Norman Jewison, réalisateur canadien des films "Dans la chaleur de la nuit" et "L’Affaire Thomas Crown", est décédé à l'âge de 97 ans
Norman Jewison, réalisateur canadien des films "Dans la chaleur de la nuit" et "L’Affaire Thomas Crown", est décédé à l'âge de 97 ans
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00:00 - OK, you're excited? And action!
00:03 - He was Canada's most acclaimed film director.
00:06 Norman Jewison worked with many of Hollywood's biggest stars,
00:09 but he never forgot where he came from.
00:12 Born in Toronto in 1926,
00:14 he became interested in the movies when he was just a kid.
00:17 - It cost 10 cents, and I used to get 2 cents from each kid,
00:24 and then I would go to the movies, and I would come back,
00:27 and I would tell them the movie.
00:29 - He got his start in showbiz when CBC TV began in 1952
00:34 and directed many variety shows.
00:37 - It was like a Broadway show every week.
00:39 It was impossible.
00:41 It was unbelievable, the effort that went into these things.
00:45 - But it was making movies that made Norman Jewison.
00:49 He started out directing comedies,
00:51 but soon switched to serious dramas
00:53 that took on social issues, such as racism.
00:56 - I earn that money 10 hours a day, 7 days a week.
00:59 - Colored can't earn that kind of money.
01:01 - "In the Heat of the Night" was set in the racially divided South.
01:05 It won 5 Oscars and earned Jewison his first Best Director nomination.
01:10 Jewison won further acclaim for musicals
01:13 "Fiddler on the Roof" and "Jesus Christ Superstar."
01:16 He returned to Canada in 1978
01:19 and settled on a farm north of Toronto
01:22 while he continued to make Hollywood movies.
01:25 - Justice for all.
01:27 Only we have a problem here.
01:32 - He earned his third Best Director nomination
01:35 for romantic comedy "Moonstruck."
01:37 - You love him, Loretta? - No.
01:39 - Good. When you love him, they drive you crazy.
01:42 - But as if making movies wasn't enough,
01:44 Jewison wanted to help others get their start.
01:47 - It's going to be the center of excellence
01:50 because that's what it's all about.
01:52 - He founded the Canadian Film Center in the late 1980s
01:56 to help train homegrown talent.
01:58 - Film is the literature of our generation,
02:02 and therefore it becomes very important
02:06 to expressing a country's soul.
02:09 - Jewison returned to the theme of racism in "The Hurricane,"
02:13 a story of wrongly convicted boxer Ruben "Hurricane" Carter.
02:17 - We're looking for two Negroes in a white car.
02:20 - Any two will do.
02:22 - In 1999, he was recognized by the Academy
02:24 with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award,
02:27 and in January 2010, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award
02:32 from the Directors Guild of America.
02:34 Eli Glasner, CBC News, Toronto.
02:37 !