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The Apartment is a 1960 American black-and-white drama and comedy film directed by Billy Wilder. The screenplay was written by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond, with Wilder also serving as producer. The cast includes Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, and Ray Walston. Joseph LaShelle was the director of photography, Daniel Mandell the film editor, and Adolph Deutsch the composer. The movie was produced by The Mirisch Company and distributed by United Artists and Netflix.
Set and filmed in New York City, the film has a runtime of 125 minutes. It received the Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Film Editing, and Best Writing, Original Screenplay. Additionally, it was nominated for Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actor. The work has a derivative film titled Promises, Promises.
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Film · TMDB
8.2Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.
Cast
- Jack Lemmon as C.C. Baxter
- Shirley MacLaine as Fran Kubelik
- Fred MacMurray as Jeff D. Sheldrake
- Ray Walston as Joe Dobisch
- Jack Kruschen as Dr. Dreyfuss
- David Lewis as Al Kirkeby
Themes
- new year's eve
- new york city
- lovesickness
- clerk
- winter
- age difference
- suicide attempt
- office
- flat
- spaghetti
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Part of
- National Film Registry
- Genre
- Christmas film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Billy Wilder
- Screenwriter
- I. A. L. Diamond
- Cast member
- Willard Waterman
- Composer
- Adolph Deutsch
- Producer
- Billy Wilder
- Production company
- The Mirisch Company
- Cinematographer
- Joseph LaShelle
- Narrative location
- New York City
- Filming location
- New York City
- Duration
- 125
- FilmAffinity ID
- 795770
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- The Apartment (1960 poster).jpg
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- Commons category
- The Apartment
- film editor
- Daniel Mandell
- title
- Ungkarlslyan
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Sound
- color
- black-and-white
- distributed by
- Netflix
- derivative work
- Promises, Promises
- production designer
- Alexandre Trauner
- set during recurring event
- New Year
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 8.3/10
- capital cost
- 3000000
- box office
- 24600000
- publication date
- 1961-01-16
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Encyclopedic overview
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. Jack Lemmon stars as an insurance clerk who, in hopes of climbing the corporate ladder, allows his superiors to use his Upper West Side apartment to conduct their extramarital affairs. He becomes attracted to an elevator operator (Shirley MacLaine) in his office building, unaware that she is having an affair with the head of personnel (Fred MacMurray). Ray Walston and Edie Adams feature in supporting roles.
The Apartment was distributed by United Artists to widespread critical acclaim and was a commercial success, despite controversy owing to its subject matter. It became the 8th highest-grossing film of 1960. At the 33rd Academy Awards, the film was nominated for ten awards and won five, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay. Lemmon, MacLaine, and Jack Kruschen were nominated for Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actor respectively, and Lemmon and MacLaine won Golden Globe Awards for their performances. Promises, Promises, a 1968 Broadway musical by Burt Bacharach, Hal David, and Neil Simon, was based on the film.
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