Frost/Nixon (film) Frost/Nixon (film) Frost/Nixon is a 2008 British-American historical drama film based on the 2006 play of the same name by Peter Morgan, who also adapted the screenplay. The film tells the story behind the Frost/Nixon interviews of 1977. The film was directed by Ron Howard and produced for Universal Pictures by Howard, Brian Grazer of Imagine Entertainment and Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner of Working Title Films, and received five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director. The film reunites its original two stars from the West End and Broadway productions of the play: Michael Sheen
Michael Sheen performances for Olivier Awards in 1998 and 1999, respectively. In the 2000s, while continuing to make sporadic stage appearances, Sheen became known primarily as a screen actor. In 2003, he was nominated for a third Olivier Award for his performance in "Caligula" at the Donmar Warehouse and had a breakthrough performance as the British politician Tony Blair in the television film "The Deal". He received a BAFTA Award nomination in 2004 for his work in the ITV drama "Dirty Filthy Love". In 2006, Sheen starred as the troubled comic actor Kenneth Williams in BBC Four's "" and came to the attention