
Robert Wise
DirectorBorn 1914Active 2000
Career at a glance
1Hallmark film
Weirdness3.0 / 10
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Awards & honours
- National Medal of Arts
- Directors Guild of America Award
- Academy Award for Best Director · 1962
- Academy Award for Best Picture · 1962
- AFI Life Achievement Award · 1998
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award · 1967
Robert Earl Wise was an American filmmaker. He won the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for his musical films West Side Story (1961) and The Sound of Music (1965). He was also nominated for Best Film Editing for Citizen Kane (1941) and directed and produced The Sand Pebbles (1966), which was nominated for Best Picture.
