In addition to his Best Picture award as producer, this satire of corporate America won Best Director and Best Screenplay (as co-writer) for which film-maker?
A) Blake Edwards B) Elia Kazan C) Richard Lester D) Billy Wilder ü
Billy Wilder was nominated as Best Director on eight occasions — second-place after William Wyler’s twelve — and won twice (Wyler and Frank Capra both won three times). The Apartment stars Jack Lemmon as an ambitious insurance clerk whose career path is made smoother by making his apartment available to superiors for extramarital trysts. Though the arrangement is personally inconvenient — and hard to explain to neighbors and the landlady — it appears to be working when promotions gradually come his way. The situation begins to unravel when he falls in love with the company elevator girl (Shirley MacLaine), who attempts suicide at the apartment after being strung along by a particularly obnoxious married executive. The film was the last Best Picture winner to be shot in black and white until Schindler’s List in 1993.
