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Norman Jewison

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Norman Jewison (born 1926) is a Canadian film director and producer known for films such as The Thomas Crown Affair, Rollerball, The Cincinnati Kid, Jesus Christ Superstar and Moonstruck. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for Moonstruck (1987).

Born 1926 in Canada; directed The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), Rollerball (1975), The Cincinnati Kid (1965), Jesus Christ Superstar (1973), and Moonstruck (Stregata Dalla Luna, 1987). Winner of the Academy Award for Best Director for Moonstruck.

Reviews on DeBaser praise Norman Jewison's craftsmanship and versatility. They highlight The Thomas Crown Affair's elegance, Rollerball's dystopian vision, Cincinnati Kid's tension, and the warmth and performances in Stregata Dalla Luna. Overall reception is admiring of his filmmaking clarity and style.

For:Fans of classic cinema, film students, lovers of 1960s-1980s films

 This film doesn't provoke, intimidate, or shock. It is “only” refined and elegant entertainment - qualities now lost - yet also concise, with only 102 minutes of runtime and none wasted.

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 "In a not too distant future, wars will no longer exist. But there will be Rollerball"

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 Take a seat and raise the stakes.

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 To make the actors truly harmonious and give the impression of a real family, it seems that director Norman Jewison insisted that they all live together for a certain period of time in a large apartment, to create that familiarity, that uniformity of gestures and expressions, that harmony even just in glances, typical of a family: we could thus define Jewison as a sort of precursor of Big Brother, but with far better results: besides the already mentioned Oscar for Cher, Olympia Dukakis was awarded the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.

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