Robert Wise

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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The Sound of Music 1965Movie Director, Producer

Star Trek: The Motion Picture 1979Movie Director

West Side Story 1961Movie Director

The Haunting 1963Movie Director, Producer

The Andromeda Strain 1971Movie Director, Producer

The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951Movie Director

Executive Suite 1954Movie Director

Helen of Troy 1956Movie Director

Run Silent, Run Deep 1958Movie Director

The Sand Pebbles 1966Movie Director, Producer

The Body Snatcher 1945Movie Director

I Want to Live! 1958Movie Director

Blood on the Moon 1948Movie Director

The Hindenburg 1975Movie Director, Producer

The Set-Up 1949Movie Director, Screenplay

The Desert Rats 1953Movie Director

Somebody Up There Likes Me 1956Movie Director

The Stupids 1996Movie as Stanley's Neighbor

Audrey Rose 1977Movie Director

The Curse of the Cat People 1944Movie Director

Odds Against Tomorrow 1959Movie Director, Producer

Two Flags West 1950Movie Director

Tribute to a Bad Man 1956Movie Director

Until They Sail 1957Movie Director

Born to Kill 1947Movie Director

Rooftops 1989Movie Director

A Storm in Summer 2000Movie Director

Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels 1996Movie as Self

The House on Telegraph Hill 1951Movie Director

Mademoiselle Fifi 1944Movie Director

Two for the Seesaw 1962Movie Director

The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal 1986Movie as Self

Destination Gobi 1953Movie Director

This Could Be the Night 1957Movie Director

The Captive City 1952Movie Director

William Holden: The Golden Boy 1989Movie as Self

Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years 1997Movie as Self