Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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Over his distinguished and varied career as a director he has received 21 Academy Award nominations winning six awards for The Lost Weekend, Sunset Boulevard, and The Apartment. He also earned two British Academy Film Award nominations and a win for The Apartment as well as seven Golden Globe Award nominations winning twice for The Lost Weekend ...
Billy Wilder. Jump to. 52 wins & 58 nominations. Academy Awards, USA. 1967 Nominee Oscar. Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen. The Fortune Cookie. Shared with: I.A.L. Diamond. 1961 Winner Oscar. Best Picture. The Apartment. 1961 Winner Oscar. Best Director. The Apartment. 1961 Winner Oscar.
- June 22, 1906
- March 27, 2002
Wilder received various honors for his distinguished career including the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1986, the Kennedy Center Honors in 1990, the National Medal of Arts in 1993 and the BAFTA Fellowship Award in 1995.
May 22, 2024 · Both critics and audiences embraced this powerful cautionary tale, which won the Academy Award as best picture, while Milland won for best actor, Wilder won as best director, and Wilder and Brackett won for their screenplay.
- Michael Barson
Billy Wilder. Writer: The Apartment. Originally planning to become a lawyer, Billy Wilder abandoned that career in favor of working as a reporter for a Viennese newspaper, using this experience to move to Berlin, where he worked for the city's largest tabloid.
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Check all the awards won and nominated for by Billy Wilder - PGA Hall of Fame - Motion Pictures (2000) , German Film Award for Lifetime Achievement (1997) , PGA Lifetime Achievement Award in Motion Pictures (1997) and more awards.
Mar 27, 2002 · Two years later, Wilder earned the Best Director and Best Screenplay Academy Awards for the adaptation of a Charles R. Jackson story, The Lost Weekend. This was the first major American film to make a serious examination of alcoholism.
