Billy Wilder (1906–2002) Director.

Billy Wilder was one of the defining filmmakers of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Wilder was born on June 22, 1906 into an Austrian Jewish family in Sucha Beskidzka, Austria-Hungary. He moved to Hollywood via Paris in 1933. Members of his immediate family perished in the Holocaust. In the United States, Billy Wilder reached Hollywood superstardom with films including Sunset Boulevard (1950), Some Like It Hot (1959), or The Apartment (1960). During his career spanning over five decades, Billy Wilder received 21 Academy Award nominations and won a total of six Oscars. He was the first person to win Academy Awards as director, producer and screenwriter for the same film (The Apartment).