The Apartment is a 1960 American romantic comedy-drama film produced and directed by Billy Wilder from a screenplay he co-wrote with I. A. Diamond. The film stars Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine, alongside Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen, David Lewis, Willard Waterman, David White, Hope Holiday, and Edie Adams. The story follows an insurance clerk who lets more senior coworkers use his Upper West Side apartment to conduct extramarital affairs.
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The Apartment is a 1960 American romantic comedy-drama film produced and directed by Billy Wilder from a screenplay he co-wrote with I. A. L. Diamond. The film stars Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine, alongside Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen, David Lewis, Willard Waterman, David White, Hope Holiday, and Edie Adams. The story follows an insurance clerk who lets more senior coworkers use his Upper West Side apartment to conduct extramarital affairs. The Apartment was distributed by United Artists to critical and commercial success, despite controversy owing to its subject matter. It became the 8th highest grossing film of 1960 and at the 33rd Academy Awards, was nominated for ten awards and won five, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay. In 1994, it was one of the 25 films selected for inclusion to the United States Library of Congress National Film Registry. It provided the basis for Promises, Prom promises, a 1968 Broadway musical by Burt Bacharach, Hal David and Neil Simon. The movie was released on November 25, 1960, and was directed by Wilder, who also wrote the screenplay for The Music Man, which was released the same day. It was released in the U.S. on November 26, 1961, and in the UK on November 27, 1961.
It has been hailed as one ofthe greatest films ever made by the American Film Institute and Sight and Sound magazine, and has been listed in numerous lists of the greatest films of all time by the British Film Institute, The New Criterion Collection, and The Critic’s Guide to Film and Television, as well as the British Independent Film Association. It is considered to be one of Wilder’s best films, along with The Godfather and The Great Gatsby. It also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, for which Wilder received a Golden Globe nomination for his screenplay, and the BAFTAs for Best Director and Best Actor, both for Lemmon, and for Best Actress, for MacLain, for the lead roles in both films.Plot: C. C. Baxter is a lonely office drudge at a national insurance corporation in a high-rise building in New York City. In order to climb the corporate ladder, Bud allows four company managers to take turns borrowing his apartment for their various extamarital liaisons, which are so noisy that his neighbors assume that Bud is a playboy bringing home a different woman every night. Bud is attracted to the elevator operator, Fran Kubelik, who in turn is having an affair with Bud’s immediate boss, Jeff D. Sheldrake.
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