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.

Known For: Directing

Born: Winchester, Indiana, USA, 1914-09-10

Died: 2005-09-14

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1965	Salzburg Sight and Sound	Self	80
2	1986	The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal	Self	75
3	1989	William Holden: The Golden Boy	Self	0
4	1990	Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge	Self	0
5	1990	With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film	Self	0
6	1992	Visions of Light	Self	70
7	1994	Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her	Self	0
8	1995	Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick	Self	80
9	1995	Dark and Deadly: Fifty Years of Film Noir	Self	0
10	1995	Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker	Self	40
11	1996	A Century of Science Fiction	Self	69
12	1996	The Battle Over Citizen Kane	Self	73
13	1996	Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels	Self	64
14	1996	The Stupids	Stanley's Neighbor	47
15	1997	Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years	Self	72
16	1997	Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula	Self	80
17	1998	Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs	Self	30
18	1999	Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	0
19	2000	Buñuel in Hollywood	Self	0
20	2001	Making The Earth Stand Still	Self	0
21	2002	AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories	Self	65
22	2003	The Andromeda Strain: Making the Film	Self	60
23	2003	West Side Memories	Self	0
24	2004	Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz	Self	0
25	2005	Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy	Self	95
26	2009	Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood	Self	0
27	2013	Robert Wise: American Filmmaker	Self (archive footage)	0
28	2014	And the Oscar Goes To...	Self (archive footage)	70
29	2014	Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film	Self (archive footage)	75
30	2014	Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders, and Drive-Ins	Self	60
31	2014	Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles	Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)	67

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1953	The Oscars	Self	71
2	1971	Great Performances	Self	53
3	1987	The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood	Self	80

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