Awards & Winners

Billy Wilder

Date of Birth 22-June-1906
Place of Birth Sucha Beskidzka
(Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Sucha County, Poland)
Nationality United States of America, Poland
Also know as Samuel Wilder, The Viennese Pixie, Billie Wilder
Profession Journalist, Screenwriter, Film Director, Film Producer, Artist
Billy Wilder was an Austrian-born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist and journalist, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age. Wilder is one of only five people to have won Academy Awards as producer, director and screenwriter for the same film, and was the first person to accomplish this. Wilder became a screenwriter in the late 1920s while living in Berlin. After the rise of the Nazi Party, Wilder, who was Jewish, left for Paris, where he made his directorial debut. He moved to Hollywood in 1933, and in 1939 he had a hit when he co-wrote the screenplay for the screwball comedy Ninotchka. Wilder established his directorial reputation with Double Indemnity, a film noir he co-wrote with mystery novelist Raymond Chandler. Wilder earned the Best Director and Best Screenplay Academy Awards for the adaptation of a Charles R. Jacksen story The Lost Weekend, about alcoholism. In 1950, Wilder co-wrote and directed the critically acclaimed Sunset Boulevard. From the mid-1950s on, Wilder made mostly comedies. Among the classics Wilder created in this period are the farces The Seven Year Itch and Some Like It Hot, satires such as The Apartment, and the drama comedy Sabrina. He directed fourteen different actors in Oscar-nominated performances. Wilder was recognized with the American Film Institute Life Achievement Award in 1986. In 1988, Wilder was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. In 1993, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.

Awards by Billy Wilder

Check all the awards nominated and won by Billy Wilder.

2000


PGA Hall of Fame - Motion Pictures
Honored for : Some Like It Hot

1996


Nominations 1996 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Sabrina

1995


BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award

Nominations 1995 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award

1975


David di Donatello for Best Foreign Director
Honored for : The Front Page

Nominations 1975 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Comedy The Front Page

1973


German Film Award - Special Award for Outstanding Contributions to German Cinema
(For their continued outstanding individual contributions to the german film over the years.)

Nominations 1973 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture Avanti!
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Comedy Avanti!
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Avanti!

1971


Nominations 1971 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Comedy The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

1967


Nominations 1967 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Comedy The Fortune Cookie

1966


Nominations 1966 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay The Fortune Cookie

1964


Nominations 1964 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Comedy Irma la Douce

1962


Nominations 1962 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Comedy One, Two, Three
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy One, Two, Three

1961


Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Comedy
Honored for : The Apartment
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Honored for : The Apartment, Song Without End
BAFTA Award for Best Film
Honored for : The Apartment

Nominations 1961 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture The Apartment
BAFTA Award for Best Film The Apartment
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Comedy The Apartment
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy The Apartment

1960


Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Comedy
Honored for : Some Like It Hot
Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
Honored for : The Apartment
Academy Award for Best Director
Honored for : The Apartment
Academy Award for Best Picture
Honored for : The Apartment
DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film
Honored for : The Apartment

Nominations 1960 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film The Apartment
Academy Award for Best Director The Apartment
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Comedy Some Like It Hot
BAFTA Award for Best Film Some Like It Hot
Academy Award for Best Picture The Apartment
Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay The Apartment

1959


Nominations 1959 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Director Some Like It Hot
DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film Some Like It Hot
Academy Award for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay Some Like It Hot

1958


Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Comedy
Honored for : Love in the Afternoon

Nominations 1958 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture Witness for the Prosecution
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Comedy Love in the Afternoon
Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay Witness for the Prosecution
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Love in the Afternoon

1957


Nominations 1957 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Director Witness for the Prosecution
DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film Witness for the Prosecution

1956


Nominations 1956 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Comedy The Seven Year Itch

1955


Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Comedy
Honored for : Sabrina

Nominations 1955 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film The Seven Year Itch
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Comedy Sabrina

1954


Nominations 1954 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Director Sabrina
DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film Sabrina
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Comedy Stalag 17
Academy Award for Best Screenplay Sabrina

1953


Nominations 1953 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film Stalag 17
Academy Award for Best Director Stalag 17

1951


Golden Globe Award for Best Picture
Honored for : Sunset Boulevard
Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture
Honored for : Sunset Boulevard
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Drama
Honored for : Sunset Boulevard

Nominations 1951 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture Sunset Boulevard
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Drama Sunset Boulevard
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama Sunset Boulevard

1950


Academy Award for Best Story and Screenplay
Honored for : Sunset Boulevard

Nominations 1950 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film Sunset Boulevard
Academy Award for Best Director Sunset Boulevard
Academy Award for Best Story and Screenplay Sunset Boulevard

1949


Nominations 1949 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Musical The Emperor Waltz
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Comedy A Foreign Affair

1948


Nominations 1948 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay A Foreign Affair
Academy Award for Best Screenplay A Foreign Affair

1946


Golden Globe Award for Best Picture
Honored for : The Lost Weekend
Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture
Honored for : The Lost Weekend

Nominations 1946 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture The Lost Weekend
Golden Globe Award for Best Picture The Lost Weekend

1945


Academy Award for Best Screenplay
Honored for : The Lost Weekend
Academy Award for Best Director
Honored for : The Lost Weekend

Nominations 1945 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Director The Lost Weekend
Academy Award for Best Screenplay The Lost Weekend

1944


Nominations 1944 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Director Double Indemnity
Academy Award for Best Screenplay Double Indemnity

1941


Nominations 1941 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay Hold Back the Dawn
Academy Award for Best Story Ball of Fire
Academy Award for Best Screenplay Hold Back the Dawn

1939


Nominations 1939 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay Ninotchka
Academy Award for Best Screenplay Ninotchka