Natural inside Winchester, Indiana, Wise began his movie career at RKO as a sound & music editor, however he shortly grew to existence nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing for Citizen Kane in 1941. At a instance of his dying he was that film's simply dwelling crewman. He took his number one directing job by using a stylish horror film The Curse of the Cat People in 1944. Within 1949 he directed the boxing picture show The Set-Up, where his counsel of the real-period setting had him found.

In the 1950s, Wise proved expert within many genres, from either a science fiction of The Day the Earth Stood Still to the melodramatic So Big, to Susan Hayward's Oscar winner in I Want to Live!, for which he was nominated for Best Director.

Around 1961, teamed with Jerome Robbins, he won the Academy Award for Best Director for West Side Story, which he also produced. He repeated this accomplishment around 1965 with The Sound of Music. In the Seventies he directed such films when The Andromeda Strain, The Hindenburg, the horror film Audrey Rose, and a number 1 Star Trek film, Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Inside 1989 he directed Rooftops, his survive theatrical feature.

Possibly withwithin his twilit years, Caring continued to become active in productions of DVD versions to his films, possibly making public appearances promoting people films.

Caring was a preceding president of each the Directors Guild of America and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He has the star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6338 Hollywood Blvd.

When falling sick, Caring was rushed to UCLA Medical Center, where he died from either coronary failure, 4 years fallowing his ninety-1st birthday.

Academy Awards and Nominations
1967 Won Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award 1967 Nominated for Best Picture The Sand Pebbles 1966 Won Best Director The Sound of Music 1966 Won Best Picture The Sound of Music 1962 Won Best Director West Side Story with Jerome Robbins 1962 Won Best Picture West Side Story 1959 Nominated for Best Director I Want to Live! 1942 Nominated for Best Film Editing Citizen Kane

Filmography
Top Hat (1935) (sound results editor) (uncredited) The Informer (1935) (sound results editor) (uncredited) The Gay Divorcee (1934) (sound results editor) (uncredited) Of Human Bondage (1934) (apprentice sound results editor) (uncredited) The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939) (assistant editor) (uncredited) Bachelor Mother (1939) (editor) 5th Ave Girl (1939) (editor) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) (editor) My Favorite Wife (1940) (editor) Dance, Girl, Dance (1940) (editor) Citizen Kane (1941) (editor) The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941) (editor) The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) (editor) ''Seven Days' Leave (1942) (editor) Bombardier (1943) (editor) The Fallen Sparrow (1943) (editor) The Iron Major (1943) (editor) Action in Arabia (1944) (second unit director) (uncredited) Mademoiselle Fifi (1944) (director) The Curse of the Cat People (1944) (director) The Body Snatcher (1945) (director) Game of Death (1945) (director) Criminal Court (1946) (director) Born to Kill (1947) (director) Blood on the Moon (1948) (director) Mystery in Mexico (1948) (director) The Set-Up (1949) (director) Three Secrets (1950) (director) Two Flags West (1950) (director) The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) (director) The House on Telegraph Hill (1951) (director) Something for the Birds (1952) (director) The Captive City (1952) (director) Return to Paradise (1953) (producer) So Big (1953) (director) Destination Gobi (1953) (director) The Desert Rats (1953) (director) Executive Suite (1954) (director) Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) (director) Tribute to a Bad Man (1956) (director) Helen of Troy (1956) (director) Until They Sail (1957) (director) This Could Be the Night (1957) (director) Run Silent Run Deep (1958) (director) I Want to Live! (1958) (director) Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) (director) West Side Story (1961) (director) (producer) Two for the Seesaw (1962) (director) The Haunting (1963) (director) (producer) The Sound of Music (1965) (director) (producer) The Sand Pebbles (1966) (director) (producer) Star! (1968) (director) The Baby Maker (1970) (executive producer) The Andromeda Strain (1971) (director) (producer) Two People (1973) (director) (producer) The Hindenburg (1975) (director) Audrey Rose (1977) (director) Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) (director) Wisdom (1986) (executive producer) Rooftops (1989) (director) The Stupids'' (1996) (actor, as Stanley's Neighbour) A Storm in Summer (TV Movie) (2000) (director)