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Billy Wilder

Index Billy Wilder

Billy Wilder (born Samuel Wilder; June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was an Austrian-born filmmaker and screenwriter. [1]

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  1. 253 relations: A Blonde Dream, Academy Award for Best Actor, Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Academy Award for Best Director, Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Academy Award for Best Picture, Academy Awards, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Ace in the Hole (1951 film), Adolf Hitler's rise to power, AFI Catalog of Feature Films, AFI Life Achievement Award, AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs, AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies, Alexander Calder, Alfred Hitchcock, AllMovie, American burlesque, American Film Institute, American Masters, Andy Warhol, Anthony Lane, Antisemitism, Audrey Hepburn, Audrey Young, Auschwitz concentration camp, Austria-Hungary, Avanti!, Österreichische Mediathek, Babelsberg Studio, BAFTA Award for Best Film, BAFTA Fellowship, Ball of Fire, Barbara Stanwyck, Belle Époque (film), Belzec extermination camp, Berghahn Books, Berlin, Berlin International Film Festival, Beverly Hills, California, Billy Wilder filmography, Biographical film, Biography (TV program), Bluebeard's Eighth Wife, Bosley Crowther, British Academy Film Awards, British Film Institute, Buddy Buddy, Buffalo Bill, Bulimia nervosa, ... Expand index (203 more) »

  2. AFI Life Achievement Award recipients
  3. Austrian refugees
  4. Austrian screenwriters
  5. Honorary Golden Bear recipients
  6. People from Innere Stadt
  7. People from Leopoldstadt
  8. People from Sucha Beskidzka

A Blonde Dream

A Blonde Dream (Ein blonder Traum) is a 1932 German musical comedy film directed by Paul Martin and starring Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch and Willi Forst.

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Academy Award for Best Actor

The Academy Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best screenplay adapted from previously established material. Billy Wilder and Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay are best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award winners.

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Academy Award for Best Director

The Academy Award for Best Director (officially known as the Academy Award of Merit for Directing) is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay

The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award (also known as an Oscar) for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material. Billy Wilder and Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay are best Original Screenplay Academy Award winners.

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Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards (also known as Oscars) presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since the awards debuted in 1929.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.

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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), often pronounced; also known as simply the Academy or the Motion Picture Academy) is a professional honorary organization in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., with the stated goal of advancing the arts and sciences of motion pictures. The Academy's corporate management and general policies are overseen by a board of governors, which includes representatives from each of the craft branches.

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Ace in the Hole (1951 film)

Ace in the Hole, also known as The Big Carnival, is a 1951 American drama film directed by Billy Wilder.

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Adolf Hitler's rise to power

Adolf Hitler's rise to power began in the newly established Weimar Republic in September 1919 when Hitler joined the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (DAP; German Workers' Party).

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AFI Catalog of Feature Films

The AFI Catalog of Feature Films, also known as the AFI Catalog, is an ongoing project by the American Film Institute (AFI) to catalog all commercially-made and theatrically exhibited American motion pictures from the birth of cinema in 1893 to the present.

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AFI Life Achievement Award

The AFI Life Achievement Award was established by the board of directors of the American Film Institute on February 26, 1973, to honor a single individual for their lifetime contribution to enriching American culture through motion pictures and television.

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AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs

Part of the AFI 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs is a list of the top 100 funny movies in American cinema.

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AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies

The first of the AFI 100 Years... series of cinematic milestones, AFI's 100 Years...

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Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder (July 22, 1898 – November 11, 1976) was an American sculptor known both for his innovative mobiles (kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents) that embrace chance in their aesthetic, his static "stabiles", and his monumental public sculptures.

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Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director. Billy Wilder and Alfred Hitchcock are AFI Life Achievement Award recipients, BAFTA fellows, directors Guild of America Award winners, directors of Best Picture Academy Award winners and German-language film directors.

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AllMovie

AllMovie (previously All Movie Guide) is an online database with information about films, television programs, television series, and screen actors.

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American burlesque

American burlesque is a genre of variety show derived from elements of Victorian burlesque, music hall, and minstrel shows.

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American Film Institute

The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American nonprofit film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States.

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American Masters

American Masters is a PBS television series which produces biographies on enduring writers, musicians, visual and performing artists, dramatists, filmmakers, and those who have left an indelible impression on the cultural landscape of the United States.

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Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol (born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director and producer.

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Anthony Lane

Anthony Lane is a British journalist who was a film critic for The New Yorker magazine from 1993 to 2024.

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Antisemitism

Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against, Jews.

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Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Kathleen Hepburn (née Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British actress. Billy Wilder and Audrey Hepburn are David di Donatello winners.

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Audrey Young

Audrey Young (October 30, 1922 – June 1, 2012) was an American film actress and a big-band singer who was most active in the 1940s.

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Auschwitz concentration camp

Auschwitz concentration camp (also KL Auschwitz or KZ Auschwitz) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust.

