Awards & Winners

Robert Wise

Date of Birth 10-September-1914
Place of Birth Winchester
(Randolph County, Indiana, White River Township, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Robert Earl Wise, Robert E. Wise, Bobby, Bob
Profession Film Director, Film Editor, Film Producer
Robert Earl Wise was an American film director, producer and editor. He won Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for West Side Story and The Sound of Music. He was also nominated for Best Film Editing for Citizen Kane and Best Picture for The Sand Pebbles. Among his other films are The Body Snatcher, Born to Kill, The Set-Up, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Destination Gobi, This Could Be The Night, Run Silent, Run Deep, I Want to Live!, The Haunting, The Andromeda Strain, The Hindenburg and Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Wise was the president of the Directors Guild of America from 1971 to 1975 and the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1984 through 1987. Often contrasted with 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 story to dictate style. Later critics, such as Martin Scorsese, expanded 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 brought him critical success as a director in many different traditional film genres: horror, noir, western, war, science fiction, musical and drama, with many repeat successes 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 as the result. Robert Wise received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1998.

Awards by Robert Wise

Check all the awards nominated and won by Robert Wise.

1999


PGA Hall of Fame - Motion Pictures
Honored for : West Side Story

1980


Nominations 1980 »

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Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation Star Trek: The Motion Picture

1972


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Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation The Andromeda Strain

1967


Nominations 1967 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture The Sand Pebbles
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama The Sand Pebbles

1966


Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Honored for : The Sound of Music

Nominations 1966 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture The Sound of Music
DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film The Sand Pebbles
Academy Award for Best Picture The Sand Pebbles
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy The Sound of Music

1965


Academy Award for Best Director
Honored for : The Sound of Music
Academy Award for Best Picture
Honored for : The Sound of Music
DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film
Honored for : The Sound of Music

Nominations 1965 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film The Sound of Music
Academy Award for Best Director The Sound of Music
Academy Award for Best Picture The Sound of Music

1964


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Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture The Haunting

1963


Nominations 1963 »

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BAFTA Award for Best Film West Side Story

1962


Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Honored for : West Side Story

Nominations 1962 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture West Side Story
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy West Side Story

1961


Academy Award for Best Director
Honored for : West Side Story
Academy Award for Best Picture
Honored for : West Side Story
DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film
Honored for : West Side Story

Nominations 1961 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film West Side Story
Academy Award for Best Director West Side Story
Academy Award for Best Picture West Side Story

1960


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Golden Globe Award for Best Film Promoting International Understanding Odds Against Tomorrow

1959


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Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture I Want to Live!

1958


Nominations 1958 »

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Academy Award for Best Director I Want to Live!
DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film I Want to Live!

1956


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DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film Somebody Up There Likes Me

1955


Nominations 1955 »

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BAFTA Award for Best Film Executive Suite

1954


Nominations 1954 »

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DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film Executive Suite

1952


Golden Globe Award for Best Film Promoting International Understanding
Honored for : The Day the Earth Stood Still

Nominations 1952 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Golden Globe Award for Best Film Promoting International Understanding The Day the Earth Stood Still

1950


Nominations 1950 »

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BAFTA Award for Best Film The Set-Up

1946


Nominations 1946 »

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Retro Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation The Body Snatcher

1941


Nominations 1941 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Film Editing Citizen Kane