Editing Billy Wilder (section)

=== 1960s ===
[[File:The apartment trailer 1.JPG|thumb|right|Lemmon and [[Shirley MacLaine]] in ''The Apartment'']]
In 1960, Wilder directed the comedy romance film ''[[The Apartment]]''. It follows an insurance clerk (Lemmon), who allows his coworkers to use his apartment to conduct extramarital affairs until he meets an elevator woman ([[Shirley MacLaine]]). The film was a critical success with ''[[The New York Times]]'' film critic [[Bosley Crowther]], who called the film "gleeful, tender, and even sentimental" and Wilder's direction "ingenious".<ref name="Crowther">{{cite news|last1=Crowther|first1=Bosley|title=Busy 'Apartment':Jack Lemmon Scores in Billy Wilder Film|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9C01EFD91638EF32A25755C1A9609C946191D6CF&mcubz=0|access-date=September 2, 2017|work=The New York Times|date=June 16, 1960}}</ref> The film received ten [[Academy Awards]] nominations and won five awards, including three for Wilder: Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay.

Wilder directed the [[Cold War]] political farce film ''[[One, Two, Three]]'' (1961), starring [[James Cagney]], which won critical praise with ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' writing, "Billy Wilder's ''One, Two, Three'' is a fast-paced, high-pitched, hard-hitting, lighthearted farce crammed with topical gags and spiced with satirical overtones. Story is so furiously quick-witted that some of its wit gets snarled and smothered in overlap."<ref>[https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117793729.html?categoryid=31&cs=1&p=0 ''Variety'']. Film review, 1961. Last accessed: January 31, 2008.</ref> It was followed by the romantic comedy ''[[Irma la Douce]]'' (1963) starring Lemmon and MacLaine. The film was the [[1963 in film|fifth highest-grossing film]] of the year. Wilder received a [[Writers Guild of America Award]] nomination for his screenplay. Wilder then wrote and directed the sex comedy film ''[[Kiss Me, Stupid]]'' starring [[Dean Martin]], [[Kim Novak]], and [[Ray Walston]], who was a last minute replacement for ailing [[Peter Sellers]]. The film was criticized by some critics for vulgarity, with [[Bosley Crowther]] blaming the film for giving American movies the reputation of "deliberate and degenerate corruptors of public taste and morals".<ref name="McNally2010">{{cite book|last=McNally|first=Karen|title=Billy Wilder, Movie-Maker: Critical Essays on the Films|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LAOzV2hJri8C&pg=PA136|date=December 16, 2010|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-8520-8|page=136}}</ref> A. H. Weiler of the ''[[New York Times]]'' called the film "pitifully unfunny". Wilder gained his final [[Academy Award]] nomination and a [[Writers Guild of America Award]] nomination for the screenplay of ''[[The Fortune Cookie]]'', which he co-produced through his independent film company, Phalanx Productions. It was the first film pairing Jack Lemmon with [[Walter Matthau]]. The film was titled ''Meet Whiplash Willie'' in the United Kingdom. In 1970, he directed ''[[The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes]]'', also made through Phalanx Productions, which was intended as a major [[roadshow theatrical release]], but to Wilder's dismay was heavily cut by the studio.<ref>{{cite news |title=Detective Work |author=Jonathan Coe |author-link=Jonathan Coe |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=30 April 2005 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/apr/30/jonathancoe.arthurconandoyle|access-date=12 January 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/23513 |access-date=September 18, 2024 |website=[[AFI Catalog of Feature Films]]}}</ref>