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Academy Award Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) 1945 · Nominated
Academy Award Cinematography (Black-and-White) 1945 · Nominated
Academy Award Sound Recording 1945 · Nominated
Academy Award Directing 1945 · Nominated
Academy Award Writing (Screenplay) 1945 · Nominated
Academy Award Best Motion Picture 1945 · Nominated
Double Indemnity is a 1944 American crime thriller film noir directed by Billy Wilder, co-written with Raymond Chandler, and produced by Buddy DeSylva and Joseph Sistrom. The film was based on James M. Cain 's novella of the same name , which ran as an eight-part serial in Liberty magazine beginning in February 1936.
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.
Double Indemnity. A Los Angeles insurance representative lets an alluring housewife seduce him into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, an insurance investigator.
Aug 24, 2018 · Double Indemnity was nominated for seven Oscars in 1945, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Actress. It won none of these awards, and lost several to eventual Best...
Feb 5, 2014 · CINEMATOGRAPHY (Black-and-White) Double Indemnity – John Seitz. Dragon Seed – Sidney Wagner. Gaslight – Joseph Ruttenberg. Going My Way – Lionel Lindon. Laura – Joseph LaShelle. Lifeboat – Glen MacWilliams. Since You Went Away – Stanley Cortez, Lee Garmes. Thirty Seconds over Tokyo – Robert Surtees, Harold Rosson.
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...
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.
Dec 20, 1998 · The puzzle of Billy Wilder's "Double Indemnity,” the enigma that keeps it new, is what these two people really think of one another. They strut through the routine of a noir murder plot, with the tough talk and the cold sex play.
This great film noir received no Academy Awards, although it was nominated in seven categories: Best Picture, Best Actress (Barbara Stanwyck with her third nomination and a career total of over 40 films), Best Director (Wilder's first directorial nomination for only his third film as director), Best Screenplay (co-scriptwriters Chandler and ...
