Academy Award–winning American filmmaker who directed Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the first feature film of the franchise.
Robert Wise (1914–2005) was an American director, producer and editor. He was nominated for an Academy Award for editing Citizen Kane and won the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for West Side Story and The Sound of Music. His science fiction work included The Day the Earth Stood Still and The Andromeda Strain.
Wise directed Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), which reunited the original cast and introduced Ilia and Willard Decker, and he worked under a tight deadline to finish the film for its release. Decades later he supervised a Director's Edition released in 2001 with completed effects and a revised edit.