wiki/La_Cage_aux_Folles_(film)" title="La Cage aux Folles (film)">La Cage aux Folles</a>. Their film relocated the story from France to <a href="/wiki/South_Beach" title="South Beach">South Beach</a>, Miami. It was a major box office hit. May received her second Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay when she again worked with Nichols on the 1998 film <a href="/wiki/Primary_Colors_(film)" title="Primary Colors (film)">Primary Colors</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2000–present:_Return_to_acting_and_Broadway">2000–present: Return to acting and Broadway</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Elaine_May&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 2000–present: Return to acting and Broadway">edit</a>]</div> She appeared in <a href="/wiki/Woody_Allen" title="Woody Allen">Woody Allen</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Small_Time_Crooks" title="Small Time Crooks">Small Time Crooks</a> (2000) where she played the character May Sloane, which Allen named after May when he wrote it, and with May being his first choice for the part.<a href="#cite_note-Lax-44">[44]</a> For her acting, she won the <a href="/wiki/National_Society_of_Film_Critics" title="National Society of Film Critics">National Society of Film Critics</a> award for Best Supporting Actress.<a href="#cite_note-smalltime-45">[45]</a> Allen spoke of her as a genius, and of his ease of working with her: "She shows up on time, she knows her lines, she can ad-lib creatively, and is willing to. If you don't want her to, she won't. She's a dream. She puts herself in your hands. She's a genius, and I don't use that word casually."<a href="#cite_note-Lax-44">[44]</a> Nearly 15 years later, Allen ended up casting her to play his wife, Kay Munsinger, in his <a href="/wiki/Amazon_(company)" title="Amazon (company)">Amazon</a> limited series, <a href="/wiki/Crisis_in_Six_Scenes" title="Crisis in Six Scenes">Crisis in Six Scenes</a>, which was released in 2016.<a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a> In 2002, <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Donen" title="Stanley Donen">Stanley Donen</a> directed her musical play Adult Entertainment with <a href="/wiki/Jeannie_Berlin" title="Jeannie Berlin">Jeannie Berlin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Danny_Aiello" title="Danny Aiello">Danny Aiello</a> at Variety Arts Theater in <a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a>.<a href="#cite_note-BrantleyNYT02-47">[47]</a> May wrote the one-act play George is Dead, which starred <a href="/wiki/Marlo_Thomas" title="Marlo Thomas">Marlo Thomas</a> and was performed on Broadway from late 2011 into 2012 as part of the anthology play <a href="/wiki/Relatively_Speaking_(play_anthology)" title="Relatively Speaking (play anthology)">Relatively Speaking</a> along with two other plays by <a href="/wiki/Woody_Allen" title="Woody Allen">Woody Allen</a> and <a href="/wiki/Joel_Coen" class="mw-redirect" title="Joel Coen">Joel Coen</a>, directed by <a href="/wiki/John_Turturro" title="John Turturro">John Turturro</a>. <a href="/wiki/Charles_Isherwood" title="Charles Isherwood">Charles Isherwood</a> of <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a> praised May's entry describing it as "a delicious study in the bliss of narcissism".<a href="#cite_note-IsherwoodNYT11-48">[48]</a><a href="#cite_note-49">[49]</a> David Rooney of <a href="/wiki/The_Hollywood_Reporter" title="The Hollywood Reporter">The Hollywood Reporter</a> concurred describing George is Dead as the "Strongest entry".<a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a> Before he died in 2019, Donen was reported to be in pre-production for a new film, begun December 2013, to be co-written with May and produced by Nichols. A <a href="/wiki/Read-through" title="Read-through">table reading</a> of the script for potential investors included such actors as <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Walken" title="Christopher Walken">Christopher Walken</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Grodin" title="Charles Grodin">Charles Grodin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ron_Rifkin" title="Ron Rifkin">Ron Rifkin</a>, and Jeannie Berlin.<a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a> When May's lifelong collaborator Nichols died in 2014, May stepped up to poignantly direct the 2016 TV documentary <a href="/wiki/Mike_Nichols:_American_Masters" title="Mike Nichols: American Masters">Mike Nichols: American Masters</a>.<a href="#cite_note-52">[52]</a> That same year, she returned to acting, her first role since 2000, starring alongside her friend <a href="/wiki/Woody_Allen" title="Woody Allen">Woody Allen</a> in his series <a href="/wiki/Crisis_in_Six_Scenes" title="Crisis in Six Scenes">Crisis in Six Scenes</a> on <a href="/wiki/Amazon_Prime" title="Amazon Prime">Amazon Prime</a>,<a href="#cite_note-53">[53]</a> Tim Goodman of <a href="/wiki/The_Hollywood_Reporter" title="The Hollywood Reporter">The Hollywood Reporter</a> praised their chemistry together writing, "The best episodes are the last two, when Crisis in Six Scenes becomes a full-blown farce and we get to see Allen and May playing accidental aging radicals, shuffling around Brooklyn".<a href="#cite_note-54">[54]</a> In 2018, aged 86, May returned to Broadway after 60 years in a <a href="/wiki/Lila_Neugebauer" title="Lila Neugebauer">Lila Neugebauer</a>-directed revival of <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Lonergan" title="Kenneth Lonergan">Kenneth Lonergan</a>'s play <a href="/wiki/The_Waverly_Gallery" title="The Waverly Gallery">The Waverly Gallery</a> opposite <a href="/wiki/Lucas_Hedges" title="Lucas Hedges">Lucas Hedges</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joan_Allen" title="Joan Allen">Joan Allen</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Michael_Cera" title="Michael Cera">Michael Cera</a>. The play ran at the <a href="/wiki/John_Golden_Theatre" title="John Golden Theatre">John Golden Theatre</a>, the same theatre where Nichols and May had started out almost 60 years earlier.<a href="#cite_note-autogenerated5-8">[8]</a> May received rapturous reviews for her performance as the gregarious, dementia-ridden elderly gallery owner Gladys Green, with many critics remarking that she was giving one of the most extraordinary performances they had ever seen onstage. The show received a nomination for the <a href="/wiki/Tony_Award_for_Best_Revival_of_a_Play" title="Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play">Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play</a>,<a href="#cite_note-autogenerated2-9">[9]</a> while May herself won the <a href="/wiki/Tony_Award_for_Best_Actress_in_a_Play" title="Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play">Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play</a> for her performance.<a href="#cite_note-autogenerated3-10">[10]</a> She became the second oldest performer to win a Tony Award for acting.<a href="#cite_note-autogenerated4-11">[11]</a> In 2021 she portrayed <a href="/wiki/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg" title="Ruth Bader Ginsburg">Ruth Bader Ginsburg</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Paramount%2B" title="Paramount+">Paramount+</a> series <a href="/wiki/The_Good_Fight" title="The Good Fight">The Good Fight</a>.<a href="#cite_note-55">[55]</a> In 2019, it was announced that May is set to direct her first narrative feature in over 30 years. Little is known about the project other than its title, Crackpot, and that it is set to star <a href="/wiki/Dakota_Johnson" title="Dakota Johnson">Dakota Johnson</a>, who announced the project at the 2019 <a href="/wiki/Governors_Awards" title="Governors Awards">Governors Awards</a>.<a href="#cite_note-56">[56]</a><a href="#cite_note-57">[57]</a> In 2024, Johnson stated that the film is still in development and she serves as the film's producer and star with May still set to direct.<a href="#cite_note-58">[58]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Filmography">Filmography</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Elaine_May&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Filmography">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Film">Film</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Elaine_May&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Film">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Year </th> <th scope="col">Title </th> <th scope="col">Credit(s) </th> <th scope="col">Role </th> <th scope="col" class="unsortable">Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td>1967 </td> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Enter_Laughing_(film)" title="Enter Laughing (film)">Enter Laughing</a> </th> <td>Actor </td> <td>Angela Marlowe </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1967 </td> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Luv_(film)" title="Luv (film)">Luv</a> </th> <td>Actor </td> <td>Ellen Manville </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1967 </td> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/The_Graduate" title="The Graduate">The Graduate</a> </th> <td>Actor </td> <td>Girl with note for Benjamin </td> <td>Uncredited </td></tr> <tr> <td>1967 </td> <th scope="row">Bach to Bach </th> <td>Actor, writer </td> <td>Woman </td> <td>Short film; audio from a previously released Nichols and May sketch, overlaid with visuals by others </td></tr> <tr> <td>1971 </td> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/A_New_Leaf_(film)" title="A New Leaf (film)">A New Leaf</a> </th> <td>Actor, writer, director </td> <td>Henrietta Lowell </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1971 </td> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Such_Good_Friends" title="Such Good Friends">Such Good Friends</a> </th> <td>Writer </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">— </td> <td>Under pseudonym, Esther Dale </td></tr> <tr> <td>1972 </td> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/The_Heartbreak_Kid_(1972_film)" title="The Heartbreak Kid (1972 film)">The Heartbreak Kid</a> </th> <td>Director </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">— </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1976 </td> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Mikey_and_Nicky" title="Mikey and Nicky">Mikey and Nicky</a> </th> <td>Writer, director, actor </td> <td>Woman on TV (voice) </td> <td>Uncredited as actor </td></tr> <tr> <td>1978 </td> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Heaven_Can_Wait_(1978_film)" title="Heaven Can Wait (1978 film)">Heaven Can Wait</a> </th> <td>Co-writer </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">— </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1978 </td> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/California_Suite_(film)" title="California Suite (film)">California Suite</a> </th> <td>Actor </td> <td>Millie Michaels </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1981 </td> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Reds_(film)" title="Reds (film)">Reds</a> </th> <td>Co-writer </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">— </td> <td>Uncredited </td></tr> <tr> <td>1982 </td> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Tootsie" title="Tootsie">Tootsie</a> </th> <td>Co-writer </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">— </td> <td>Uncredited </td></tr> <tr> <td>1986 </td> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Labyrinth_(1986_film)" title="Labyrinth (1986 film)">Labyrinth</a> </th> <td>Co-writer </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">— </td> <td>Uncredited </td></tr> <tr> <td>1987 </td> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Ishtar_(film)" title="Ishtar (film)">Ishtar</a> </th> <td>Writer, director </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">— </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1990 </td> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/In_the_Spirit_(film)" title="In the Spirit (film)">In the Spirit</a> </th> <td>Actor </td> <td>Marianne Flan </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1994 </td> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Wolf_(1994_film)" title="Wolf (1994 film)">Wolf</a> </th> <td>Actor </td> <td>Operator (voice) </td> <td>Uncredited </td></tr> <tr> <td>1995 </td> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Dangerous_Minds" title="Dangerous Minds">Dangerous Minds</a> </th> <td>Co-writer </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">— </td> <td>Uncredited </td></tr> <tr> <td>1996 </td> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/The_Birdcage" title="The Birdcage">The Birdcage</a> </th> <td>Writer </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">— </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1998 </td> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Primary_Colors_(film)" title="Primary Colors (film)">Primary Colors</a> </th> <td>Writer </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">— </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2000 </td> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Small_Time_Crooks" title="Small Time Crooks">Small Time Crooks</a> </th> <td>Actor </td> <td>May </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2021 </td> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/The_Same_Storm" title="The Same Storm">The Same Storm</a> </th> <td>Actor </td> <td>Ruth Lipsman </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Television">Television</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Elaine_May&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Television">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Year </th> <th scope="col">Title </th> <th scope="col">Credit(s) </th> <th scope="col">Role </th> <th scope="col" class="unsortable">Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td>1958 </td> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Omnibus_(American_TV_program)" title="Omnibus (American TV program)">Omnibus</a> </th> <td>Performer </td> <td>Herself </td> <td>Episode: "The Suburban Review" </td></tr> <tr> <td>1958 </td> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/DuPont_Show_of_the_Month" title="DuPont Show of the Month">DuPont Show of the Month</a> </th> <td>Actor </td> <td>Candy Carter </td> <td>Episode: "The Red Mill" </td></tr> <tr> <td>1959–60 </td> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/The_Tonight_Show_with_Jack_Paar" class="mw-redirect" title="The Tonight Show with Jack Paar">The Tonight Show with Jack Paar</a> </th> <td>Herself </td> <td>Guest </td> <td>5 episodes </td></tr> <tr> <td>1960 </td> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/What%27s_My_Line%3F" title="What's My Line?">What's My Line?