List of awards and nominations received by Billy Wilder

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List of Billy Wilder awards
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Photo of Gloria Swanson with Billy Wilder in 1950.

AwardWinsNominations
Academy Award
721
British Academy Film Award
15
Golden Globe Award
110
Directors Guild Award
36
Producers Guild Award
36
Writers Guild Award
36

The following is a list of awards and nominations received by American filmmaker Billy Wilder.

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Wilder was an American film writer, director, producer, with a Hollywood career that spanned over five decades, and is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers for Classical Hollywood cinema. His most recognized films include: the crime noir Double Indemnity (1944), the film noir The Lost Weekend (1945), the black comedy Sunset Boulevard (1950), the newspaper drama Ace in the Hole (1951), the war film Stalag 17 (1953), the romance Sabrina (1954), the comedy The Seven Year Itch (1955), the epic The Spirit of St. Louis , the romantic comedy Love in the Afternoon , and the courtroom drama Witness for the Prosecution (all 1957), as well as gender bending comedy Some Like It Hot (1959), and the romance drama The Apartment (1960).

Over his distinguished and varied career as a director he has received 21 Academy Award nominations winning six awards for The Lost Weekend, Sunset Boulevard, and The Apartment. He also earned two British Academy Film Award nominations and a win for The Apartment as well as seven Golden Globe Award nominations winning twice for The Lost Weekend and Sunset Boulevard. He has also received 5 Writers Guild of America Award wins as well as the Cannes Film Festival's prestigious Palme d'Or for The Lost Weekend in 1945 and the Venice Film Festival award for Best Director for Ace in the Hole.

He has also received various honorary awards, and tributes including the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences' Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1987, and the BAFTA Fellowship in 1995. He has also received the Directors Guild of America Lifetime Achievement Award, the Producers Guild of America's David O. Selznick Achievement Award and two Laurel Awards for Screenwriting Achievements from the Writers Guild of America. He has also been honored with a Gala Tribute at Film at Lincoln Center (1982), the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award (1986), Berlin International Film Festival's Honorary Golden Bear (1993), the Kennedy Center Honors (1990), and a National Endowment for the Arts (1993).

Major associations

Academy Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1939 Best Screenplay Ninotchka Nominated [1]
1941 Best Story Ball of Fire Nominated [2]
Best Screenplay Hold Back the Dawn Nominated
1944 Best Director Double Indemnity Nominated [3]
Best Screenplay Nominated
1945 Best Director The Lost Weekend Won [4]
Best Screenplay Won
1948 A Foreign Affair Nominated [5]
1950 Best Director Sunset Boulevard Nominated [6]
Best Original Screenplay Won
1951 Ace in the Hole Nominated [7]
1953 Best Director Stalag 17 Nominated [8]
1954 Sabrina Nominated [9]
Best Screenplay Nominated
1957 Best Director Witness for the Prosecution Nominated [10]
1959 Some Like It Hot Nominated [11]
Best Screenplay Nominated
1960 Best Picture The Apartment Won [12]
Best Director Won
Best Original Screenplay Won
1966 The Fortune Cookie Nominated [13]
1987 Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award Won [14]

British Academy Film Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1960 Best Film Some Like It Hot Nominated [15]
1961 The Apartment Won [16]
1995 BAFTA Fellowship Won [17]

Golden Globe Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1946 Best Director The Lost Weekend Won [18]
1951 Sunset Boulevard Won [18]
Best Screenplay Nominated
1958 Best Director Witness for the Prosecution Nominated [18]
1961 The Apartment Nominated [18]
1973 Avanti! Nominated [18]
Best Screenplay Nominated

Guild awards

Directors Guild of America

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1950 Outstanding Directing – Feature Film Sunset Boulevard Nominated [19]
[20]
1953 Stalag 17 Nominated
1954 Sabrina Nominated
1956 The Seven Year Itch Nominated
1957 Love in the Afternoon Nominated
Witness for the Prosecution Nominated
1959 Some Like It Hot Nominated
1960 The Apartment Won
1984 D.W. Griffith Award Won
1990 Preston Sturges Award Won

Producers Guild of America

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1997 David O. Selznick Achievement Award Won [21]

Writers Guild of America

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1951 Best Written Drama Sunset Boulevard Won [22]
[23]
1955 Best Written Comedy Sabrina Won
1957 Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement Won
1958 Best Written Comedy Love in the Afternoon Won
1960 Some Like It Hot Won
1961 The Apartment Won
1980 Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement Won

Festival awards

Cannes Film Festival

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1946 Palme d'Or The Lost Weekend Won [24]

Venice Film Festival

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1951 International Award for Best Director Ace in the Hole Won

Critics awards

New York Film Critics Circle Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1944 Best Director Double Indemnity Nominated [25]
[26]
[27]
1946 The Lost Weekend Won
1950 Sunset Boulevard Nominated
1960 The Apartment Won
Best Screenplay Won
Best Film Won
1961 Best Director One, Two, Three Nominated

Honorary awards

YearAwardCategoryResultRef.
1982 Film at Lincoln Center Gala tributeWon [19]
1986 American Film Institute Life Achievement Award Won [19]
1993 Berlin International Film Festival Honorary Golden BearWon [19]
1990 John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Kennedy Center Honors Won [28]
1993 National Endowment for the Arts National Medal of Arts Won [21]

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  2. ↑ "The 14th Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
  3. ↑ "The 17th Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
  4. ↑ "The 18th Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
  5. ↑ "The 21st Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
  6. ↑ "The 23rd Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
  7. ↑ "The 24th Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
  8. ↑ "The 26th Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
  9. ↑ "The 27th Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
  10. ↑ "The 30th Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
  11. ↑ "The 32nd Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
  12. ↑ "The 33rd Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
  13. ↑ "The 39th Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
  14. ↑ "The 60th Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
  15. ↑ "Film From Any Source in 1960". British Academy Film Awards. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
  16. ↑ "Film From Any Source in 1961". British Academy Film Awards. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
  17. ↑ "Film in 1995". British Academy Film Awards. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
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  19. 1 2 3 4 Phillips, Gene D. (1998). Exiles in Hollywood: Major European Film Directors in America . Lehigh University Press. p.  17. ISBN   978-0-934223-49-2.
  20. ↑ "Awards / Winner and Nominee Search". Directors Guild of America. Retrieved December 19, 2019.
  21. 1 2 Phillips, Gene (2010). Some Like It Wilder: The Life and Controversial Films of Billy Wilder. University Press of Kentucky. p. 390. ISBN   978-0-8131-7367-2.
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  23. ↑ "Screen Laurel Award Previous Recipients". Writers Guild of America. Retrieved December 19, 2019.
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