American film director, film producer and film editor
For other people named Robert Wise, see Robert Wise (disambiguation).
Robert Wise
Wise in 1990
Born
Robert Earl Wise
(1914-09-10)September 10, 1914
Winchester, Indiana, U.S.
Died
September 14, 2005(2005-09-14) (aged 91)
Westwood, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)
Film director, film producer, film editor
Years active
1934–2000
Spouses
Patricia Doyle
(m. 1942; died 1975)
Millicent Franklin
(m. 1977)
Children
1
Robert Earl Wise (September 10, 1914 – September 14, 2005) was an American filmmaker. He won the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for his musical films West Side Story (1961) and The Sound of Music (1965). He was also nominated for Best Film Editing for Citizen Kane (1941) and directed and produced The Sand Pebbles (1966), which was nominated for Best Picture.
Among his other films are The Body Snatcher (1945), Born to Kill (1947), The Set-Up (1949), The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), Destination Gobi (1953), This Could Be The Night (1957), Run Silent, Run Deep (1958), I Want to Live! (1958), The Haunting (1963), The Andromeda Strain (1971), The Hindenburg (1975) and Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979).
He was the president of the Directors Guild of America from 1971 to 1975 and the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1985 through 1988.
Wise achieved critical success as a director in a striking variety of film genres: horror-noir, western, war, science fiction, musical and drama, with many repeat successes within each genre. Wise's meticulous preparation may have been largely motivated by studio budget constraints, but advanced the moviemaking art. He received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1998.
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with some of the people involved with The Day the Earth Stood Still. RobertWise, director of the original, recalled a conversation he had with Edmund...
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international productions. A 1961 musical film adaptation, co-directed by RobertWise and Robbins, was nominated for eleven Academy Awards and won ten, including...
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that was based on a fictional short story of the same name. Films by RobertWise that primarily fall under the horror and noir genres—either as distinct...
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and then lashed together a rough cut of Ambersons in Miami with editor RobertWise.: 369–370 A finished 131-minute version of the movie, edited per Welles's...
which came from foreign markets. The film was highly acclaimed, with Damon Wise of Empire describing Changeling as "flawless". Todd McCarthy of Variety magazine...
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Wise Guys in May 2022 and gave it the greenlight that August. Nicholas Pileggi wrote the script and Barry Levinson directed the film starring Robert De...
Western film noir starring Robert Mitchum, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Preston and Walter Brennan. Directed by RobertWise, the cinematography is by Nicholas...
ease, and was also known for his proficiency with accents. Director RobertWise recalled that during the shooting of Blood on the Moon, Mitchum would...
widespread notice for her role as Milo Roberts in the musical film An American in Paris (1951); RobertWise's drama Executive Suite (1954), which earned...
Hope at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. RobertWise and Jerome Robbins became the first Best Director co-winners for West...
musical The Sound of Music (1959) and the film adaptation directed by RobertWise (1965). Georg Ludwig Ritter von Trapp was born in Zara, Dalmatia, then...
Academy Awards, including the 1961 Academy Award for Best Director with RobertWise for West Side Story and a special Academy Honorary Award for his choreographic...
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