Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde – The Movie (1997) focuses on the events leading up to and after Oscar Wilde’s trial for “sodomy” and his subsequent imprisonment and death.

Starring: Robert Morley, Phyllis Calvert, John Neville, Ralph Richardson, Dennis Price

Directed by: Gregory Ratoff

Genre: Biography / Drama

Running Time: 1 hr. 36 min.

Tagline: The story of the first modern man

Awards: Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 3 wins & 7 nominations

MPAA Rating: Not Rated

The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realisation of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment as he juggled marriage, fatherhood and responsibility with his obsessive love for Lord Alfred Douglas, nicknamed Bosie. After legal action instigated by Bosie’s father, the mad Marquess of Queensberry, Wilde refused to flee the country and was sentenced to two years at hard labour by the courts of an intolerant Victorian society.

Oscar Wilde was born on 16 October 1854 in Dublin. He would later assert that a name which is destined to be in everyone’s mouth must not be too long. All the world would come to know him simply as Oscar Wilde.

Birthname: Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
Birth: October 16, 1854, Dublin, Ireland

Hair color: Brown
Eye color: Grey

High school: Portora Royal School
College: Trinity College, Magdalen College
Occupation: Playwright, novelist, poet, editor

Death: November 30, 1900, Paris, France
Burial: La Pére Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France

Oscar Wilde is famous for his witty plays Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, The Importance of Being Earnest, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his long poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Less well-known are his fairy tales, of which he published two volumes.