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Robert Wise is a four-time Academy Award winner and one of the most respected editors and directors in Hollywood. His films include Citizen Kane, West Side Story, and The Sound of Music. His fascination with movies as a young boy eventually led him to RKO Studios where he worked his way up through the ranks. His success can be measured by the 67 Academy Award nominations and 19 Oscars his films have received.
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Robert Wise (September 10, 1914 – September 14, 2005) was an American sound effects editor, film editor, and Academy Award-winning American film producer and director. Among his many famous films are The Sand Pebbles, The Sound of Music, West Side Story, 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.
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Best known as the director of the musical smash hits "West Side Story" and "The Sound of Music", in the 1960s, director Robert Wise (1914 - 2005) had a long list of credits that included several other important films as well. Early in his career, he ... served as editor on the landmark film "Citizen Kane".
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CNN has reported that Academy Award-winning director Robert Wise has died at the age of 91. Wise died Wednesday of heart failure after falling ill and was rushed to the UCLA Medical Center, according to Lawrence Mirisch, an entertainment agent and friend of the Wise family. According to Mirisch, Wise had celebrated his 91st birthday on Saturday and appeared in good health.
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Horror film director Robert Wise does a magnificent job with this adaptation of the Shirley Jackson novel. Very few visual effects are used, instead relying on lighting (the one scene with the wallpaper in Eleanor's room is eerie), atmosphere, sound and the viewers own fear to create a creepingly chilling film. They make the viewer feel like actors in the movie instead of bystanders. All the actors give fine performances: Clair Bloom as Theo, Russ Tamblyn as Luke, and Richard Johnson as Dr. Markway. But, Julie Harris' performance of Eleanor makes the film. Her almost childlike confusion, fear and determination to stay the course keep you enrapt in the film.
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During his career that spanned over 50 years, Robert Wise achieved 7 Oscar nominations, of which he won 4. The Sound of Music and West Side Story both achieved two Oscars, for Best Director and Best Producer. The director then went on to earn the highest acclaim from the Directors Guild of America, of which he later became a president, the DW Griffith Award in 1998.
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