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- The mastermind behind some of Hollywood's most memorable movies, Billy Wilder was one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of the golden age (and of all time). Consequently, Wilder was one of only five people who won three Academy Awards for producing, directing, and writing the same feature.
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- 'One, Two, Three' (1961) Starring: James Cagney, Liselotte Pulver, Horst Buchholz. Going from one extreme to another, while Ace in the Hole is one of the most bitter and downbeat Billy Wider films, One, Two, Three – made a decade later – is one of his funniest and breeziest.
- 'Ace in the Hole' (1951) Starring: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur. Ace in the Hole is a movie that shows how movies can be satirical without necessarily also being comedies.
- 'Stalag 17' (1953) Starring: Robert Strauss, William Holden, Don Taylor. While Stalag 17 is, on the surface, a movie about prisoners of war, it does manage to be surprisingly funny for a film within such a genre.
- 'Irma la Douce' (1963) Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Jack Lemmon, Lou Jacobi. Shortly after the immensely successful The Apartment, Billy Wilder, Jack Lemmon, and Shirley MacLaine re-teamed to make the good – yet not quite as great – Irma la Douce three years on from that aforementioned Oscar winner.
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...
Jun 22, 2006 · Writer and director Billy Wilder was the man behind some of Hollywood's most beloved films -- Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Double Indemnity and many more. He wrote or...
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Wilder established his directorial reputation and received his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director with the film noir Double Indemnity (1944), based on the novel by James M. Cain with a screenplay by Wilder and Raymond Chandler.
Nov 15, 2022 · Wilder's advice is timeless. He gave writer-director Cameron Crowe several interviews over the years and from those interviews, comes the following advice, which was featured on a past issue of NPR, which you can listen to here:
Apr 5, 2021 · Read Billy Wilder’s Art of Screenwriting interview. Before he became the legendary director and screenwriter Billy Wilder, Billie Wilder was a scrappy and widely published journalist in Berlin and Vienna.
Jul 28, 2022 · So many of Billy Wilder's films were magnets for Academy Award nominations; the man has 21 nominations with six wins, and he's directed 14 different actors in Academy Award-nominated...