</a> </th> <td>Herself </td> <td>Mystery Guest </td> <td>Episode: "Elaine May & <a href="/wiki/Mike_Nichols" title="Mike Nichols">Mike Nichols</a>" </td></tr> <tr> <td>1962 </td> <th scope="row">President Kennedy's Birthday Salute </th> <td>Performer </td> <td>Herself </td> <td>Television special </td></tr> <tr> <td>1964–65 </td> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/The_Jack_Paar_Program" class="mw-redirect" title="The Jack Paar Program">The Jack Paar Program</a> </th> <td>Herself </td> <td>Guest </td> <td>6 episodes </td></tr> <tr> <td>1966 </td> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/The_Merv_Griffin_Show" title="The Merv Griffin Show">The Merv Griffin Show</a> </th> <td>Herself </td> <td>Guest </td> <td>Episode: "<a href="/wiki/Peter_Falk" title="Peter Falk">Peter Falk</a>, Elaine May, & Mike Nichols" </td></tr> <tr> <td>1967 </td> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/The_Smothers_Brothers_Comedy_Hour" title="The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour">The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour</a> </th> <td>Performer </td> <td>Herself </td> <td>Episode: #1.9 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1996 </td> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Nichols_and_May:_Take_Two" title="Nichols and May: Take Two">Nichols and May: Take Two</a> </th> <td>Herself </td> <td>Archival footage </td> <td><a href="/wiki/American_Masters" title="American Masters">American Masters</a> documentary </td></tr> <tr> <td>2008 </td> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/American_Film_Institute" title="American Film Institute">AFI: Tribute to Warren Beatty</a> </th> <td>Performer </td> <td>Herself </td> <td>Television special </td></tr> <tr> <td>2010 </td> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/American_Film_Institute" title="American Film Institute">AFI: Tribute to Mike Nichols</a> </th> <td>Performer </td> <td>Herself </td> <td>Television special </td></tr> <tr> <td>2016 </td> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Mike_Nichols:_American_Masters" title="Mike Nichols: American Masters">American Masters: Mike Nichols</a> </th> <td>Director </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">— </td> <td>Television documentary </td></tr> <tr> <td>2016 </td> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Crisis_in_Six_Scenes" title="Crisis in Six Scenes">Crisis in Six Scenes</a> </th> <td>Actor </td> <td>Kay Munsinger </td> <td>6 episodes </td></tr> <tr> <td>2021 </td> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/The_Good_Fight" title="The Good Fight">The Good Fight</a> </th> <td>Actor </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg" title="Ruth Bader Ginsburg">Ruth Bader Ginsburg</a> </td> <td>2 episodes </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Theatre">Theatre</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Elaine_May&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Theatre">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Year </th> <th scope="col">Title </th> <th scope="col">Credit(s) </th> <th scope="col" class="unsortable">Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td>1960 </td> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/An_Evening_with_Mike_Nichols_and_Elaine_May" title="An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May">An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May</a> </th> <td>Playwright, Performer </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Golden_Theatre" title="John Golden Theatre">John Golden Theatre</a>, <a href="/wiki/Broadway_theatre" title="Broadway theatre">Broadway</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1962 </td> <th scope="row">3 x 3 </th> <td>Playwright </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Playwrights_Horizons" title="Playwrights Horizons">Maidman Playhouse</a>, <a href="/wiki/Off-Broadway" title="Off-Broadway">Off-Broadway</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1966 </td> <th scope="row">The Office </th> <td>Performer </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Sondheim_Theatre" title="Stephen Sondheim Theatre">Henry Miller's Theatre</a>, Broadway </td></tr> <tr> <td>1969 </td> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Next_(play)" title="Next (play)">Adaptation</a> </th> <td>Playwright, Director </td> <td>Greenwich Mews Theatre, Off Broadway </td></tr> <tr> <td>1980 </td> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Who%27s_Afraid_of_Virginia_Woolf%3F" title="Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?">Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?</a> </th> <td>Performer (Martha) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Long_Wharf_Theatre" title="Long Wharf Theatre">Long Wharf Theatre</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1991 </td> <th scope="row">Mr. Gogol and Mr. Preen </th> <td>Playwright </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Vivian_Beaumont_Theater" title="Vivian Beaumont Theater">Newhouse Theatre</a>, Off Broadway </td></tr> <tr> <td>1992 </td> <th scope="row">Mike Nichols and Elaine May Together Again </th> <td>Playwright, Performer </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Brooks_Atkinson_Theatre" class="mw-redirect" title="Brooks Atkinson Theatre">Brooks Atkinson Theatre</a>, Broadway </td></tr> <tr> <td>1995 </td> <th scope="row">Death Defying Acts: Hotline </th> <td>Playwright </td> <td>Variety Arts Theatre, Off Broadway </td></tr> <tr> <td>1998 </td> <th scope="row">Power Plays </th> <td>Playwright, Performer </td> <td>Promenade Theatre, Off Broadway </td></tr> <tr> <td>2000 </td> <th scope="row">Taller Than a Dwarf </th> <td>Playwright </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Longacre_Theater" class="mw-redirect" title="Longacre Theater">Longacre Theater</a>, Broadway </td></tr> <tr> <td>2002 </td> <th scope="row">Small Talks on the Universe </th> <td>Playwright </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Eugene_O%27Neill_Theatre" title="Eugene O'Neill Theatre">Eugene O'Neill Theatre</a>, Broadway </td></tr> <tr> <td>2002 </td> <th scope="row">Adult Entertainment </th> <td>Playwright </td> <td>Variety Arts Theatre, Off Broadway </td></tr> <tr> <td>2005 </td> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/After_the_Night_and_the_Music" title="After the Night and the Music">After the Night and the Music</a> </th> <td>Playwright </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Samuel_J._Friedman_Theatre" title="Samuel J. Friedman Theatre">Samuel J. Friedman Theatre</a>, Broadway </td></tr> <tr> <td>2011 </td> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Relatively_Speaking_(play_anthology)" title="Relatively Speaking (play anthology)">Relatively Speaking: George is Dead</a> </th> <td>Playwright </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Brooks_Atkinson_Theatre" class="mw-redirect" title="Brooks Atkinson Theatre">Brooks Atkinson Theatre</a>, Broadway </td></tr> <tr> <td>2018 </td> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/The_Waverly_Gallery" title="The Waverly Gallery">The Waverly Gallery</a> </th> <td>Performer (Gladys Green) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Golden_Theatre" title="John Golden Theatre">John Golden Theatre</a>, Broadway </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Discography">Discography</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Elaine_May&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Discography">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Improvisations_to_Music" title="Improvisations to Music">Improvisations to Music</a> (1958) Mercury<a href="#cite_note-bb1958-59">[59]</a> <a href="/wiki/Amazon_Standard_Identification_Number" title="Amazon Standard Identification Number">ASIN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000W0V9BW">B000W0V9BW</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/An_Evening_with_Mike_Nichols_and_Elaine_May" title="An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May">An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May</a> (1960) Mercury <a href="/wiki/Amazon_Standard_Identification_Number" title="Amazon Standard Identification Number">ASIN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000W06CCS">B000W06CCS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Nichols_%26_Elaine_May_Examine_Doctors" title="Mike Nichols & Elaine May Examine Doctors">Mike Nichols & Elaine May Examine Doctors</a> (1961) Mercury MG 20680/SR 60680 <a href="/wiki/Amazon_Standard_Identification_Number" title="Amazon Standard Identification Number">ASIN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000W0AGDY">B000W0AGDY</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/In_Retrospect_(Nichols_and_May_album)" title="In Retrospect (Nichols and May album)">In Retrospect</a> (1962) Polygram, <a href="/wiki/Compilation_album" title="Compilation album">compilation</a>, re-released as compact disc in 1996 <a href="/wiki/Amazon_Standard_Identification_Number" title="Amazon Standard Identification Number">ASIN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000001EKT">B000001EKT</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Influence_and_legacy">Influence and legacy</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Elaine_May&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Influence and legacy">edit</a>]</div> Nichols and May created a new "Age of Irony" for comedy, which showed actors arguing contemporary banalities as a key part of their routine. That style of comedy was picked up and further developed by later comics such as <a href="/wiki/Steve_Martin" title="Steve Martin">Steve Martin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bill_Murray" title="Bill Murray">Bill Murray</a>, and <a href="/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman">David Letterman</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Nachman-15">[15]</a>: 323  According to Martin, Nichols and May were among the first to satirize relationships. The word "relationship," notes Martin, was first used in the early sixties: "It was the first time I ever heard it satirized."<a href="#cite_note-Nachman-15">[15]</a>: 323  He recalls that soon after discovering their recorded acts, he went to sleep each night listening to them. "They influenced us all and changed the face of comedy."<a href="#cite_note-Nachman-15">[15]</a>: 324  In <a href="/wiki/Vanity_Fair_(magazine)" title="Vanity Fair (magazine)">Vanity Fair</a>, <a href="/wiki/Woody_Allen" title="Woody Allen">Woody Allen</a> declared, "Individually, each one is a genius, and when they worked together, the sum was even greater than the combination of the parts—the two of them came along and elevated comedy to a brand-new level."<a href="#cite_note-60">[60]</a> <a href="/wiki/Lily_Tomlin" title="Lily Tomlin">Lily Tomlin</a> was also affected by their routines and considers May to be her inspiration as a comedian: "There was nothing like Elaine May, with her voice, her timing, and her attitude," says Tomlin.<a href="#cite_note-Lavin88-61">[61]</a>: 43  "The nuances of the characterizations and the cultured types that they were doing completely appealed to me. They were the first people I saw doing smart, hip character pieces. My brother and I used to keep their 'Improvisations to Music' on the turntable twenty-four hours a day."<a href="#cite_note-Nachman-15">[15]</a>: 324  In an interview with <a href="/wiki/Pitchfork_Magazine" class="mw-redirect" title="Pitchfork Magazine">Pitchfork Magazine</a>, standup comedian <a href="/wiki/John_Mulaney" title="John Mulaney">John Mulaney</a> described <a href="/wiki/Mike_Nichols_%26_Elaine_May_Examine_Doctors" title="Mike Nichols & Elaine May Examine Doctors">Mike Nichols & Elaine May Examine Doctors</a> (1961) as one of his favorite comedy albums of all time.<a href="#cite_note-autogenerated6-62">[62]</a> Mulaney stated, "I got this album for Christmas when I was in junior high. The last track, 'Nichols and May at Work,' is an outtake from recording the album, they were just improvising dialog in a studio. They’re trying to do a piece where a son goes to his mother and says that he wants to become a registered nurse. It’s something you just have to experience, because two people that funny laughing that hard is really, really, really funny. I think it might be the happiest thing ever recorded."<a href="#cite_note-autogenerated6-62">[62]</a> Filmmaker and film historian <a href="/wiki/Peter_Bogdanovich" title="Peter Bogdanovich">Peter Bogdanovich</a> covered Elaine's filmography in his book Movie of the Week (1999). Bogdanovich praised all of her films and concluded with "Long live Elaine! Would that she could act and direct again in pictures. In 1998 I saw her perform off-Broadway in a couple of one-act plays she wrote (Power Plays), and her performances matched the comic genius of the writing."<a href="#cite_note-63">[63]</a> Other admirers of May's work include comedian <a href="/wiki/Patton_Oswalt" title="Patton Oswalt">Patton Oswalt</a>, and directors <a href="/wiki/Safdie_brothers" title="Safdie brothers">Ben and Josh Safdie</a> who both detailed their admiration for her and her work, in particular her film <a href="/wiki/Mikey_and_Nicky" title="Mikey and Nicky">Mikey and Nicky</a> (1976) through <a href="/wiki/The_Criterion_Collection" title="The Criterion Collection">The Criterion Channel</a>. May's work as a director has been given a closer look in recent years with David Hudson, a writer for <a href="/wiki/The_Criterion_Collection" title="The Criterion Collection">The Criterion Collection</a> declaring her as a "criminally underappreciated moviemaker".<a href="#cite_note-64">[64]</a> In 2017 the <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Film_Critics_Circle" class="mw-redirect" title="Philadelphia Film Critics Circle">Philadelphia Film Critics Circle</a> created an award in her name given "to a deserving person or film that brings awareness to women’s issues".<a href="#cite_note-65">[65]</a> May's life and career will be profiled in the biography Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius written by <a href="/wiki/Carrie_Courogen" title="Carrie Courogen">Carrie Courogen</a>, which is set to be released in June 2024 published by <a href="/wiki/Macmillan_Publishers" title="Macmillan Publishers">Macmillan Publishers</a>.<a href="#cite_note-66">[66]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_honors">Awards and honors</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Elaine_May&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Awards and honors">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Elaine_May" title="List of awards and nominations received by Elaine May">List of awards and nominations received by Elaine May</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Medal_of_Arts_award_2012.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Medal_of_Arts_award_2012.jpg/220px-Medal_of_Arts_award_2012.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Medal_of_Arts_award_2012.jpg/330px-Medal_of_Arts_award_2012.