![]() Wilder won the Best Director and Best Screenplay Academy Awards for the The Lost Weekend (1945), which also won the Academy Award for Best Picture. ![]() Wilder established his directorial reputation and received his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director with the film noir Double Indemnity (1944), based on the novel by James M Cain with a screenplay by Wilder and Raymond Chandler. He then moved to Hollywood in 1933, and had a major hit when he, Charles Brackett and Walter Reisch wrote the screenplay for the Academy Award-nominated film Ninotchka (1939). The rise of the Nazi Party and antisemitism in Germany saw him move to Paris. Wilder became a screenwriter while living in Berlin. ![]() He received seven Academy Awards (among 21 nominations), a BAFTA Award, the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or, and two Golden Globe Awards. His career in Hollywood spanned five decades, and he is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Classic Hollywood cinema. Billy Wilder ( / ˈ w aɪ l d ər/ German: born Samuel Wilder J– March 27, 2002) was an Austrian-born filmmaker. ![]()
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