"The Apartment" producer Billy Wilder winning the Oscar® for Best Picture at the 33rd Academy Awards® in 1961. Introduced by Bob Hope and presented by Audrey Hepburn.
Just finished watching The Apartment, it was sooo great & touching. Jack Lemmon & Shirley MacLaine were great together. Very funny, adorable and impressive. It's now one of my best movie list.
Fran Kubilik is my favorite Shirley MacLaine performance ever. All the actors were wonderful, but Shirley was robbed of an Oscar in 1961. As she memorably stated, "I lost to a tracheotomy." It shows you how often the Academy voters get it wrong.
Darling Audrey! Will never get enough of her clips. So painfully missed. Look how excitied she was for Billy, her former director. She was just as happy when she gave it to Fred Zinnemann 6 years later. This was Jerry Wald's final nod before he passed the following year. His wife, Connie (now in her 90's), was one of Audrey's best friends. Ahh Hollywood!!
I'm such a lifelong fan of Audrey AND The Apartment and I never never knew she was the one to announce it the Best Picture of the year, darn it ! Your video made my day, thank you so much ! :D
Brilliant flawless film! I loved every single minute. Billy Wilder was such a fantastic director. He's done some of my absolute favourites: Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot, and now this! All classics!
Double Indemnity was also great one. Right, its a flawless film right from the screenplay level. So detailing in the screenplay. In a scene, Shirley Maclaine consuming sleeping pills. The presence of pills in the house was established at the very beginning, as Jack Lemmon used it every night before going to bed. These type of minor details are there throughout the movie, which really makes it a perfect film.
What a marvelous film. MacLaine and Lemmon were unstoppable and utterly brilliant, and the screenplay and direction were absolutely fantastic. A classic.
Every now and then when I'm down or blue I just have to watch The Apartment and all of a sudden everything seems to be alright! that's what movies magic is all about.
Always elegant, always classy Audrey Hepburn. Her hairstyle leads me to believe she was most likely filming Breakfast At Tiffanys at this time. The golden years when stars really were stars.
Billy Wilder's "The Apartment" was arguably the best crafted film of the nominees, although I am in agreement that Hitchcock's "Psycho" should have been nominated in place of Wayne's "The Alamo", an overblown vehicle for Wayne without real artistic merit. The Apartment has a great script by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond, and superb performances by Jack Lemmon and Shirley Maclaine. Wilder continued to make good films, i.e. One, Two, Three and The Fortune Cookie, but this was his pinnacle.
I think too Audrey knew he was nervous and emotional. Glad she was there she directed and led him offstage. Who knows maybe he was nervous with Audrey by his side. Who wouldn't be a little speechless.
People still get them mixed up. Audrey Hepburn won best actress for Roman Holiday in 1953 directed by William Wyler. The next year she was nominated again for her big hit film Sabrina directed by Billy Wilder. These two directors always seemed to get confused with each other.
@@guileniam commercially, yes. With critics, it was too shocking and off kilter for it's time. It certainly deserved a nomination, and in terms of influence it is the more important film, but having seen both, I do prefer the Apartment.
Wilder was instrumental in defying the Hays Code, the censorship rules imposed on film makers from 1933 to 1968. He had a remarkable ability to cast his pictures with near perfect actors and his screenwriting was impeccable. A giant of the industry.
I know, right?? I just watched Irma la Douce and thought to myself, WTF, a film about a prostitute? and showing her baby bumb and all, which was forbidden during the code.. but this was 1963 and the Code had become obsolete. It would be replaced by the rating system only 5 years later. Still, Billy Wilder always pushed the envelope: Think of Ball of Fire, a film where the morally dubious showgirl gets the boy; or Double Indemnity where you wish Walter Ness could get away with murder... He was a genius filmmaker!
It's interesting that the presenter stood so close to the recipient of the Oscar in those days. Nowadays, the presenters step aside for the recipients during the Oscars so that the focus is on the latter's acceptance speech. How times have changed.
I agree with the many posters who said Psycho should have been nominated along with The Apartment as Best Picture. In my opinion Psycho is one of the 10 best films ever made. But The Apartment was still better.
