- Two of his five art-direction Oscars were with films that depicted the same exact period: Anna and the King of Siam (1946) and The King and I (1956).
- Educated at USC.
- Mr. Wheeler's 5 Oscars were purchased by an individual at a storage facility default sale following his death. The purchaser did not know they were there until the sealed carton they were in was opened.
- He received twenty-nine Oscar nominations in all, sometimes for more than one film in the same year.
- Art director for three Oscar Best Picture winners Gone with the Wind (1939), Rebecca (1940) and All About Eve (1950), and 10 other nominees A Star Is Born (1937), The Snake Pit (1948), A Letter to Three Wives (1949), Twelve O'Clock High (1949), The Robe (1953), Three Coins in the Fountain (1954), Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955), The King and I (1956), Peyton Place (1957) and The Diary of Anne Frank (1959).
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