Robert Wise

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Robert Wise

Overview

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Birthday
Sep 10, 1914 (110 years old)
Death date
Sep 14, 2005

Robert Wise

Known For

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
1h 32m
Movie 2014

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85), an enigma of...

Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders, and Drive-Ins
1h 36m
Movie 2014

Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders, and Drive-Ins

From THINGS to BODY SNATCHERS to CREATURES FROM THE BLACK...

Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
1h 19m
Movie 2014

Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film

Join foremost experts discussing true Horror Classics - Frankenstein, Dracula,...

Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood
Movie 2009

Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood

Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy
0h 53m
Movie 2005

Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy

Documentary about the great 1940s horror movie producer Val Lewton,...

Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz
1h 0m
Movie 2004

Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz

Film noir, which enjoyed particular success in the 1930s and...

The Andromeda Strain: Making the Film
0h 30m
Movie 2003

The Andromeda Strain: Making the Film

The making of "The Andromeda Strain".

West Side Memories
0h 59m
Movie 2003

West Side Memories

Documentary attached to the 50th anniversary MGM Blu-ray collection of...

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
3h 0m
Movie 2002

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories

A look at one hundred years of romance in American...

Making The Earth Stand Still
1h 10m
Movie 2001

Making The Earth Stand Still

A documentary about the 1951 sci-fi film "The Day the...

Biography

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.