Armando Armand you are so right. Watching The Apartment is therapy somehow. It makes me feel comforted and better. Great characters and life relating. I guess that is what magical movies are all about.
I think the two kisses from Audrey made Billy a bit nervous. Snow White killing the old wolf, ha ha. Anyway, it was Billy who said of Audrey's charm, "God kissed her on the cheek, and there she was".
Shirley MacLaine is a totally beautiful young woman in this movie. That doesn't even cover her acting ability, which is also incredible. They chose a good cast--I don't think they could have done better in that regard. Jack Lemmon is in top form here. I knew Fred MacMurray only from My Three Sons before I saw this movie. It turns out that he was quite good at playing a heel instead of only a good-guy dad.
Billy has told that he and Ernest Lehman were still writing "Sabrina" during the evenings and shooting the following day, as they were behind schedule with the final scenes. Audrey feigned illness to let them focus on the screenplay.
Of course PSYCHO should have been nominated ... but remember, this was 1961 and there was no way back then that the Academy was going to give awards to a film about a crossdressing psycho who hacks to death a nude woman who just stole 40000$ dollars to elope with her lover ! ;)
They should do a ceremony where this is the only category and individuals come out on stage one after the other for a couple hours, describe their favorite film, their emotional attachment to it, and then get to personally present an award to someone associated with the movie. One they perhaps consider the reason they got into the motion picture industry. The overall vibe of the ceremony would be cinema snobs, film majors, and audiences interacting from home all trying to determine what the truly great ones are and persuading others among the participating group to agree and all come to a conclusion of what the best one is from a particular time period. It would be an ongoing thing, maybe every 3 weeks. The assessments would have to have some substance. We're not just gonna throw a legacy award at a movie someone thought was funny. They'd have to express with insightful language why the film stands as a solid, meaningful representation of the medium and why in their opinion it's the best thing they've ever associated with.
It's amazing that Psycho wasn't even among the nominees that year. The Apartment is without a doubt a well deserved Oscar winner, a resounding masterpiece and my favorite Billy Wilder movie, but Psycho is maybe the best movie ever made.
the movie Psycho should have been nominated. The direction alone was so good. of course this type of movie was risky in the 1960's. If it were today, it would have won best picture. Alfred Hitchcock was a genius for suspense and direction.
William Powell and Mirna Loyd played Nick and Nora Charles in The Thin Man (and After the Thin Man and more thin man movies). They're play a great couple on screen. They also drink a lot.
Say no more......the best movie of all time !!!! Can you Imagine owning a prop from the movie !! ?? Would the tennis racket be the best ?? Or maybe the album of the pianist ??
Psycho wasn't nominated despite being a huge hit , the voters probably just saw it as a extended version of an episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" TV show, as it was filmed by Hitchcock's TV crew.
For me this list should have been: The Apartment The Sundowners Suns and Lovers Elmer Gantry Psycho Spartacus Never on Sunday Tunes of Glory Inherit the Wind The Facts of Life
This was the early 1960's when Hollywood was still very classy. Can anyone imagine Billy Wilder or some other nominee running up on stage back then to slug Bob Hope? Probably not in a million years.
Wilder y sus palabras al recibir la estatuilla de manos de Audrey Hepburn en 1960 por mejor película " El Apartamento ": "...No sé qué decir, este premio, por supuesto, pertenece a todo el equipo, el centro técnico, los actores, los extras, la gente maravillosa en la parte de atrás encerrada en los espejos maravillosos en la oficina principal, pero creo que sería correcto cortar. justo por la mitad y dárselo a los dos jugadores más valiosos mr. Jack Lemmon y la señorita Shirley MacLaine. "
This is the EARLIEST Oscar program that I remember seeing, when it was NEW and I wasn't quite 6 years old. No, I can't remember Audrey at all, as the presenter. I just know, at the end they said "The Apartment", and I said " what's the Apartment?" Yes, I saw it several times since (but NOT in a theater).