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Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire or the Dual Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional monarchy in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918.

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Avanti!

Avanti! is a 1972 American/Italian international co-production comedy film produced and directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Jack Lemmon and Juliet Mills.

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Österreichische Mediathek

The Österreichische Mediathek ("Austrian Mediatheque") is the Austrian archive for sound recordings and videos on cultural and contemporary history.

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Babelsberg Studio

Babelsberg Film Studio (Filmstudio Babelsberg) (also known as Studio Babelsberg), located in Potsdam-Babelsberg outside Berlin, Germany, is the oldest large-scale film studio in the world, producing films since 1912.

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BAFTA Award for Best Film

The BAFTA Award for Best Film is given annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and presented at the British Academy Film Awards.

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BAFTA Fellowship

The BAFTA Fellowship, or the Academy Fellowship, is a lifetime achievement award presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) in recognition of "outstanding achievement in the art forms of the moving image". Billy Wilder and BAFTA Fellowship are BAFTA fellows.

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Ball of Fire

Ball of Fire (also known as The Professor and the Burlesque Queen) is a 1941 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck.

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Barbara Stanwyck

Barbara Stanwyck (born Ruby Catherine Stevens; July 16, 1907 – January 20, 1990) was an American actress, model and dancer. Billy Wilder and Barbara Stanwyck are AFI Life Achievement Award recipients.

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Belle Époque (film)

Belle Époque is a 1992 Spanish comedy-drama film directed by Fernando Trueba.

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Belzec extermination camp

Belzec (English: or, Polish) was a Nazi German extermination camp in occupied Poland.

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Berghahn Books

Berghahn Books is a New York and Oxford–based publisher of scholarly books and academic journals in the humanities and social sciences, with a special focus on social and cultural anthropology, European history, politics, and film and media studies.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.

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Berlin International Film Festival

The Berlin International Film Festival (Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale, is a major international film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany.

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Beverly Hills, California

Beverly Hills is a city located in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Billy Wilder filmography

Billy Wilder (1906–2002) was an Austrian filmmaker.

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Biographical film

A biographical film or biopic is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or group of people.

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Biography (TV program)

Biography is an American documentary television series and media franchise created in the 1960s by David L. Wolper and owned by A&E Networks since 1987.

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Bluebeard's Eighth Wife

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife is a 1938 Paramount Pictures American romantic comedy film directed and produced by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Claudette Colbert and Gary Cooper.

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Bosley Crowther

Francis Bosley Crowther Jr. (July 13, 1905 – March 7, 1981) was an American journalist, writer, and film critic for The New York Times for 27 years.

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British Academy Film Awards

The British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTA Awards, is an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to honour the best British and international contributions to film.

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British Film Institute

The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom.

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Buddy Buddy

Buddy Buddy is a 1981 American comedy film based on Francis Veber's play Le contrat and Édouard Molinaro's film L'emmerdeur.

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Buffalo Bill

William Frederick Cody (February 26, 1846January 10, 1917), known as Buffalo Bill, was an American soldier, bison hunter, and showman.

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Bulimia nervosa

Bulimia nervosa, also known as simply bulimia, is an eating disorder characterized by binge eating followed by purging or fasting, and excessive concern with body shape and weight.

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Bull Durham

Bull Durham is a 1988 American romantic comedy sports film.

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Cameron Crowe

Cameron Bruce Crowe (born July 13, 1957) is an American filmmaker and journalist. Billy Wilder and Cameron Crowe are best Original Screenplay Academy Award winners and film directors from California.

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Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Film Festival (Festival de Cannes), until 2003 called the International Film Festival (Festival international du film), is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres, including documentaries, from all around the world.

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Charles Brackett

Charles William Brackett (November 26, 1892 – March 9, 1969) was an American screenwriter and film producer. Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett are best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award winners and best Original Screenplay Academy Award winners.

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Charles Laughton

Charles Laughton (1 July 1899 – 15 December 1962) was a British-American actor. Billy Wilder and Charles Laughton are David di Donatello winners.

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Charles Lindbergh

Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974) was an American aviator and military officer.

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Charles R. Jackson

Charles Reginald Jackson (April 6, 1903September 21, 1968) was an American writer.

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Charlotte Chandler

Lyn Erhard, better known under the pen name of Charlotte Chandler, is an American biographer and playwright.

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Chico Marx

Leonard Joseph "Chico" Marx (March 22, 1887 – October 11, 1961) was an American comedian, actor and pianist. Billy Wilder and Chico Marx are Jewish film people.

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Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Christo Vladimirov Javacheff (1935–2020) and Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon (1935–2009), known as Christo and Jeanne-Claude, were artists noted for their large-scale, site-specific environmental installations, often large landmarks and landscape elements wrapped in fabric, including the Wrapped Reichstag, The Pont Neuf Wrapped, Running Fence in California, and The Gates in New York City's Central Park.

