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
Academy Award for Best Picture "The Silence of the Lambs" was adapted from the sequel novel to "Red Dragon." The latter had been adapted for film as "Manhunter" by a different studio. Best Picture nominee "The Lion in Winter" features Peter O'Toole as King Henry II, a role he had played previously in the film "Becket." But "Winter" is not a sequel to "Becket". Clint Eastwood's "Letters from Iwo Jima" was a companion piece to his film "Flags of Our Fathers," released earlier the same year. These two films depict the same battle from the different viewpoints of Japanese and United States military forces; the