+Lynn Turman I actually have...once, years ago. It was one of, if not the first "Best Picture" I ever saw. I remember it being pretty good. I haven't had a chance to check it out again since, unfortunately.
The Oscar should of gone to Psycho. #2 La Dolce Vita (aka: The Sweet Life) (Italy), #3 Spartacus, #4 The Apartment, #5 Breathless (France), #6 The White Dove (Czechoslovakia), #7 The Entertainer (UK), #8 The Sundowners, #9 Inherit The Wind, #10 L'Avventura (France-Italy).
Oscar. Lo de enfer mental ayer. Yo. Casi. Cobro. Ya te. Lo. Esplicare esa. Noty cinco españa frex .medio. Día. Oscar. Eso. Es. Global alimerka vean. Esas. Imágenes ok. Oscar. Lo revisen. Reparen. Cyl. Ok. Ese es de asturias en este. Tiempo. Vuelvo ok oscar. Sabes que es. Emegengencua. Salud. Total. En un estado. Global. Salud vida. Menú. Vuelvo. Oscar.
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Just finished watching The Apartment, it was sooo great & touching. Jack Lemmon & Shirley MacLaine were great together. Very funny, adorable and impressive. It's now one of my best movie list.
I watch this movie every Christmas now. Amazing film.
Fran Kubilik is my favorite Shirley MacLaine performance ever. All the actors were wonderful, but Shirley was robbed of an Oscar in 1961. As she memorably stated, "I lost to a tracheotomy." It shows you how often the Academy voters get it wrong.
Fred MacMurray was also great in this movie.
Its really a lovely movie. Jack Lemmon and Shirley Maclaine were fantastic.
Darling Audrey! Will never get enough of her clips. So painfully missed. Look how excitied she was for Billy, her former director. She was just as happy when she gave it to Fred Zinnemann 6 years later. This was Jerry Wald's final nod before he passed the following year. His wife, Connie (now in her 90's), was one of Audrey's best friends. Ahh Hollywood!!
This is undoubtly one of the best winners of all time in this category, hands down
This movie was waaaay ahead of its time.
the Apartment is in my top 10 greatest Movies of all time!
Love that Billy gave due credit to Jack And Shirley in his speech.
yeah
I'm such a lifelong fan of Audrey AND The Apartment and I never never knew she was the one to announce it the Best Picture of the year, darn it ! Your video made my day, thank you so much ! :D
Audrey never stops to delight me. She is so gracious and elegant.
You can see the joy of Audrey saying the name of his friend 💙💙
Just as Audrey looked in Breakfast at Tiffanys.
Brilliant flawless film! I loved every single minute. Billy Wilder was such a fantastic director. He's done some of my absolute favourites: Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot, and now this! All classics!
Double Indemnity was also great one.
Right, its a flawless film right from the screenplay level. So detailing in the screenplay.
In a scene, Shirley Maclaine consuming sleeping pills. The presence of pills in the house was established at the very beginning, as Jack Lemmon used it every night before going to bed. These type of minor details are there throughout the movie, which really makes it a perfect film.
What a marvelous film. MacLaine and Lemmon were unstoppable and utterly brilliant, and the screenplay and direction were absolutely fantastic. A classic.
Every now and then when I'm down or blue I just have to watch The Apartment and all of a sudden everything seems to be alright! that's what movies magic is all about.
Always elegant, always classy Audrey Hepburn. Her hairstyle leads me to believe she was most likely filming Breakfast At Tiffanys at this time. The golden years when stars really were stars.
I watched this movie the other day and now i see this well deserved
Holly golightly is on stage
She looked so good with blonde highlights.
She looked amazing!
but she alwaysss looked amazing lol
+anna She was amazing. Never get tired of her clips. She left us way too soon.
love this movie more than my life
Billy Wilder's "The Apartment" was arguably the best crafted film of the nominees, although I am in agreement that Hitchcock's "Psycho" should have been nominated in place of Wayne's "The Alamo", an overblown vehicle for Wayne without real artistic merit. The Apartment has a great script by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond, and superb performances by Jack Lemmon and Shirley Maclaine. Wilder continued to make good films, i.e. One, Two, Three and The Fortune Cookie, but this was his pinnacle.
