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
Frank Langella Baker in "Dominance", a 2003 episode of "" and had a recurring role as Pino in the 2005 short-lived sitcom "Kitchen Confidential". On film, he played Clare Quilty in Adrian Lyne's adaptation of "Lolita" and appeared as a villainous pirate in the summer 1995 release "Cutthroat Island". His film work also includes roles in George Clooney's "Good Night, and Good Luck" (2005) as former CBS chief executive William S. Paley and Bryan Singer's "Superman Returns" (2006) as "Daily Planet" editor Perry White. Langella received critical acclaim as well as the Boston Society of Film Critics Award in 2007 for his