Robert Wise

Known for DirectingBorn 1914-09-10Died 2005-09-14Winchester, Indiana, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy

Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz

West Side Memories

Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1

The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood

The Orson Welles Story

Salzburg Sight and Sound

Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula

Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick

Something for the Birds

Making The Earth Stand Still

Buñuel in Hollywood

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

Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film

Citizen Kane

The Battle Over Citizen Kane

The Sound of Music

The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal

Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years

Visions of Light

The Day the Earth Stood Still

With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film

The Sand Pebbles

A Century of Science Fiction

West Side Story

The Set-Up

Somebody Up There Likes Me

The Andromeda Strain

Seven Days' Leave

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Haunting

The Magnificent Ambersons

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

Executive Suite

Star!

Bachelor Mother

Tribute to a Bad Man

Run Silent, Run Deep

The Oscars

I Want to Live!

The Body Snatcher

All That Money Can Buy

Odds Against Tomorrow

A Storm in Summer

My Favorite Wife

Fifth Avenue Girl

The Andromeda Strain: Making the Film

Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels