Robert Wise
Robert Wise was a highly honored film editor-turned-director who won four Academy Awards for producing and directing "West Side Story" (with Jerome Robbins, the first time a director Oscar was shared) and "The Sound of Music."
His early editing years included Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" (1941), earning him an Oscar nomination, and "The Magnificent Ambersons" (1942).
In a directing career that began in 1944 when he took over the reins of the stylish horror classic "The Curse of the Cat People" in mid-production, Wise defied being pigeonholed.
Earning a reputation as a disciplined and impeccable craftsman, he worked in virtually every genre — high drama, romantic comedy, film noir, the supernatural and science fiction.
Among the better-known of his 40 films:
"The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951), the landmark science fiction thriller starring Michael Rennie; "Somebody Up There Likes Me" (1956), the biopic starring Paul Newman as world middleweight champion Rocky Graziano; "I Want to Live!" (1958), a psychological study of a woman awaiting execution in the gas chamber, which earned Susan Hayward a lead actress Oscar; "The Haunting" (1963), a classic haunted-house thriller costarring Julie Harris and Claire Bloom; "The Sand Pebbles" (1966), an epic-length war drama that earned Steve McQueen his only Academy Award nomination; and "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" (1979), the first of six feature films starring the cast of the original series.
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Academy Awards
| Year | Category | Work | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | Best Film Editing | Citizen Kane | Nomination |
| 1958 | Best Director | I Want to Live! | Nomination |
| 1961 | Best Picture | West Side Story | Win |
| 1961 | Best Director | West Side Story | Win |
| 1965 | Best Director | The Sound of Music | Win |
| 1965 | Best Picture | The Sound of Music | Win |
| 1966 | Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award | Win | |
| 1966 | Best Picture | The Sand Pebbles | Nomination |
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