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Richard Ellmann wrote his 1987 biography Oscar Wilde, for which he posthumously won a National (US) Book Critics Circle Award in 1988 [256] and a Pulitzer Prize in 1989. [257] In 1997, it was the basis for the British film Wilde, directed by Brian Gilbert and starring Stephen Fry as the title character. [258]
Wilde is a 1997 British biographical romantic drama film directed by Brian Gilbert.The screenplay, written by Julian Mitchell, is based on Richard Ellmann's 1987 biography of Oscar Wilde.
Oscar Wilde is a 1960 biographical film about Oscar Wilde, made by Vantage Films and released by 20th Century Fox. The film was directed by Gregory Ratoff and produced by William Kirby, from a screenplay by Jo Eisinger , based on the play Oscar Wilde by Leslie Stokes and Sewell Stokes .
In 1994 Melissa Knox published her "psycho-biography" Oscar Wilde: A Long and Lovely Suicide. This book explores the ways in which Wilde's literary styles and the events of his life developed in response to his desires, conflicts and suffering. It offers new information as well as new insights into Wilde as an artist.
The Happy Prince is a 2018 biographical drama film about Oscar Wilde, written and directed by Rupert Everett in his directorial debut. [3] The film stars Everett, Colin Firth, Colin Morgan, Emily Watson, Edwin Thomas and Tom Wilkinson.
Reginald Turner by Carl Van Vechten (1935). Reginald Turner (2 June 1869 [1] – 7 December 1938) was an English author, an aesthete and a member of the circle of Oscar Wilde.He worked as a journalist, wrote twelve novels, and his correspondence has been published, but he is best known as one of the few friends who remained loyal to Wilde when he was imprisoned and who supported him after his ...
This biopic about the late iconoclastic gay Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas made Spanish actor Javier Bardem a first-time Oscar nominee five years before Brokeback Mountain made LGBTQ movies safer ...
Films based on plays by Oscar Wilde (3 C, 8 P) C. Films based on The Canterville Ghost (8 P) P. Films based on The Picture of Dorian Gray (14 P)