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Medal_of_Arts_award_2012.jpg/440px-Medal_of_Arts_award_2012.jpg 2x" data-file-width="659" data-file-height="681" /></a><figcaption>May receiving the Medal of Arts award from President Obama, July 13, 2013<a href="#cite_note-67">[67]</a></figcaption></figure> For her acting in films, May's accolades include a nomination for a <a href="/wiki/Golden_Globe_Award_for_Best_Actress_in_a_Motion_Picture_%E2%80%93_Musical_or_Comedy" title="Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy">Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Comedy or Musical</a> for <a href="/wiki/A_New_Leaf_(film)" title="A New Leaf (film)">A New Leaf</a> (1971),<a href="#cite_note-68">[68]</a> and winning the <a href="/wiki/National_Society_of_Film_Critics" title="National Society of Film Critics">National Society of Film Critics</a> Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in <a href="/wiki/Small_Time_Crooks" title="Small Time Crooks">Small Time Crooks</a> (2000).<a href="#cite_note-smalltime-45">[45]</a> On stage, May won the <a href="/wiki/Tony_Award_for_Best_Actress_in_a_Play" title="Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play">Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play</a> for her performance as Gladys in the <a href="/wiki/Broadway_(theatre)" class="mw-redirect" title="Broadway (theatre)">Broadway</a> revival of <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Lonergan" title="Kenneth Lonergan">Kenneth Lonergan</a>'s <a href="/wiki/The_Waverly_Gallery" title="The Waverly Gallery">The Waverly Gallery</a> in 2019.<a href="#cite_note-69">[69]</a> She also received a Drama League Award nomination and won a <a href="/wiki/Drama_Desk_Award" title="Drama Desk Award">Drama Desk Award</a> and an <a href="/wiki/Outer_Critics_Circle_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Outer Critics Circle Award">Outer Critics Circle Award</a> for Outstanding Actress in a Play.<a href="#cite_note-70">[70]</a> That same year, May's film <a href="/wiki/A_New_Leaf_(film)" title="A New Leaf (film)">A New Leaf</a> was selected by the <a href="/wiki/Library_of_Congress" title="Library of Congress">Library of Congress</a> for preservation in the <a href="/wiki/National_Film_Registry" title="National Film Registry">National Film Registry</a> for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".<a href="#cite_note-Chow-71">[71]</a> May was awarded the <a href="/wiki/National_Medal_of_Arts" title="National Medal of Arts">National Medal of Arts</a> for her lifetime contributions to American comedy by President <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a>, in a ceremony in the White House on July 10, 2013. She was awarded for her "groundbreaking wit and a keen understanding of how humor can illuminate our lives, Ms. May has evoked untold joy, challenged expectations, and elevated spirits across our Nation."<a href="#cite_note-72">[72]</a> In January 2016, the <a href="/wiki/Writers_Guild_of_America" title="Writers Guild of America">Writers Guild of America-West</a> announced that May would receive its 2016 <a href="/wiki/Laurel_Award_for_Screenwriting_Achievement" title="Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement">Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Writers_Guild_of_America_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Writers Guild of America Award">Writers Guild of America Award</a> ceremony in Los Angeles on February 13.<a href="#cite_note-PetskiDeadline16-73">[73]</a><a href="#cite_note-McNaryVariety16-74">[74]</a><a href="#cite_note-75">[75]</a> In 2021, she was chosen to receive the <a href="/wiki/Honorary_Academy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Honorary Academy Award">Honorary Academy Award</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Academy_of_Motion_Picture_Arts_and_Sciences#Current_administration_of_the_Academy" title="Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences">Board of Governors</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Academy_of_Motion_Pictures_Arts_and_Sciences" class="mw-redirect" title="Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences">Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences</a>, receiving the award for her "bold, uncompromising approach to filmmaking, as a writer, director and actress". She was honored at the annual <a href="/wiki/Governors_Awards" title="Governors Awards">Governors Awards</a> alongside <a href="/wiki/Samuel_L._Jackson" title="Samuel L. Jackson">Samuel L. 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Retrieved January 31, 2016. <q>Mothers come in for some serious savaging in "Relatively Speaking," a reasonably savory tasting platter of comedies by Ethan Coen, Elaine May and Woody Allen that opened on Thursday night at the Brooks Atkinson Theater… / These plays are not going to do anything much in the way of reputation burnishing for their three celebrated authors — and certainly none is required — but they are packed with nifty zingers and have been directed by John Turturro with a boisterous flair for socking home the borscht-belt humor. / Ms. May's "George Is Dead" is, for most of its running time, a delicious study in the bliss of narcissism… Marlo Thomas plays a pampered princess named Doreen who comes …that her husband has just been killed.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Each+Family%2C+Tortured+in+Its+Own+Way&rft.issue=October+20&rft.date=2011&rft.au=Isherwood%2C+Charles&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2011%2F10%2F21%2Ftheater%2Freviews%2Frelatively-speaking-at-brooks-atkinson-theater-review.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AElaine+May" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-49"><a href="#cite_ref-49">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jdtsnqI_iU">"BWW TV: Meet the Company of Woody Allen, Ethan Coen, Elaine May's Relatively Speaking!"</a>. 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Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 31 January 2016. <q>Comedy screenwriter-director-actress Elaine May will receive the WGAW's 2016 Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement at the WGA Awards L.A. ceremony on February 13.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Deadline+Hollywood&rft.atitle=Elaine+May+to+Receive+WGA+Screenwriting+Honor&rft.date=2016-01-19&rft.au=Petski%2C+Denise&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fdeadline.com%2F2016%2F01%2Felaine-may-wga-screenwriting-honor-laurel-award-2016-1201686055%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AElaine+May" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-McNaryVariety16-74"><a href="#cite_ref-McNaryVariety16_74-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMcNary,_Dave2016" class="citation journal cs1">McNary, Dave (2016). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://variety.com/2016/film/news/elaine-may-honor-writers-guild-1201682905/">"Elaine May Honored by Writers Guild of America"</a> (online). <a href="/wiki/Variety_(magazine)" title="Variety (magazine)">Variety</a> (January 19). Retrieved 31 January 2016. <q>Elaine May will receive the Writers Guild of America West's Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement to honor her career and body of work.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Variety&rft.atitle=Elaine+May+Honored+by+Writers+Guild+of+America&rft.issue=January+19&rft.date=2016&rft.au=McNary%2C+Dave&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fvariety.com%2F2016%2Ffilm%2Fnews%2Felaine-may-honor-writers-guild-1201682905%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AElaine+May" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-75"><a href="#cite_ref-75">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubypaJvPI0A">"Screenwriter Robert Towne presents the 2016 Screen Laurel Award to Elaine May"</a>. 14 February 2016. Retrieved 29 July 2018 – via YouTube.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Screenwriter+Robert+Towne+presents+the+2016+Screen+Laurel+Award+to+Elaine+May&rft.date=2016-02-14&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DubypaJvPI0A&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AElaine+May" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-76"><a href="#cite_ref-76">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDury2022" class="citation news cs1">Dury, Sharareh (March 24, 2022). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://variety.com/lists/governors-awards-samuel-jackson-elaine-may-honorees/">"Academy Honors Legacy Troupe Ahead of Governors Awards"</a>. Variety. 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Retrieved June 16, 2022.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Oscars&rft.atitle=Bill+Murray+honors+Elaine+May+at+the+2022+Governors+Awards&rft.date=2022-06-07&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D7pjH52dkzv8&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AElaine+May" class="Z3988"> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Elaine_May&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Further reading">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">Quart, Barbara Koenig (1988). "American Women Directors (Chapter 3)". <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0313391106">Women Directors: The Emergence of a New Cinema</a>. New York: Greenwood-Prager. pp. 37–51 and passim. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0313391106" title="Special:BookSources/0313391106"><bdi>0313391106</bdi></a>. Retrieved 31 January 2016.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=American+Women+Directors+%28Chapter+3%29&rft.btitle=Women+Directors%3A+The+Emergence+of+a+New+Cinema&rft.place=New+York&rft.pages=37-51+and+%27%27passim%27%27&rft.pub=Greenwood-Prager&rft.date=1988&rft.isbn=0313391106&rft.au=Quart%2C+Barbara+Koenig&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fisbn%3D0313391106&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AElaine+May" class="Z3988"></li> <li>Stephens, Chuck. "Chronicle of a Disappearance: Unjustly Omitted from Most Histories of Seventies American Filmmaking, Actor-writer-director Elaine May—and the Four Unforgettable Films She Somehow Got Away with—Refuse to Fade Away." Film Comment 42.2 (2006): 46. 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(film)">Ishtar</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Nichols:_American_Masters" title="Mike Nichols: American Masters">Mike Nichols: American Masters</a> (2016)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">As writer</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/A_New_Leaf_(film)" title="A New Leaf (film)">A New Leaf</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Such_Good_Friends" title="Such Good Friends">Such Good Friends</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mikey_and_Nicky" title="Mikey and Nicky">Mikey and Nicky</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heaven_Can_Wait_(1978_film)" title="Heaven Can Wait (1978 film)">Heaven Can Wait</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ishtar_(film)" title="Ishtar (film)">Ishtar</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Birdcage" title="The Birdcage">The Birdcage</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Primary_Colors_(film)" title="Primary Colors (film)">Primary Colors</a> (1998)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nichols_and_May" title="Nichols and May">Nichols and May</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeannie_Berlin" title="Jeannie Berlin">Jeannie Berlin</a> (daughter)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Awards_for_Elaine_May" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background:#e8e8ff;"><div id="Awards_for_Elaine_May" 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href="/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin" title="Charlie Chaplin">Charlie Chaplin</a> (1928)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walt_Disney" title="Walt Disney">Walt Disney</a> (1932)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shirley_Temple" title="Shirley Temple">Shirley Temple</a> (1934)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._W._Griffith" title="D. W. Griffith">D. W. Griffith</a> (1935)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_March_of_Time" title="The March of Time">The March of Time</a> / <a href="/wiki/W._Howard_Greene" title="W. Howard Greene">W. Howard Greene</a> and <a href="/wiki/Harold_Rosson" title="Harold Rosson">Harold Rosson</a> (1936)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edgar_Bergen" title="Edgar Bergen">Edgar Bergen</a> / <a href="/wiki/W._Howard_Greene" title="W. Howard Greene">W. Howard Greene</a> / <a href="/wiki/Museum_of_Modern_Art_Department_of_Film" title="Museum of Modern Art Department of Film">Museum of Modern Art Film Library</a> / <a href="/wiki/Mack_Sennett" title="Mack Sennett">Mack Sennett</a> (1937)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_A._Ball_(inventor)" title="Joseph A. Ball (inventor)">J. Arthur Ball</a> / <a href="/wiki/Walt_Disney" title="Walt Disney">Walt Disney</a> / <a href="/wiki/Deanna_Durbin" title="Deanna Durbin">Deanna Durbin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mickey_Rooney" title="Mickey Rooney">Mickey Rooney</a> / <a href="/wiki/Gordon_Jennings" title="Gordon Jennings">Gordon Jennings</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jan_Domela" title="Jan Domela">Jan Domela</a>, Devereaux Jennings, Irmin Roberts, Art Smith, <a href="/wiki/Farciot_Edouart" title="Farciot Edouart">Farciot Edouart</a>, <a href="/wiki/Loyal_Griggs" title="Loyal Griggs">Loyal Griggs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Loren_L._Ryder" title="Loren L. Ryder">Loren L. Ryder</a>, Harry D. Mills, <a href="/wiki/Louis_Mesenkop" title="Louis Mesenkop">Louis Mesenkop</a>, Walter Oberst / <a href="/wiki/Oliver_T._Marsh" title="Oliver T. Marsh">Oliver T. Marsh</a> and Allen Davey / <a href="/wiki/Harry_Warner" title="Harry Warner">Harry Warner</a> (1938)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Douglas_Fairbanks" title="Douglas Fairbanks">Douglas Fairbanks</a> / <a href="/wiki/Judy_Garland" title="Judy Garland">Judy Garland</a> / <a href="/wiki/William_Cameron_Menzies" title="William Cameron Menzies">William Cameron Menzies</a> / <a href="/wiki/Motion_Picture_%26_Television_Fund" title="Motion Picture & Television Fund">Motion Picture Relief Fund</a> (<a href="/wiki/Jean_Hersholt" title="Jean Hersholt">Jean Hersholt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Morgan" title="Ralph Morgan">Ralph Morgan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Block" title="Ralph Block">Ralph Block</a>, <a href="/wiki/Conrad_Nagel" title="Conrad Nagel">Conrad Nagel</a>) / <a href="/wiki/Vantiva" title="Vantiva">Technicolor SA</a> (1939)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Hope" title="Bob Hope">Bob Hope</a> / <a href="/wiki/Nathan_Levinson" title="Nathan Levinson">Nathan Levinson</a> (1940)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walt_Disney" title="Walt Disney">Walt Disney</a>, <a href="/wiki/William_Garity" title="William Garity">William Garity</a>, John N. A. Hawkins, and the <a href="/wiki/RCA" title="RCA">RCA Manufacturing Company</a> / <a href="/wiki/Leopold_Stokowski" title="Leopold Stokowski">Leopold Stokowski</a> and his associates / Rey Scott / <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Information_(United_Kingdom)" title="Ministry of Information (United Kingdom)">British Ministry of Information</a> (1941)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Boyer" title="Charles Boyer">Charles Boyer</a> / <a href="/wiki/No%C3%ABl_Coward" title="Noël Coward">Noël Coward</a> / <a href="/wiki/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer" title="Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer">Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer</a> (1942)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Pal" title="George Pal">George Pal</a> (1943)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Hope" title="Bob Hope">Bob Hope</a> / <a href="/wiki/Margaret_O%27Brien" title="Margaret O'Brien">Margaret O'Brien</a> (1944)</li> <li>Republic Studio, <a href="/wiki/Daniel_J._Bloomberg" title="Daniel J. Bloomberg">Daniel J. Bloomberg</a>, and the Republic Studio Sound Department / <a href="/wiki/Walter_Wanger" title="Walter Wanger">Walter Wanger</a> / <a href="/wiki/The_House_I_Live_In_(1945_film)" title="The House I Live In (1945 film)">The House I Live In</a> / <a href="/wiki/Peggy_Ann_Garner" title="Peggy Ann Garner">Peggy Ann Garner</a> (1945)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_Russell" title="Harold Russell">Harold Russell</a> / <a href="/wiki/Laurence_Olivier" title="Laurence Olivier">Laurence Olivier</a> / <a href="/wiki/Ernst_Lubitsch" title="Ernst Lubitsch">Ernst Lubitsch</a> / <a href="/wiki/Claude_Jarman_Jr." title="Claude Jarman Jr.">Claude Jarman Jr.