BILLY WILDER
Born: 06/22/1906
Died: 03/27/2002 (Pneumonia)

FILM CREDITS FOR THIS PERSON

AWARDS FOR THIS PERSON



ACADEMY AWARDS
(21 nominations and 6 wins)

1988 - Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
(winner)

1966 - Best Original Screenplay - The Fortune Cookie
shared with: I.A.L. Diamond
(nominated)

1960 - Best Director - The Apartment
(winner)

1960 - Best Original Screenplay - The Apartment
shared with I.A.L. Diamond
(winner)

1959 - Best Director - Some Like It Hot
(nominated)

1959 - Best Adapted Screenplay - Some Like It Hot
shared with I.A.L. Diamond
(nominated)

1957 - Best Director - Witness For The Prosecution
(nominated)

1954 - Best Director - Sabrina
(nominated)

1954 - Best Screenplay - Sabrina
shared with: Samuel A. Taylor and Ernest Lehman
(nominated)

1953 - Best Director - Stalag 17
(nominated)

1951 - Best Original Screenplay - Ace In The Hole
shared with: Lester Samuels and Walter Newman
(nominated)

1950 - Best Director - Sunset Blvd.
(winner)

1950 - Best Original Screenplay - Sunset Blvd.
shared with: Charles Brackett and D.M. Marshman Jr.
(nominated)

1948 - Best Screenplay - A Foreign Affair
shared with: Charles Brackett and Richard L. Breen
(nominated)

1945 - Best Director - The Lost Weekend
(winner)

1945 - Best Adapted Screenplay - The Lost Weekend
shared with: Charles Brackett
(winner)

1944 - Best Director - Double Indemnity
(nominated)

1944 - Best Adapted Screenplay - Double Indemnity
shared with: Raymond Chandler
(nominated)

1941 - Best Original Story - Ball Of Fire
shared with: Thomas Monroe
(nominated)

1941 - Best Adapted Screenplay -  Hold Back The Dawn
shared with Charles Brackett
(nominated)

1939 - Best Adapted Screenplay - Ninotchka
shared with: Charles Brackett and Walter Reisch
(nominated)



GOLDEN GIGGLES

No awards or nominations given to this person.



GOLDEN GLOBES
(8 nominations and 3 wins)

1972 - Best Director - Avanti!
(nominated)

1972 - Best Screenplay - Avanti!
shared with: I.A.L Diamond
(nominated)

1960 - Best Director - The Apartment
(nominated)

1957 - Best Director - Witness For The Prosecution
(nominated)

1954 - Best Screenplay - Sabrina
shared with: Samuel A. Taylor and Ernest Lehman
(winner)

1950 - Best Director - Sunset Blvd.
(winner)

1950 - Best Screenplay - Sunset Blvd.
shared with: Charles Brackett
(nominated)

1945 - Best Director - The Lost Weekend
(winner)



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