Robert Wise - Awards & Nominations

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.

2002

PGA Milestone Award

2001

DGA President's Award

1999

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

1998

AFI Life Achievement Award
ADG's Outstanding Contribution to Cinematic Imagery Award

1997

BFCA Critics' Choice Award for Lifetime Achievement

1996

American Society of Cinematographers Board of the Governors Award

1988

DGA Lifetime Achievement Award

1984

DGA Robert B. Aldrich Achievement Award

1983

DGA Honorary Life Member Award

1980

Nominations 1980 »

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

1972

Nominations 1972 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
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

Nominations 1964 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture	The Haunting

1963

Nominations 1963 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
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

Nominations 1960 »

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

1959

Nominations 1959 »

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

1958

Nominations 1958 »

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

1956

Nominations 1956 »

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

1955

Nominations 1955 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
BAFTA Award for Best Film	Executive Suite

1954

Nominations 1954 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
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 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
BAFTA Award for Best Film	The Set-Up

1946

Nominations 1946 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
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

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