 He also sat on the Board of Trustees of the American Film Institute and chaired its Center for Advanced Film Studies.Wise was named chairman of the Directors Guild of America’s special projects committee in 1980, organizing its fiftieth anniversary celebration in New York in 1986.In addition, Wise was a leading member of the National Council of the Arts and Sciences, the Department of Film at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Motion Picture Country House and Hospital.