Robert 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 no...
Known For
Top 31 Movies
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
2002
The Stupids
1996
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
2014
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
1998
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
1990
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
1996
Visions of Light
1992
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
1995
Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
2014
A Century of Science Fiction
1996
Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy
2005
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
1996
Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years
1997
Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1
1999
Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker
1995
Dark and Deadly: Fifty Years of Film Noir
1995
William Holden: The Golden Boy
1989
The Orson Welles Story
1982
Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood
2009
Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her
1994
Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders, and Drive-Ins
2014
Buñuel in Hollywood
2000
The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal
1986
The Andromeda Strain: Making the Film
2003
Making The Earth Stand Still
2001
West Side Memories
2003
Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula
1997
Salzburg Sight and Sound
1965
Robert Wise: American Filmmaker
2013