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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Citizen Kane

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Star Trek: The Motion Picture

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West Side Story

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West Side Story

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The Day the Earth Stood Still

(Director)

5th Ave Girl

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The Andromeda Strain

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The Andromeda Strain

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The Body Snatcher

(Director)

The Sand Pebbles

(Director)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

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The Haunting

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The Haunting

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Odds Against Tomorrow

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Odds Against Tomorrow

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Born to Kill

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The Fallen Sparrow

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The Curse of the Cat People

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The House on Telegraph Hill

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I Want to Live!

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Somebody Up There Likes Me

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The Desert Rats

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Blood on the Moon

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Helen of Troy

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The Sound of Music

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Executive Suite

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Three Secrets

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Criminal Court

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The Captive City

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The Set-Up

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The Set-Up

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The Hindenburg

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Audrey Rose

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Run Silent, Run Deep

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So Big

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Star!

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Tribute to a Bad Man

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Two for the Seesaw

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Mademoiselle Fifi

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This Could Be the Night

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Destination Gobi

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Two Flags West

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Until They Sail

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A Game of Death

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A Storm in Summer

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Mystery in Mexico

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Two People

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Wisdom

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Seven Days' Leave

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Bombardier

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Something for the Birds

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Rooftops

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Bachelor Mother

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The Baby Maker

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The Sand Pebbles

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Two People

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The Hindenburg

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The Sound of Music

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All That Money Can Buy

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Happy Birthday, Wanda June

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The House on Telegraph Hill

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The Magnificent Ambersons

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Dance, Girl, Dance

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The Magnificent Ambersons

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My Favorite Wife

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Two for the Seesaw

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The Informer

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