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  • BIRTH 10/09/1914
  • DEATH 14/09/2005
  • Country United States
  • SHOW 1
  • MOVIES 2
  • DIRECTOR 29
  • SCRIPT 1
  • PRODUCTION 8

Robert Wise

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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.

 

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Robert Wise

Show

The Academy Awards
The Academy Awards
Self

Movies (2)

Visions of Light
Visions of Light
Self
The Stupids
The Stupids
Stanley's Neighbor

Director (29)

The Sound of Music
The Sound of Music
West Side Story
West Side Story
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Run Silent, Run Deep
Run Silent, Run Deep
The Haunting
The Haunting
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Odds Against Tomorrow
Odds Against Tomorrow
The Sand Pebbles
The Sand Pebbles
Audrey Rose
Audrey Rose
The Andromeda Strain
The Andromeda Strain
Two for the Seesaw
Two for the Seesaw
Blood on the Moon
Blood on the Moon
Tribute to a Bad Man
Tribute to a Bad Man
The Hindenburg
The Hindenburg
Helen of Troy
Helen of Troy
The Body Snatcher
The Body Snatcher
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Destination Gobi
Destination Gobi
The Desert Rats
The Desert Rats
Mademoiselle Fifi
Mademoiselle Fifi
The Set-Up
The Set-Up
Born to Kill
Born to Kill
A Storm in Summer
A Storm in Summer
The Curse of the Cat People
The Curse of the Cat People
Until They Sail
Until They Sail
Star!
Star!
Something for the Birds
Something for the Birds
I Want to Live!
I Want to Live!
Executive Suite
Executive Suite

Script

The Set-Up
The Set-Up

Production (8)

The Sound of Music
The Sound of Music
West Side Story
West Side Story
The Haunting
The Haunting
Odds Against Tomorrow
Odds Against Tomorrow
The Sand Pebbles
The Sand Pebbles
The Andromeda Strain
The Andromeda Strain
The Hindenburg
The Hindenburg
The Baby Maker
The Baby Maker