@Oran Not spartacus. God.
The Alamo was a great film; it took the man 14 years to make it! That's dedication!
I watch this movie every year or so my top 10 of all time
Audrey Hepburn will always be in our hearts!
Pure class with Hepburn presenting to Mr. Wilder, in one of the best acting duo roles in cinema history, Jack & Shirely. What great footage.Thank you
I think too Audrey knew he was nervous and emotional. Glad she was there she directed and led him offstage. Who knows maybe he was nervous with Audrey by his side. Who wouldn't be a little speechless.
Awesome movie.
Billy Wilder: The best director in the film history!
People still get them mixed up. Audrey Hepburn won best actress for Roman Holiday in 1953 directed by William Wyler. The next year she was nominated again for her big hit film Sabrina directed by Billy Wilder. These two directors always seemed to get confused with each other.
The Apartment is a very funny movie that still holds up almost 70 years later!
Audrey Hepburn lovely actress, such a fine gift in a very beloved woman. And "The Apartment", such a fun to watch, can't ask for more...
Imagine a single nominee for producer (of a likely best picture winner) sitting so far back in the audience today. Those were the days!
Psycho should have been nominated. It would have been a very worthy rival for Best Picture.
It wasn't well liked during the time of it's release. It was way ahead of it's time. Same with Vertigo. Gigi won Best Picture instead of Vertigo.
Both Psycho and The Apartment are in my top 10 films, but to me The Apartment ranks higher
@@laurajones1773 it was a big hit?
@@guileniam commercially, yes. With critics, it was too shocking and off kilter for it's time. It certainly deserved a nomination, and in terms of influence it is the more important film, but having seen both, I do prefer the Apartment.
Wilder was instrumental in defying the Hays Code, the censorship rules imposed on film makers from 1933 to 1968. He had a remarkable ability to cast his pictures with near perfect actors and his screenwriting was impeccable. A giant of the industry.
I know, right?? I just watched Irma la Douce and thought to myself, WTF, a film about a prostitute? and showing her baby bumb and all, which was forbidden during the code.. but this was 1963 and the Code had become obsolete. It would be replaced by the rating system only 5 years later. Still, Billy Wilder always pushed the envelope:
Think of Ball of Fire, a film where the morally dubious showgirl gets the boy; or Double Indemnity where you wish Walter Ness could get away with murder... He was a genius filmmaker!
It's interesting that the presenter stood so close to the recipient of the Oscar in those days. Nowadays, the presenters step aside for the recipients during the Oscars so that the focus is on the latter's acceptance speech. How times have changed.
I agree with the many posters who said Psycho should have been nominated along with The Apartment as Best Picture. In my opinion Psycho is one of the 10 best films ever made. But The Apartment was still better.
Just look at Audrey Hepburn, she's just wonderful!
Armando Armand you are so right. Watching The Apartment is therapy somehow. It makes me feel comforted and better. Great characters and life relating. I guess that is what magical movies are all about.
It has been 51 years but the emotion of hearing who is the winner is simply great!
Audrey and Billy...things just aren't the same anymore.
I think the two kisses from Audrey made Billy a bit nervous. Snow White killing the old wolf, ha ha.
Anyway, it was Billy who said of Audrey's charm, "God kissed her on the cheek, and there she was".
This was the pinnacle for Billy Wilder but let's not forget Double Indemnity 1944.
Brooke Kavanaugh kissing Audrey Hepburn you're damned right
Also Lost Weekend which was like a work of poetry from beginning to end.
Wilder had a sign in his room, "What would Lubitsch do?" I have a sign in my room:
"What would Wilder do?"
Me too!
SHE WAS EXQUISITE , AND BILLY WILDER A GENIUS !
Billy wilder is a master.
Audrey Hepburn: Stunning like always!
And lucky Fred MacMurray was involved with both of Billy's two Masterpieces Double Indemnity and The Apartment. Wilder was TOPS.
