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After a 66year career in the film industry, one might be excused for thinking that Robert Wise had pretty much met his career goals. His achievements include editing Citizen Kane, directing films in almost every conceivable genre including such classics as The SetUp, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Executive Suite, I Want to Live, West Side Story, The Haunting 1963, The Sound of Music, The Sand Pebbles, The Andromeda Strain and Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Hes won four Academy Awards; two as director and two for best picture for West Side Story and The Sound of Music.Hes been honored with the Irving Thalberg Award for excellence in production, served two terms as president of the Directors Guild, was honored with the DGAs prestigious D.W. Griffith Award recently renamed the DGA Lifetime Achievement Award and the Robert Aldrich Award and has chaired the Guilds Special Projects Committee since its inception. He served as president of the Motion Picture Academy and had been recently given the American Film Institutes Lifetime Achievement Award.Yet, for many years, one elusive goal has remained outside his grasp directing his 40th film.
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