</a> (1946)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Baskett" title="James Baskett">James Baskett</a> / <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Armat" title="Thomas Armat">Thomas Armat</a>, <a href="/wiki/William_Selig" title="William Selig">William Nicholas Selig</a>, <a href="/wiki/Albert_E._Smith_(producer)" title="Albert E. Smith (producer)">Albert E. Smith</a>, and <a href="/wiki/George_Kirke_Spoor" title="George Kirke Spoor">George Kirke Spoor</a> / <a href="/wiki/Bill_and_Coo" title="Bill and Coo">Bill and Coo</a> / <a href="/wiki/Shoeshine_(film)" title="Shoeshine (film)">Shoeshine</a> (1947)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Wanger" title="Walter Wanger">Walter Wanger</a> / <a href="/wiki/Monsieur_Vincent" title="Monsieur Vincent">Monsieur Vincent</a> / <a href="/wiki/Sid_Grauman" title="Sid Grauman">Sid Grauman</a> / <a href="/wiki/Adolph_Zukor" title="Adolph Zukor">Adolph Zukor</a> (1948)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Hersholt" title="Jean Hersholt">Jean Hersholt</a> / <a href="/wiki/Fred_Astaire" title="Fred Astaire">Fred Astaire</a> / <a href="/wiki/Cecil_B._DeMille" title="Cecil B. DeMille">Cecil B. DeMille</a> / <a href="/wiki/Bicycle_Thieves" title="Bicycle Thieves">The Bicycle Thief</a> (1949)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_B._Mayer" title="Louis B. Mayer">Louis B. Mayer</a> / <a href="/wiki/George_Murphy" title="George Murphy">George Murphy</a> / <a href="/wiki/The_Walls_of_Malapaga" title="The Walls of Malapaga">The Walls of Malapaga</a> (1950)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #EEDD82;width:1%">1951–1975</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gene_Kelly" title="Gene Kelly">Gene Kelly</a> / <a href="/wiki/Rashomon" title="Rashomon">Rashomon</a> (1951)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Merian_C._Cooper" title="Merian C. Cooper">Merian C. Cooper</a> / <a href="/wiki/Bob_Hope" title="Bob Hope">Bob Hope</a> / <a href="/wiki/Harold_Lloyd" title="Harold Lloyd">Harold Lloyd</a> / George Mitchell / <a href="/wiki/Joseph_M._Schenck" title="Joseph M. Schenck">Joseph M. Schenck</a> / <a href="/wiki/Forbidden_Games" title="Forbidden Games">Forbidden Games</a> (1952)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/20th_Century_Studios" title="20th Century Studios">20th Century-Fox Film Corporation</a> / <a href="/wiki/Bell_%26_Howell" title="Bell & Howell">Bell & Howell Company</a> / <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Breen" title="Joseph Breen">Joseph Breen</a> / <a href="/wiki/Pete_Smith_(film_producer)" title="Pete Smith (film producer)">Pete Smith</a> (1953)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bausch_%26_Lomb" title="Bausch & Lomb">Bausch & Lomb Optical Company</a> / <a href="/wiki/Danny_Kaye" title="Danny Kaye">Danny Kaye</a> / Kemp Niver / <a href="/wiki/Greta_Garbo" title="Greta Garbo">Greta Garbo</a> / <a href="/wiki/Jon_Whiteley" title="Jon Whiteley">Jon Whiteley</a> / <a href="/wiki/Vincent_Winter" title="Vincent Winter">Vincent Winter</a> / <a href="/wiki/Gate_of_Hell_(film)" title="Gate of Hell (film)">Gate of Hell</a> (1954)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samurai_I:_Musashi_Miyamoto" title="Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto">Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto</a> (1955)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" title="Eddie Cantor">Eddie Cantor</a> (1956)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Society_of_Motion_Picture_and_Television_Engineers" title="Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers">Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers</a> / <a href="/wiki/Broncho_Billy_Anderson" title="Broncho Billy Anderson">Gilbert M. "Broncho Billy" Anderson</a> / <a href="/wiki/Charles_Brackett" title="Charles Brackett">Charles Brackett</a> / <a href="/wiki/B._B._Kahane" title="B. B. Kahane">B. B. Kahane</a> (1957)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maurice_Chevalier" title="Maurice Chevalier">Maurice Chevalier</a> (1958)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buster_Keaton" title="Buster Keaton">Buster Keaton</a> / <a href="/wiki/Lee_de_Forest" title="Lee de Forest">Lee de Forest</a> (1959)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gary_Cooper" title="Gary Cooper">Gary Cooper</a> / <a href="/wiki/Stan_Laurel" title="Stan Laurel">Stan Laurel</a> / <a href="/wiki/Hayley_Mills" title="Hayley Mills">Hayley Mills</a> (1960)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_L._Hendricks" title="William L. Hendricks">William L. Hendricks</a> / Fred L. Metzler / <a href="/wiki/Jerome_Robbins" title="Jerome Robbins">Jerome Robbins</a> (1961)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_J._Tuttle" title="William J. Tuttle">William J. Tuttle</a> (1964)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Hope" title="Bob Hope">Bob Hope</a> (1965)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yakima_Canutt" title="Yakima Canutt">Yakima Canutt</a> / <a href="/wiki/Y._Frank_Freeman" title="Y. Frank Freeman">Y. Frank Freeman</a> (1966)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Freed" title="Arthur Freed">Arthur Freed</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Chambers_(make-up_artist)" title="John Chambers (make-up artist)">John Chambers</a> / <a href="/wiki/Onna_White" title="Onna White">Onna White</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cary_Grant" title="Cary Grant">Cary Grant</a> (1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lillian_Gish" title="Lillian Gish">Lillian Gish</a> / <a href="/wiki/Orson_Welles" title="Orson Welles">Orson Welles</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin" title="Charlie Chaplin">Charlie Chaplin</a> (1971)</li> <li>Charles S. Boren / <a href="/wiki/Edward_G._Robinson" title="Edward G. Robinson">Edward G. Robinson</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henri_Langlois" title="Henri Langlois">Henri Langlois</a> / <a href="/wiki/Groucho_Marx" title="Groucho Marx">Groucho Marx</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Howard_Hawks" title="Howard Hawks">Howard Hawks</a> / <a href="/wiki/Jean_Renoir" title="Jean Renoir">Jean Renoir</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Pickford" title="Mary Pickford">Mary Pickford</a> (1975)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #EEDD82;width:1%">1976–2000</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Booth" title="Margaret Booth">Margaret Booth</a> (1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Lantz" title="Walter Lantz">Walter Lantz</a> / <a href="/wiki/Laurence_Olivier" title="Laurence Olivier">Laurence Olivier</a> / <a href="/wiki/King_Vidor" title="King Vidor">King Vidor</a> / <a href="/wiki/Museum_of_Modern_Art" title="Museum of Modern Art">Museum of Modern Art Department of Film</a> (1978)</li> <li>Hal Elias / <a href="/wiki/Alec_Guinness" title="Alec Guinness">Alec Guinness</a> (1979)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Fonda" title="Henry Fonda">Henry Fonda</a> (1980)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barbara_Stanwyck" title="Barbara Stanwyck">Barbara Stanwyck</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mickey_Rooney" title="Mickey Rooney">Mickey Rooney</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hal_Roach" title="Hal Roach">Hal Roach</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Stewart" title="James Stewart">James Stewart</a> / <a href="/wiki/National_Endowment_for_the_Arts" title="National Endowment for the Arts">National Endowment for the Arts</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Newman" title="Paul Newman">Paul Newman</a> / <a href="/wiki/Alex_North" title="Alex North">Alex North</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Bellamy" title="Ralph Bellamy">Ralph Bellamy</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kodak" title="Kodak">Eastman Kodak Company</a> / <a href="/wiki/National_Film_Board_of_Canada" title="National Film Board of Canada">National Film Board of Canada</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akira_Kurosawa" title="Akira Kurosawa">Akira Kurosawa</a> (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sophia_Loren" title="Sophia Loren">Sophia Loren</a> / <a href="/wiki/Myrna_Loy" title="Myrna Loy">Myrna Loy</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satyajit_Ray" title="Satyajit Ray">Satyajit Ray</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federico_Fellini" title="Federico Fellini">Federico Fellini</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deborah_Kerr" title="Deborah Kerr">Deborah Kerr</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michelangelo_Antonioni" title="Michelangelo Antonioni">Michelangelo Antonioni</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kirk_Douglas" title="Kirk Douglas">Kirk Douglas</a> / <a href="/wiki/Chuck_Jones" title="Chuck Jones">Chuck Jones</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Kidd" title="Michael Kidd">Michael Kidd</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stanley_Donen" title="Stanley Donen">Stanley Donen</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elia_Kazan" title="Elia Kazan">Elia Kazan</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrzej_Wajda" title="Andrzej Wajda">Andrzej Wajda</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Cardiff" title="Jack Cardiff">Jack Cardiff</a> / <a href="/wiki/Ernest_Lehman" title="Ernest Lehman">Ernest Lehman</a> (2000)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #EEDD82;width:1%">2001–present</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sidney_Poitier" title="Sidney Poitier">Sidney Poitier</a> / <a href="/wiki/Robert_Redford" title="Robert Redford">Robert Redford</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_O%27Toole" title="Peter O'Toole">Peter O'Toole</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blake_Edwards" title="Blake Edwards">Blake Edwards</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sidney_Lumet" title="Sidney Lumet">Sidney Lumet</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Altman" title="Robert Altman">Robert Altman</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ennio_Morricone" title="Ennio Morricone">Ennio Morricone</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_F._Boyle" title="Robert F. 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Tolkin</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steven_Zaillian" title="Steven Zaillian">Steven Zaillian</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Attanasio" title="Paul Attanasio">Paul Attanasio</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Hodge_(screenwriter)" title="John Hodge (screenwriter)">John Hodge</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Minghella" title="Anthony Minghella">Anthony Minghella</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baz_Luhrmann" title="Baz Luhrmann">Baz Luhrmann</a> and <a href="/wiki/Craig_Pearce" title="Craig Pearce">Craig Pearce</a> (1997)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Elaine May</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neil_Jordan" title="Neil Jordan">Neil Jordan</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Gaghan" title="Stephen Gaghan">Stephen Gaghan</a> (2000)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #BDB76B;width:1%;background: #C5B358">2001–present</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" 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H. Schulman">Roger S. H. Schulman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Joe_Stillman" title="Joe Stillman">Joe Stillman</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlie_Kaufman" title="Charlie Kaufman">Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philippa_Boyens" title="Philippa Boyens">Philippa Boyens</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peter_Jackson" title="Peter Jackson">Peter Jackson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fran_Walsh" title="Fran Walsh">Fran Walsh</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Payne" title="Alexander Payne">Alexander Payne</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jim_Taylor_(writer)" title="Jim Taylor (writer)">Jim Taylor</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Larry_McMurtry" title="Larry McMurtry">Larry McMurtry</a> and <a href="/wiki/Diana_Ossana" title="Diana Ossana">Diana Ossana</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeremy_Brock" title="Jeremy Brock">Jeremy Brock</a> and <a href="/wiki/Peter_Morgan" title="Peter Morgan">Peter Morgan</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ronald_Harwood" title="Ronald Harwood">Ronald Harwood</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simon_Beaufoy" title="Simon Beaufoy">Simon Beaufoy</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jason_Reitman" title="Jason Reitman">Jason Reitman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sheldon_Turner" title="Sheldon Turner">Sheldon Turner</a> (2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aaron_Sorkin" title="Aaron Sorkin">Aaron Sorkin</a> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bridget_O%27Connor" title="Bridget O'Connor">Bridget O'Connor</a> and <a href="/wiki/Peter_Straughan" title="Peter Straughan">Peter Straughan</a> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_O._Russell" title="David O. Russell">David O. Russell</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steve_Coogan" title="Steve Coogan">Steve Coogan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Pope" title="Jeff Pope">Jeff Pope</a> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_McCarten" title="Anthony