Robert Wise

Directing

Born: 1914-09-10
Died: 2005-09-14
From: Winchester, Indiana, USA
Gender: Male
Popularity: 0.9

Also Known As

Robert Earl WiseRobert E. Wise

Biography

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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Awards & Nominations9 won · 7 nominated

🏆 Won

AFI Life Achievement Award

1998
🏆 Won

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

1967
Nominated

Academy Award for Best Picture

The Sand Pebbles

1967
🏆 Won

Academy Award for Best Picture

The Sound of Music

1966
🏆 Won

Academy Award for Best Director

The Sound of Music

1966
Nominated

Academy Award for Best Director

The Sound of Music

1966
🏆 Won

Academy Award for Best Director

West Side Story

1962
🏆 Won

Academy Award for Best Picture

West Side Story

1962
Nominated

Academy Award for Best Director

West Side Story

1962
Nominated

Academy Award for Best Director

I Want to Live!

1959
Nominated

Academy Award for Best Film Editing

Citizen Kane

1942
🏆 Won

star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

🏆 Won

National Medal of Arts

🏆 Won

Directors Guild of America Award

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Picture

The Sound of Music

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Picture

West Side Story

Acting33 titles

Directing41 titles

Writing1 title

Production11 titles

Sound1 title

Editing11 titles

Crew1 title