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Billy Wilder
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Billy Wilder Biography
Birth Name:
Samuel Wilder
Birth Place:
Vienna, Austria
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign:
06/22/1906, Cancer
Date of Death:
03/27/2002
Profession:
Director; producer; screenwriter
Billy Wilder Fast Facts:
Found work as a reporter, then as a screenwriter, in Berlin during the silent film era.
Fled Nazi Germany for Paris in 1933, where he made his feature debut with
Mauvaise Graine
(
Bad Seed
), co-directed by Alexander Esway.
Interest in directing stemmed from a need to ensure scripts were not misinterpreted; rarely let actors change a word of dialog.
First Hollywood production was the 1942 romantic comedy
The Major and the Minor
.
Changed the opening of his classic film noir
Sunset Boulevard
(1950) when preview audiences laughed at the scene of cadavers talking in a morgue.
When later films were heavily edited by studios and performed poorly, Wilder claimed age discrimination, and his directing career eventually tapered off.
Films adapted for the stage include the Neil Simon musical
Promises, Promises
, based on
The Apartment
(1960);
Sugar
, based on
Some Like It Hot
(1959); and Andrew Lloyd Webber's faithful take on
Su
nset Boulevard
.
Received the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award in 1986.
Billy Wilder Relationships:
Audrey Wilder - Wife
Eugenie Wilder - Mother
Judith Coppicus Iribe - Ex-wife
Max Wilder - Father
Victoria Wilder - Daughter
Vincent Wilder - Son
Billy Wilder Awards:
1941 Oscar: Best Writing (Original Screenplay) - Nominee
1951 Golden Globe: Best Director - Motion Picture - Winner
1950 Oscar: Best Achievement in Directing - Nominee
1939 Oscar: Best Writing (Screenplay) - Nominee
1945 Oscar: Best Writing (Screenplay) - Winner
1946 Golden Globe: Best Director - Motion Picture - Winner
1941 Oscar: Best Writing (Original Story) - Nominee
1944 Oscar: Best Writing (Screenplay) - Nominee
1948 Oscar: Best Writing (Screenplay) - Nominee
1950 Oscar: Best Writing (Story and Screenplay) - Winner
1951 Oscar: Best Writing (Story and Screenplay) - Nominee
1953 Oscar: Best Achievement in Directing - Nominee
1954 Oscar: Best Writing (Screenplay) - Nominee
1959 Oscar: Best Achievement in Directing - Nominee
1959 Oscar: Best Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Nominee
1960 Oscar: Best Writing (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen) - Winner
1966 Oscar: Best Writing (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen) - Nominee
1987 Oscar: The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award - Winner
1958 Golden Globe: Best Director - Motion Picture - Nominee
1961 Golden Globe: Best Director - Motion Picture - Nominee
1973 Golden Globe: Best Director - Motion Picture - Nominee
1944 Oscar: Best Achievement in Directing - Nominee
1945 Oscar: Best Achievement in Directing - Winner
1954 Oscar: Best Achievement in Directing - Nominee
1957 Oscar: Best Achievement in Directing - Nominee
1960 Oscar: Best Achievement in Directing - Winner
1960 Oscar: Best Motion Picture of the Year - Winner
College:
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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