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1961

Best Picture

1961

Best Editing

1961

Best Production Design (Art Direction)

1961

Best Original Screenplay

1961

Nominated Cinematography

1961

Nominated Sound

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1961

Nominated Actress

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Shirley MacLaine

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1961

Nominated Actor

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Jack Lemmon

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1961

Nominated Supporting Actor

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Jack Kruschen

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1961

Best Director

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Billy Wilder

The Apartment

1960

Rank

375

Score

78.8

ENGLISH LANGUAGE

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6/12/21

Romance Comedy Drama Film

Billy Wilder tells the story of an insurance clerk that lends his apartment to his corporate bosses for extramarital affairs in hopes of promotion until he finds out that the girl he is interested in is involved in one of the affairs making him decide between love or advancement in his career.
Wilder pays attention to details balancing comedy drama and romance on a satirical film that comments on 50’s corporate culture , misogynism and unconstrained ambition.
It won 5 Academy Awards and was nominated for another 5

DIRECTOR

Billy Wilder

Austrian-American film director, producer and screenwriter (1906-2002).

CAST

Jack Lemmon

American (1925–2001)

Shirley MacLaine

American (born 1934)

Fred MacMurray

American (1908–1991)

Jack Kruschen

Canada (1922–2002)

Ray Walston

American (1914–2001)

Edie Adams

American (1927–2008)

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