Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder, born Samuel Wilder; (22 June 1906 - 27 March 2002) was an Austrian-born director, screenwriter and producer who is regarded as one of the most successful filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age. Today he is best known for his comedies, although he also directed dramas and film noirs. Wilder is one of only five people who have won Academy Awards as producer, director, and writer for the same film (The Apartment). Wilder's career began in Germany, where he worked as a writer for comedy films from 1930. After the Nazis seized power in 1933, he emigrated to the United States, where he continued to write screenplays, including Ernst Lubitsch's Ninotchka (1939) and Howard Hawks' Ball of Fire (1941). From the early 1940s, Wilder was allowed to film his own screenplays and thus made a name for himself as a director. Initially, his greatest successes included predominantly dramatic film noirs such as Double Indemnity (1944), The Lost Weekend (1945), Sunset Boulevard (1950) and Ace in the Hole (1951). It was only then that he increasingly turned to comedy, including Stalag 17 (1953), Sabrina (1954) and The Seven Year Itch (1955), although he made a small detour to courtroom drama with Witness for the Prosecution (1957). With Some Like It Hot (1959) and The Apartment (1960) he made his most famous and probably most successful comedy films, the latter even receiving five Oscars. In One, Two, Three (1961), Wilder dealt with the conditions of the time in his former adopted country, Germany, and made the successful romantic comedy Irma la Douce (1963). In the two decades that followed, Wilder made seven more films, which were less well received by critics and audiences, although the German-French drama Fedora (1978) is viewed somewhat more favorably today by predominantly pretentious film experts. Some time later, Wilder was under discussion as director for Schindler's List, which he had wanted as the end of his long career, but ultimately had to turn it down due to his advanced age.
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Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2000)
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honorary citizen of Vienna (2000)
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BAFTA Akademi Bağlılık Ödülü (1995)
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Goethe Medal (1994)
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Berliner Bär (1993)
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European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award (1992)
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Kennedy Center Onur Ödülleri (1990)
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AFI Life Achievement Award (1986)
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En İyi Film Akademi Ödülü (1961)
Winner Garsoniyer
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BAFTA En İyi Film Ödülü (1961)
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En İyi Yönetmen Akademi Ödülü (1961)
Winner Garsoniyer
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En İyi Özgün Senaryo Akademi Ödülü (1961)
Winner Garsoniyer
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En İyi Senaryo Altın Küre Ödülü listesi (1955)
Winner Sabrina
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En İyi Yönetmen Altın Küre Ödülü (1951)
Winner Sunset Bulvarı
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En İyi Özgün Senaryo Akademi Ödülü (1951)
Winner Sunset Bulvarı
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En İyi Uyarlama Senaryo Akademi Ödülü (1946)
Winner Yaratılan Adam
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En İyi Yönetmen Akademi Ödülü (1946)
Winner Yaratılan Adam
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En İyi Yönetmen Altın Küre Ödülü (1946)
Winner Yaratılan Adam
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Altın Palmiye (1946)
Winner Yaratılan Adam
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David di Donatello for Best Foreign Director
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Directors Guild of America Ödülleri
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ABD Ulusal Sanat Madalyası
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star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
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En İyi Film National Board of Review Ödülü
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Great Golden Medal of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria
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En İyi Özgün Senaryo Akademi Ödülü (1967)
Nominee The Fortune Cookie
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En İyi Özgün Senaryo Akademi Ödülü (1961)
Nominee Garsoniyer
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En İyi Yönetmen Akademi Ödülü (1961)
Nominee Garsoniyer
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En İyi Film Akademi Ödülü (1961)
Nominee Garsoniyer
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En İyi Yönetmen Akademi Ödülü (1960)
Nominee Bazıları Sıcak Sever
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En İyi Uyarlama Senaryo Akademi Ödülü (1960)
Nominee Bazıları Sıcak Sever
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En İyi Yönetmen Akademi Ödülü (1958)
Nominee Beklenmeyen Şahit
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En İyi Yönetmen Akademi Ödülü (1955)
Nominee Sabrina
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En İyi Uyarlama Senaryo Akademi Ödülü (1955)
Nominee Sabrina
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En İyi Yönetmen Akademi Ödülü (1954)
Nominee Stalag 17
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En İyi Özgün Senaryo Akademi Ödülü (1952)
Nominee Büyük Karnaval
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En İyi Özgün Senaryo Akademi Ödülü (1951)
Nominee Sunset Bulvarı
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En İyi Yönetmen Akademi Ödülü (1951)
Nominee Sunset Bulvarı
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En İyi Uyarlama Senaryo Akademi Ödülü (1949)
Nominee A Foreign Affair
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En İyi Yönetmen Akademi Ödülü (1946)
Nominee Yaratılan Adam
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En İyi Uyarlama Senaryo Akademi Ödülü (1946)
Nominee Yaratılan Adam
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En İyi Uyarlama Senaryo Akademi Ödülü (1945)
Nominee Double Indemnity
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En İyi Yönetmen Akademi Ödülü (1945)
Nominee Double Indemnity
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En İyi Uyarlama Senaryo Akademi Ödülü (1942)
Nominee Hold Back the Dawn
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En İyi Hikaye Akademi Ödülü (1942)
Nominee Ball of Fire
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En İyi Uyarlama Senaryo Akademi Ödülü (1940)
Nominee Ninotchka
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