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Academy Award Sound Recording 1945 · Nominated
Academy Award Writing (Screenplay) 1945 · Nominated
Academy Award Cinematography (Black-and-White) 1945 · Nominated
Academy Award Directing 1945 · Nominated
Academy Award Best Motion Picture 1945 · Nominated
Academy Award Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) 1945 · Nominated
Academy Awards, USA. 1945 Nominee Oscar. Best Picture. 1945 Nominee Oscar. Best Actress in a Leading Role. Barbara Stanwyck. 1945 Nominee Oscar. Best Director. Billy Wilder.
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The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards. Widely regarded as a classic, it is often cited as having set the standard for film noir and as one of the greatest films of all time . Plot. Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck as Walter and Phyllis. Wounded from a gunshot, insurance salesman Walter Neff stumbles into his Los Angeles office.
- IT WAS INSPIRED BY A REAL MURDER. Before he began making serious headway as a writer of fiction, Double Indemnity author James M. Cain worked as a journalist in New York, and it was there that he stumbled upon the real-life murder case of Albert Snyder, who was killed in 1927 by his wife, Ruth Brown Snyder, and her lover, a corset salesman named Henry Judd Gray.
- IT FOUGHT THE PRODUCTION CODE FOR YEARS. Double Indemnity was first placed before the Production Code Administration in Hollywood in 1935, the year before it was serialized in Liberty, and the story was immediately met with resistance from PCA head Joseph I. Breen, who noted that a film version would likely be rejected according to the code.
- BILLY WILDER’S WRITING PARTNER AT THE TIME TURNED IT DOWN. It was producer Joseph Sistrom who first brought Double Indemnity to Wilder, believing the filmmaker would respond well to Cain’s hard-boiled story of deception and seduction.
- WILDER AND RAYMOND CHANDLER HATED WORKING TOGETHER. Wilder agreed to work with Chandler after reading some of his prose and finding the future author of The Long Goodbye had a knack for clever lines of dialogue and description.
Apr 24, 2017 · On April 24, 1944, Billy Wilder’s thriller Double Indemnity, eventually nominated for seven Oscars at the 17th Academy Awards ceremony, was reviewed in The Hollywood Reporter. The original...
- THR Staff
The 17th Academy Awards | 1945. Honoring movies released in 1944, Grauman's Chinese Theatre ... Double Indemnity. Billy Wilder, Raymond Chandler. Nominees. Gaslight.
Feb 27, 2013 · The various talking heads in Shadows of Suspense all agree that the Academy’s recognition of Double Indemnity (seven Oscar nominations), along with its box office success, helped ignite the film noir boom that took place between the mid-1940s and the advent of CinemaScope ten years later.
Double Indemnity, American film noir, released in 1944, that was considered the quintessential movie of its genre. It followed the time-honoured noir plotline of a man undone by an evil woman. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.) The film was adapted by director Billy.
