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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June 15, 1960 (New York City)
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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.
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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.
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At the 33rd Academy Awards, the film was nominated for ten awards and won five, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay.
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Since The Apartment only two black-and-white movies have won the Academy Award for Best Picture: Schindler's List (1993) and The Artist (2011) (Oppenheimer was in partial black and white).
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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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