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Wilson Overview:

Wilson (1944) was a Biographical - Drama Film directed by Henry King and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck.

Academy Awards 1944 --- Ceremony Number 17 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best ActorAlexander KnoxNominated
Best Art DirectionArt Direction: Wiard Ihnen; Interior Decoration: Thomas LittleWon
Best CinematographyLeon ShamroyWon
Best DirectorHenry KingNominated
Best Film EditingBarbara McLeanWon
Best Music - ScoringAlfred NewmanNominated
Best Picture20th Century-FoxNominated
Best WritingLamar TrottiWon
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Wilson BlogHub Articles:

book: The Blind Man of Seville (2003) by Robert Wilson

By John Grant on Apr 30, 2019 From Noirish

The Blind Man of Seville is a crime novel in that it’s a novel about crime. However, the crimes at its focus aren’t those described on the wrapper — a series of brutal murders in modern-day Seville — but those depicted in what seems initially to be the novel’s backstory... Read full article

Recorded Live (1975, S.S. Wilson)

By Andrew Wickliffe on Jan 21, 2019 From The Stop Button

Recorded Live is a student film. So director, writer, and animator Wilson’s flat composition gets some wide latitude. He’s got this silly slapstick score on a sound picture, with John Goodwin getting hired to work at an already strange-sounding TV studio only to arrive there and discover a sack ... Read full article

Recorded Live (1975, S.S. Wilson)

on Jan 21, 2019 From The Stop Button

Recorded Live is a student film. So director, writer, and animator Wilson’s flat composition gets some wide latitude. He’s got this silly slapstick score on a sound picture, with John Goodwin getting hired to work at an already strange-sounding TV studio only to arrive there and discover a sack ... Read full article

Recorded Live (1975, S.S. Wilson)

on Jan 21, 2019 From The Stop Button

Recorded Live is a student film. So director, writer, and animator Wilson’s flat composition gets some wide latitude. He’s got this silly slapstick score on a sound picture, with John Goodwin getting hired to work at an already strange-sounding TV studio only to arrive there and discover a sack ... Read full article

Recorded Live (1975, S.S. Wilson)

By Andrew Wickliffe on Jan 21, 2019 From The Stop Button

Recorded Live is a student film. So director, writer, and animator Wilson’s flat composition gets some wide latitude. He’s got this silly slapstick score on a sound picture, with John Goodwin getting hired to work at an already strange-sounding TV studio only to arrive there and discover a sack ... Read full article

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Wilson Quotes:

Professor Henry Holmes: Now I know why the Democratic Party chose a jackass for a mascot.
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Wilson Facts
The film, a pet project and labor of love for producer Darryl F. Zanuck, was a notorious box-office flop in its day, despite good reviews and several Oscar nominations including Best Picture and Best Actor, and despite the fact that when it played the Roxy in New York, it grossed more than any one movie had in a single theatre up to then. Zanuck was so heartbroken over the movie's failure that he forbade anyone who came into his presence to ever mention the film again.
Darryl F. Zanuck was so proud of the film that he ordered that the world premiere be held in Wahoo, Nebraska, Zanuck's own home town - presumably so that Zanuck could show off his pet project to the local citizens. The plan backfired; nobody in Wahoo was really interested in Woodrow Wilson, and attendance at the film's showings was extremely poor.
Despite being a box-office flop, the film won five Oscars, but this made no difference to the movie public.
Per the 'Guinness Book of Movie Facts & Feats', the production of surpassed Gone with the Wind as the most expensive movie ever produced up to that time.
Cinematographer Leon Shamroy replaced Ernest Palmer, who fell ill during production.
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