Norman Frederick Jewison was a Canadian filmmaker, born in Toronto, Ontario, on 21 July 1926 and died on 20 January 2024. He was known for directing films that addressed topical social and political issues, often making controversial or complicated subjects accessible to mainstream audiences. He was 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), and he was nominated for an additional four Oscars, three Golden Globe Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award.
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He also won the prestigious Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival and earned Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Directors Guilds of both Canada and America.
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