00:00 The Canadian film director Norman Jewison died peacefully on Saturday at 97, said his
00:07 publicist Jeff Sanderson.
00:10 Jewison was a three-time Oscar nominee who received an Academy Award for lifetime achievement
00:15 in 1999.
00:17 In his autobiography, he said that injustice and racism, an issue that many Americans feel
00:22 uncomfortable about, as he put it, became his most common themes.
00:27 Jewison is mostly known for films such as Jesus Christ Superstar, a musical drama, as
00:34 well as for In the Heat of the Night, winner of five Oscars, and Moonstruck, which received
00:40 six nominations at the 60th Academy Awards.
00:44 Jewison lived most of his life in Toronto.
00:47 [SWOOSH]
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