Canadian film director Norman JewisonAuthor of films such as “Moonstruck' ('Moon Magic') e 'In the Heat of the Night“('In the Heat of the Night') died at the age of 97, The Hollywood Reporter reported this Monday.
The trade magazine stated that the filmmaker died on Saturday at his residence in Los Angeles (USA), according to his publicist Jeff Sanderson.
Jewison's career also includes titles such as “The Thomas Crown Affair” and musicals such as “Fiddler on the Roof” and “Jesus Christ Superstar'('Jesus Christ Superstar').
“Moonstruck” and “Fiddler on the Roof” earned him four-time Oscar nominations for Best Picture and Best Director in 1988 and 1972, respectively.
Judison He was nominated three more times: for best picture for “A Soldier's Story” (1985) and for “The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming” (1967). ) and Best Filmmaker for “In the Heat of the Night” (1968), a film that won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
A total of 46 of his films were made Nominations And 12 Oscars.
Came to Hollywood in the 1960s after he was in the British televisionCanadians and Americans, as Variety magazine recalled this Monday.
The comedy “40 Pounds of Trouble” with Tony Curtis marked his entry into the Mecca of cinema and its good box office results led to him signing a seven-year contract with Universal, from which works such as “The Thrill of It All” came out. , with Doris Day.
But he never gave up television completely: heand executive producerfor example, from Judy Garland's weekly variety show “The Judy Garland Show”.
He also won the American Academy's Irving Thalberg Award in 1999. “The only thing I really regret about winning this prize is that it is not comparable to the Nobel Prize or the Pulitzer Prize. It doesn’t include any money,” he joked in his acceptance speech.