Awards & Winners

Donald Wilson

Date of Birth 01-September-1910
Place of Birth Dunblane
(Stirling, United Kingdom)
Nationality United Kingdom
Also know as Donald Boyd Wilson, Donald B. Wilson, Donald Boyd Wilson, דונלד בויד וילסון
Profession Screenwriter
Donald Boyd Wilson was a British television writer and producer, best known for his work on the BBC's adaptation of The Forsyte Saga in 1967. He attended the Glasgow School of Art, following which his first jobs were as a newspaper cartoonist and sketch writer. His initial career was in the film industry, working for MGM at Elstree Studios, where he was Assistant Director of such films as Jericho and Goodbye, Mr. Chips. During the war he worked on documentary films, and then in 1955 was recruited to BBC Television by the then Head of Drama, Michael Barry. As the Head of the Script Department, Wilson was ultimately responsible for overseeing the commissioning and development of all the original scripts and adaptations transmitted by BBC Television. When the Script Department was rendered redundant by Sydney Newman’s radical shake-up of the BBC Drama Department after his arrival as its head in 1962, the highly respected Wilson was given one of the most senior positions under Newman as Head of Serials. In this position, Wilson was responsible for overseeing the creation and development of a series that Newman himself had originally conceived; an educational science-fiction adventure serial for children entitled Doctor Who. It was Wilson, together with Newman and staff writer C. E. Webber, who co-wrote the first format document for the programme.

Awards by Donald Wilson

Check all the awards nominated and won by Donald Wilson.

1978


Nominations 1978 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries Masterpiece
Anna Karenina","Outstanding Limited Series

1971


Nominations 1971 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series The First Churchills

1970


Nominations 1970 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series The Forsyte Saga
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding New Series The Forsyte Saga

1968


British Academy Television Special Award
Honored for : The Forsyte Saga
(Winner: Donald Wilson and Team)