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Norman Jewison, ‘In the Heat of the Night’ and ‘Moonstruck’ Director, Dead at 97

Norman Jewison, the versatile filmmaker behind 'Moonstruck' and 'In the Heat of the Night,' died Saturday at age 97.

Norman Jewison, the versatile, acclaimed filmmaker behind movies like Fiddler on the Roof and In the Heat of the Night, died Saturday at home, his publicist announced Monday. Jewison was a seven-time Oscar nominee and earned the Thalberg Memorial Award from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences in 1999. The latter film was one of numerous movies Jewison directed that focused on race relations, including 1984’s A Soldier’s Story and 1999’s The Hurricane starring Denzel Washington.

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