Canadian director Norman Jewison died peacefully on Saturday, January 20, at the age of 97. Deadline. He has worked on great classics such as The Cincinnati Kid, The Thomas Crown Affair, In the Heat of the Night and Moonlight.
BBC debut
After studying letters, art, and music, Norman Jewison He moved to London, where he became an actor and screenwriter for the BBC. After returning to Canada, he supervised. shows Big stars like Judy Garland and Frank Sinatra.
Then working at Universal Studios, he directed four comedies, including The Thrill of It All (1963) with Doris Day and The Art of Love (1965) with James Garner.
A defining meeting with Steve McQueen
Having gone independent, she scored her first big break in The Cincinnati Kid (1965) directed by Steve McQueen, a cast she would reunite with three years later for The Thomas Crown Affair (1968).
It was through racial discrimination in In the Heat of the Night (1967), at a time when peer recognition by Norman Jewison was still commonplace. This thriller won five Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Rod Steiger.
His 1970s: Films Still Made
After film adaptations of the musical shows Fiddler on the Roof (1971) and Jesus Christ Superstar (1973), he denounced violence with the futuristic Rollerball (1975) and union-Mafia violence with FIST (1978) and the dysfunctions of the justice system with Justice for All (1979 ), these three films offer strong roles to James Caan, Sylvester Stallone and Al Pacino.
Addressing racial discrimination again through A Soldier’s Story, Norman Jewison takes the convent and the Italian-American milieu of New York as the backdrop for his films Agnes of God (1985) and Moonlight (1987), before returning to more progressive themes. The Aftermath of the Vietnam War, Drama Hero Like Many Others (1989).
Hurricane Carter
In the 90s, the filmmaker offered the general public three highly successful comedies (Larry the Liquidator, Only You and Bogus), and then entrusted Denzel Washington with the role of boxer Hurricane Carter, who won a Silver Bear for Best Actor in 2000. .
Three years later, Norman Jewison cast Michael Caine as a former Nazi torturer in the thriller Crimes Against Humanity (2003), which would be his last film.
In the Heat of the Night with Sidney Poitier:
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