Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne will reminisce with renowned producer-director Norman Jewison for the first Private Screenings shot in front of a live audience.
The episode will be filmed April 21 at the 2007 Sarasota Film Festival, with the conversation coinciding with Jewison’s acceptance of the festival’s 2007 Lifetime Achievement for Excellence in Filmmaking tribute, which will be presented at a gala awards dinner emceed by Osborne.
Private Screenings: Norman Jewison is slated to premiere on TCM in September, followed by a festival of his films including TheCincinnatiKid (1965), The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming (1966) and Moonstruck (1987).
Jewison, 80, is perhaps best known for directing and producing Fiddler on the Roof (1971), Moonstruck (1987), The Hurricane (1999), A Soldier’s Story (1984), The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) and Agnes of God (1985), as well as directing In the Heat of the Night (1967) and The Cincinnati Kid (1965).
His work has garnered much acclaim across the decades, including four Oscar nominations for himself, as well as 46 nominations and 12 awards for his films. In 1999, he received the Academy’s distinguished Irving Thalberg Award.
Tickets for the event are available by calling the Sarasota Film Festival Ticket and Information Line at 1-866-575-FILM or 1-941-366-6200, by logging onto the event’s Web site or by going to the Sarasota Film Festival box office.
