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Billy Wilder

Directing

Born June 22, 1906 · Sucha, Galicia, Austria-Hungary

Died March 27, 2002

Also known as Samuel Wilder · 빌리 와일더 · Billie Wilder

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Biography

Billy Wilder was an Austrian and American film director and screenwriter. His career in Hollywood spanned five decades, and he is regarded as one of America's most versatile filmmakers. He received seven Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award and the Palme d'Or.

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Awards & recognition

  • honorary citizen of Vienna · 2000
  • Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany · 2000
  • BAFTA Fellowship · 1995
  • Goethe Medal · 1994
  • Berliner Bär · 1993
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  • European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award · 1992
  • Kennedy Center Honors · 1990
  • AFI Life Achievement Award · 1986
  • Academy Award — Best Picture · 1961
  • Academy Award — Best Director · 1961
  • Academy Award — Best Writing, Original Screenplay · 1961
  • BAFTA Award — Best Film · 1961
  • Golden Globe Award — Best Screenplay · 1955
  • Academy Award — Best Writing, Original Screenplay · 1951
  • Golden Globe Award — Best Director · 1951
  • Academy Award — Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay · 1946
  • Academy Award — Best Director · 1946
  • Golden Globe Award — Best Director · 1946
  • Palme d'Or · 1946
  • David di Donatello — Best Foreign Director
  • Directors Guild of America Award
  • Great Golden Medal of Honour — Services to the Republic of Austria
  • National Board of Review Award — Best Film
  • National Medal of Arts
  • star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
  • Academy Award — Best Writing, Original Screenplay · 1967 · nominated
  • Academy Award — Best Writing, Original Screenplay · 1961 · nominated
  • Academy Award — Best Director · 1961 · nominated
  • Academy Award — Best Picture · 1961 · nominated
  • Academy Award — Best Director · 1960 · nominated
  • Academy Award — Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay · 1960 · nominated
  • Academy Award — Best Director · 1958 · nominated
  • Academy Award — Best Director · 1955 · nominated
  • Academy Award — Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay · 1955 · nominated
  • Academy Award — Best Director · 1954 · nominated
  • Academy Award — Best Writing, Original Screenplay · 1952 · nominated
  • Academy Award — Best Writing, Original Screenplay · 1951 · nominated
  • Academy Award — Best Director · 1951 · nominated
  • Academy Award — Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay · 1949 · nominated
  • Academy Award — Best Director · 1946 · nominated
  • Academy Award — Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay · 1946 · nominated
  • Academy Award — Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay · 1945 · nominated
  • Academy Award — Best Director · 1945 · nominated
  • Academy Award — Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay · 1942 · nominated
  • Academy Award — Best Story · 1942 · nominated
  • Academy Award — Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay · 1940 · nominated

Filmography40 titles

Sunset Boulevard

1950Director, Screenplay

The Apartment

1960Director, Producer, Writer

Witness for the Prosecution

1957Director, Screenplay

Some Like It Hot

1959Director, Producer, Screenplay

Double Indemnity

1944Director, Screenplay

Ace in the Hole

1951Director, Producer, Writer

Stalag 17

1953Director, Producer, Writer

Audrey Hepburn: Remembered

1993as Self

The Lost Weekend

1945Director, Screenplay

Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman

1996as Self

Sabrina

1954Director, Producer, Screenplay

Ninotchka

1939Screenplay

Irma la Douce

1963Director, Producer, Screenplay

Ball of Fire

1941Original Story, Screenplay

Midnight

1939Screenplay

Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder

2017as Self (archive footage)

The Front Page

1974Director, Screenplay

Audrey

2020as Self - Filmmaker (voice) (archive footage)

The Fortune Cookie

1966Director, Producer, Writer

People on Sunday

1930Screenplay

A Foreign Affair

1948Director, Screenplay

The Bishop's Wife

1947Additional Writing

The Major and the Minor

1942Director, Writer

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife

1938Screenplay

Fred MacMurray: The Guy Next Door

1996as Self

That's Entertainment, Part II

1976Thanks

Kiss Me, Stupid

1964Director, Producer, Screenplay

Love in the Afternoon

1957Director, Producer, Screenplay

The Seven Year Itch

1955Director, Producer, Screenplay

Five Graves to Cairo

1943Director, Screenplay

Avanti!

1972Director, Producer, Screenplay

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

1970Director, Producer, Writer

The Legend of Marilyn Monroe

1966

The Spirit of St. Louis

1957Director, Producer, Screenplay

Hold Back the Dawn

1941Writer

Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough

1997as Self

Witness for the Prosecution

1982Screenplay

A Song Is Born

1948Original Film Writer, Story

Sabrina

1995Original Film Writer

Bad Seed

1934Director, Writer