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The Apartment

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The Apartment is a 1960 American comedy-drama directed by Billy Wilder for the Mirisch Company, in which an insurance clerk lends his apartment to superiors for their affairs to advance his career, then falls for an elevator operator he does not realize is involved with his boss. Of its ten Academy Award nominations it won five, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, and it is widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, appearing on rankings by the American Film Institute and Sight and Sound.

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Original Language
English 1
Award
Academy Award for Best Picture 1
Award
BAFTA Award for Best Film 1
Release Year
1960 2
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Source The Apartment (Wikipedia)
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1. Wikipedia
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  • The Apartment, lead paragraph (Wikipedia), original language
    The Apartment is a 1960 American romantic comedy film directed and produced by Billy Wilder from a screenplay he co-wrote with I. A. L. Diamond.
  • Wikipedia category, checked 2026-09-27
    Category:Best Film BAFTA Award winners
  • Wikipedia category (academy-award-for-best-picture), checked 2026-09-27
    Wikipedia category for academy-award-for-best-picture
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2. The Apartment (Wikipedia)
  • Infobox
    June 15, 1960 (New York City)
  • In Medium: Film, Article lead sentence
    The Apartment is a 1960 American romantic comedy film directed and produced by Billy Wilder from a screenplay he co-wrote with I.
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