Nicholas Hytner

Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788. As the monarch alternates between bouts of confusion and near-violent outbursts of temper, his hapless doctors attempt the ineffectual cures of the day. Meanwhile, Queen Charlotte and Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger attempt to prevent the king's political enemies, led by the Prince of Wales, from usurping the throne.

Dir. Nicholas Hytner · With Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren, Ian Holm

A group of 12 teenagers from various backgrounds enroll at the American Ballet Academy in New York to make it as ballet dancers and each one deals with the problems and stress of training and getting ahead in the world of dance.

Dir. Nicholas Hytner · With Amanda Schull, Zoe Saldaña, Peter Gallagher

The true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’ parked her van in Bennett’s London driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years.

Dir. Nicholas Hytner · With Maggie Smith, Alex Jennings, Frances de la Tour

The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master, a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores, a grossly out-numbered history teacher, and a headmaster obsessed with results, the boys attempt to pass.

Dir. Nicholas Hytner · With Richard Griffiths, Stephen Campbell Moore, Dominic Cooper

A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.

Dir. Nicholas Hytner · With Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield

A pregnant New York social worker begins to develop romantic feelings for her gay best friend, and decides she'd rather raise her child with him, much to the dismay of her overbearing boyfriend.

Dir. Nicholas Hytner · With Jennifer Aniston, Paul Rudd, Alan Alda