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Born September 10, 1914 • Indiana
Died September 14, 2005 (aged 91) • Los Angeles • California
Awards And Honors Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award (1967) • Academy Award (1966) • Academy Award (1962)
Notable Works “Executive Suite” • “Star Trek—The Motion Picture” • “The Andromeda Strain” • “The Body Snatcher” • “The Day the Earth Stood Still” • “The Haunting” • “The Sand Pebbles” • “The Set-Up” • “The Sound of Music” • “West Side Story”

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Robert Wise
Citizen Kane
Boris Karloff in The Body Snatcher (1945)
Lock Martin and Michael Rennie in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Susan Hayward in I Want to Live!
West Side Story (1961)
West Side Story
Rita Moreno
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Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg
American film director and producer
William Wyler
William Wyler
American director
Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder
American director and producer
George Stevens
George Stevens
American director
Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty
American actor, director, and producer
Orson Welles
Orson Welles
American actor, director, and writer
Master of suspense
Alfred Hitchcock
English-born American director
Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese
American director
Huston, John; The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
John Huston
American director, writer, and actor
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Frank Capra
American film director
Francis Ford Coppola directing The Godfather: Part II
Francis Ford Coppola
American director and screenwriter
Mervyn LeRoy
American director and producer
Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan
American director and author
Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil B. DeMille
American film director
Mankiewicz, Joseph L.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
American filmmaker
Sydney Pollack
Sydney Pollack
American director, producer, and actor
Leo McCarey
Leo McCarey
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George Lucas
George Lucas
American director, producer, and screenwriter
American director Stanley Kramer
Stanley Kramer
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Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone
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