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Was president of the Director's Guild of America (DGA) from 1989-1993.

Attended Victoria School for the Performing and Visual Arts (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)

The widescreen process that Mr. Hiller uses in his films is never credited in any of his films, and none of his films are in the usual 2.35:1 ratio. The width of the picture resembles VistaVision more than Panavision or CinemaScope.

President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). [1993-1997]

Directed 5 different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: 'Ryan O'Neal', Ali MacGraw, John Marley, Maximilian Schell and George C. Scott.

Personal Quotes

(On Open City) It was all that neorealism; it just caught me at the right time. I can't even remember, but I know there were a few films at that time, neorealist films, that they were doing in Europe that we were not doing here. It just felt so real to me and so good. I didn't jump and say, "Oh, I want to make movies like that," but I guess I was feeling that without realizing it. The same as when I finally woke up and said, "I want to be a director."