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Norman Frederick Jewison (born July 21, 1926) is a retired Canadian film and television director, producer, and founder of the Canadian Film Centre. He has directed numerous feature films and has been 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). Other highlights of his directing career include '' The Cincinnati Kid'' (1965), '' The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming'' (1966), '' The Thomas Crown Affair'' (1968), ''Jesus Christ Superstar'' (1973), '' Rollerball'' (1975), ''F.I.S.T.'' (1978), '' ...And Justice for All'' (1979), ''A Soldier's Story'' (1984), ''Agnes of God'' (1985), '' Other People's Money'' (1991), '' The Hurricane'' (1999), and '' The Statement'' (2003). Jewison has addressed social and political issues throughout his filmmaking career, often making controversial or complicated subjects accessible to mainstre ...
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Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years. After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the area to the British Crown, the British established the town of York in 1793 and later designat ...
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