List of awards and nominations received by Billy Wilder
# List of awards and nominations received by Billy Wilder

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

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

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1939 | Best Screenplay | Ninotchka | Nominated |
| 1941 | Best Story | Ball of Fire | Nominated |
| 1941 | Best Screenplay | Hold Back the Dawn | Nominated |
| 1944 | Best Director | Double Indemnity | Nominated |
| 1944 | Best Screenplay | Double Indemnity | Nominated |
| 1945 | Best Director | The Lost Weekend | Won |
| 1945 | Best Screenplay | The Lost Weekend | Won |
| 1948 | Best Screenplay | A Foreign Affair | Nominated |
| 1950 | Best Director | Sunset Boulevard | Nominated |
| 1950 | Best Original Screenplay | Sunset Boulevard | Won |
| 1951 | Best Original Screenplay | Ace in the Hole | Nominated |
| 1953 | Best Director | Stalag 17 | Nominated |
| 1954 | Best Director | Sabrina | Nominated |
| 1954 | Best Screenplay | Sabrina | Nominated |
| 1957 | Best Director | Witness for the Prosecution | Nominated |
| 1959 | Best Director | Some Like It Hot | Nominated |
| 1959 | Best Screenplay | Some Like It Hot | Nominated |
| 1960 | Best Picture | The Apartment | Won |
| 1960 | Best Director | The Apartment | Won |
| 1960 | Best Original Screenplay | The Apartment | Won |
| 1966 | Best Original Screenplay | The Fortune Cookie | Nominated |
| 1987 | Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award | | Won |

### British Academy Film Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1960 | Best Film | Some Like It Hot | Nominated |
| 1961 | Best Film | The Apartment | Won |
| 1995 | BAFTA Fellowship | | Won |

### Golden Globe Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1946 | Best Director | The Lost Weekend | Won |
| 1951 | Best Director | Sunset Boulevard | Won |
| 1951 | Best Screenplay | Sunset Boulevard | Nominated |
| 1958 | Best Director | Witness for the Prosecution | Nominated |
| 1961 | Best Director | The Apartment | Nominated |
| 1973 | Best Director | Avanti! | Nominated |
| 1973 | Best Screenplay | Avanti! | Nominated |

## Guild awards

### Directors Guild of America

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

### Producers Guild of America

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1997 | David O. Selznick Achievement Award | | Won | |

### Writers Guild of America

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1951 | Best Written Drama | Sunset Boulevard | Won | [22] [23] |
| 1955 | Best Written Comedy | Sabrina | Won | [22] [23] |
| 1957 | Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement | | Won | [22] [23] |
| 1958 | Best Written Comedy | Love in the Afternoon | Won | [22] [23] |
| 1960 | Best Written Comedy | Some Like It Hot | Won | [22] [23] |
| 1961 | Best Written Comedy | The Apartment | Won | [22] [23] |
| 1980 | Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement | | Won | [22] [23] |

## Festival awards

### Cannes Film Festival

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1946 | Palme d'Or | The Lost Weekend | Won | |

### Venice Film Festival

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1951 | International Award for Best Director | Ace in the Hole | Won | |

## Critics awards

New York Film Critics Circle Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1944 | Best Director | Double Indemnity | Nominated | [25] [26] [27] |
| 1946 | Best Director | The Lost Weekend | Won | [25] [26] [27] |
| 1950 | Best Director | Sunset Boulevard | Nominated | [25] [26] [27] |
| 1960 | Best Director | The Apartment | Won | [25] [26] [27] |
| 1960 | Best Screenplay | The Apartment | Won | [25] [26] [27] |
| 1960 | Best Film | The Apartment | Won | [25] [26] [27] |
| 1961 | Best Director | One, Two, Three | Nominated | [25] [26] [27] |

## Honorary awards

| Year | Award | Category | Result |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1982 | Film at Lincoln Center | Gala tribute | Won |
| 1986 | American Film Institute | Life Achievement Award | Won |
| 1993 | Berlin International Film Festival | Honorary Golden Bear | Won |
| 1990 | John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts | Kennedy Center Honors | Won |
| 1993 | National Endowment for the Arts | National Medal of Arts | Won |
