Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder (/ˈwaɪldər/; German: [ˈvɪldɐ]; born Samuel Wilder; June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was an Austrian-American filmmaker. His career in Hollywood spanned five decades, and he is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Classic Hollywood cinema. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director eight times, winning twice, and for a screenplay Academy Award 13 times, winning three times. Wilder became a screenwriter while living in Berlin. The rise of the Nazi Party and antisemitism in Germany saw him move to Paris. He then moved to Hollywood in 1933, and had a major hit when he, Charles Brackett and Walter Reisch wrote the screenplay for the Academy Award-nominated film Ninotchka (1939). Wilder established his directorial reputation and received his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director with the film noir adaptation of the novel...
Filmography
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Buddy Buddy
Fedora
The Front Page
Avanti!
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
The Fortune Cookie
Kiss Me, Stupid
Irma la Douce
One, Two, Three
The Apartment
Some Like It Hot
Witness for the Prosecution
Love in the Afternoon
The Spirit of St. Louis
The Seven Year Itch
Sabrina
Stalag 17
Ace in the Hole
Sunset Boulevard
A Foreign Affair
The Emperor Waltz
The Lost Weekend
Death Mills
Double Indemnity
Five Graves to Cairo
The Major and the Minor
Bad Seed
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Witness for the Prosecution
Double Indemnity
Emil and the Detectives
A Song Is Born
Ball of Fire
Hold Back the Dawn
Arise, My Love
Rhythm on the River
Ninotchka
What a Life
Midnight
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Champagne Waltz
Lottery Lover
One Exciting Adventure
Music in the Air
What Women Dream
Madame Wants No Children
Adorable
Where Is This Lady?
Scampolo, ein Kind der Straße
Happy Ever After
The Winner
A Blonde Dream
Un rêve blond
The Blue from the Sky
Once There Was a Waltz
Princess, At Your Orders!
The Wrong Husband
Infidelities
Her Grace Commands
The Man in Search of His Murderer
Emil and the Detectives
People on Sunday
Ein Burschenlied aus Heidelberg
Der Teufelsreporter