McCarten">Anthony McCarten</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adam_McKay" title="Adam McKay">Adam McKay</a> and <a href="/wiki/Charles_Randolph" title="Charles Randolph">Charles Randolph</a> (2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luke_Davies" title="Luke Davies">Luke Davies</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Ivory" title="James Ivory">James Ivory</a> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spike_Lee" title="Spike Lee">Spike Lee</a>, David Rabinowitz, Charlie Wachtel and <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Willmott" title="Kevin Willmott">Kevin Willmott</a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taika_Waititi" title="Taika Waititi">Taika Waititi</a> (2019)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Hampton" title="Christopher Hampton">Christopher Hampton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Florian_Zeller" title="Florian 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Caldwell</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jessica_Tandy" title="Jessica Tandy">Jessica Tandy</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joan_Allen" title="Joan Allen">Joan Allen</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rosemary_Harris" title="Rosemary Harris">Rosemary Harris</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lily_Tomlin" title="Lily Tomlin">Lily Tomlin</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Linda_Lavin" title="Linda Lavin">Linda Lavin</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stockard_Channing" title="Stockard Channing">Stockard Channing</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pauline_Collins" title="Pauline Collins">Pauline Collins</a> (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geraldine_James" title="Geraldine James">Geraldine James</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mercedes_Ruehl" title="Mercedes Ruehl">Mercedes Ruehl</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laura_Esterman" title="Laura Esterman">Laura Esterman</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jane_Alexander" title="Jane Alexander">Jane Alexander</a> (1993)</li> <li><a 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Duncan</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vanessa_Redgrave" title="Vanessa Redgrave">Vanessa Redgrave</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Viola_Davis" title="Viola Davis">Viola Davis</a> / <a href="/wiki/Phylicia_Rashad" title="Phylicia Rashad">Phylicia Rashad</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cherry_Jones" title="Cherry Jones">Cherry Jones</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lois_Smith" title="Lois Smith">Lois Smith</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eve_Best" title="Eve Best">Eve Best</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deanna_Dunagan" title="Deanna Dunagan">Deanna Dunagan</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Janet_McTeer" title="Janet McTeer">Janet McTeer</a> (2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jan_Maxwell" title="Jan Maxwell">Jan Maxwell</a> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frances_McDormand" title="Frances McDormand">Frances McDormand</a> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tracie_Bennett" title="Tracie Bennett">Tracie Bennett</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cicely_Tyson" title="Cicely Tyson">Cicely Tyson</a> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Audra_McDonald" title="Audra McDonald">Audra McDonald</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helen_Mirren" title="Helen Mirren">Helen Mirren</a> (2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jessica_Lange" title="Jessica Lange">Jessica Lange</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laura_Linney" title="Laura Linney">Laura Linney</a> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glenda_Jackson" title="Glenda Jackson">Glenda Jackson</a> (2018)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Elaine May</a> (2019)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liza_Col%C3%B3n-Zayas" title="Liza Colón-Zayas">Liza Colón-Zayas</a> (2020)</li> <li>No Award (2021)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phylicia_Rashad" title="Phylicia Rashad">Phylicia Rashad</a> (2022)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div 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(film)">Heaven's Gate</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ken_Annakin" title="Ken Annakin">Ken Annakin</a> – <a href="/wiki/The_Pirate_Movie" title="The Pirate Movie">The Pirate Movie</a> / <a href="/wiki/Terence_Young_(director)" title="Terence Young (director)">Terence Young</a> – <a href="/wiki/Inchon_(film)" title="Inchon (film)">Inchon</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Sasdy" title="Peter Sasdy">Peter Sasdy</a> – <a href="/wiki/The_Lonely_Lady" title="The Lonely Lady">The Lonely Lady</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Derek" title="John Derek">John Derek</a> – <a href="/wiki/Bolero_(1984_film)" title="Bolero (1984 film)">Bolero</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sylvester_Stallone" title="Sylvester Stallone">Sylvester Stallone</a> – <a href="/wiki/Rocky_IV" title="Rocky IV">Rocky IV</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prince_(musician)" title="Prince (musician)">Prince</a> – <a href="/wiki/Under_the_Cherry_Moon" title="Under the Cherry Moon">Under the Cherry Moon</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norman_Mailer" title="Norman Mailer">Norman Mailer</a> – <a href="/wiki/Tough_Guys_Don%27t_Dance_(film)" title="Tough Guys Don't Dance (film)">Tough Guys Don't Dance</a> / <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Elaine May</a> – <a href="/wiki/Ishtar_(film)" title="Ishtar (film)">Ishtar</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blake_Edwards" title="Blake Edwards">Blake Edwards</a> – <a href="/wiki/Sunset_(1988_film)" title="Sunset (1988 film)">Sunset</a> / <a href="/wiki/Stewart_Raffill" title="Stewart Raffill">Stewart Raffill</a> – <a href="/wiki/Mac_and_Me" title="Mac and Me">Mac and Me</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Shatner" title="William Shatner">William Shatner</a> – <a href="/wiki/Star_Trek_V:_The_Final_Frontier" title="Star Trek V: The Final Frontier">Star Trek V: The Final Frontier</a> (1989)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #EEDD82;width:1%">1990s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Derek" title="John Derek">John Derek</a> – <a href="/wiki/Ghosts_Can%27t_Do_It" title="Ghosts Can't Do It">Ghosts Can't Do It</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Lehmann" title="Michael Lehmann">Michael Lehmann</a> – <a href="/wiki/Hudson_Hawk" title="Hudson Hawk">Hudson Hawk</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Seltzer" title="David Seltzer">David Seltzer</a> – <a href="/wiki/Shining_Through" title="Shining Through">Shining Through</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jennifer_Lynch" title="Jennifer Lynch">Jennifer Lynch</a> – <a href="/wiki/Boxing_Helena" title="Boxing Helena">Boxing Helena</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steven_Seagal" title="Steven Seagal">Steven Seagal</a> – <a href="/wiki/On_Deadly_Ground" title="On Deadly Ground">On Deadly Ground</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Verhoeven" title="Paul Verhoeven">Paul Verhoeven</a> – <a href="/wiki/Showgirls" title="Showgirls">Showgirls</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Bergman" title="Andrew Bergman">Andrew Bergman</a> – <a href="/wiki/Striptease_(film)" title="Striptease (film)">Striptease</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kevin_Costner" title="Kevin Costner">Kevin Costner</a> – <a href="/wiki/The_Postman_(film)" title="The Postman (film)">The Postman</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gus_Van_Sant" title="Gus Van Sant">Gus Van Sant</a> – <a href="/wiki/Psycho_(1998_film)" title="Psycho (1998 film)">Psycho</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barry_Sonnenfeld" title="Barry Sonnenfeld">Barry Sonnenfeld</a> – <a href="/wiki/Wild_Wild_West" title="Wild Wild West">Wild Wild West</a> (1999)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #EEDD82;width:1%">2000s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Roger_Christian_(filmmaker)" title="Roger Christian (filmmaker)">Roger Christian</a> – <a href="/wiki/Battlefield_Earth_(film)" title="Battlefield Earth (film)">Battlefield Earth</a> (2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Green" title="Tom Green">Tom Green</a> – <a href="/wiki/Freddy_Got_Fingered" title="Freddy Got Fingered">Freddy Got Fingered</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guy_Ritchie" title="Guy Ritchie">Guy Ritchie</a> – <a href="/wiki/Swept_Away_(2002_film)" title="Swept Away (2002 film)">Swept Away</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Brest" title="Martin Brest">Martin Brest</a> – <a href="/wiki/Gigli" title="Gigli">Gigli</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pitof" title="Pitof">Pitof</a> – <a href="/wiki/Catwoman_(film)" title="Catwoman (film)">Catwoman</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Asher" title="John Asher">John Asher</a> – <a href="/wiki/Dirty_Love_(film)" title="Dirty Love (film)">Dirty Love</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._Night_Shyamalan" title="M. Night Shyamalan">M. Night Shyamalan</a> – <a href="/wiki/Lady_in_the_Water" title="Lady in the Water">Lady in the Water</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chris_Sivertson" title="Chris Sivertson">Chris Sivertson</a> – <a href="/wiki/I_Know_Who_Killed_Me" title="I Know Who Killed Me">I Know Who Killed Me</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uwe_Boll" title="Uwe Boll">Uwe Boll</a> – <a href="/wiki/In_the_Name_of_the_King" title="In the Name of the King">In the Name of the King</a>, <a href="/wiki/Postal_(film)" title="Postal (film)">Postal</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Tunnel_Rats_(film)" title="Tunnel Rats (film)">Tunnel Rats</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Bay" title="Michael Bay">Michael Bay</a> – <a href="/wiki/Transformers:_Revenge_of_the_Fallen" title="Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen">Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen</a> (2009)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #EEDD82;width:1%">2010s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/M._Night_Shyamalan" title="M. Night Shyamalan">M. Night Shyamalan</a> – <a href="/wiki/The_Last_Airbender_(film)" title="The Last Airbender (film)">The Last Airbender</a> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dennis_Dugan" title="Dennis Dugan">Dennis Dugan</a> – <a href="/wiki/Jack_and_Jill_(2011_film)" title="Jack and Jill (2011 film)">Jack and Jill</a> and <a href="/wiki/Just_Go_with_It" title="Just Go with It">Just Go with It</a> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Condon" title="Bill Condon">Bill Condon</a> – <a href="/wiki/The_Twilight_Saga:_Breaking_Dawn_%E2%80%93_Part_2" title="The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2">The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Banks" title="Elizabeth Banks">Elizabeth Banks</a>, <a href="/wiki/Steven_Brill_(filmmaker)" title="Steven Brill (filmmaker)">Steven Brill</a>, <a href="/wiki/Steve_Carr" title="Steve Carr">Steve Carr</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rusty_Cundieff" title="Rusty Cundieff">Rusty Cundieff</a>, James Duffy, <a href="/wiki/Griffin_Dunne" title="Griffin Dunne">Griffin Dunne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peter_Farrelly" title="Peter Farrelly">Peter Farrelly</a>, Patrik Forsberg, Will Graham, <a href="/wiki/James_Gunn" title="James Gunn">James Gunn</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bob_Odenkirk" title="Bob Odenkirk">Bob Odenkirk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brett_Ratner" title="Brett Ratner">Brett Ratner</a>, and Jonathan van Tulleken – <a href="/wiki/Movie_43" title="Movie 43">Movie 43</a> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Bay" title="Michael Bay">Michael Bay</a> – <a href="/wiki/Transformers:_Age_of_Extinction" title="Transformers: Age of Extinction">Transformers: Age of Extinction</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Josh_Trank" title="Josh Trank">Josh Trank</a> – <a href="/wiki/Fantastic_Four_(2015_film)" title="Fantastic Four (2015 film)">Fantastic Four</a> (2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dinesh_D%27Souza" title="Dinesh D'Souza">Dinesh D'Souza</a> and Bruce Schooley – <a href="/wiki/Hillary%27s_America:_The_Secret_History_of_the_Democratic_Party" title="Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party">Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tony_Leondis" title="Tony Leondis">Tony Leondis</a> – <a href="/wiki/The_Emoji_Movie" title="The Emoji Movie">The Emoji Movie</a> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Etan_Cohen" title="Etan Cohen">Etan Cohen</a> – <a href="/wiki/Holmes_%26_Watson" title="Holmes & Watson">Holmes & Watson</a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Hooper" title="Tom Hooper">Tom Hooper</a> – <a href="/wiki/Cats_(2019_film)" title="Cats (2019 film)">Cats</a> (2019)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #EEDD82;width:1%">2020s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sia" title="Sia">Sia</a> – <a href="/wiki/Music_(2021_film)" title="Music (2021 film)">Music</a> (2020/21)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Ashley" title="Christopher Ashley">Christopher Ashley</a> – <a href="/wiki/Diana_(musical)" title="Diana (musical)">Diana the Musical</a> (2021)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Machine_Gun_Kelly_(musician)" title="Machine Gun Kelly (musician)">Colson Baker</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mod_Sun" title="Mod Sun">Mod Sun</a> – <a href="/wiki/Good_Mourning_(film)" title="Good Mourning (film)">Good Mourning</a> (2022)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhys_Frake-Waterfield" title="Rhys Frake-Waterfield">Rhys Frake-Waterfield</a> – <a href="/wiki/Winnie-the-Pooh:_Blood_and_Honey" title="Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey">Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey</a> (2023)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" 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title="Shelley Berman">Shelley Berman</a> (1959)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cedff2;;width:1%">1960s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jonathan_and_Darlene_Edwards_in_Paris" title="Jonathan and Darlene Edwards in Paris">Jonathan and Darlene Edwards in Paris</a> – <a href="/wiki/Jo_Stafford" title="Jo Stafford">Jo Stafford</a> & <a href="/wiki/Paul_Weston" title="Paul Weston">Paul Weston</a> / <a href="/wiki/The_Button-Down_Mind_Strikes_Back!" title="The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back!">The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back!