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      • Wilder established his directorial reputation with an adaption of James M. Cain 's Double Indemnity (1944), a film noir. He co-wrote the screenplay with crime novelist Raymond Chandler. Wilder earned the Best Director and Best Screenplay Academy Awards for the adaptation of a Charles R. Jackson story The Lost Weekend (1945).
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  3. www.britannica.com › biography › Billy-WilderBilly Wilder | Biography, Movies, Awards, & Facts | Britannica

    Sep 20, 2024 · Billy Wilder, Austrian-born American motion-picture director and producer known for films that humorously treat subjects of controversy and offer biting indictments of hypocrisy in American life. Among his most notable films are Double Indemnity, The Lost Weekend, Sunset Boulevard, The Apartment, and Some Like It Hot.

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    Wilder earned the Oscars for Best Director and Best Screenplay and Milland won Best Actor. The film remained to be one of the three films, winning both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d' Or, alongside Marty and Parasite.

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    • SUNSET BLVD. (1950) Directed by Billy Wilder. Written by Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, and D.M. Marshman Jr., Starring William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark, Lloyd Gough, Cecil B. DeMille.
    • THE APARTMENT (1960) Directed by Billy Wilder. Written by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond. Starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Jack Kruschen, Ray Walston, Edie Adams.
    • SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959) Directed by Billy Wilder. Screenplay by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond, based on the story by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan.
    • DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944) Directed by Billy Wilder. Screenplay by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler, based on the novel by James M. Cain. Starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather, Byron Barr, Richard Gaines, John Philliber.

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  7. www.imdb.com › name › nm0000697Billy Wilder - Biography - IMDb

    Wilder earned the Best Director and Best Screenplay Academy Awards for the adaptation of a Charles R. Jackson story The Lost Weekend (1945). In 1950, Wilder co-wrote and directed the Sunset Boulevard (1950), as well as Stalag 17 (1953) in 1953. From the mid-1950s on, Wilder made mostly comedies.

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  8. www.thenation.com › article › cultureThe Many Lives of Billy Wilder - The Nation

    Apr 19, 2022 · The intellectual historian Peter Gay famously likened the fragility of the Weimar Republic to “a dance on the edge of a volcano,” and that was how Wilder lived much of his early life ...

  9. www.spectator.co.uk › article › billy-wilder-theBilly Wilder — the making of a great film director

    Billy Wilder — the making of a great film director. Wilder’s original career was as a journalist in Berlin, and he would later draw on his experiences for many of his finest films, Noah...

  10. www.pbs.org › wnet › americanmastersBilly Wilder | About Billy Wilder | American Masters - PBS

    Oct 8, 2006 · October 8, 2006. From the late 1930s to the early 1960s, Billy Wilder dominated Hollywood’s Golden Age. With over fifty films and six Academy Awards to his credit, he is one of Hollywood’s...