Billy Wilder at Reel Classics: Academy Awards

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Academy Awards:

1939	NINOTCHKA	Best Writing (Screenplay) Nomination (shared with Charles Brackett and Walter Reisch)
1941	HOLD BACK THE DAWN	Best Writing (Screenplay) Nomination (shared with Charles Brackett)
1941	BALL OF FIRE	Best Writing (Original Story) Nomination (shared with Thomas Monroe)
1944	DOUBLE INDEMNITY	Best Director Nomination
1944	DOUBLE INDEMNITY	Best Writing (Screenplay) Nomination (shared with Raymond Chandler)
1945	THE LOST WEEKEND	Best Director Oscar
1945	THE LOST WEEKEND	Best Writing (Screenplay) Oscar (shared with Charles Brackett)
1948	A FOREIGN AFFAIR	Best Writing (Screenplay) Nomination (shared with Charles Brackett and Richard L. Breen)
1950	SUNSET BLVD.	Best Director Nomination
1950	SUNSET BLVD.	Best Writing (Story and Screenplay) Oscar (shared with Charles Brackett and D.M. Marshman Jr.)
1951	THE BIG CARNIVAL	Best Writing (Story and Screenplay) Nomination (shared with Lesser Samuels and Walter Newman)
1953	STALAG 17	Best Director Nomination
1954	SABRINA	Best Director Nomination
1954	SABRINA	Best Writing (Screenplay) Nomination (shared with Samuel A. Taylor and Ernest Lehman)
1957	WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION	Best Director Nomination
1959	SOME LIKE IT HOT	Best Director Nomination
1959	SOME LIKE IT HOT	Best Writing (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium) Nomination (shared with I.A.L. Diamond)
1960	THE APARTMENT	Best Picture Oscar
1960	THE APARTMENT	Best Director Oscar
1960	THE APARTMENT	Best Writing (Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) Oscar (shared with I.A.L. Diamond)
1966	THE FORTUNE COOKIE	Best Writing (Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) Nomination (shared with I.A.L. Diamond)
1987		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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