Jim Wilson (producer) Jim Wilson (producer) Jim Wilson is a film producer. He won the Oscar for Best Picture of 1990 for "Dances with Wolves", which he shared with fellow producer Kevin Costner. In 1990, Wilson produced "Dances with Wolves". It was adapted by Michael Blake, based on his novel. It was the highest-grossing Western film of all time, $424.2 million worldwide, and won 7 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Sound, Best Score, and Best Film Editing. Following the success of "Dances with Wolves", Wilson produced another hit, "The Bodyguard" in 1992, starring Kevin Costner
Oscar bait went on to win the Best Picture Oscar. "Oscar bait" was used in a critical 1948 review of John Ford's "Fort Apache" in "The New Republic" that ends with the sentence "Postcards are supposed to be sent through the mail; flashed self-consciously on the screen, they look like Oscar bait." "The New York Times" used it in a 1955 article about the then-upcoming "The Harder They Fall", Humphrey Bogart's final film. A 1968 ad for "The Lion in Winter" quoted from a review in "Cosmopolitan" praising the performances of Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn as "Oscar bait outings." These all