</a> – <a href="/wiki/Bob_Newhart" title="Bob Newhart">Bob Newhart</a> (1960)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/An_Evening_with_Mike_Nichols_and_Elaine_May" title="An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May">An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May</a> – <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Elaine May</a> & <a href="/wiki/Mike_Nichols" title="Mike Nichols">Mike Nichols</a> (1961)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_First_Family_(album)" title="The First Family (album)">The First Family</a> – <a href="/wiki/Vaughn_Meader" title="Vaughn Meader">Vaughn Meader</a> (1962)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Hello_Muddah,_Hello_Fadduh_(A_Letter_from_Camp)" title="Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Camp)">Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Camp)</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Allan_Sherman" title="Allan Sherman">Allan Sherman</a> (1963)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/I_Started_Out_as_a_Child" title="I Started Out as a Child">I Started Out as a Child</a> – <a href="/wiki/Bill_Cosby" title="Bill Cosby">Bill Cosby</a> (1964)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Why_Is_There_Air%3F" title="Why Is There Air?">Why Is There Air?</a> – <a href="/wiki/Bill_Cosby" title="Bill Cosby">Bill Cosby</a> (1965)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wonderfulness" title="Wonderfulness">Wonderfulness</a> – <a href="/wiki/Bill_Cosby" title="Bill Cosby">Bill Cosby</a> (1966)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revenge_(Bill_Cosby_album)" title="Revenge (Bill Cosby album)">Revenge</a> – <a href="/wiki/Bill_Cosby" title="Bill Cosby">Bill Cosby</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/To_Russell,_My_Brother,_Whom_I_Slept_With" title="To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With">To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With</a> – <a href="/wiki/Bill_Cosby" title="Bill Cosby">Bill Cosby</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sports_(Bill_Cosby_album)" title="Sports (Bill Cosby album)">Sports</a> – <a href="/wiki/Bill_Cosby" title="Bill Cosby">Bill Cosby</a> (1969)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cedff2;;width:1%">1970s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Devil_Made_Me_Buy_This_Dress" title="The Devil Made Me Buy This Dress">The Devil Made Me Buy This Dress</a> – <a href="/wiki/Flip_Wilson" title="Flip Wilson">Flip Wilson</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/This_Is_a_Recording_(Lily_Tomlin_album)" title="This Is a Recording (Lily Tomlin album)">This Is A Recording</a> – <a href="/wiki/Lily_Tomlin" title="Lily Tomlin">Lily Tomlin</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/FM_%26_AM" title="FM & AM">FM & AM</a> – <a href="/wiki/George_Carlin" title="George Carlin">George Carlin</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Los_Cochinos" title="Los Cochinos">Los Cochinos</a> – <a href="/wiki/Cheech_%26_Chong" title="Cheech & Chong">Cheech & Chong</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/That_Nigger%27s_Crazy" title="That Nigger's Crazy">That Nigger's Crazy</a> – <a href="/wiki/Richard_Pryor" title="Richard Pryor">Richard Pryor</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/...Is_It_Something_I_Said%3F" title="...Is It Something I Said?">...Is It Something I Said?</a> – <a href="/wiki/Richard_Pryor" title="Richard Pryor">Richard Pryor</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bicentennial_Nigger" title="Bicentennial Nigger">Bicentennial Nigger</a> – <a href="/wiki/Richard_Pryor" title="Richard Pryor">Richard Pryor</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Let%27s_Get_Small" title="Let's Get Small">Let's Get Small</a> – <a href="/wiki/Steve_Martin" title="Steve Martin">Steve Martin</a> (1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_Wild_and_Crazy_Guy" title="A Wild and Crazy Guy">A Wild and Crazy Guy</a> – <a href="/wiki/Steve_Martin" title="Steve Martin">Steve Martin</a> (1978)</li> <li>Reality...What a Concept – <a href="/wiki/Robin_Williams" title="Robin Williams">Robin Williams</a> (1979)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cedff2;;width:1%">1980s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>No Respect – <a href="/wiki/Rodney_Dangerfield" title="Rodney Dangerfield">Rodney Dangerfield</a> (1980)</li> <li>Rev. Du Rite – <a href="/wiki/Richard_Pryor" title="Richard Pryor">Richard Pryor</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Pryor:_Live_on_the_Sunset_Strip" title="Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip">Live on the Sunset Strip</a> – <a href="/wiki/Richard_Pryor" title="Richard Pryor">Richard Pryor</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eddie_Murphy:_Comedian" title="Eddie Murphy: Comedian">Eddie Murphy: Comedian</a> – <a href="/wiki/Eddie_Murphy" title="Eddie Murphy">Eddie Murphy</a> (1983)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Eat_It" title="Eat It">Eat It</a>" – <a href="/wiki/%22Weird_Al%22_Yankovic" title=""Weird Al" Yankovic">"Weird Al" Yankovic</a> (1984)</li> <li>Whoopi Goldberg (Original Broadway Show Recording) – <a href="/wiki/Whoopi_Goldberg" title="Whoopi Goldberg">Whoopi Goldberg</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Those_of_You_with_or_Without_Children,_You%27ll_Understand" title="Those of You with or Without Children, You'll Understand">Those of You with or Without Children, You'll Understand</a> – <a href="/wiki/Bill_Cosby" title="Bill Cosby">Bill Cosby</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_Night_at_the_Met" title="A Night at the Met">A Night at the Met</a> – <a href="/wiki/Robin_Williams" title="Robin Williams">Robin Williams</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Good_Morning,_Vietnam" title="Good Morning, Vietnam">Good Morning, Vietnam</a> – <a href="/wiki/Robin_Williams" title="Robin Williams">Robin Williams</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._D._Q._Bach" title="P. D. Q. Bach">P.D.Q. Bach</a>: <a href="/wiki/1712_Overture_and_Other_Musical_Assaults" title="1712 Overture and Other Musical Assaults">1712 Overture and Other Musical Assaults</a> – <a href="/wiki/Peter_Schickele" title="Peter Schickele">Peter Schickele</a> (1989)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cedff2;;width:1%">1990s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/P._D._Q._Bach" title="P. D. Q. Bach">P.D.Q. Bach</a>: <a href="/wiki/Oedipus_Tex_and_Other_Choral_Calamities" class="mw-redirect" title="Oedipus Tex and Other Choral Calamities">Oedipus Tex and Other Choral Calamities</a> – <a href="/wiki/Peter_Schickele" title="Peter Schickele">Peter Schickele</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._D._Q._Bach" title="P. D. Q. Bach">P.D.Q. Bach</a>: <a href="/wiki/WTWP_Classical_Talkity-Talk_Radio" title="WTWP Classical Talkity-Talk Radio">WTWP Classical Talkity-Talk Radio</a> – <a href="/wiki/Peter_Schickele" title="Peter Schickele">Peter Schickele</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._D._Q._Bach" title="P. D. Q. Bach">P.D.Q. Bach</a>: <a href="/wiki/Music_for_an_Awful_Lot_of_Winds_and_Percussion" title="Music for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion">Music for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion</a> – <a href="/wiki/Peter_Schickele" title="Peter Schickele">Peter Schickele</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jammin%27_in_New_York" title="Jammin' in New York">Jammin' in New York</a> – <a href="/wiki/George_Carlin" title="George Carlin">George Carlin</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Live_from_Hell" title="Live from Hell">Live from Hell</a> – <a href="/wiki/Sam_Kinison" title="Sam Kinison">Sam Kinison</a> (1994)</li> <li>Crank(y) Calls – <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Winters" title="Jonathan Winters">Jonathan Winters</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh_Is_a_Big_Fat_Idiot_and_Other_Observations" title="Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations">Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations</a> – <a href="/wiki/Al_Franken" title="Al Franken">Al Franken</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roll_with_the_New" title="Roll with the New">Roll with the New</a> – <a href="/wiki/Chris_Rock" title="Chris Rock">Chris Rock</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2000_Year_Old_Man" title="2000 Year Old Man">The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000</a> – <a href="/wiki/Mel_Brooks" title="Mel Brooks">Mel Brooks</a> & <a href="/wiki/Carl_Reiner" title="Carl Reiner">Carl Reiner</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bigger_%26_Blacker" title="Bigger & Blacker">Bigger & Blacker</a> – <a href="/wiki/Chris_Rock" title="Chris Rock">Chris Rock</a> (1999)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cedff2;;width:1%">2000s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Brain_Droppings" title="Brain Droppings">Brain Droppings</a> – <a href="/wiki/George_Carlin" title="George Carlin">George Carlin</a> (2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Napalm_and_Silly_Putty" title="Napalm and Silly Putty">Napalm & Silly Putty</a> – <a href="/wiki/George_Carlin" title="George Carlin">George Carlin</a> (2001)</li> <li>Robin Williams: Live on Broadway – <a href="/wiki/Robin_Williams" title="Robin Williams">Robin Williams</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poodle_Hat" title="Poodle Hat">Poodle Hat</a> – <a href="/wiki/%22Weird_Al%22_Yankovic" title=""Weird Al" Yankovic">"Weird Al" Yankovic</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/America_(The_Book)" title="America (The Book)">The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents ... America: A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction</a> – <a href="/wiki/Jon_Stewart" title="Jon Stewart">Jon Stewart</a> and the cast of <a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Show" title="The Daily Show">The Daily Show</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Never_Scared" title="Never Scared">Never Scared</a> – <a href="/wiki/Chris_Rock" title="Chris Rock">Chris Rock</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Carnegie_Hall_Performance" title="The Carnegie Hall Performance">The Carnegie Hall Performance</a> – <a href="/wiki/Lewis_Black" title="Lewis Black">Lewis Black</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Distant_Future" title="The Distant Future">The Distant Future</a> – <a href="/wiki/Flight_of_the_Conchords" title="Flight of the Conchords">Flight of the Conchords</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/It%27s_Bad_for_Ya" title="It's Bad for Ya">It's Bad for Ya</a> – <a href="/wiki/George_Carlin" title="George Carlin">George Carlin</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_Colbert_Christmas:_The_Greatest_Gift_of_All!" title="A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!">A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!</a> – <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Colbert" title="Stephen Colbert">Stephen Colbert</a> (2009)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cedff2;;width:1%">2010s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Stark_Raving_Black" title="Stark Raving Black">Stark Raving Black</a> – <a href="/wiki/Lewis_Black" title="Lewis Black">Lewis Black</a> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hilarious_(film)" title="Hilarious (film)">Hilarious</a> – <a href="/wiki/Louis_C.K." title="Louis C.K.">Louis C.K.</a> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blow_Your_Pants_Off" title="Blow Your Pants Off">Blow Your Pants Off</a> – <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Fallon" title="Jimmy Fallon">Jimmy Fallon</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calm_Down_Gurrl" title="Calm Down Gurrl">Calm Down Gurrl</a> – <a href="/wiki/Kathy_Griffin" title="Kathy Griffin">Kathy Griffin</a> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mandatory_Fun" title="Mandatory Fun">Mandatory Fun</a> – <a href="/wiki/%22Weird_Al%22_Yankovic" title=""Weird Al" Yankovic">"Weird Al" Yankovic</a> (2014)</li> <li>Live at Madison Square Garden – <a href="/wiki/Louis_C.K." title="Louis C.K.">Louis C.K.</a> (2015)</li> <li>Talking for Clapping – <a href="/wiki/Patton_Oswalt" title="Patton Oswalt">Patton Oswalt</a> (2016)</li> <li>The Age of Spin & Deep in the Heart of Texas – <a href="/wiki/Dave_Chappelle" title="Dave Chappelle">Dave Chappelle</a> (2017)</li> <li>Equanimity & The Bird Revelation – <a href="/wiki/Dave_Chappelle" title="Dave Chappelle">Dave Chappelle</a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sticks_%26_Stones_(2019_film)" title="Sticks & Stones (2019 film)">Sticks and Stones</a> – <a href="/wiki/Dave_Chappelle" title="Dave Chappelle">Dave Chappelle</a> (2019)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cedff2;;width:1%">2020s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Black Mitzvah – <a href="/wiki/Tiffany_Haddish" title="Tiffany Haddish">Tiffany Haddish</a> (2020)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sincerely_Louis_CK" title="Sincerely Louis CK">Sincerely Louis CK</a> – <a href="/wiki/Louis_C.K." title="Louis C.K.">Louis C.K.</a> (2021)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Closer_(2021_film)" title="The Closer (2021 film)">The Closer</a> – <a href="/wiki/Dave_Chappelle" title="Dave Chappelle">Dave Chappelle</a> (2022)</li> <li>What's In a Name? 