Robert Wise
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert Earl Wise (September 10, 1914 – September 14, 2005) was an American sound effects editor, film editor, film producer and director. He won Academy Awards as Best Director for The Sound of Music (1965) and West Side Story (1961) as well as nominations as Best Film Editing for Citizen Kane (1941) and Best Picture for The Sand Pebbles (1966). Among his other films are Born to Kill; Destination Gobi; The Hindenburg; Star Trek: The Motion Picture; The Day the Earth Stood Still; Run Silent, Run Deep; The Andromeda Strain; The Set-Up; The Haunting; and The Body Snatcher. Wise's working period spanned the 1930s to the 1990s. Often contrasted with contemporary "auteur" directors such as Stanley Kubrick who tended to bring a distinctive directorial "look" to a particular genre, Wise is famously viewed to have allowed his (sometimes studio assigned) story to dictate style. Later critics such as Martin Scorsese would go on to expand that characterization, insisting that despite Wise's notorious workaday concentration on stylistic perfection within the confines of genre and budget, his choice of subject matter and approach still functioned to identify Wise as an artist and not merely an artisan. Through whatever means, Wise's approach would bring him critical success as a director in many different traditional film genres: from horror to noir to Western to war films to science fiction, to musical and drama, with many repeat hits within each genre. Wise's tendency towards professionalism led to a degree of preparedness which, though nominally motivated by studio budget constraints, nevertheless advanced the moviemaking art, with many Academy Award-winning films the result. Robert Wise received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1998.  Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Wise, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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DirectingBirthday
September 10, 1914Deathday
September 14, 2005Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
84Place of birth
Winchester, Indiana, USACast credits
Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker
SelfThe Battle Over Citizen Kane
SelfThe Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal
SelfMagician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)The Stupids
Stanley's NeighborA Century of Science Fiction
SelfAnd the Oscar Goes To...
Self (archive footage)West Side Memories
SelfShirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
SelfMae West and the Men Who Knew Her
SelfRobert Wise: American Filmmaker
Self (archive footage)Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years
SelfVisions of Light
SelfShadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy
SelfLugosi: Hollywood's Dracula
SelfDark and Deadly: Fifty Years of Film Noir
SelfThe Andromeda Strain: Making the Film
SelfGlanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood
SelfCrew credits
Citizen Kane
EditorStar Trek: The Motion Picture
DirectorThe Day the Earth Stood Still
DirectorWest Side Story
Director, ProducerThe Andromeda Strain
Director, ProducerThe Body Snatcher
DirectorThe Sand Pebbles
Director, ProducerThe Haunting
Director, ProducerThe Hunchback of Notre Dame
EditorThe Fallen Sparrow
EditorOdds Against Tomorrow
Director, ProducerBorn to Kill
DirectorSomebody Up There Likes Me
DirectorThe House on Telegraph Hill
Director, Additional WritingThe Curse of the Cat People
DirectorI Want to Live!
DirectorThe Desert Rats
DirectorBlood on the Moon
DirectorHelen of Troy
DirectorThe Sound of Music
Director, ProducerExecutive Suite
Director