Editor/Producer/Director Robert Wise directed The Sound of Music, the #3 all-time domestic box office film (adjusted for ticket price inflation). He was nominated for eight Oscars by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences - three times for directing. His two directing Oscars were for West Side Story, 1961 and The Sound of Music, 1965 - two of the Top 10 Musicals of all time. The other eight Top 10 Musicals are: Mary Poppins, 1964; Grease, 1978; My Fair Lady, 1964; This is the Army, 1943; Fiddler on the Roof, 1971; Going My Way, 1944; The Jolson Story, 1946 and Funny Girl, 1968.Robert Wise's Life Achievement Award page is here at American Film Institute (afi.com).
The West Side Story movie trailer is here at Movies.NYTimes.com
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