Norman Jewison

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Norman Frederick Jewison (born July 21, 1926) is a Canadian film director, producer, actor, and founder of the Canadian Film Centre.

He has directed several feature films and has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director three times in three separate decades for In the Heat of the Night (1967), Fiddler on the Roof (1971) and Moonstruck (1987).

Other highlights of his directing career include The Cincinnati Kid (1965), The Russians Are Coming (1966), The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), Rollerball (1975), F.I.T.

(1978) And Justice for All (1979) A Soldier's Novel (1984), Agnes of God (1989), The Declaration (1999). Jewison has addressed critical social and political issues throughout his career, often making controversial or difficult topics available to mainstream audiences.

Jewison has received numerous Golden Globe nominations, a BAFTA Gold Bear for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival, Lifetime Achievement Awards from both the Directors Guild of Canada and America, and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award at the 71st annual Academy Awards in 2003.

Early life

Jewison was born in Toronto, Ontario, and the son of Dorothy Irene (née Weaver) and Percy Joseph Jewison (1890-1974), who owned a convenience store and post office. He attended Kew Beach High School and Malvern Collegiate Institute, and when growing up in the 1930s, he discovered a talent for acting and theatre. He is often mistaken for Jewish due to his surname and direction of Fiddler on the Roof, but Jewison and his family are Protestants of English descent. He served in the Royal Canadian Navy (1944-1945) during World War II, and after being discharged, he travelled in the American South, where he encountered segregation, which influenced his later work.

Jewison graduated with a B.A. from Victoria College in Toronto. In 1949, the United States was a republic in the United Kingdom. He was involved in writing, directing, and acting in various theater performances, including the All-Varsity Revue in 1949. Following graduation, he moved to London, where he worked as a script writer for a children's television program and a little bit actor for the BBC, as well as supporting himself with odd jobs. In late 1951, he moved to Canada to work as a production trainee with CBLT in Toronto, which was preparing for the debut of CBC Television.

Personal life

Norman Jewison and Margaret Ann Dixon married on July 11, 1953. She died in Orangeville, Ontario, on November 26, 2004, the day after her 74th birthday, from undisclosed causes. They have three children and five grandchildren.

Jewison was appointed as Chancellor of Victoria University in Toronto in 2004 in recognition of his contributions to the arts as well as his ongoing support; he remained as Chancellor of the University of Toronto until October 2010.

Blake Goldring donated $1,000,000 to Victoria University at the University of Toronto in 2010 to create a specialized first-year liberal arts program in Jewison's name. fewer than 30 students were accepted into Norman Jewison Stream for Imagination and the Arts in September 2011. Goldring is a 1981 graduate of the school.

The Directors Guild of America's 62nd Annual DGA Awards, which were held at the Century Plaza in Los Angeles, on January 30, 2010, Jewison received a lifetime achievement award from the Directors Guild of America.

Lynne St. David, whom he had started dating in 2008, was also married in 2010. Lynne St. David-Jewison, who is married, has a child named Lynne St. David-Jewison.

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Career

Jewison, a programmer at CBC Television, was an assistant director when it first appeared on television in 1952. During the next seven years, he wrote, produced, and appeared on a number of musicals, comedy-variety shows, dramas, and specials, including The Big Revue, Showtime, and The Barris Beat. Margaret Ann "Dixie" Dixon, a former model, married him in 1953. They had three children, Michael, Kevin, and Jennifer, all of whom worked in entertainment.

Jewison was recruited to work with NBC in New York in 1958, where his first assignment was Your Hit Parade followed by The Andy Williams Exhibition. These shows' popularity culminated in the production of specials starring Harry Belafonte, Jackie Gleason, and Danny Kaye. The Judy Garland "comeback" special, which starred Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin in 1961, was later called in to command Jewison's career, and culminated in a weekly show that Jewison was later hired in to lead. During a rehearsal for the special, actor Tony Curtis suggested to Jewison that he should produce a feature film. He didn't delved back to television until the 1990s, beginning with the TNT biographical film Geronimo (1993).

Jewison's film career began when Tony Curtis' film production company, Curtleigh Productions, hired him to direct the comedy 40 Pounds of Trouble in February 1962. Universal-International Pictures funded and released the film, which was the first motion picture to be shot at Disneyland. If the initial film was well received, Curtleigh Productions' deal with Jewison was a negotiable option for further films. Jewison founded SImkoe Productions in early October 1962 and has signed a two-picture contract with Curtis' new film production company, Curtis Enterprises, as well as an additional two-picture contract with Universal-International Pictures.

Although the two Curtis Enterprises photographs were not made, both Universal-International Pictures' films were still on display. Doris Day starred in two comedies: The Thrill of It All, released in 1963 and co-starring James Garner, and Send Me No Flowers, co-starring Rock Hudson, was released in 1964. Jewison, who appeared in another comedy, The Art of Love (1965), was determined to move beyond the genre and tackle more challenging challenges.

His breakthrough film, The Cincinnati Kid (1965), a drama starring Steve McQueen, is now one of the best gambling movies ever made, and Jewison considers it one of his personal favorites since it was his first challenging story. This success was followed by a satire on Cold War paranoia, The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming; the first film Jewison produced, and it was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. He said that doing "a plea for coexistence, or the absurdity of international conflict was crucial right now." Though right-wing commentators' reaction to the Russians was encouraging, right-wing commentators called Jewison "a Canadian pinko."

