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
2nd Academy Awards records of which films were evaluated by the judges. "The Divine Lady" is the only film to ever win Best Director without a Best Picture nomination, excluding the first year where there was an award for comic director. This is the only year in which no movie won more than one Oscar. "The Broadway Melody" became the second of seven films ("Wings", "Grand Hotel", "Cavalcade", "Hamlet", "The Sound of Music", and "Titanic" are the others) to win Best Picture without a writing nomination, and the first of three to win Best Picture and nothing else ("Grand Hotel" and "Mutiny on