Billy Wilder

Birth Name:Samuel Wilder
Nickname:The Viennese Pixie
Alt Names: Wilder
Billie Wilder
Born:June 22, 1906
Birth Place:Sucha, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Sucha Beskidzka, Malopolskie, Poland]
Died:March 27, 2002
Death Place:West Los Angeles, California
Cause:pneumonia
Age at Death:95 years and 278 days
Height:5’ 11” (1.8 m)
More Info:Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Academy Award Nominations (Winner marker =  winner  ):
1939
Writing (Screenplay). Ninotchka, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder and Walter Reisch.
1941
Writing (Original Story). Ball of Fire, Samuel Goldwyn Productions; RKO Radio. Billy Wilder and Thomas Monroe.
1941
Writing (Screenplay). Hold Back the Dawn, Paramount. Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder.
1944
Directing. Double Indemnity, Paramount. Billy Wilder.
1944
Writing (Screenplay). Double Indemnity, Paramount. Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler.
1945
Winner markerDirecting. The Lost Weekend, Paramount. Billy Wilder.
1945
Winner markerWriting (Screenplay). The Lost Weekend, Paramount. Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder.
1948
Writing (Screenplay). A Foreign Affair, Paramount. Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder and Richard L. Breen.
1950
Directing. Sunset Blvd., Paramount. Billy Wilder.
1950
Winner markerWriting (Story and Screenplay). Sunset Blvd., Paramount. Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder and D. M. Marshman, Jr.
1951
Writing (Story and Screenplay). The Big Carnival, Paramount. Billy Wilder, Lesser Samuels and Walter Newman.
1953
Directing. Stalag 17, Paramount. Billy Wilder.
1954
Directing. Sabrina, Paramount. Billy Wilder.
1954
Writing (Screenplay). Sabrina, Paramount. Billy Wilder, Samuel Taylor and Ernest Lehman.
1957
Directing. Witness for the Prosecution, Edward Small-Arthur Hornblow Production; United Artists. Billy Wilder.
1959
Directing. Some Like It Hot, Ashton Productions & The Mirisch Company; United Artists. Billy Wilder.
1959
Writing (Screenplay—based on material from another medium). Some Like It Hot, Ashton Productions & The Mirisch Company; United Artists. Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond.
1960
Winner markerBest Motion Picture. The Apartment, The Mirisch Company, Inc.; United Artists. Billy Wilder, Producer.
1960
Winner markerDirecting. The Apartment, The Mirisch Company, Inc.; United Artists. Billy Wilder.
1960
Winner markerWriting (Story and Screenplay—written directly for the screen). The Apartment, The Mirisch Company, Inc.; United Artists. Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond.
1966
Writing (Story and Screenplay—written directly for the screen). The Fortune Cookie, Phalanx-Jalem-Mirisch Corporation of Delaware Production; United Artists. Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond.
1987
Winner markerIrving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. Billy Wilder

22 Nominations