Canadian director Norman Jewison died on Saturday at the age of 97, the newspaper reports. deadline.
Norman Jewison’s film career spanned more than four decades and earned him seven Oscar nominations: three for Best Director (In the Heat of the Night, Fiddler on the Roof and Moonstruck) and four for Best Picture.
Norman Jewison arrived in Hollywood in the 1960s after triumphing on British, Canadian and American television, as Variety recalls today.
The comedy 40 Pounds of Trouble, starring Tony Curtis, marked his entry into Hollywood, and its strong box office performance prompted him to sign a seven-year contract with Universal, giving rise to works such as The Thrill of It All. , with Doris Day.
Norman Jewison never completely abandoned television and was an executive producer, for example, of Judy Garland’s weekly variety program The Judy Garland Show.
In 1999, he also received the Irving Thalberg Award from the North American Academy.
“The only thing I really regret about winning this prize is that it is not like the Nobel or the Pulitzer. It doesn’t include money,” the director joked in his acceptance speech at the time.
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