Nicholas Hytner Filmography

Occupation:: Director, Producer
Biography:: British director Nicholas Hytner first won international acclaim for his 1994 adaptation of Alan Bennett's The Madness of King George, which won a number of international honors, including a nomination for the Cannes Festival's Golden Palm. Hytner, who first became involved in the theatre as a...Read More

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The History Boys

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Richard Griffiths, Frances de la Tour, Stephen Campbell Moore, Samuel Barnett, Dominic Cooper

Synopsis: An unruly collection of clever but crass Thatcher-era English high-school students seek to earn the scores needed to enroll in Oxford and Cambridge in director Nicholas Hytner and screenwriter Alan Bennett's screen adaptation of Bennett's Tony-winning play. The History Boys focuses on a group of Read More

11/21/06
Cosi Fan Tutte (Glyndebourne)

Crew: Director

2006
Center Stage

Crew: Director

Actors: Amanda Schull, Zoe Saldana, Susan May Pratt, Peter Gallagher, Donna Murphy, Debra Monk, Ethan Stiefel, Julie Kent, Eion Bailey

Synopsis: In this emotional drama, a team of young dancers are competing for places in a prestigious dance troupe. The dancers have to deal with the ups and downs of trying to find their place in the world, even as their profession also places an enormous physical and psychological challenge before them. Read More

5/12/00
The Object of My Affection

Crew: Director

Actors: Jennifer Aniston, Paul Rudd, Alan Alda, Nigel Hawthorne, John Pankow

Synopsis: Nicholas Hytner (The Crucible) directed this Wendy Wasserstein screenplay, adapted from Stephen McCauley's novel, about the romantic mismatch of a gay man and a young pregnant woman. When literary agent Sidney Miller (Alan Alda) and his wife Constance (Allison Janney) have a dinner party Read More

1998
The Crucible

Crew: Director

Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield, Joan Allen, Bruce Davison

Synopsis: When Arthur Miller's play The Crucible was first staged in 1953, it was widely acclaimed as a metaphor for the recklessness of Joseph McCarthy and his spurious crusade against communism. In its 1996 screen adaptation (scripted by Miller), the tone has been adjusted somewhat and plays as a warning Read More

1996
The Cunning Little Vixen

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Thomas Allen

Synopsis: Leos Janacek's modern opera about a fox and her friends (which was inspired by a comic strip) is recorded in this video release, with The Chatelet Theater Musical de Paris and producer Nicholas Hytner staging the show in a visually dazzling production in the original Czech. ~ Mark Deming, All Read More

1995
The Madness of King George

Crew: Director

Actors: Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren, Ian Holm, Rupert Everett, Rupert Graves

Synopsis: Based on Alan Bennett's acclaimed play The Madness of George III, The Madness of King George takes a dark-humored look at the mental decline of King George III of England. The film's story begins nearly three decades into George's reign, in 1788, as the unstable king (Nigel Hawthorne, reprising Read More

1994
La Clemenza di Tito

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This musical performance video brings an international cast as they do Mozart's last opera at the Glyndbourne Festival in Great Britain. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1991
The Making of Miss Saigon

Synopsis: This documentary of the making of Miss Saigon focuses on the inner workings of the popular musical. Behind-the-scenes footage is shown of the worldwide casting search, the creation of the score, rehearsals, set, costume design, and more. Much of the video centers on the frantic search for the Read More

1987
King Priam

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: The Kent Opera company presents the Legend of Troy in all its splendor in this filmed production of Michael Tippett's words and music. Conducted by Roger Norrington. Rodney Macann, Sarah Walker, Howard Haskin, and Anne Mason star. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide Read More

1985