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Cinema of the United States

The cinema of the United States, consisting mainly of major film studios (also known metonymously as Hollywood) along with some independent films, has had a large effect on the global film industry since the early 20th century.

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Classical Hollywood cinema

Classical Hollywood cinema is a term used in film criticism to describe both a narrative and visual style of filmmaking that first developed in the 1910s to 1920s during the later years of the silent film era.

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Cold War

The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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Columbia University Press

Columbia University Press is a university press based in New York City, and affiliated with Columbia University.

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Daily Worker

The Daily Worker was a newspaper published in Chicago founded by communists, socialists, union members, and other activists.

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David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures

The David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures is awarded annually by the Producers Guild of America (PGA) at the Producers Guild of America Awards ceremonies recognizing the individual's outstanding body of work in motion pictures.

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Deadline Hollywood

Deadline Hollywood, commonly known as Deadline and also referred to as Deadline.com, is an online news site founded as the news blog Deadline Hollywood Daily by Nikki Finke in 2006.

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Dean Martin

Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti; June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) was an American singer, actor and comedian. Billy Wilder and Dean Martin are Burials at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.

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Death Mills

Death Mills (or Die Todesmühlen) is a 1945 American-German propaganda film directed by Billy Wilder and produced by the United States Department of War.

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Deconstructing Harry

Deconstructing Harry is a 1997 American black comedy film written, directed by, and co-starring Woody Allen, with an ensemble cast, including Caroline Aaron, Kirstie Alley, Bob Balaban, Richard Benjamin, Eric Bogosian, Billy Crystal and Judy Davis, as well as Jennifer Garner in her feature film debut.

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Directors Guild of America

The Directors Guild of America (DGA) is an entertainment guild that represents the interests of film and television directors in the United States motion picture industry and abroad.

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Directors Guild of America Awards

The Directors Guild of America Awards are issued annually by the Directors Guild of America.

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Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity is a 1944 American crime thriller film noir directed by Billy Wilder, co-written with Raymond Chandler, and produced by Buddy DeSylva and Joseph Sistrom.

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Double Indemnity (novel)

Double Indemnity is a 1943 crime novel by American journalist-turned-novelist James M. Cain.

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Doubleday (publisher)

Doubleday is an American publishing company.

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Ed Sikov

Ed Sikov (born 1957, Pennsylvania) is an American film scholar and author.

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Edward G. Robinson

Edward G. Robinson (born Emanuel Goldenberg; December 12, 1893January 26, 1973) was an American actor of stage and screen, who was popular during Hollywood's Golden Age. Billy Wilder and Edward G. Robinson are American art collectors and Jewish art collectors.

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Elsa Lanchester

Elsa Sullivan Lanchester (28 October 1902 – 26 December 1986) was a British actress with a long career in theatre, film and television. Billy Wilder and Elsa Lanchester are Deaths from pneumonia in California.

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Emil and the Detectives (1931 film)

Emil and the Detectives (Emil und die Detektive) is a 1931 German adventure film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht and starring Rolf Wenkhaus.

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Empire (magazine)

Empire is a British film magazine published monthly by Bauer Media Group.

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Encyclopædia Britannica

The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.

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Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American digital-only entertainment magazine based in New York City, published by Dotdash Meredith, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books, and popular culture.

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Erich Kästner

Emil Erich Kästner (23 February 1899 – 29 July 1974) was a German writer, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known primarily for his humorous, socially astute poems and for children's books including Emil and the Detectives and The Parent Trap.

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Erich von Stroheim

Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria von Stroheim (born Erich Oswald Stroheim; September 22, 1885 – May 12, 1957) was an Austrian-American director, screenwriter, actor, and producer, most noted as a film star and avant-garde, visionary director of the silent era. Billy Wilder and Erich von Stroheim are Austrian Jews, English-language film directors, film directors from California, German-language film directors and Jewish film people.

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Ernst Lubitsch

Ernst Lubitsch (January 29, 1892November 30, 1947) was a German-born American film director, producer, writer, and actor. Billy Wilder and Ernst Lubitsch are comedy film directors, film directors from California, Jewish American screenwriters and Jewish film people.

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F. W. Murnau

Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (born Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe; December 28, 1888March 11, 1931) was a German film director, producer and screenwriter.

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Fedora (1978 film)

Fedora is a 1978 German-French drama film directed by Billy Wilder and starring William Holden and Marthe Keller.

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Fernando Trueba

Fernando Rodríguez Trueba (born 18 January 1955), known as Fernando Trueba, is a Spanish filmmaker, writer, producer and book editor. Billy Wilder and Fernando Trueba are European Film Awards winners (people).

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Film noir

Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylized Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and motivations.

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Films and Filming

Films and Filming was the longest-running British gay magazine prior to the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in England and Wales.

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Filmsite

Filmsite is a film-review website established in 1996 by senior editor and film critic-historian Tim Dirks, and continues to be managed and edited by him for over two decades.

