Wilder with the three Oscars he wonfor best picture The Apartment (1960)
Billy Wilder
(Tied for 17th with 7 titles in the top 1000, he is 12th in overall points with 31,120)
Born Samuel Wilder in 1906, in a part of Austria-Hungary that is now in Poland. Once training as a lawyer, he began writing for a Viennese newspaper, then moved to Berlin, working as a newspaper columnist and screenwriter