In the Heat of the Night (1967), a crime drama set in a racially divided Southern town starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger, was nominated for Best Director, despite continuing the success, while Jewison was nominated for Best Director. Robert Kennedy told Jewison that this may be "a very important film." Timing is everything." When Kennedy announced him with the Critics' Choice Movie Award for best drama a year and a half later, he reminded Jewison of the forecast a year and a half later.

He directed and produced another film with McQueen (1968), utilizing new screen photographs in the crime caper The Thomas Crown Affair (1968). Jewison produced all feature films, many with associate Patrick Palmer, and he also acted as producer for films directed by others, starting with his former film editor Hal Ashby's debut in 1970. Jewison, who was disenchanted with the political environment in the United States, moved his family to England after the completion of the period comedy Gaily, Gaily (1969).

He worked at Pinewood Studios northwest of London and on location in Yugoslavia (1971, re-issued 1979), which received three Oscars and was nominated for five others, including Best Picture and Director. Jewison was also subject of Douglas Jackson's 1971 National Film Board of Canada documentary Norman Jewison.

Jewison's next project was the musical Jesus Christ Superstar (1973), based on Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Broadway script. It was shot in Israel, where Jewison also produced the western Billy Two Hats (1974), starring Gregory Peck. This time over violence, a celebrity was criticized for its treatment of a religious subject. Rollerball (1975) is a fast-forward video game set in the near future as corporations rule the world, while entertainment is based on a deadly game. F.I.T., the labour union drama, was he directed in the next film. (1978), loosely based on Jimmy Hoffa's life, has caused some controversies, this time about the screenwriting credit. Joe Eszterhas was unable to disclose the screenwriting credit with the film's director Sylvester Stallone because he felt that Stallone's contribution had been minor, while Stallone's was essentially rewritten the entire script.

In 1978, Jewison returned to Canada, settling in the Caledon area in Ontario and establishing a farm that raised award-winning cattle. He commanded Al Pacino, a base in Toronto, as well as one in California,...And Justice for All (1979), and Burt Reynolds and Goldie Hawn in the romantic comedy Best Friends (1982), and Iceman (1984).

During this time, Jewison produced the 53rd Annual Academy Awards (1981), which were supposed to air on the day President Ronald Reagan was shot and had to be rescheduled. The idea of racial tension that had been portrayed in In the Heat of the Night, Jewison's A Soldier's Story (1984), based on a Pulitzer Prize winning play, was nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Picture. His next film was also based on a hit play. Agnes of God (1985), set in a Quebec convent, starred Jane Fonda, Meg Tilly, and Anne Bancroft; it received three Academy Award nominations. He ended the relationship with film producer Columbia Pictures in 1986, citing British filmmaker and head of production David Puttnam's behavior. Following a failure with Columbia, his Yorktown Productions company was moved to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for a three-year contract to produce, produce, and produce pictures from the studio, which also gives MGM the right to refuse first refusal on films he wants to make.

Jewison's next film was one of the most well-known romantic films ever made. Moonstruck (1987), starring Cher, was a box office hit that received three Academy Awards, including Best Actress for Cher. Jewison was also nominated for his third Best Director award.

In Country (1989), a social drama about a war veteran and the daughter of a war casualty; Other People's Money (1991), a romantic comedy set in Italy; and Bogus (1996), a fantasy about a young boy and his imaginary friend. He also worked on television as producer and producer for the film January Man (1989), executive producer for the Canadian film Dance Me Outside, and then returned to television as producer and producer, including the series The Rez (1996–1998).

The Hurricane (1999) was Jewison's third film to investigate the effects of bigotry, focusing on boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, who had been wrongly arrested for a triple murder in New Jersey in the mid-1960s. Denzel Washington received a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Academy Award for his portrayal of Carter. When Jewison was given the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award for lifetime achievement in 1999, his work was recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Jewison continued directing and producing until his last film, The Statement, based on a Brian Moore novel starring Michael Caine, was released. His autobiography This Terrible Business Has Been Good to Me was published in the same year as his career, demonstrating his insatisfaction, conviction, and insatisfaction.

Jewison's contribution to film in Canada was shown by his establishment of the Canadian Centre for Advanced Film Studies in 1986, which opened in 1988 as an advanced film school on Windfields Estate in Toronto, Ontario. The Canadian Film Centre was later renamed (CFC).

To date, more than 1700 alumni and 100 alumni companies have graduated from CFC's programs, including: :

CFC has helped incubate and/or develop groundbreaking original material, including hit television series Orphan Black (from writer/director Stephen Dunn (director)) and internationally award-winning documentary feature Stories We Tell (from director and CFC alumna Sarah Polley).

In addition, CFC Features has produced Rhymes for Young Ghouls (director Jeff Barnaby), Cube (director Vincenzo Natali), and Rude (director Clement Virgo).

Norman Jewison bestowes the CFC Award for Creative Excellence to CFC alumni each year in Los Angeles, in recognition of their contributions to the screen-based entertainment industry's growth. In 2014, Jewison presented the inaugural award to CFC alumna Semi Chellas (Mad Men) in CFC, to Graeme Manson and John Fawcett (Orphanage Black) in 2015, and Don McKellar (The Red Violin, Highway 61) in 2016.

Jewison is the Chair Emeritus of the CFC.

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