Norman Jewison (1926-2024) was born in Toronto and started in Canadian television before moving to Hollywood in the early 1960s. In the Heat of the Night (1967), with Sidney Poitier as a Black detective in a Mississippi town, won the Best Picture Oscar and became a landmark of its time. He moved easily between the stylish heist film The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), the musical Fiddler on the Roof (1971) and the romantic comedy Moonstruck (1987), and was a producer and patron of Canadian film, founding the Canadian Film Centre.
Filmography
- In the Heat of the Night (1967)
- The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
- Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
- Moonstruck (1987)
- The Hurricane (1999)