Shirley MacLaine is a totally beautiful young woman in this movie. That doesn't even cover her acting ability, which is also incredible. They chose a good cast--I don't think they could have done better in that regard. Jack Lemmon is in top form here. I knew Fred MacMurray only from My Three Sons before I saw this movie. It turns out that he was quite good at playing a heel instead of only a good-guy dad.
Billy has told that he and Ernest Lehman were still writing "Sabrina" during the evenings and shooting the following day, as they were behind schedule with the final scenes. Audrey feigned illness to let them focus on the screenplay.
"I don't know what to say"....I've already been up here twice tonight!
I wish Audrey would present me with an award.
I'm 18 years old and this is my favorite movie
And now you're 26
@@gurlglamour4257 now 28
Now 28 years old
This is easily one of the top 5 BP winners, right up there with Casablanca, It Happened One Night and The Godfather
He directed Hepburn in Sabrina, so they were pals. WIlder had won so many Oscars by then, he was like, "Oh, another one. That's nice."
He directed her in Love In The Afternoon too.
Audrey Hepburn... what a lady!
Audrey Hepburn. True class.
A genius of the art of writing and directing.
One of my favorite movies!! Thanks for sharing... it's always exciting to see "new" old clips on your channel :)
Billy Wilder the best producer of comedy ever to hit the big screen
I totally love her !!
Of course PSYCHO should have been nominated ... but remember, this was 1961 and there was no way back then that the Academy was going to give awards to a film about a crossdressing psycho who hacks to death a nude woman who just stole 40000$ dollars to elope with her lover ! ;)
Well said.
Not to mention his relationship to his mother lol
They should do a ceremony where this is the only category and individuals come out on stage one after the other for a couple hours, describe their favorite film, their emotional attachment to it, and then get to personally present an award to someone associated with the movie. One they perhaps consider the reason they got into the motion picture industry.
The overall vibe of the ceremony would be cinema snobs, film majors, and audiences interacting from home all trying to determine what the truly great ones are and persuading others among the participating group to agree and all come to a conclusion of what the best one is from a particular time period.
It would be an ongoing thing, maybe every 3 weeks. The assessments would have to have some substance. We're not just gonna throw a legacy award at a movie someone thought was funny. They'd have to express with insightful language why the film stands as a solid, meaningful representation of the medium and why in their opinion it's the best thing they've ever associated with.
True decision, well deserved
It's amazing that Psycho wasn't even among the nominees that year. The Apartment is without a doubt a well deserved Oscar winner, a resounding masterpiece and my favorite Billy Wilder movie, but Psycho is maybe the best movie ever made.
instead they nominated a piece of historical revisionism...the alamo
Audrey is exquisite and classic, I'm in love with her!!!, I'm gonna watch Breakfast at Tiffany's right now!
the movie Psycho should have been nominated. The direction alone was so good. of course this type of movie was risky in the 1960's. If it were today, it would have won best picture. Alfred Hitchcock was a genius for suspense and direction.
For me is the best picture ever!!!
im sooooo late to this movie. im young. what a film. shirley mcclaine was so amazing in this. like a special star. she really was ahead ofher time no?
The Apartment owns the rest of the four contenders!!
A very simple movie of love.
im surprised Director Billy Wilder seemed to be seated so far from the stage. He should have been seated in the first few rows.
William Powell and Mirna Loyd played Nick and Nora Charles in The Thin Man (and After the Thin Man and more thin man movies). They're play a great couple on screen. They also drink a lot.
Say no more......the best movie of all time !!!! Can you Imagine owning a prop from the movie !! ?? Would the tennis racket be the best ?? Or maybe the album of the pianist ??
So many to choose from.
The Apartment I'd kill for the thermometer Jack used to take his temperature. :)
Psycho wasn't nominated despite being a huge hit , the voters probably just saw it as a extended version of an episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" TV show, as it was filmed by Hitchcock's TV crew.
I'm in looove with her.
Definitely deserving, though I think "Psycho" and "Spartacus" deserved nominations as well.
Oh fuck...audrey is fucking beautiful
Damn..Bob hope was looking sharp!!
@lonelygnome1 AGELESS. The Apartment is my best anti depresant drug. In fact Billy Wilder's filmography is the best drug store ever.
