Somebody Up There Likes Me (2012 film)
Somebody Up There Likes
Me is a 2012 comedy film written and directed by Bob Byington and starring Keith Poulson, Nick Offerman, and Jess Weixler.
Albert Akst
Albert Akst( August 31, 1899 – 19 April 1958) was an American musician turned film editor, played saxophone in Meyer Davis Orchestra and on vaudeville until 1930.
He became a film cutter of short subjects and later became an editor on 53 feature films, including" Forbidden PassageJohnny EagerZiegfeld FolliesSummer StockBrigadoon" and" Meet Me in Las Vegas".
He was nominated for an Academy Award for his work on" Somebody Up There Likes Me".
Akst was born in New Jersey and died in Los Angeles, California.
Robert Wise
Robert Earl Wise (September 10, 1914 – September 14, 2005) was an American film director, producer, and editor.
He won Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for both "West Side Story" (1961) and "The Sound of Music" (1965).
He was also nominated for Best Film Editing for "Citizen Kane" (1941) and directed and produced "The Sand Pebbles" (1966), which was nominated for Best Picture.
Among his other films are "The Body Snatcher" (1945), "Born to Kill" (1947), "The Set-Up" (1949), "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951), "Destination Gobi" (1953), "This Could Be The Night" (1957), "Run Silent, Run Deep" (1958), "I Want to Live!"
(1958), "The Haunting" (1963), "The Andromeda Strain" (1971), "The Hindenburg" (1975) and  (1979).
Wise was the president of the Directors Guild of America from 1971 to 1975 and the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1984 through 1987.
Robert Wise has been viewed as a craftsman, inclined to let the (sometimes studio-assigned) story concept set the style.
Later "cineastes", such as Martin Scorsese, insist that despite Wise's legendary workaday concentration on stylistic perfection within the confines of genre and budget, his choice of subject matter and approach still functioned to identify Wise as an artist and not merely an artisan.
Wise achieved critical success as a director in a striking variety of film genres: horror, noir, western, war, science fiction, musical and drama, with many repeat successes within each genre.
Wise's meticulous preparation may have been largely motivated by studio budget constraints, but advanced the moviemaking art.
Robert Wise received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1998.
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1996 film)
Somebody Up There Likes
Me is a 1996 Hong Kong action romance film directed by Patrick Leung and starring Aaron Kwok, Carmen Lee and Sammo Hung.
Bob Byington
Robert Byington( born April 29, 1971) is an American film director, screenwriter and actor living in Austin, Texas.
He is most noted for his films" RSO( Registered Sex Offender)"( 2008)," Harmony and Me"( 2009)," Somebody Up There Likes Me"( 2012), winner of The Special Jury Prize at the 2012 Locarno Film Festival, and" 7 Chinese Brothers"( 2015) starring Jason Schwartzman, Olympia Dukakis and Tunde Adebimpe.
His most recent film," Infinity Baby"( 2017), premiered at South by Southwest in March 2017.
François Girard
François Girard( born January 12, 1963) is a French- Canadian director and screenwriter.
Born in Quebec, Girard's career began on the Montreal art video circuit.
In 1990, he produced his first feature film," Cargo"; he attained international recognition following his 1993" Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould", a series of vignettes about the life of piano prodigy Glenn Gould.
In 1998, he wrote and directed" The Red Violin", which follows the ownership of a red violin over several centuries.
" The Red Violin" won an Academy Award for Best Original Score, thirteen Genie Awards and nine Jutra Awards.
He has also directed various works for the stage, including Stravinsky's" Symphony of PsalmsOedipus Rex" and" Novencento" at the Edinburgh International Festival; Kafka's" The Trial", adapted for the stage by Serge Lamothe at the National Arts Centre, Ottawa; the oratorio" Lost Objects" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music;" Siegfried" in Toronto; and" The Lindbergh Flight" and" The Seven Deadly Sins", first in Lyon and then in Edinburgh.
Girard has also produced a residency show for Cirque du Soleil," Zed", in Tokyo and" Zarkana", which opened at Radio City Music Hall in New York in the summer of 2011.
In 2013 the Metropolitan Opera in New York opened a new production of Richard Wagner's" Parsifal" directed by Girard.
The production received near universal acclaim from critics and audiences alike.
His television credits include" Le dortoirPeter Gabriel's Secret World" and" The Sound of the Carceri", one of the six episodes of" Yo Yo Ma Inspired by Bach".
Walter Cartier
Walter Cartier( March 29, 1922 – August 17, 1995) was a professional boxer and actor, originally from the Bronx in New York City, New York.
He became a professional boxer after World War II.
Film director Stanley Kubrick's first film," Day of the Fight"( 1951), featured Cartier and his twin brother, Vincent.
After this, Walter Cartier tried his hand at acting in other films such as" Somebody Up There Likes Me"( 1956) and television.
Today, he is best known for his role in the classic United States sitcom" The Phil Silvers Show", appearing as the mild- mannered Private Claude Dillingham.
One memorable episode was written around Cartier and his boxing skills.
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956 film)
Somebody Up There Likes
Me is a 1956 American drama film based on the life of middleweight boxing legend Rocky Graziano.
Joseph Ruttenberg was awarded a 1956 Oscar in the category of Best Cinematography( Black and White).
The film also won the Oscar for Best Art Direction( Cedric Gibbons, Malcolm Brown, Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason).
It was directed by Robert Wise.
F. Keogh Gleason
Francis Keogh Gleason( April 14, 1906 – December 18, 1982) was a resident set decorator at MGM studios for over 40 years.
In that time he won 4 Academy Awards( for" An American in Paris" in 1951," The Bad and the Beautiful" in 1952," Somebody Up There Likes Me" in 1956 and" Gigi" in 1958) and was nominated an additional 3 times.
Gleason graduated from the Minnesota School of Fine Arts( now known as the Minneapolis College of Art and Design) in 1927.
The Red Violin
The Red Violin is a 1998 drama film directed by François Girard and starring Samuel L. Jackson, Carlo Cecchi and Sylvia Chang.
It spans four centuries and five countries as it tells the story of a mysterious red-coloured violin and its many owners.
The instrument, made in Cremona in 1681 with a future forecast by tarot cards, makes its way to Montreal in 1997, where an appraiser identifies it and it goes to auction.
The film was an international co-production among companies in Canada, Italy, and the United Kingdom.
The screenplay was written by Don McKellar, who also acts, and Girard, inspired by a historic 1720 Stradivarius violin nicknamed the" Red Mendelssohn".
The film was shot in Austria, Canada, China, England and Italy and features a soundtrack by John Corigliano, with solos performed by violinist Joshua Bell.
After premiering in the Venice Film Festival, it received some positive reviews from critics and grossed$ 10 million in the U.S. box office.
It received numerous honours, including the Academy Award for Best Original Score and eight Genie Awards, including Best Motion Picture.

Question: Which film has the director born later, Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956 Film) or The Red Violin?
Answer: The Red Violin