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Francisco Franco

Francisco Franco Bahamonde (4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish military general who led the Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War and thereafter ruled over Spain from 1939 to 1975 as a dictator, assuming the title Caudillo.

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Fred MacMurray

Frederick Martin MacMurray (August 30, 1908 – November 5, 1991) was an American actor. Billy Wilder and Fred MacMurray are Deaths from pneumonia in California.

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Fred Zinnemann

Alfred Zinnemann (April 29, 1907 – March 14, 1997) was an Austrian-American film director and producer. Billy Wilder and Fred Zinnemann are Austrian Jews, Austrian emigrants to the United States, Austrian film directors, BAFTA fellows, best Directing Academy Award winners, best Director Golden Globe winners, directors Guild of America Award winners, directors of Best Picture Academy Award winners, English-language film directors, filmmakers who won the Best Film BAFTA Award, Jewish film people and producers who won the Best Picture Academy Award.

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French New Wave

The New Wave (Nouvelle Vague), also called the French New Wave, is a French art film movement that emerged in the late 1950s.

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Fritz Lang

Friedrich Christian Anton Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976), better known as Fritz Lang, was an Austrian-American film director, screenwriter, and producer who worked in Germany and later the United States. Billy Wilder and Fritz Lang are Austrian film directors and Jewish film people.

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Gary Cooper

Gary Cooper (born Frank James Cooper; May 7, 1901May 13, 1961) was an American actor known for his strong, quiet screen persona and understated acting style.

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Gene D. Phillips

Gene D. Phillips, S.J. (March 3, 1935 – August 29, 2016) was an American author, educator, and Catholic priest.

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Georges-Claude Guilbert

Georges-Claude Guilbert (born May 18, 1959) is a French literary critic and academic who teaches American literature, gender studies, and popular culture.

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German expressionist cinema

German expressionist cinema was a part of several related creative movements in Germany in the early 20th century that reached a peak in Berlin during the 1920s.

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Gigolo

A gigolo is a male escort or social companion who is supported by a person in a continuing relationship.

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Gloria Swanson

Gloria Josephine Mae Swanson (March 27, 1899April 4, 1983) was an American actress.

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Golden Globe Award for Best Director

The Golden Globe Award for Best Director – Motion Picture is a Golden Globe Award that has been presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, an organization composed of journalists who cover the United States film industry for publications based outside North America, since 1943.

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Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay

The Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay – Motion Picture is a Golden Globe Award given by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

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Golden Globe Awards

The Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed for excellence in both American and international film and television.

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Greece

Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe.

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Greta Garbo

Greta Garbo (born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson; 18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990) was a Swedish-American actress and a premier star during Hollywood's silent and early golden eras.

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Groucho Marx

Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx (October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977) was an American comedian, actor, writer, and singer who performed in films and vaudeville on television, radio, and the stage. Billy Wilder and Groucho Marx are Deaths from pneumonia in California and Jewish film people.

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Hanuš Burger

Hans Herbert Burger (June 4, 1909 Prague – November 13, 1990, Munich), also known as Hanuš Burger, Hans Burger, and Jan Burger, as well as under the pseudonyms Hans Herbert and Petr Hradec, was a theater, film, and television director, playwright and author of books and screenplays, including the documentary film Crisis (1939), and the German language version of Death Mills (1945), supervised by Billy Wilder.

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Hays Code

The Motion Picture Production Code was a set of industry guidelines for the self-censorship of content that was applied to most motion pictures released by major studios in the United States from 1934 to 1968.

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Her Grace Commands

Her Grace Commands (Ihre Hoheit befiehlt) is a 1931 German romantic comedy film directed by Hanns Schwarz and starring Käthe von Nagy, Willy Fritsch and Reinhold Schünzel.

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Hold Back the Dawn

Hold Back the Dawn is a 1941 American romantic drama film directed by Mitchell Leisen, in which a Romanian gigolo marries an American woman in Mexico in order to gain entry to the United States, but winds up falling in love with her.

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Hollywood blacklist

The Hollywood blacklist was an entertainment industry blacklist put in effect in the mid-20th century in the United States during the early years of the Cold War, in Hollywood and elsewhere.

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Hollywood Walk of Fame

The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a landmark which consists of 2,783 five-pointed terrazzo-and-brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along 15 blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in the Los Angeles, California district of Hollywood.

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Holocaust denial

Holocaust denial is an antisemitic conspiracy theory that asserts that the Nazi genocide of Jews, known as the Holocaust, is a fabrication or exaggeration.

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House Un-American Activities Committee

The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA), popularly the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives, created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having communist ties.

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Humphrey Bogart

Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957), colloquially nicknamed Bogie, was an American actor.

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I. A. L. Diamond

I. Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond are best Original Screenplay Academy Award winners and Jewish American screenwriters.

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Impressionism

Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, unusual visual angles, and inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience.

