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

Wilder juggles the three Oscars he won for The Apartment
Billy Wilder (born Samuel Wilder) was a newspaper reporter in Vienna in the 20's, then later Berlin, and began writing screenplays in 1929, which he did until Hitler came to power in 1933. With Jewish ancestry, he fled to Paris to escape the Nazis, then came to the U.S. He first started as a screenwriter, penning the famous Garbo film

Billy Wilder was born in Austria-Hungary, in what is now Malopolski, Poland. As a newswriter, he emigrated from Austria to Berlin writing for their biggest tabloid. By the time Hitler came to power in 1933, he had written some screenplays for the Berlin film industry, starting in 1929. With Jewish ancestry, Wilder had to flee the Nazis, first to Paris (directing Mauvaise Graine there in 1934,