A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Don Wilson has produced, directed and edited award-winning feature length documentary films, national commercials, television news, NFL sports broadcasts, hit network sitcoms and comedy shows, major motion picture trailers and tv spots, prime time dramas, HBO and Showtime music and comedy specials, five Olympic games and high-end corporate videos. Don has also spent time in the executive ranks as Director of Editorial Services and Graphics at Varitel and EDS Digital Studios, as an Executive Producer at Craig Murray Productions, as Vice President of The Selluloid Group, and as a Co-principal with AMI. But perhaps most importantly, Don was one of the founding fathers of the music video and literally helped create the MTV style. In fact, Fortune magazine once named him the most important editor in the music video business, he won a Video Music Award, and he was nominated for several MTV Music Video Awards. The list of musical acts with which he has worked is nearly infinite, but some of the biggest acts include Bon Jovi, Sting, Michael Jackson, Rod Stewart, Pearl Jam, Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks, The Pretenders, and Alanis Morissette. His awards have not been limited to music videos; his work as an executive producer, director, and editor has earned him Best Director, Best Feature Documentary, four Telly Awards, and an Emmy.
Director:
1987 Michael Jackson: The Magic Returns
2006 Frankie Laine: An American Dreamer
Editor:
1987 Michael Jackson: The Magic Returns
2003 Judas Priest: Electric Eye
2006 Frankie Laine: An American Dreamer
2013 The Smashing Pumpkins Oceania: Live in NYC
2018 Sheryl Crow - Live at the Capitol Theatre
2019 Foreigner - Double Vision 40 Live.Reloaded
Producer:
1987 Michael Jackson: The Magic Returns
2003 Judas Priest: Electric Eye
2006 Frankie Laine: An American Dreamer
2013 The Smashing Pumpkins Oceania: Live in NYC
2018 Sheryl Crow - Live at the Capitol Theatre
2019 Foreigner - Double Vision 40 Live.Reloaded
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.