Arthur Hiller died

On August 17, in Los Angeles at the age of 92, the Canadian-American film director Arthur Hiller, author of the film "Love Story" died.

It is reported by The New York Times .

Arthur Hiller was born in 1923 in Edmonton, graduated from the University College of Toronta University, having received a bachelor of arts, in 1950 he became a master of humanities.

He worked in Toronto on television, in the late 1950s he began to make a full-length feature movie in Hollywood. The anti -war satirical film “The Americanization of Emily” ( The Americanization of Emily , 1964) received two nominations for the Academy Award, and the Tobruk military drama ( Tobruk , 1967) received one nomination.

The director “Love Story , 1970) nominated for seven Oscars and received the Award of the American Film Academy for the best music (it wrote the French composer Francis LE) brought worldwide glory to the director. The film also received five Golden Globes, including for the best directing.

The next work of Hiller, the detective tragicomedy "Hospital" ( The Hospital , 1971), received Oscar for the original script and won the Garn-Prix of the jury at the Berlin festival.

The director continued to make a movie until the mid-2000s, his filmography has more than thirty paintings. From 1989 to 1993, Arthur Hiller was the president of the Guild of the directors of America, in 1993-1997 - the president of the American Film Academy.