Editing Billy Wilder (section)

==Retirement==
[[File:BW1989 crop.jpg|thumb|Wilder in 1989]]
Wilder received the [[American Film Institute]] (AFI) [[AFI Life Achievement Award|Life Achievement Award]] in 1986. He received the [[Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award]] in 1988, the [[Kennedy Center Honors]] in 1990 and the [[National Medal of Arts]] in 1993.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nea.gov/honors/medals/medalists_year.html |title=Lifetime Honors – National Medal of Arts |access-date=January 30, 2010 |archive-date=August 26, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130826194408/http://www.nea.gov/honors/medals/medalists_year.html |url-status=bot: unknown }} [[National Endowment for the Arts]]</ref> He has a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]]. Wilder became well known for owning one of the finest and most extensive art collections in Hollywood, mainly collecting modern art. As he described it in the mid-80s, "It's a sickness. I don't know how to stop myself. Call it [[bulimia]] if you want – or curiosity or passion. I have some [[Impressionists]], some [[Picasso]]s from every period, some mobiles by [[Alexander Calder|Calder]]. I also collect tiny Japanese trees, glass paperweights, and Chinese vases. Name an object and I collect it."<ref>Ed Sikov. ''On Sunset Boulevard – the Life and Times of Billy Wilder''  "Turnaround", p. 582.</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/30/arts/billy-wilder-decides-to-sell-some-of-his-art-collection.html|title=Billy Wilder Decides to Sell Some of His Art Collection|first=Andrew L.|last=Yarrow|newspaper=The New York Times|date=August 30, 1989}}</ref> Wilder's artistic ambitions led him to create a series of works of his own. By the early '90s, Wilder had amassed many plastic-artistic constructions, many of which were made in collaboration with artist Bruce Houston. In 1993, art dealer [[Louis Stern]], a longtime friend, helped organize an exhibition of Wilder's work at his Beverly Hills gallery. The exhibition was titled ''Billy Wilder's Marché aux Puces'' and the ''Variations on the Theme of [[Nefertiti|Queen Nefertete]]'' segment was notably popular. This series featured busts of the Egyptian queen wrapped ''à la'' [[Christo]], or splattered ''à la'' [[Jackson Pollock]], or sporting a Campbell's soup can in homage to [[Andy Warhol]].<ref>Charlotte Chandler. ''Nobody's Perfect: Billy Wilder – A Personal Biography''. "Nefertete", p. 317.</ref>