He is best known for writing the Academy Award-nominated screenplay for Oliver Stone's film Nixon,[1] and for Ali, starring Will Smith.
[3] Before working on feature films, Wilkinson wrote, produced and directed documentaries, industrials and commercials for EUE/Screen Gems, PBS, Center City Video and Bell of Pennsylvania.
Wilkinson would go on to run script development at Rydell's Concourse Productions, and direct the second units of his films For the Boys (1991) and Intersection (1994).
[9] They were also writers and executive producers on Ed Zwick's Pawn Sacrifice (2014) and Miles Ahead (2015), directed by and starring Don Cheadle.
[10] On his own, Wilkinson wrote the pilot for the television series Fordlandia, to be directed by Werner Herzog,[11] and the screenplay for the upcoming Ridley Scott film, The Dog Stars.