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Robert Wise
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.
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As director
A Storm in Summer
Rooftops
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Audrey Rose
The Hindenburg
Two People
The Andromeda Strain
Star!
The Sand Pebbles
The Sound of Music
The Haunting
Two for the Seesaw
West Side Story
Odds Against Tomorrow
I Want to Live!
Run Silent, Run Deep
This Could Be the Night
Until They Sail
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Helen of Troy
Tribute to a Bad Man
Executive Suite
The Desert Rats
So Big
Destination Gobi
The Captive City
Something for the Birds
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The House on Telegraph Hill
Three Secrets
As actor
Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders, and Drive-Ins
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Robert Wise: American Filmmaker
Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood
Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy
Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz
The Andromeda Strain: Making the Film
West Side Memories
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
Making The Earth Stand Still
Buñuel in Hollywood
Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula
Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years
It's All Brazil
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
The Stupids
A Century of Science Fiction
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker
Dark and Deadly: Fifty Years of Film Noir
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her
Visions of Light
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film
William Holden: The Golden Boy
The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal