Billy Wilder
Drehbuchautor / Filmregisseur / Filmproduzent / Schriftsteller / Journalist / Regisseur | * 22.06.1906 († 95, 27.03.2002) | Sucha, Galicia, Austria-Hungary
Billy Wilder (* 22. Juni 1906 als Samuel Wilder in Sucha, Galizien, Österreich-Ungarn; † 27. März 2002 in Los Angeles, Kalifornien) war ein österreichischer Drehbuchautor, Filmregisseur und Filmproduzent, der nach seiner Emigration die US-amerikanische Staatsbürgerschaft annahm. Wilder wirkte stilbildend für das Genre Filmkomödie und schuf als Regisseur und Drehbuchautor von Komödien wie
Sabrina (1954),
Manche mögen’s heiß (1959),
Eins, zwei, drei (1961) und
Das Mädchen Irma la Douce (1963), aber auch von dramatischen Filmen wie
Frau ohne Gewissen (1944),
Das verlorene Wochenende (1945),
Boulevard der Dämmerung (1950) oder
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Billy Wilder (22 June 1906 – 27 March 2002) was an Austrian-born director, screenwriter and producer who is regarded as one of the most excellent filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age. Today he is best known for his comedies, although he also directed dramas and film noirs. Wilder is one of only five people who have won Academy Awards as producer, director, and writer for the same film (The Apartment).Wilder's career began in Germany, where he worked as a writer for comedy films from 1930. After the Nazis seized power in 1933, he emigrated to the United States, where he continued to write screenplays, including Ernst Lubitsch's Ninotchka (1939) and Howard Hawks' Ball of Fire (1941). From the early 1940s, Wilder was allowed to film his own screenplays and thus made a name for himself as a director. Initially, his greatest successes included predominantly dramatic film noirs such as Double Indemnity (1944), The Lost Weekend (1945), Sunset Boulevard (1950) and Ace in the Hole (1951). It was only then that he increasingly turned to comedy, including Stalag 17 (1953), Sabrina (1954) and The Seven Year Itch (1955), although he made a small detour to courtroom drama with Witness for the Prosecution (1957). With Some Like It Hot (1959) and The Apartment (1960) he made his most famous and probably most successful comedy films, the latter even receiving five Oscars. In One, Two, Three (1961), Wilder dealt with the conditions of the time in his former adopted country, Germany, and made the successful romantic comedy Irma la Douce (1963). In the two decades that followed, Wilder made seven more films, which were less well received by critics and audiences, although the German-French drama Fedora (1978) is viewed somewhat more favorably today by predominantly pretentious film experts. Some time later, Wilder was under discussion as director for Schindler's List, which he had wanted as the end of his long career, but ultimately had to turn it down due to his advanced age.
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Awards / Auszeichungen & Nominierungen für Billy Wilder
Knight Commander's Cross of The Order of Merit of The Federal Republic of Germany Great Golden Medal of Honour for Services To The Republic of Austria National Medal of Arts Directors Guild of America Award 2x Oscar/Beste Regie 2x Oscar/Bestes Originaldrehbuch Oscar/Bestes adaptiertes Drehbuch Oscar/Bester Film Kennedy-Preis AFI Life Achievement Award Goethe-Medaille Honorary Citizen of Vienna Europäischer Filmpreis/Lebenswerk Goldene Palme National Board of Review Award/Bester Film 2x Golden Globe Award/Beste Regie Golden Globe Award/Bestes Filmdrehbuch Berliner Bär (B.Z.-Kulturpreis) Star On Hollywood Walk of Fame British Academy of Film and Television Arts/Ehrenpreis British Academy Film Award/Bester Film 8x nominiert für: Oscar/Beste Regie nominiert für: Oscar/Beste Originalgeschichte 4x nominiert für: Oscar/Bestes Originaldrehbuch 7x nominiert für: Oscar/Bestes adaptiertes Drehbuch nominiert für: Oscar/Bester Film
Filme mit Billy Wilder als Schauspieler(18)
als Self (audio recording)2020 Audrey
TV-Shows/Serien mit Billy Wilder als Schauspieler(4)
Filme mit Billy Wilder als Crew-Mitglied(110)
Writing/Original Film Writer1995 Sabrina
Production/Producer1978 Fedora
Geburtsdatum:
Freitag, 22.06. 1906 (Juni) in
Sucha, Galicia, Austria-Hungary
Todesdatum:
Mittwoch, 27.03. 2002 (März) in
Beverly Hills (im Alter von:
95)
Sternzeichen: Krebs (Chinesisches Sternzeichen: Pferd)
Ausgebildet an: University of Vienna
Mitglied bei: Writers Guild of America, West
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