Billy Wilder

Samuel “Billy” Wilder (born in Sucha Beskidzka, Austria-Hungary June 22, 1906, died March 27, 2002) co-wrote the screenplay and directed Double Indemnity (1944) with Barbara Stanwyck from the 1943 novel by James Cain, The Lost Weekend (1945) with Ray Milland, Sunset Boulevard (1950) with William Holden and Gloria Swanson, Sabrina (1954) with Audrey Hepburn, The Seven Year Itch (1955) with Marilyn Monroe, Witness for the Prosecution (1957), Some Like It Hot (1959) with Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, The Apartment (1960) with Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine, The Fortune Cookie (1966) with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, Avanti! (1972) with Jack Lemmon.

Golden Globe Awards

1973 Nominee

Best Director - Motion Picture
- Avanti!
- Billy Wilder
1961 Nominee

Best Director - Motion Picture
- Apartment, The
- Billy Wilder
1958 Nominee

Best Director - Motion Picture
- Witness for the Prosecution
- Billy Wilder
1951 Winner

Best Director - Motion Picture
- Sunset Boulevard
- Billy Wilder
1951 Nominee

Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
- Sunset Boulevard
- Charles Brackett
1946 Winner

Best Director - Motion Picture
- The Lost Weekend
- Billy Wilder