Billy Wilder's The Apartment Turns 60
Silver Screen CollectionGetty Images In 1961, Billy Wilder became the first person to win the three top Oscars—Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay—in one year for the same picture, his unforgettable romantic comedy The Apartment. Wilder attributed inspiration for the film to David Lean’s Brief Encounter, the story of an extramarital affair set in the respectable English town of Milford. “They go to the apartment of a friend of his,” recounted Wilder, “I saw it and I said, ‘What about the guy who has to crawl into the warm bed…?’” He reimagined Lea...
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