I love "THE APARTMENT", but I would have much preferred Alfred Hitchcock's "PSYCHO" be nominated for Best Picture alongside it.
she was in full "Breakfast at Tiffany's" drag
Nice speech.
For me this list should have been:
The Apartment
The Sundowners
Suns and Lovers
Elmer Gantry
Psycho
Spartacus
Never on Sunday
Tunes of Glory
Inherit the Wind
The Facts of Life
This was the early 1960's when Hollywood was still very classy. Can anyone imagine Billy Wilder or some other nominee running up on stage back then to slug Bob Hope? Probably not in a million years.
Ah, to return to the days when there were only five Best Picture nominees.
I cpuldmt agree more!!! There have neverr been ten movies worthy of best picture, especially now!!
Well deserved:)
what a cutie
Yes and he directed great movies too
Wilder y sus palabras al recibir la estatuilla de manos de Audrey Hepburn en 1960 por mejor película " El Apartamento ": "...No sé qué decir, este premio, por supuesto, pertenece a todo el equipo, el centro técnico, los actores, los extras, la gente maravillosa en la parte de atrás encerrada en los espejos maravillosos en la oficina principal, pero creo que sería correcto cortar. justo por la mitad y dárselo a los dos jugadores más valiosos mr. Jack Lemmon y la señorita Shirley MacLaine. "
Amo esa película
Magic audrey
Eu amo esse filme.... perfeito em tudo.
WIlder took less than a minute and got everyone in.Take a lesson from someone who made classics.
This is the EARLIEST Oscar program that I remember seeing, when it was NEW and I wasn't quite 6 years old. No, I can't remember Audrey at all, as the presenter. I just know, at the end they said "The Apartment", and I said " what's the Apartment?" Yes, I saw it several times since (but NOT in a theater).
Was "The Apartment" the last "Best Picture" to be shot in black and white?
There's Schindler's List in 1994 & The Artist in 2012
@@heisen-bones Thanks for the info!
GOAT romantic comedy. Maybe "Annie Hall" is seeing it. Maybe.
Have you ever seen It Happened One Night?
+Lynn Turman I actually have...once, years ago. It was one of, if not the first "Best Picture" I ever saw. I remember it being pretty good. I haven't had a chance to check it out again since, unfortunately.
HovaNirvana It's gotta be right up there with the other two you mentioned.
That's entirely possible. I was a kid when I first saw it. I'm pretty sure if I were to watch it again I'd be able to appreciate it more.
HovaNirvana I think so too. :-)
short film update please
I think Audrey was unaware about the fact that u need to step away from the podium
Who wants Audrey Hepburn to step out of the picture?
Billy and Audrey were good friends, I don’t think Billy was complaining
back in the days when the teleprompter was just a brick wall
Yay?
The Oscar should of gone to Psycho. #2 La Dolce Vita (aka: The Sweet Life) (Italy), #3 Spartacus, #4 The Apartment, #5 Breathless (France), #6 The White Dove (Czechoslovakia), #7 The Entertainer (UK), #8 The Sundowners, #9 Inherit The Wind, #10 L'Avventura (France-Italy).
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When grace and elegance were in fashion - not vulgarity and trash...
Deserved, since Psycho was not nominated.
Spartacus wasn't nominated either.
third?
Oscar. Lo de enfer mental ayer. Yo. Casi. Cobro. Ya te. Lo. Esplicare esa. Noty cinco españa frex .medio. Día. Oscar. Eso. Es. Global alimerka vean. Esas. Imágenes ok. Oscar. Lo revisen. Reparen. Cyl. Ok. Ese es de asturias en este. Tiempo. Vuelvo ok oscar. Sabes que es. Emegengencua. Salud. Total. En un estado. Global. Salud vida. Menú. Vuelvo. Oscar.
@Mrfoodlvr614 I only said my age cuz everyone seems to think that this generation is full of shit and I'm trying to show not all of it is shit.
Im Soooo happy:) to see that psycho was not even nominated its sooooooo overrated!!!!!!!!!!:):):)
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