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Robert Wise
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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 fo…
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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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2026
For the Love of Star Trek
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2014
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
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2014
Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
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2013
Robert Wise: American Filmmaker
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2009
Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood
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2005
Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy
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2004
Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz
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2003
The Andromeda Strain: Making the Film
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2003
West Side Memories
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2001
Making The Earth Stand Still
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2000
Buñuel in Hollywood
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2000
A Storm in Summer
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1999
Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1
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1998
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
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1997
It's All Brazil
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1997
Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula
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1997
Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years
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1996
The Stupids
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1996
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
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1996
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
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1996
A Century of Science Fiction
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1995
Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker
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1995
Dark and Deadly: Fifty Years of Film Noir
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1995
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
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1994
Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her
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1992
Visions of Light
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1990
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
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1989
William Holden: The Golden Boy
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1989
Rooftops
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1987
The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood
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1986
Wisdom
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1986
The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal
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1982
The Orson Welles Story
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1979
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
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1977
Audrey Rose
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1975
The Hindenburg
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1973
Two People
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