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Which film earned Wilder Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay?

  • The Lost Weekend

  • Sunset Boulevard

  • Double Indemnity

  • The Apartment

Answer

"The Apartment," a Billy Wilder-directed masterpiece from 1960, swept the Academy Awards with three prestigious accolades: Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay. This poignant comedy-drama explores the personal struggles of C.C. Baxter, an insurance clerk who lends his apartment to executives for extramarital rendezvous, unknowingly becoming entangled in a web of deception and heartbreak.
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