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Epstein">Julius Epstein</a> & <a href="/wiki/Philip_G._Epstein" title="Philip G. Epstein">Philip Epstein</a> and <a href="/wiki/Albert_Hackett" title="Albert Hackett">Albert Hackett</a> & <a href="/wiki/Frances_Goodrich" title="Frances Goodrich">Frances Goodrich</a> (1956)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Brackett" title="Charles Brackett">Charles Brackett</a> & <a href="/wiki/Billy_Wilder" title="Billy Wilder">Billy Wilder</a> (1957)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Lee_Mahin" title="John Lee Mahin">John Lee Mahin</a> (1958)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nunnally_Johnson" title="Nunnally Johnson">Nunnally Johnson</a> (1959)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #ABCDEF;width:1%">1960s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Norman_Krasna" title="Norman Krasna">Norman Krasna</a> (1960)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Seaton" title="George Seaton">George Seaton</a> (1961)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_Dunne_(writer)" title="Philip Dunne (writer)">Philip Dunne</a> (1962)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_L._Mankiewicz" title="Joseph L. Mankiewicz">Joseph L. Mankiewicz</a> (1963)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Huston" title="John Huston">John Huston</a> (1964)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sidney_Buchman" title="Sidney Buchman">Sidney Buchman</a> (1965)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isobel_Lennart" title="Isobel Lennart">Isobel Lennart</a> (1966)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Brooks" title="Richard Brooks">Richard Brooks</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Casey_Robinson" title="Casey Robinson">Casey Robinson</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carl_Foreman" title="Carl Foreman">Carl Foreman</a> (1969)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #ABCDEF;width:1%">1970s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dalton_Trumbo" title="Dalton Trumbo">Dalton Trumbo</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Poe" title="James Poe">James Poe</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernest_Lehman" title="Ernest Lehman">Ernest Lehman</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Rose_(screenwriter)" title="William Rose (screenwriter)">William Rose</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paddy_Chayefsky" title="Paddy Chayefsky">Paddy Chayefsky</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Preston_Sturges" title="Preston Sturges">Preston Sturges</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Wilson_(writer)" title="Michael Wilson (writer)">Michael Wilson</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samson_Raphaelson" title="Samson Raphaelson">Samson Raphaelson</a> (1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Anhalt" title="Edward Anhalt">Edward Anhalt</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neil_Simon" title="Neil Simon">Neil Simon</a> (1979)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #ABCDEF;width:1%">1980s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Billy_Wilder" title="Billy Wilder">Billy Wilder</a> & <a href="/wiki/I._A._L._Diamond" title="I. A. L. Diamond">I. A. L. Diamond</a> (1980)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ben_Hecht" title="Ben Hecht">Ben Hecht</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Osborn" title="Paul Osborn">Paul Osborn</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lamar_Trotti" title="Lamar Trotti">Lamar Trotti</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melville_Shavelson" title="Melville Shavelson">Melville Shavelson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jack_Rose_(screenwriter)" title="Jack Rose (screenwriter)">Jack Rose</a>, <a href="/wiki/Norman_Panama" title="Norman Panama">Norman Panama</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Melvin_Frank" title="Melvin Frank">Melvin Frank</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Goldman" title="William Goldman">William Goldman</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waldo_Salt" title="Waldo Salt">Waldo Salt</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Woody_Allen" title="Woody Allen">Woody Allen</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irving_Ravetch" title="Irving Ravetch">Irving Ravetch</a> & <a href="/wiki/Harriet_Frank_Jr." title="Harriet Frank Jr.">Harriet Frank Jr.</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ring_Lardner_Jr." title="Ring Lardner Jr.">Ring Lardner Jr.</a> (1989)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #ABCDEF;width:1%">1990s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Donald_Ogden_Stewart" title="Donald Ogden Stewart">Donald Ogden Stewart</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alvin_Sargent" title="Alvin Sargent">Alvin Sargent</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Pierson" title="Frank Pierson">Frank Pierson</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horton_Foote" title="Horton Foote">Horton Foote</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ruth_Prawer_Jhabvala" title="Ruth Prawer Jhabvala">Ruth Prawer Jhabvala</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Bennett_(screenwriter)" title="Charles Bennett (screenwriter)">Charles Bennett</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Taradash" title="Daniel Taradash">Daniel Taradash</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Towne" title="Robert Towne">Robert Towne</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bo_Goldman" title="Bo Goldman">Bo Goldman</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Schrader" title="Paul Schrader">Paul Schrader</a> (1999)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #ABCDEF;width:1%">2000s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Claude_Carri%C3%A8re" title="Jean-Claude Carrière">Jean-Claude Carrière</a> (2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Betty_Comden" title="Betty Comden">Betty Comden</a> and <a href="/wiki/Adolph_Green" title="Adolph Green">Adolph Green</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blake_Edwards" title="Blake Edwards">Blake Edwards</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mel_Brooks" title="Mel Brooks">Mel Brooks</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Michael_Hayes" title="John Michael Hayes">John Michael Hayes</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Mamet" title="David Mamet">David Mamet</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Kasdan" title="Lawrence Kasdan">Lawrence Kasdan</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Benton" title="Robert Benton">Robert Benton</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Budd_Schulberg" title="Budd Schulberg">Budd Schulberg</a> (2008)</li> <li>No award (2009)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #ABCDEF;width:1%">2010s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Barry_Levinson" title="Barry Levinson">Barry Levinson</a> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steven_Zaillian" title="Steven Zaillian">Steven Zaillian</a> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eric_Roth" title="Eric Roth">Eric Roth</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Stoppard" title="Tom Stoppard">Tom Stoppard</a> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Mazursky" title="Paul Mazursky">Paul Mazursky</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_Ramis" title="Harold Ramis">Harold Ramis</a> (2015)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Elaine May</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Stone" title="Oliver Stone">Oliver Stone</a> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_L._Brooks" title="James L. 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Brooks</a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lowell_Ganz" title="Lowell Ganz">Lowell Ganz</a> and <a href="/wiki/Babaloo_Mandel" title="Babaloo Mandel">Babaloo Mandel</a> (2019)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #ABCDEF;width:1%">2020s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nancy_Meyers" title="Nancy Meyers">Nancy Meyers</a> (2020)</li> <li>No award (2021)</li> <li>No award (2022)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlie_Kaufman" title="Charlie Kaufman">Charlie Kaufman</a> (2023)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="National_Medal_of_Arts_recipients_2010s_&amp;_2020s" 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Jones">Bill T. Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Kander" title="John Kander">John Kander</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Katzenberg" title="Jeffrey Katzenberg">Jeffrey Katzenberg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maxine_Hong_Kingston" title="Maxine Hong Kingston">Maxine Hong Kingston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albert_and_David_Maysles" title="Albert and David Maysles">Albert Maysles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Linda_Ronstadt" title="Linda Ronstadt">Linda Ronstadt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tod_Williams_Billie_Tsien_Architects" title="Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects">Billie Tsien & Tod Williams</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Turrell" title="James Turrell">James Turrell</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2014</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Baldessari" title="John Baldessari">John Baldessari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ping_Chong" title="Ping Chong">Ping Chong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M%C3%ADriam_Col%C3%B3n" title="Míriam Colón">Míriam Colón</a></li> <li>The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sally_Field" title="Sally Field">Sally Field</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ann_Hamilton_(artist)" title="Ann Hamilton (artist)">Ann Hamilton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_King" title="Stephen King">Stephen King</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meredith_Monk" title="Meredith Monk">Meredith Monk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Shirley" title="George Shirley">George Shirley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/University_Musical_Society" title="University Musical Society">University Musical Society</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tobias_Wolff" title="Tobias Wolff">Tobias Wolff</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2015</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mel_Brooks" title="Mel Brooks">Mel Brooks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sandra_Cisneros" title="Sandra Cisneros">Sandra Cisneros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eugene_O%27Neill_Theater_Center" title="Eugene O'Neill Theater Center">Eugene O'Neill Theater Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morgan_Freeman" title="Morgan Freeman">Morgan Freeman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_Glass" title="Philip Glass">Philip Glass</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Berry_Gordy" title="Berry Gordy">Berry Gordy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Santiago_Jim%C3%A9nez_Jr." title="Santiago Jiménez Jr.">Santiago Jiménez Jr.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mois%C3%A9s_Kaufman" title="Moisés Kaufman">Moisés Kaufman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Lemon" title="Ralph Lemon">Ralph Lemon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Audra_McDonald" title="Audra McDonald">Audra McDonald</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luis_Valdez" title="Luis Valdez">Luis Valdez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Whitten" title="Jack Whitten">Jack Whitten</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2019</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alison_Krauss" title="Alison Krauss">Alison Krauss</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sharon_Percy_Rockefeller" title="Sharon Percy Rockefeller">Sharon Percy Rockefeller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_military_bands" title="United States military bands">The Musicians of the United States Military</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jon_Voight" title="Jon Voight">Jon Voight</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2020</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Toby_Keith" title="Toby Keith">Toby Keith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ricky_Skaggs" title="Ricky Skaggs">Ricky Skaggs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Costa" title="Mary Costa">Mary Costa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nick_Ut" title="Nick Ut">Nick Ut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Earl_A._Powell_III" title="Earl A. 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Mirren</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patricia_Clarkson" title="Patricia Clarkson">Patricia Clarkson</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patricia_Clarkson" title="Patricia Clarkson">Patricia Clarkson</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Virginia_Madsen" title="Virginia Madsen">Virginia Madsen</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amy_Adams" title="Amy Adams">Amy Adams</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meryl_Streep" title="Meryl Streep">Meryl Streep</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cate_Blanchett" title="Cate Blanchett">Cate Blanchett</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hanna_Schygulla" title="Hanna Schygulla">Hanna Schygulla</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mo%27Nique" title="Mo'Nique">Mo'Nique</a> (2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olivia_Williams" title="Olivia Williams">Olivia Williams</a> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jessica_Chastain" title="Jessica Chastain">Jessica Chastain</a> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amy_Adams" title="Amy Adams">Amy Adams</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jennifer_Lawrence" title="Jennifer Lawrence">Jennifer Lawrence</a> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patricia_Arquette" title="Patricia Arquette">Patricia Arquette</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kristen_Stewart" title="Kristen Stewart">Kristen Stewart</a> (2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michelle_Williams_(actress)" title="Michelle Williams (actress)">Michelle Williams</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laurie_Metcalf" title="Laurie Metcalf">Laurie Metcalf</a> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regina_King" title="Regina King">Regina King</a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laura_Dern" title="Laura Dern">Laura Dern</a> (2019)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maria_Bakalova" title="Maria Bakalova">Maria Bakalova</a> (2020)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ruth_Negga" title="Ruth Negga">Ruth Negga</a> (2021)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kerry_Condon" title="Kerry Condon">Kerry Condon</a> (2022)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Da%27Vine_Joy_Randolph" title="Da'Vine Joy Randolph">Da'Vine Joy Randolph</a> 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href="/wiki/Harlan_Ellison" title="Harlan Ellison">Harlan Ellison</a> (1974/75)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Sangster" title="Jimmy Sangster">Jimmy Sangster</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Lucas" title="George Lucas">George Lucas</a> (1977)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Elaine May</a> and <a href="/wiki/Warren_Beatty" title="Warren Beatty">Warren Beatty</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Meyer" title="Nicholas Meyer">Nicholas Meyer</a> (1979)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #6CC;width:1%">1980s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Peter_Blatty" title="William Peter Blatty">William Peter Blatty</a> (1980)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Kasdan" title="Lawrence Kasdan">Lawrence Kasdan</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melissa_Mathison" title="Melissa Mathison">Melissa Mathison</a> 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ted_Tally" title="Ted Tally">Ted Tally</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_V._Hart" title="James V. Hart">James V. Hart</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Crichton" title="Michael