News Summary

• Jewison, a three-time Oscar nominee who in 1999 received an Academy Award for lifetime achievement, died “peacefully” Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024, according to publicist Jeff Sanderson..
• FILE - Norman Jewison, center, director of the 1967 film “In the Heat of the Night,” appears with his wife Lynne St. David before a 50th anniversary screening of the film at the 2017 TCM Classic Film Festival in Los Angeles on April 6, 2017..
• In his autobiography “This Terrible Business Has Been Good to Me,” he noted that racism and injustice became his most common themes.“Every time a film deals with racism, many Americans feel uncomfortable,” he wrote..
• (Photo by Richard Shotwell Invision/AP, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Norman Jewison, the acclaimed and versatile Canadian-born director whose Hollywood films ranged from Doris Day comedies and “Moonstruck” to such social dramas as the Oscar-winning “In the Heat of the Night,” has died at age 97..
• His most recent work, the 2003 thriller “The Statement,” starred Michael Caine and Tilda Swinton and flopped at the box office.“I never really became as much a part of the establishment as I wanted to be,” he told The Hollywood Reporter in 2011..
• In the early 1990s, Jewison was set to direct a biography of Malcolm X, but backed out amid protests from Spike Lee and others that a white director shouldn’t make the film..