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 Reader". However, now any number of producers on a film can be nominated for Best Picture, should they be deemed eligible. For the first ceremony, three films were nominated for the award. For the following three years, five films were nominated for the award. This was expanded to eight in 1933, to ten in 1934, and to twelve in 1935, before being dropped back to ten in 1937. In 1945, it was further reduced to five. This number remained until 2009, when the limit was raised to ten and later adjusted in 2011, to vary between five and ten.