April 29, 1998
The Directors Guild of America will dedicate its Robert E. Wise Library on Saturday, April 25, DGA President Jack Shea announced today. The Wise Library will be located on the sixth floor of Guild headquarters at 7920 Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles.
"I am gratified not only to announce the opening of the Wise Library, but also to be honoring Bob Wise," Shea said. "It seems only fitting that the DGA is dedicating this library to Bob, because he has dedicated so much of his professional life to Guild service."
The Wise Library will be a state-of-the-art facility where DGA members will have access to the Guild’s collection of written material, audio and video tapes and computer software. The library will serve as the repository for donations from Guild members of books, tapes and other media on the art and craft of directing.
Acclaimed director Robert Wise served as DGA President from 1971 to 1975 and has been Chairman of the Guild’s Special Project Committee since its inception in 1976. He is a two-time winner of the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film, for West Side Story (1961) and Sound of Music (1965), and received the Guild’s highest honor, the D.W. Griffith Award, given for distinguished career achievement in motion picture direction, in 1988. Wise became an Honorary Life Member of the DGA in 1983, and in 1984 was the inaugural recipient of the Robert B. Aldrich Award, given for extraordinary service to the DGA and its membership.