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THE END OF THE WILDER DAYS! Hollywood loses a legend! Reported By: Randy Jennings Thursday, March 28, 2002 Director and screenwriter Billy Wilder, 95, passed away on Thursday, March 28, 2002. Wilder, shown with actor Arnold Schwarzenegger accepting The Billy Wilder Award during ceremonies at Spago November 6, 2000 in Beverly Hills, received twenty Academy Awards nominations and won six Oscars during his illustrious career; three of them in 1960 for Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Picture for The Apartment. Wilder was born in Vienna and broke into films in Germany as a screenwriter. In 1933, he fled Nazi Germany for Paris, and then to Hollywood in 1934. ---------- |