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Billy Wilder

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Academy Awards:
 1939NINOTCHKABest Writing (Screenplay) Nomination
(shared with Charles Brackett and Walter Reisch)
 1941HOLD BACK THE DAWNBest Writing (Screenplay) Nomination
(shared with Charles Brackett)
 1941BALL OF FIREBest Writing (Original Story) Nomination
(shared with Thomas Monroe)
 1944DOUBLE INDEMNITYBest Director Nomination
 1944DOUBLE INDEMNITYBest Writing (Screenplay) Nomination
(shared with Raymond Chandler)
winner1945THE LOST WEEKENDBest Director Oscar
winner1945THE LOST WEEKENDBest Writing (Screenplay) Oscar
(shared with Charles Brackett)
 1948A FOREIGN AFFAIRBest Writing (Screenplay) Nomination
(shared with Charles Brackett and Richard L. Breen)
 1950SUNSET BLVD.Best Director Nomination
winner1950SUNSET BLVD.Best Writing (Story and Screenplay) Oscar
(shared with Charles Brackett and D.M. Marshman Jr.)
 1951THE BIG CARNIVALBest Writing (Story and Screenplay) Nomination
(shared with Lesser Samuels and Walter Newman)
 1953STALAG 17Best Director Nomination
 1954SABRINABest Director Nomination
 1954SABRINABest Writing (Screenplay) Nomination
(shared with Samuel A. Taylor and Ernest Lehman)
 1957WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTIONBest Director Nomination
 1959SOME LIKE IT HOTBest Director Nomination
 1959SOME LIKE IT HOTBest Writing (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium) Nomination
(shared with I.A.L. Diamond)
winner1960THE APARTMENTBest Picture Oscar
winner1960THE APARTMENTBest Director Oscar
winner1960THE APARTMENTBest Writing (Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) Oscar
(shared with I.A.L. Diamond)
 1966THE FORTUNE COOKIEBest Writing (Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) Nomination
(shared with I.A.L. Diamond)
winner1987 Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award--
given to "a creative producer who has been responsible for a consistently high quality of motion picture production." (It is considered the highest accolade a producer can receive.)

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