But President Wilson recovers enough to make an orderly transition to President Warren G. Harding in 1921. The movie was written by Lamar Trotti and directed by Henry King. Wilson's daughter, Eleanor Wilson McAdoo, served as an informal counselor. Journalist Ray Stannard Baker, an authority on Wilson, served as an adviser. The film lost a reported $2 million for Fox. Though the film was mostly critically acclaimed and won five Oscars (see below), it is also remembered for being a big financial failure at the box office. Film critic Manny Farber was particularly unenthusiastic, calling the production "costly, tedious and impotent" while writing: "The effect of the movie is similar to the one produced by the sterile post-card albums you buy in railroad stations, which unfold like accordions and show you the points of interest in the city ... The producers must have known far more about the World War, the peace-making at Versailles, and Wilson himself, but that is kept out of the movie in the same way that slum sections are kept out of post-card albums ... About three-quarters of the way through, a large amount of actual newsreel from the first World War is run off and the strength of it makes the film that comes before and after seem comical." Despite the negative press and lackluster box office, it was still nominated for 10 Academy Awards, winning five:  "Wilson" was also nominated in the Academy Award categories for:  "Wilson" was notable for giving character actor Alexander Knox the title role, one of his few chances to play the lead in a film. American president Franklin D. Roosevelt showed the film at the September 1944 Second Quebec Conference with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Churchill was unimpressed, however, leaving during the film to go to bed. Despite being a pet project personally overseen by 20th Century Fox Studios' president Darryl F. Zanuck, who greatly admired Woodrow Wilson, its failure at the box office upset him to the point that for years he forbade his employees from mentioning the film in his presence. "Wilson" is sometimes shown on cable television, and was first broadcast on Turner Classic Movies on February 8, 2013. The Academy Film Archive preserved "Wilson" in 2006.