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Throughout the nineties Michell directed a number of productions at the National Theatre including Mustapha Matura’s "The Coup", Pinter’s "The Homecoming", Dylan Thomas’s "Under Milk Wood", Joanna Murray Smith’s "Honour", Joe Penhall’s "Landscape With Weapon", Granville Barker’s "Waste", Nina Raine’s "Consent" (subsequently at the Harold Pinter Theatre in the West End) and "Blue/Orange" with Bill Nighy, Andrew Lincoln and Chiwetel Ejiofor, which won numerous awards and played in the West End for a year. Michell was subsequently sought out by Richard Curtis to direct his script "Notting Hill", which became an award winning smash hit and the greatest British Box Office success of all time. He then directed the 2002 critical box office success "Changing Lanes" starring Ben Affleck and Samuel L. Jackson.