 In 1937, the Wilcox film "Victoria the Great" was nominated for the Mussolini Cup at the Venice Film Festival, but lost out to the French film "Life Dances On" ("Un carnet de bal").Wilcox lost the Festival's Best Director award to Robert J. Flaherty and Zoltán Korda for "Elephant Boy".However, "Victoria the Great" and Wilcox won the Festival's "Nations Cup" for "Best World Premiere".