Crichton">Michael Crichton</a> and <a href="/wiki/David_Koepp" title="David Koepp">David Koepp</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Harrison" title="Jim Harrison">Jim Harrison</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wesley_Strick" title="Wesley Strick">Wesley Strick</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Kevin_Walker" title="Andrew Kevin Walker">Andrew Kevin Walker</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kevin_Williamson_(screenwriter)" title="Kevin Williamson (screenwriter)">Kevin Williamson</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Werb" title="Mike Werb">Mike Werb</a> and <a href="/wiki/Michael_Colleary" title="Michael Colleary">Michael Colleary</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Niccol" title="Andrew Niccol">Andrew Niccol</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlie_Kaufman" title="Charlie Kaufman">Charlie Kaufman</a> (1999)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #6CC;width:1%">2000s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/David_Hayter" title="David Hayter">David Hayter</a> (2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steven_Spielberg" title="Steven Spielberg">Steven Spielberg</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scott_Frank" title="Scott Frank">Scott Frank</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jon_Cohen_(writer)" title="Jon Cohen (writer)">Jon Cohen</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fran_Walsh" title="Fran Walsh">Fran Walsh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Philippa_Boyens" title="Philippa Boyens">Philippa Boyens</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Peter_Jackson" title="Peter Jackson">Peter Jackson</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alvin_Sargent" title="Alvin Sargent">Alvin Sargent</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Nolan" title="Christopher Nolan">Christopher Nolan</a> and <a href="/wiki/David_S._Goyer" title="David S. Goyer">David S. Goyer</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Dougherty" title="Michael Dougherty">Michael Dougherty</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dan_Harris_(screenwriter)" title="Dan Harris (screenwriter)">Dan Harris</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brad_Bird" title="Brad Bird">Brad Bird</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Nolan" title="Christopher Nolan">Christopher</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Nolan" title="Jonathan Nolan">Jonathan Nolan</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Cameron" title="James Cameron">James Cameron</a> (2009)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #6CC;width:1%">2010s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Nolan" title="Christopher Nolan">Christopher Nolan</a> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeff_Nichols" title="Jeff Nichols">Jeff Nichols</a> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quentin_Tarantino" title="Quentin Tarantino">Quentin Tarantino</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spike_Jonze" title="Spike Jonze">Spike Jonze</a> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Nolan" title="Christopher Nolan">Christopher</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Nolan" title="Jonathan Nolan">Jonathan Nolan</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Kasdan" title="Lawrence Kasdan">Lawrence Kasdan</a>, <a href="/wiki/J._J._Abrams" title="J. 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Abrams</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Michael_Arndt" title="Michael Arndt">Michael Arndt</a> (2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eric_Heisserer" title="Eric Heisserer">Eric Heisserer</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rian_Johnson" title="Rian Johnson">Rian Johnson</a> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scott_Beck_and_Bryan_Woods" title="Scott Beck and Bryan Woods">Bryan Woods</a>, <a href="/wiki/Scott_Beck_and_Bryan_Woods" title="Scott Beck and Bryan Woods">Scott Beck</a>, and <a href="/wiki/John_Krasinski" title="John Krasinski">John Krasinski</a> (2018/19)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quentin_Tarantino" title="Quentin Tarantino">Quentin Tarantino</a> (2019/20)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #6CC;width:1%">2020s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Guillermo_del_Toro" title="Guillermo del Toro">Guillermo del Toro</a> and Kim Morgan 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title="Nancy Kelly">Nancy Kelly</a> (1955)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julie_Harris" title="Julie Harris">Julie Harris</a> (1956)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Leighton" title="Margaret Leighton">Margaret Leighton</a> (1957)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helen_Hayes" title="Helen Hayes">Helen Hayes</a> (1958)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gertrude_Berg" title="Gertrude Berg">Gertrude Berg</a> (1959)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anne_Bancroft" title="Anne Bancroft">Anne Bancroft</a> (1960)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joan_Plowright" title="Joan Plowright">Joan Plowright</a> (1961)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Leighton" title="Margaret Leighton">Margaret Leighton</a> (1962)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uta_Hagen" title="Uta Hagen">Uta Hagen</a> (1963)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sandy_Dennis" title="Sandy Dennis">Sandy Dennis</a> (1964)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irene_Worth" title="Irene Worth">Irene Worth</a> (1965)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rosemary_Harris" title="Rosemary Harris">Rosemary Harris</a> (1966)</li> 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href="/wiki/Lily_Tomlin" title="Lily Tomlin">Lily Tomlin</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Linda_Lavin" title="Linda Lavin">Linda Lavin</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joan_Allen" title="Joan Allen">Joan Allen</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pauline_Collins" title="Pauline Collins">Pauline Collins</a> (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maggie_Smith" title="Maggie Smith">Maggie Smith</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mercedes_Ruehl" title="Mercedes Ruehl">Mercedes Ruehl</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glenn_Close" title="Glenn Close">Glenn Close</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madeline_Kahn" title="Madeline Kahn">Madeline Kahn</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diana_Rigg" title="Diana Rigg">Diana Rigg</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cherry_Jones" title="Cherry Jones">Cherry Jones</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zoe_Caldwell" title="Zoe Caldwell">Zoe Caldwell</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Janet_McTeer" title="Janet McTeer">Janet McTeer</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marie_Mullen" title="Marie Mullen">Marie Mullen</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Judi_Dench" title="Judi Dench">Judi Dench</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jennifer_Ehle" title="Jennifer Ehle">Jennifer Ehle</a> (2000)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #C0C0C0;;width:1%">2001–present</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mary-Louise_Parker" title="Mary-Louise Parker">Mary-Louise Parker</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lindsay_Duncan" title="Lindsay Duncan">Lindsay Duncan</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vanessa_Redgrave" title="Vanessa Redgrave">Vanessa Redgrave</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phylicia_Rashad" title="Phylicia Rashad">Phylicia Rashad</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cherry_Jones" title="Cherry Jones">Cherry Jones</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cynthia_Nixon" title="Cynthia Nixon">Cynthia Nixon</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julie_White" title="Julie White">Julie White</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deanna_Dunagan" title="Deanna Dunagan">Deanna Dunagan</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcia_Gay_Harden" title="Marcia Gay Harden">Marcia Gay Harden</a> (2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Viola_Davis" title="Viola Davis">Viola Davis</a> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frances_McDormand" title="Frances McDormand">Frances McDormand</a> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nina_Arianda" title="Nina Arianda">Nina Arianda</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cicely_Tyson" title="Cicely Tyson">Cicely Tyson</a> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Audra_McDonald" title="Audra McDonald">Audra McDonald</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helen_Mirren" title="Helen Mirren">Helen Mirren</a> (2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jessica_Lange" title="Jessica Lange">Jessica Lange</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laurie_Metcalf" title="Laurie Metcalf">Laurie Metcalf</a> (2017)</li> 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href="/wiki/Francis_Ford_Coppola" title="Francis Ford Coppola">Francis Ford Coppola</a> & <a href="/wiki/Mario_Puzo" title="Mario Puzo">Mario Puzo</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waldo_Salt" title="Waldo Salt">Waldo Salt</a> & <a href="/wiki/Norman_Wexler" title="Norman Wexler">Norman Wexler</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Ford_Coppola" title="Francis Ford Coppola">Francis Ford Coppola</a> & <a href="/wiki/Mario_Puzo" title="Mario Puzo">Mario Puzo</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bo_Goldman" title="Bo Goldman">Bo Goldman</a> & <a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Hauben" title="Lawrence Hauben">Lawrence Hauben</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Goldman" title="William Goldman">William Goldman</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alvin_Sargent" title="Alvin Sargent">Alvin Sargent</a> (1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Stone" title="Oliver Stone">Oliver Stone</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Benton" title="Robert Benton">Robert Benton</a> (1979)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alvin_Sargent" title="Alvin Sargent">Alvin Sargent</a> (1980)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernest_Thompson" title="Ernest Thompson">Ernest Thompson</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Costa-Gavras" title="Costa-Gavras">Costa-Gavras</a> & <a href="/wiki/Donald_E._Stewart" title="Donald E. Stewart">Donald E. Stewart</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julius_J._Epstein" title="Julius J. Epstein">Julius J. Epstein</a> (1983)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #ABCDEF;width:1%">Adapted Comedy (1969–1983)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arnold_Schulman" title="Arnold Schulman">Arnold Schulman</a> (1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ring_Lardner_Jr." title="Ring Lardner Jr.">Ring Lardner Jr.</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Paxton" title="John Paxton">John Paxton</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jay_Presson_Allen" title="Jay Presson Allen">Jay Presson Allen</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alvin_Sargent" title="Alvin Sargent">Alvin Sargent</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lionel_Chetwynd" title="Lionel Chetwynd">Lionel Chetwynd</a> & <a href="/wiki/Mordecai_Richler" title="Mordecai Richler">Mordecai Richler</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neil_Simon" title="Neil Simon">Neil Simon</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blake_Edwards" title="Blake Edwards">Blake Edwards</a> & <a href="/wiki/Frank_Waldman" title="Frank Waldman">Frank Waldman</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Larry_Gelbart" title="Larry Gelbart">Larry Gelbart</a> (1977)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Elaine May</a> & <a href="/wiki/Warren_Beatty" title="Warren Beatty">Warren Beatty</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerzy_Kosi%C5%84ski" title="Jerzy Kosiński">Jerzy Kosiński</a> (1979)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Abrahams" title="Jim Abrahams">Jim Abrahams</a>, <a href="/wiki/David_Zucker" title="David Zucker">David Zucker</a> & <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Zucker" title="Jerry Zucker">Jerry Zucker</a> (1980)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerald_Ayres" title="Gerald Ayres">Gerald Ayres</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blake_Edwards" title="Blake Edwards">Blake Edwards</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_L._Brooks" title="James L. Brooks">James L. Brooks</a> (1983)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #ABCDEF;width:1%">Adapted Screenplay (1984–present)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bruce_Robinson" title="Bruce Robinson">Bruce Robinson</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Condon" title="Richard Condon">Richard Condon</a> & Janet Roach (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ruth_Prawer_Jhabvala" title="Ruth Prawer Jhabvala">Ruth Prawer Jhabvala</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steve_Martin" title="Steve Martin">Steve Martin</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Hampton" title="Christopher Hampton">Christopher Hampton</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Uhry" title="Alfred Uhry">Alfred Uhry</a> (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Blake_(author)" title="Michael Blake (author)">Michael Blake</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ted_Tally" title="Ted Tally">Ted Tally</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Tolkin" title="Michael Tolkin">Michael Tolkin</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steven_Zaillian" title="Steven Zaillian">Steven Zaillian</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eric_Roth" title="Eric Roth">Eric Roth</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emma_Thompson" title="Emma Thompson">Emma Thompson</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Billy_Bob_Thornton" title="Billy Bob Thornton">Billy Bob Thornton</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Curtis_Hanson" title="Curtis Hanson">Curtis Hanson</a> & <a href="/wiki/Brian_Helgeland" title="Brian Helgeland">Brian Helgeland</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scott_Frank" title="Scott Frank">Scott Frank</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Payne" title="Alexander Payne">Alexander Payne</a> & <a href="/wiki/Jim_Taylor_(writer)" title="Jim Taylor (writer)">Jim Taylor</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Gaghan" title="Stephen Gaghan">Stephen Gaghan</a> (2000)</li> <li><a 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