'The Haunting'

If you ask a dozen people who the best film directors of all time are, I would bet Robert Wise probably doesn't come up. Maybe once.

Fact is, Wise won Best Director and Best Picture Academy Awards for The Sound of Music and West Side Story. Furthermore, his filmography expands to sci-fi (the classic The Day the Earth Stood Still and Star Trek), horror (The Haunting, Audrey Rose) to the random thriller-drama.

Still, he's often criticized for not being an "auteur" like Stanley Kubrick or Alfred Hitchcock. That to me is like saying Hank Aaron wasn't a very good defensive outfielder. Maybe the criticism sticks, but that shouldn't take away from the fact that he was very good.

What's more, Wise started out as an editor and was nominated for another Academy Award in the category for Citizen Kane (he did not win). His editing work can be seen on Dance, Girl, Dance, The Gay Divorcee, Top Hat and The Magnificent Ambersons. It's hard to find anyone in film with all of those movies under his sleeve.