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The following is a list of awards and nominations received by American filmmaker Billy Wilder. Wilder was an American film writer, director, producer, with a Hollywood career that spanned over five decades, and is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers for Classical Hollywood cinema .
Billy Wilder's The Apartment won Best Picture, the last black-and-white film to do so until Schindler's List and The Artist at the 66th and 84th Academy Awards, respectively. Elizabeth Taylor , who had a near-fatal bout with pneumonia a short time before the ceremony, was viewed as having received her Oscar out of sympathy rather than for her ...
Despite the optimistic postwar mood, director Billy Wilder's grim and socially significant drama The Lost Weekend won the major awards of Best Picture and Best Director, as well as two other awards. It was the first film to win both Best Picture and the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Best Actress nominee Joan Crawford was absent due to ...
The rival Best Picture nominees in 1974 included Lenny, Chinatown and The Conversation ... Only Billy Wilder could have made a romantic comedy based around infidelity, drudgery and office politics ...
Wilder won the Best Director and Best Screenplay Academy Awards for The Lost Weekend (1945), which also won the Academy Award for Best Picture. [ 2 ] In the 1950s, Wilder directed and co-wrote a string of critically acclaimed films, including the Hollywood-set drama Sunset Boulevard (1950), for which he won his second screenplay Academy Award ...
Best Picture. The Lost Weekend directed by Billy Wilder [1] Best Actor in a Leading Role. Ray Milland - The Lost Weekend [2] Best Actress in a Leading Role
The New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Picture is an award given by the New York Film Critics Circle, ... Billy Wilder: Sons and Lovers: Jack Cardiff: 1961:
The film also won Best Picture. [10] [11] Wilder directed and co-wrote the screenplay for Sunset Boulevard (1950), a film noir about a reclusive silent film actress starring Gloria Swanson and William Holden. [12] It garnered 11 Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, and all four acting categories.