
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 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.
Filmografi
Monty and the Movies · Self (archive footage)
Salzburg Sight and Sound1965 · Self
Buñuel in Hollywood2000 · Self
The Stupids1996 · Stanley's Neighbor
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels1996 · Self
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles2014 · Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
For the Love of Star Trek2026 · Self
Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula1997 · Self
The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal1986 · Self
Visions of Light1992 · Self
Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 11999 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge1990 · Self
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick1995 · Self
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs1998 · Self
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories2002 · Self
William Holden: The Golden Boy1989 · Self
Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy2005 · Self
Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years1997 · Self
A Century of Science Fiction1996 · Self
Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film2014 · Self (archive footage)
The Battle Over Citizen Kane1996 · Self
Dark and Deadly: Fifty Years of Film Noir1995 · Self
Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker1995 · Self
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