| Academy Awards, USA | |||
| Year | Result | Award | Category/Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | Won | Oscar | Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Color Wiard Ihnen Thomas Little |
| Best Cinematography, Color Leon Shamroy | |||
| Best Film Editing Barbara McLean | |||
| Best Sound, Recording Edmund H. Hansen (20th Century-Fox SSD) | |||
| Best Writing, Original Screenplay Lamar Trotti | |||
| Nominated | Oscar | Best Actor in a Leading Role Alexander Knox | |
| Best Director Henry King | |||
| Best Effects, Special Effects Fred Sersen (photographic) Roger Heman Sr. (sound) | |||
| Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture Alfred Newman | |||
| Best Picture (20th Century Fox). | |||
Twentieth Century-Fox Film
Directed by Henry King
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Long biography of President Woodrow Wilson begins during his days as a Princeton professor. He becomes president of the university, then governor of New Jersey. Some of the best scenes are of the convention where he gets nominated for US president. It's full of marching bands and long-winded speeches, impressively recreated. Wilson was a two-term president, and his first term was rather uneventful. However, during his second term WWI breaks out. His boring personal life probably takes up too much of the plot, including the death of his first wife followed by his second marriage, and Wilson comes off as cold and distant. There are a couple of rousing speeches towards the end about the League of Nations, a personal obsession with Wilson, but it's a case of too little too late. However, it is interesting to see the similarities to today's political landscape, which really hasn't changed much in 100 years: the progressive ideas of the Democrats met with skepticism and obstructionism by the Republicans.
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