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Original first release in France poster for the 1968 Mike Nichols (winner of the Best Director Academy Award for this film) coming-of-age romantic melodrama. Charles Webb, who wrote the 1963 novel “The Graduate,” the basis for the hit 1967 film, and then spent decades running from its success, died on June 16 in East Sussex, England. He was 81. Mr. Webb’s novel, written shortly after college and based largely on his relationship with his wife, Eve Rudd, was made into an era-defining film, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft, that gave voice to a generation’s youthful rejection of materialism. New York Times. Beautiful 1972 re-release of the 1968 Mike Nichols (winner of the Best Director Academy Award for this film) coming-of-age romantic melodrama. Original first French release of the 1968 Mike Nichols (winner of the Best Director Academy Award for this film) coming-of-age romantic melodrama.