# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/norman-jewison
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:23:55.157Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/norman-jewison"
name: "Norman Jewison"
slug: "norman-jewison"
description: "Norman Frederick Jewison was a Canadian filmmaker. He is known for directing films which addressed topical social and political issues, often making controversial or complicated subjects accessible to mainstream audiences. Among numerous other accolades, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director three times in three separate decades, for In the Heat of the Night (1967), Fiddler on the Roof (1971) and Moonstruck (1987). He was nominated for an additional four Oscars, three Golden Globe Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award, and won a BAFTA Award. He received the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences's Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1999."
tagline: "Canadian film director, producer and actor (1926–2024)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Norman_Jewison_2019.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "CA"
category:
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  slug: "directors"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1926-07-21"
deathDate: "2024-01-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump