MUMBAI: Oscar-winning producer and director Joe Strick breathed his last after succumbing to congestive heart failure in a hospital in Paris. He was 86.

Strick is best known as the producer, director and co-writer of the 1967 film adaptation of the James Joyce novel Ulysses for which he was nominated with Fred Haines in the adapted screenplay category. 

Strick won his Academy Award for the 1971 short documentary Interviews With My Lai Veterans that featured US soldiers present at the My Lai massacre in Vietnam.

Strick also wrote and directed wrote the 1960 film The Savage Eye with Ben Maddow and Sidney Meyers. The film earned BAFTA‘s Robert J. Flaherty Award for best documentary.

Strick also co-produced the 1983 film Never Cry Wolf with Lewis Allen and Jack Couffer and also the BBC documentary The Hecklers in 1996.

Strick is survived by his his wife Martine, five children Jeremy Strick, Betsy Strick, David Strick, Terence Strick and Helene Strick-Marchand and six grandchildren.