In 1995, Wilson was credited by the academy's board of directors with an Academy Award nomination as a co-writer of Lawrence of Arabia and credited as the winner of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for Best British Dramatic Screenplay. Michael Wilson was awarded Writers Guild of America's Laurel Award in 1975 and was posthumously awarded his second Academy Award in 1984 for The Bridge on the River Kwai. His screenplay for Planet of the Apes was based on a novel by Pierre Boulle only Boulle received screen credit. Wilson continued to write screenplays, including for The Sandpiper (1965), Planet of the Apes (1968), and Che! (1969). Wilson remained in France with his family for nine years, before returning to live in Ojai, California in the United States in 1964.
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Wilson and Carl Foreman worked separately on The Bridge on the River Kwai, but as both were blacklisted, the official credit went to Pierre Boulle, upon whose novel the movie was based, even though Boulle did not even speak English. Wyler then was able under the rules of the blacklist to have one of the few films in history credited to no writer at all. Director William Wyler wanted his brother, Robert Wyler, and Jessamyn West credited for rewriting the script, but Wilson disputed this. His screenplay for Friendly Persuasion was nominated for an Academy Award, but was disqualified because his name did not appear in the credits. He wrote or collaborated on scripts for Hollywood films without credit or under a pseudonym for much less than his usual fee before being blacklisted, including Carnival Story (1954) (for King Brothers Productions who often used blacklisted writers) They Were So Young (1954) The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955), for Otto Preminger Friendly Persuasion (1956), for William Wyler The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), for Sam Spiegel and David Lean The Two-Headed Spy (1958) Tempest (1958) and 5 Branded Women (1960) for Dino De Laurentiis and Lawrence of Arabia (1962) for Spiegel and Lean again. The film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. The movie was directed by Herbert Biberman and produced by Paul Jarrico both of whom had also been blacklisted. While blacklisted, Wilson wrote the script for Salt of the Earth (1954), a fictionalized account of a real strike by zinc miners in Grant County, New Mexico. After he was blacklisted, he left for France and worked on scripts for the European film industry. Wilson was named an unfriendly witness by the House Un-American Activities Committee and blacklisted for being a communist. He was a co-winner of the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for A Place in the Sun (1951), and won an Edgar Award and another Oscar nomination for his script for 5 Fingers (1953). In 1945 he became a contract writer with Liberty Films, working (uncredited) on such pictures as It's a Wonderful Life (1946). Wilson's career in Hollywood was interrupted by service with the United States Marine Corps during World War II. He did some William Boyd westerns, Border Patrol (1943), Colt Comrades (1943), Bar 20 (1943), and Forty Thieves (1944). Wilson was credited on The Men in Her Life (1941) with Loretta Young. Then, starting in 1941, he wrote or co-wrote 22 screenplays. He taught English and began his writing career with short stories for magazines. He graduated from UC Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1936 and did post-graduate fellowship work between 19. Wilson was born and raised Roman Catholic in McAlester, Oklahoma.
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