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Irma la Douce

Irma la Douce ("Irma the Sweet") is a 1963 American romantic comedy film directed by Billy Wilder from a screenplay he co-wrote with I. A. L. Diamond, based on the 1956 French stage musical of the same name by Marguerite Monnot and Alexandre Breffort.

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Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award is awarded periodically by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at the Governors Awards ceremonies to "creative producers, whose bodies of work reflect a consistently high quality of motion picture production".

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Italian neorealism

Italian neorealism (Neorealismo), also known as the Golden Age of Italian Cinema, was a national film movement characterized by stories set amongst the poor and the working class.

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Jack Kruschen

Jacob "Jack" Kruschen (March 20, 1922 – April 2, 2002) was a Canadian character actor who worked primarily in American film, television and radio.

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Jack Lemmon

John Uhler Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) was an American actor. Billy Wilder and Jack Lemmon are AFI Life Achievement Award recipients, Burials at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, David di Donatello winners, film directors from California, honorary Golden Bear recipients and Kennedy Center honorees.

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Jackson Pollock

Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912August 11, 1956) was an American painter.

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James Cagney

James Francis Cagney Jr. (July 17, 1899March 30, 1986) was an American actor and dancer. Billy Wilder and James Cagney are AFI Life Achievement Award recipients and Kennedy Center honorees.

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James M. Cain

James Mallahan Cain (July 1, 1892 – October 27, 1977) was an American novelist, journalist and screenwriter.

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James Stewart

James Maitland Stewart (May 20, 1908 – July 2, 1997) was an American actor. Billy Wilder and James Stewart are AFI Life Achievement Award recipients, honorary Golden Bear recipients and Kennedy Center honorees.

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Jane Wyman

Jane Wyman (born Sarah Jane Mayfield; January 5, 1917 – September 10, 2007).

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Joe E. Brown

Joseph Evans Brown (July 28, 1891 – July 6, 1973) was an American actor and comedian, remembered for his friendly screen persona, comic timing, and enormous elastic-mouth smile.

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John Huston

John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. Billy Wilder and John Huston are AFI Life Achievement Award recipients, BAFTA fellows, best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award winners, best Directing Academy Award winners, best Director Golden Globe winners and David di Donatello winners.

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Kennedy Center Honors

The Kennedy Center Honors are annual honors given to those in the performing arts for their lifetime of contributions to American culture.

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Kim Novak

Marilyn Pauline "Kim" Novak (born February 13, 1933) is an American retired film and television actress and painter. Billy Wilder and Kim Novak are honorary Golden Bear recipients.

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Kinema Junpo

, commonly called, is Japan's oldest film magazine and began publication in July 1919.

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Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria

The Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, also known as Austrian Galicia or colloquially Austrian Poland, was a constituent possession of the Habsburg monarchy in the historical region of Galicia in Eastern Europe.

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Kirk Douglas

Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch; December 9, 1916 – February 5, 2020) was an American actor and filmmaker. Billy Wilder and Kirk Douglas are AFI Life Achievement Award recipients, Burials at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, honorary Golden Bear recipients, Jewish film people, Kennedy Center honorees and United States National Medal of Arts recipients.

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Kiss Me, Stupid

Kiss Me, Stupid is a 1964 American sex comedy film produced and directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Dean Martin, Kim Novak and Ray Walston.

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Kraków

(), also spelled as Cracow or Krakow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland.

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Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp

Płaszów or Kraków-Płaszów was a Nazi concentration camp operated by the SS in Płaszów, a southern suburb of Kraków, in the General Governorate of German-occupied Poland.

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Laurel and Hardy

Laurel and Hardy were a British-American comedy team during the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema, consisting of Englishman Stan Laurel (1890–1965) and American Oliver Hardy (1892–1957).

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Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement

The Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement (also known as the Screen Laurel Award) is a lifetime achievement award given by the Writers Guild of America.

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Le Monde

Le Monde (The World) is a French daily afternoon newspaper.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.

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List of awards and nominations received by Billy Wilder

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

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List of film director and actor collaborations

Some film directors and actors have collaborated numerous times and have become noteworthy for their partnerships.

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List of refugees

This is a list of prominent people who fled their native country, went into exile and found refuge in another country.

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Louis Stern

Louis Stern (born January 7, 1945) is a Los Angeles art dealer and President of Louis Stern Fine Arts in West Hollywood, California.

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Love in the Afternoon (1957 film)

Love in the Afternoon is a 1957 American romantic comedy film produced and directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn and Maurice Chevalier.

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Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 August 4, 1962) was an American actress and model. Billy Wilder and Marilyn Monroe are Burials at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.

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Marlene Dietrich

Marie Magdalene "Marlene" DietrichBorn as Maria Magdalena, not Marie Magdalene, according to Dietrich's biography by her daughter, Maria Riva; however, Dietrich's biography by Charlotte Chandler cites "Marie Magdalene" as her birth name.

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Marty (film)

Marty is a 1955 American romantic drama film directed by Delbert Mann in his directorial debut.

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Marx Brothers

The Marx Brothers were an American family comedy act that was successful in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in 14 motion pictures from 1905 to 1949.

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Maurice Chevalier

Maurice Auguste Chevalier (12 September 1888 – 1 January 1972) was a French singer, actor, and entertainer.

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Maurice Zolotow

Maurice Zolotow (November 23, 1913 – March 14, 1991) was an American show business biographer.

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Mauvaise Graine

Mauvaise Graine (English: Bad Seed) is a 1934 French action comedy directed by Billy Wilder (in his directorial debut) and Alexander Esway.

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McFarland & Company

McFarland & Company, Inc., is an American independent book publisher based in Jefferson, North Carolina, that specializes in academic and reference works, as well as general-interest adult nonfiction.

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Melodrama

A modern melodrama is a dramatic work in which the plot, typically sensationalized and for a very strong emotional appeal, takes precedence over detailed characterization.

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Michel Hazanavicius

Michel Hazanavicius (Hazanavičius; born 29 March 1967) is a French film director, screenwriter, editor, and producer. Billy Wilder and Michel Hazanavicius are best Directing Academy Award winners, directors Guild of America Award winners and directors of Best Picture Academy Award winners.

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Midnight (1939 film)

Midnight is a 1939 American screwball comedy film directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, Francis Lederer, Mary Astor, and Elaine Barrie.

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Myles Wilder

Myles Wilder (January 28, 1933 – April 20, 2010) was a television comedy writer and producer.

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Nancy Olson

Nancy Ann Olson (born July 14, 1928) is an American retired actress.

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National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence.

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National Film Registry

The National Film Registry (NFR) is the United States National Film Preservation Board's (NFPB) collection of films selected for preservation, each selected for its historical, cultural and aesthetic contributions since the NFPB's inception in 1988.

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National Medal of Arts

The National Medal of Arts is an award and title created by the United States Congress in 1984, for the purpose of honoring artists and patrons of the arts. Billy Wilder and National Medal of Arts are United States National Medal of Arts recipients.

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Nazi Party

The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of Nazism.

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Nefertiti

Nefertiti was a queen of the 18th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, the great royal wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten.

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Neue Zürcher Zeitung

The (NZZ; "New Journal of Zürich") is a Swiss, German-language daily newspaper, published by NZZ Mediengruppe in Zürich.

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New Objectivity

The New Objectivity (in Neue Sachlichkeit) was a movement in German art that arose during the 1920s as a reaction against expressionism.

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New York (magazine)

New York is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, with a particular emphasis on New York City.

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Ninotchka

Ninotchka is a 1939 American romantic comedy film made for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by producer and director Ernst Lubitsch and starring Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas.

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Nowy Targ

Nowy Targ (Officially: Royal Free city of Nowy Targ, Yiddish: Naymark, Goral dialect: Miasto) is a town in southern Poland, in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship.

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NPR

National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California. Billy Wilder and NPR are United States National Medal of Arts recipients.

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Oedipus Rex

Oedipus Rex, also known by its Greek title, Oedipus Tyrannus (Οἰδίπους Τύραννος), or Oedipus the King, is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed.

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One, Two, Three

One, Two, Three is a 1961 American political comedy film directed by Billy Wilder, and written by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond.

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Orson Welles

George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American director, actor, writer, producer, and magician who is remembered for his innovative work in film, radio, and theatre. Billy Wilder and Orson Welles are AFI Life Achievement Award recipients, best Original Screenplay Academy Award winners, directors of Palme d'Or winners and golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement recipients.

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Pablo Picasso

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France.

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Palme d'Or

The (Golden Palm) is the highest prize awarded to the director of the Best Feature Film of the Official Competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Billy Wilder and Palme d'Or are directors of Palme d'Or winners.

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Parasite (2019 film)

Parasite is a 2019 South Korean dark comedy thriller film co-written, co-produced, and directed by Bong Joon-ho.

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Patrick Curtis (producer)

Patrick Curtis (June 15, 1939 – November 24, 2022) was an American film producer, best known for his association with Raquel Welch, whom he married on February 14, 1967 and divorced on January 6, 1972.

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Paul Whiteman

Paul Samuel Whiteman (March 28, 1890 – December 29, 1967) was an American bandleader, composer, orchestral director, and violinist.

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People on Sunday

People on Sunday (Menschen am Sonntag) is a 1930 German silent drama film directed by Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer from a screenplay by Robert and Curt Siodmak.

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Peter Sellers

Peter Sellers (born Richard Henry Sellers; 8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was an English actor and comedian. Billy Wilder and Peter Sellers are Jewish film people.

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Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary

Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary is a cemetery and mortuary located in the Westwood area of Los Angeles.

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Pneumonia

Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung primarily affecting the small air sacs known as alveoli.

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Potsdam

Potsdam is the capital and largest city of the German state of Brandenburg.

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Producers Guild of America

The Producers Guild of America (PGA) is a 501(c)(6) trade association representing the interests television producers, film producers and emerging media producers in the United States.

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Psychological Warfare Division

The Psychological Warfare Division of Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (PWD/SHAEF or SHAEF/PWD) was a joint Anglo-American organization set-up in World War II tasked with conducting (predominantly) white tactical psychological warfare against German troops and recently liberated countries in Northwest Europe, during and after D-Day.

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Ray Milland

Ray Milland (born Alfred Reginald Jones; 3 January 1907 – 10 March 1986) was a Welsh-American actor and film director.

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Ray Walston

Herman Raymond Walston (November 2, 1914 – January 1, 2001) was an American actor and comedian.

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Raymond Chandler

Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler are Deaths from pneumonia in California.

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Red Ventures

Red Ventures is an American media company that owns and operates brands such as Lonely Planet, CNET, ZDNet, The Points Guy, Healthline, and Bankrate.

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RhythmOne

RhythmOne, previously known as Blinkx, and also known as RhythmOne Group, is an American digital advertising technology company which owns and operates the web properties AllMusic, AllMovie, and SideReel.

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Roadshow theatrical release

A roadshow theatrical release or reserved seat engagement is the practice of opening a film in a limited number of theaters in major cities for a specific period of time before the wide release of the film.

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Robert Horton (actor)

Mead Howard "Robert" Horton Jr. (July 29, 1924 – March 9, 2016) was an American actor and singer.

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Robert Siodmak

Robert Siodmak (8 August 1900 – 10 March 1973) was a German film director who also worked in the United States. Billy Wilder and Robert Siodmak are Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States and Jewish film people.

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Robert Strauss (actor)

Robert Strauss (November 8, 1913 – February 20, 1975) was an American actor.

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Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, essayist, screenwriter, and author.

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Romantic comedy

Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a subgenre of comedy and romance fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount most obstacles.

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Ron Shelton

Ronald Wayne Shelton (born September 15, 1945) is an American film director and screenwriter and former minor league baseball infielder. Billy Wilder and Ron Shelton are film directors from California.

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Sabrina (1954 film)

Sabrina (Sabrina Fair/La Vie en Rose in the United Kingdom) is a 1954 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Billy Wilder, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Samuel A. Taylor and Ernest Lehman, based on Taylor's 1953 play Sabrina Fair.

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Schindler's Ark

Schindler's Ark is a historical fiction published in 1982 by the Australian novelist Thomas Keneally.

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Schindler's List

Schindler's List is a 1993 American epic historical drama film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Steven Zaillian.

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Shirley MacLaine

Shirley MacLaine (born Shirley MacLean Beaty on April 24, 1934) is an American actress and author. Billy Wilder and Shirley MacLaine are AFI Life Achievement Award recipients, David di Donatello winners, honorary Golden Bear recipients and Kennedy Center honorees.

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Sight and Sound

Sight and Sound (formerly written Sight & Sound) is a monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI).

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Silent film

A silent film is a film without synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue).

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Some Like It Hot

Some Like It Hot is a 1959 American crime comedy film directed, produced and co-written by Billy Wilder.

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Sophocles

Sophocles (497/496 – winter 406/405 BC)Sommerstein (2002), p. 41.

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Spirit of St. Louis

The Spirit of St.

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Stalag 17

Stalag 17 is a 1953 American war film directed by Billy Wilder.

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Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker. Billy Wilder and Steven Spielberg are AFI Life Achievement Award recipients, American art collectors, BAFTA fellows, best Directing Academy Award winners, best Director Golden Globe winners, David di Donatello winners, directors Guild of America Award winners, directors of Best Picture Academy Award winners, filmmakers who won the Best Film BAFTA Award, golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement recipients, honorary Golden Bear recipients, Jewish American screenwriters, Jewish art collectors, Jewish film people, Kennedy Center honorees, Knights Commander of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and producers who won the Best Picture Academy Award.

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Stringer (journalism)

In journalism, a stringer is a freelance journalist, photographer, or videographer who contributes reports, photos, or videos to a news organization on an ongoing basis but is paid individually for each piece of published or broadcast work.

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Sucha Beskidzka

Sucha Beskidzka (before 1961 called only Sucha) is a town in the Żywiec Beskids mountain range in southern Poland, on the Skawa river.

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Sunset Boulevard (film)

Sunset Boulevard (styled in the main title on-screen as SUNSET BLVD.) is a 1950 American black comedy film noir directed by Billy Wilder and co-written by Wilder and Charles Brackett.

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Tabloid (newspaper format)

A tabloid is a newspaper with a compact page size smaller than broadsheet.

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Taschen

Taschen is a luxury art book publisher founded in 1980 by Benedikt Taschen in Cologne, Germany.

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Taxi dancer

A taxi dancer is a paid dance partner in a ballroom dance.

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Technicolor

Technicolor is a series of color motion picture processes, the first version dating back to 1916, and followed by improved versions over several decades.

