Jim Wilson (film producer)

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Jim Wilson (* 20th century ) is an American film producer , film director and screenwriter . He became internationally known for the production of the movies Dances with Wolves , Wyatt Earp - The Life of a Legend , Message in a Bottle - The Beginning of a Great Love and Mr. Brooks - The Murderer in You .

life and career

Jim Wilson has worked in the film business in a variety of roles since the early 1980s. He attended Antioch College and was a graduate of the Berkeley Film Institute . Wilson began his film career in 1983 as a director and film producer for the drama Daring Game . Kevin Costner played the leading role . There began the long-term collaboration with his friend Costner and the writer and screenwriter Michael Blake , whom he had met in Berkeley. Since then, Wilson has launched eleven joint film projects with Kevin Costner, including the multi-award-winning Oscar- winning western drama Dances with Wolves , where Jim Wilson himself received an Oscar in the Best Picture category, the cinema production Bodyguard , and the television miniseries 500 Nations - The story of the Indians , the psychological thriller Mr. Brooks - The killer in you or the socially critical political fable Swing Vote . Most of these films were made by the production company TIG Productions founded by Costner and Wilson .

In addition to his collaboration with Costner, Jim Wilson has also produced films such as Rapa Nui - Rebellion in Paradise with Jason Scott Lee , Esai Morales , Sandrine Holt , directed by Kevin Reynolds , with whom Wilson also worked several times, or the satire Kopf über Wasser with Cameron Diaz , where Wilson himself took over the direction. His latest project, the film drama 50 to 1 , premiered in March 2014 with the cast Skeet Ulrich , Christian Kane and William Devane .

Jim Wilson produced over 15 films in his career, sat in the director's chair himself six times and also wrote two scripts for his films himself.

Awards

Filmography (selection)

film producer

Film director

  • 1983: Daring Game (Stacy's Knights)
  • 1986: Smart Alec
  • 1996: Head Above Water (Head Above Water)
  • 2006: Laffit: All About Winning (documentary)
  • 2006: Whirlygirl
  • 2014: 50 to 1

Screenwriter

  • 1986: Smart Alec (Promises in the Dark)
  • 2014: 50 to 1

literature

  • Jim Wilson. In: Gale Group, Joshua Kondek, Yvonne Jones Angela: Contemporary Theater, Film and Television, Volume 26. , Gale, 1999, p. 75

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jim Wilson. In: Kevin Costner, Michael Blake, Jim Wilson: Dances with wolves: the illustrated screenplay and story behind the film. , Newmarket Press, 1991, p. 143
  2. ↑ Jim Wilson. In: Richard C. Morais: Kevin Costner Journeys to a New Frontier. , The New York Times, Nov. 4, 1990
personal data
SURNAME Wilson, Jim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilson, James A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film producer, director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century