Highest rated movie: Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula (1997)
Lowest rated movie: The Stupids (1996)
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Movies starring Robert Wise have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 67%.
Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula - released in 1997 - is Robert Wise's highest rated movie, with a score of 83% based on 1 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Robert Wise is The Stupids - released in 1996 - with a score of 56% based on 193 reviews.
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.
Robert Wise has acted in films with Costa-Gavras, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and George Lucas.
Robert Wise has worked with these film directors: John Landis, Chuck Workman and Gary D. Rhodes.
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