Name: Robert Wise
Date of Birth: Was an avid fan of commercial Indian cinema. 1971-75: President of the Directors Guild of America (DGA). Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945." Pages 1210-1219. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987. Directed nine different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Nina Foch, Susan Hayward, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris, Julie Andrews, Peggy Wood, Steve McQueen, Mako, and Daniel Massey. Hayward, Moreno and Chakiris won Oscars. 1987: He accepted the Oscar for "Best Actor in a Leading Role" on behalf of Paul Newman, who wasn't present at the awards ceremony. ... 1982: Awarded honorary membership in the Society of Operating Cameramen (SOC). Was the last surviving crew member of Citizen Kane (1941). 2005: Celebrated his 91st birthday the weekend prior to his death. 1998: Received the American Film Institute Life Achievement award. Agreed to direct The Sound of Music (1965) after it had been abandoned by William Wyler on the condition that 20th Century-Fox agree to finance The Sand Pebbles (1966). Wise, who also produced the musical, won his second Best Director Oscar and the Best Picture Oscar. The next year, "The Sand Pebbles" was nominated for Best Picture and Wise was awarded the Irving Thalberg Award, the highest honor for producers. 1992: He was awarded the American National Medal of the Arts by the National Endowment of the Arts in Washington, DC. 1985-1988: President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. When he and Jerome Robbins won the Best Director Oscar in 1962 for West Side Story (1961), it was the first time that a directing Oscar was shared among collaborators. Interviewed in "It Came from Horrorwood: Interviews with Moviemakers in the SF and Horror Tradition" by Tom Weaver (McFarland, 1996). Only three times in Academy Award history have director-collaborators been nominated for Best Directing Oscars: Wise and Jerome Robbins for West Side Story (1961), Warren Beatty and Buck Henry for Heaven Can Wait (1978) and Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men (2007). (Wise/Robbins and the Coens actually won the award). He was made a Fellow of the British Film Institute in recognition of his outstanding contribution to film culture. Profiled in "Conversations with Directors: An Anthology of Interviews from Literature/Film Quarterly", E.M. Walker, D.T. Johnson, eds. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2008. Interviewed in Tom Weaver's "It Came from Weaver Five" (McFarland & Co., 1996). 2005: Retrospective at the 53rd San Sebasti?n International Film Festival in Spain. In preparation for "I want to live" in which Susan Hayward is executed, he actually attended a real execution. He has a son, Robert E. Wise, and a step-daughter, Pamela Rosenberg. He has one granddaughter. Read more Robert Wise movies (director)
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