Robert Wise
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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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- 2014 · Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
- 2014 · Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders, and Drive-Ins as Self
- 2014 · Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film as Self (archive footage)
- 2014 · And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)
- 2013 · Robert Wise: American Filmmaker as Self (archive footage)
- 2009 · Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood as Self
- 2005 · Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy as Self
- 2004 · Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz as Self
- 2003 · West Side Memories as Self
- 2003 · The Andromeda Strain: Making the Film as Self
- 2001 · Making The Earth Stand Still as Self
- 2000 · Buñuel in Hollywood as Self
- 1999 · Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1 as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1998 · Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs as Self
- 1997 · Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula as Self
- 1997 · Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years as Self
- 1996 · The Stupids as Stanley's Neighbor
- 1996 · Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels as Self
- 1996 · The Battle Over Citizen Kane as Self
- 1996 · A Century of Science Fiction as Self
- 1995 · Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker as Self
- 1995 · Dark and Deadly: Fifty Years of Film Noir as Self
- 1995 · Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick as Self
- 1994 · Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her as Self
- 1992 · Visions of Light as Self
- 1990 · With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film as Self
- 1990 · Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge as Self
- 1989 · William Holden: The Golden Boy as Self
- 1987 · The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood as Self
- 1986 · The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal as Self
- 1971 · Great Performances as Self
- 1965 · Salzburg Sight and Sound as Self
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self