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The Apartment

The Apartment is a 1960 American romantic comedy-drama film directed and produced by Billy Wilder from a screenplay he co-wrote with I. A. L. Diamond.

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The Artist (film)

The Artist is a 2011 French comedy-drama film in the style of a black-and-white silent film or part-talkie.

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The Fortune Cookie (alternative UK title: Meet Whiplash Willie) is a 1966 American black comedy film directed, produced and co-written by Billy Wilder.

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The Front Page

The Front Page is a Broadway comedy about newspaper reporters on the police beat.

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The Front Page (1974 film)

The Front Page is a 1974 American black comedy-drama film directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau.

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The Holocaust

The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.

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The Lost Weekend

The Lost Weekend is a 1945 American drama film noir directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman.

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The Lost Weekend (novel)

The Lost Weekend is Charles R. Jackson's first novel, published by Farrar & Rinehart in 1944.

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The Major and the Minor

The Major and the Minor is a 1942 American romantic comedy film starring Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland.

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The Man in Search of His Murderer

The Man in Search of His Murderer (Der Mann, der seinen Mörder sucht) is a 1931 German comedy film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Heinz Rühmann, Lien Deyers and Hans Leibelt.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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The Paris Review

The Paris Review is a quarterly English-language literary magazine established in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton.

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The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes is a 1970 DeLuxe Color film in Panavision written and produced by Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond, and directed by Wilder.

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The Seven Year Itch

The Seven Year Itch is a 1955 American romantic comedy film directed by Billy Wilder, from a screenplay he co-wrote with George Axelrod from the 1952 three-act play.

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The Spirit of St. Louis (film)

The Spirit of St.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine.

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The Times Literary Supplement

The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) is a weekly literary review published in London by News UK, a subsidiary of News Corp.

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Thomas Keneally

Thomas Michael Keneally, AO (born 7 October 1935) is an Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, and actor.

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Tony Curtis

Tony Curtis (born Bernard Schwartz; June 3, 1925September 29, 2010) was an American actor with a career that spanned six decades, achieving the height of his popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s. Billy Wilder and Tony Curtis are Jewish film people.

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Total Film

Total Film is a British film magazine published 13 times a year (published monthly and a summer issue is added every year since issue 91, 2004, which is published between July and August issue) by Future Publishing.

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Tragedy

Tragedy (from the τραγῳδία, tragōidia) is a genre of drama based on human suffering and, mainly, the terrible or sorrowful events that befall a main character or cast of characters.

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TV.com

TV.com was a website owned by Red Ventures that covered television series and episodes with a focus on English-language shows made or broadcast in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

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Tyrone Power

Tyrone Edmund Power III (May 5, 1914 – November 15, 1958) was an American actor.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California.

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University of Vienna

The University of Vienna (Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is an American magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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W. Lee Wilder

William Lee Wilder (August 22, 1904 – February 14, 1982) was an Austrian-American screenwriter, film producer and director. Billy Wilder and w. Lee Wilder are Austrian Jews and Austrian emigrants to the United States.

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Walter Matthau

Walter Matthau (born Walter John Matthow; October 1, 1920 – July 1, 2000) was an American screen and stage actor, known for his "hangdog face" and for playing world-weary characters. Billy Wilder and Walter Matthau are Burials at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery and David di Donatello winners.

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Walter Reisch

Walter Reisch (May 23, 1903 – March 28, 1983) was an Austrian-born director and screenwriter. Billy Wilder and Walter Reisch are Austrian emigrants to the United States, Austrian film directors, Austrian film producers and best Original Screenplay Academy Award winners.

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Wild West shows

Wild West shows were traveling vaudeville performances in the United States and Europe that existed around 1870–1920.

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William Holden

William Franklin Holden (né Beedle Jr.; April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981) was an American actor and one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s.

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Witness for the Prosecution (1957 film)

Witness for the Prosecution is a 1957 American legal mystery thriller film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, and Elsa Lanchester.

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Woody Allen

Heywood Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935) is an American filmmaker, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than six decades. Billy Wilder and Woody Allen are BAFTA fellows, best Directing Academy Award winners, best Original Screenplay Academy Award winners, David di Donatello winners, directors Guild of America Award winners, directors of Best Picture Academy Award winners, filmmakers who won the Best Film BAFTA Award, golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement recipients, Jewish American screenwriters and Jewish film people.

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Writers Guild of America Awards

The Writers Guild of America Awards is an award for film, television, and radio writing including both fiction and non-fiction categories given by the Writers Guild of America, East and Writers Guild of America West since 1949.

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1963 in film

The year 1963 in film involved some significant events, including the big-budget epic Cleopatra and two films with all-star casts, How the West Was Won and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

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See also

AFI Life Achievement Award recipients

Austrian refugees

Austrian screenwriters

Honorary Golden Bear recipients

People from Innere Stadt

People from Leopoldstadt

People from Sucha Beskidzka

References

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