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The Apartment
1960
· Movie
· 125 min
A
MEANRANK
87/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #46
- IMDb #98
- Google retired #188
- Rotten Tomatoes #162
- Metacritic #38
- Letterboxd #34
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #526
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #162
- Metacritic Critics #88
- Metacritic Audience #73
- Criticker #71
- Douban #147
- Kinopoisk #286
- AlloCiné #152
- Trakt #190
Every rating
75–96
out of 100
An ambitious but lonely insurance clerk tries to climb the corporate ladder by allowing his company's executives to use his apartment for their extramarital affairs. His scheme begins to succeed until he falls for an elevator operator who is secretly involved with his married boss. He is torn between his career advancement and his developing feelings for her.
Details
- Director
- Billy Wilder
- Writers
- Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond
- Studio
- The Mirisch Company
- Released
- 21 June 1960
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 125 min
- Budget
- $3.0M
- Box office
- $25.0M
- Awards
- 22 wins, 8 nominations
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Awards & nominations
See all 30 →10 major awards won · 22 wins from 30 nominations across 11 ceremonies
| Academy Awards 1961 | Best Motion Picture | Billy Wilder | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1961 | Best Director | Billy Wilder | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1961 | Best Story and Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen | Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1961 | Best Art Direction – Black-and-White | Alexandre Trauner and Edward G. Boyle | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1961 | Best Film Editing | Daniel Mandell | Winner |
| Directors Guild of America Awards 1960 | Outstanding Director - Motion Pictures | Billy Wilder | Winner |
| Golden Globe Awards 1960 | Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Winner | |
| Golden Globe Awards 1960 | Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Jack Lemmon | Winner |
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Academy Awards
10 nominations, 5 won
| Best Art Direction – Black-and-White | Alexandre Trauner and Edward G. Boyle | Winner |
| Best Director | Billy Wilder | Winner |
| Best Film Editing | Daniel Mandell | Winner |
| Best Motion Picture | Billy Wilder | Winner |
| Best Story and Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen | Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond | Winner |
| Best Actor | Jack Lemmon | Nominee |
| Best Actress | Shirley MacLaine | Nominee |
| Best Cinematography – Black-and-White | Joseph LaShelle | Nominee |
| Best Sound | Gordon E. Sawyer | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actor | Jack Kruschen | Nominee |
Golden Globe Awards
4 nominations, 3 won
| Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Jack Lemmon | Winner |
| Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Shirley MacLaine | Winner |
| Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Winner | |
| Best Director – Motion Picture | Billy Wilder | Nominee |
Directors Guild of America Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Outstanding Director - Motion Pictures | Billy Wilder | Winner |
Writers Guild of America Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Written American Comedy | Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond | Winner |
Grammy Awards
1 nomination
| Best Soundtrack Album | Adolph Deutsch | Nominee |
British Academy Film Awards
3 nominations, 3 won
| Best Film | Winner | |
| Best Foreign Actor | Jack Lemmon | Winner |
| Best Foreign Actress | Shirley MacLaine | Winner |
Laurel Awards
3 nominations, 3 won
| Top Comedy | Winner | |
| Top Female Dramatic Performance | Shirley MacLaine | Winner |
| Top Male Comedy Performance | Jack Lemmon | Winner |
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
3 nominations, 3 won
| Best Director | Billy Wilder | Winner |
| Best Film | Winner | |
| Best Screenplay | Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond | Winner |
Venice International Film Festival
2 nominations, 1 won
| Best Actress | Shirley MacLaine | Winner |
| Golden Lion | Billy Wilder | Nominee |
Cinema Writers Circle Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Foreign Film | Winner |
National Film Preservation Board
1 nomination, 1 won
| National Film Registry | Winner |