John Wilson

JOHN WILSON

Founder/Head RAZZberry, The Golden Raspberry (RAZZIE) Awards

In his more than fifty years on planet Hollywood, John Wilson has seen more than 4,500 movies, many of them as the founder of the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation and creator of the RAZZIE Awards, which have dis-honored Worst Achievements in Film since 1980. He was recently saluted by E!TV as "the foremost authority on all things that suck on the big screen."

A staff film critic at The Daily Bruin while attending UCLA's prestigious movie/TV studies program, Wilson's lifelong movie mania is the result of a childhood spent skipping school to sit in the bleachers at several Oscar ceremonies and major movie premieres in the 1960s, staying up 'till all hours with his parents watching middle-of-the-night reruns of LOST HORIZON and SUNSET BLVD, and being a subscriber to Variety from the tender age of 12.

As an adult, Wilson has spent more than thirty years as a producer, copywriter, and creative consultant for many entertainment industry clients. He has worked on countless major movie campaigns, including those for the first three STAR WARS films, three of the four Christopher Reeve SUPERMAN movies, and such classic Disney reissues as PINOCCHIO, LADY AND THE TRAMP, and 101 DALMATIANS. He has worked for CBS, PBS, HBO and the Playboy Channel, and worked on such projects as a three-minute retrospective look at MGM/UA's renowned video library, the EPK (electronic press kit) for the Academy Awards, and hundreds of on-air promos for Fox Movie Channel.

Wilson's first book, a compilation of film-still-illustrated cinematic cliche's entitled EVERYTHING I KNOW I LEARNED AT THE MOVIES, was published in 1995. His current book, THE OFFICIAL RAZZIE MOVIE GUIDE, which lists his choices as the 100 funniest bad movies ever made, appeared on the Los Angeles Times Best Seller List.

Wilson now lives with his equally movie-crazy son, 4 DVD players, a 597-volume film reference library, and more than 2,000 DVDs and videotapes in an ever-more-crowded home in a quiet Tinseltown suburb of Los Angeles, California.