Most Tony Awards won for Best Direction of a Play

Mike Nichols (born Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky, Germany/USA, 1931–2014) won a record six Tony Awards for his stage directing of plays: Barefoot in the Park (1964), Luv and The Odd Couple (1965), Plaza Suite (1968), The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1972), The Real Thing (1984), and Death of a Salesman (2012). Nichols also won a directing award for the musical Monty Python's Spamalot (2005), and for producing Annie (1977) and The Real Thing (1984), taking his total Tony count to nine. Nichol's last Tony-winning play, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, starred Philip Seymour Hoffman, Andrew Garfield and Linda Emond, all of whom were nominated in the acting categories, and became the first show (play or musical) to win as Best Production in four different years (1949, 1984, 1999, 2012).

Mike Nichols is one of the few artists to have won Oscar, Emmy, Tony and Grammy awards