This article is about the 1960 film. For other uses, see Apartment (disambiguation).
The Apartment
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Billy Wilder
Written by
Billy Wilder
I. A. L. Diamond
Produced by
Billy Wilder
Starring
Jack Lemmon
Shirley MacLaine
Fred MacMurray
Ray Walston
Edie Adams
Cinematography
Joseph LaShelle
Edited by
Daniel Mandell
Music by
Adolph Deutsch
Production company
The Mirisch Company
Distributed by
United Artists
Release dates
June 15, 1960 (1960-06-15) (NY)[1]
June 21, 1960 (1960-06-21) (LA)[1]
July 23, 1960 (1960-07-23) (London)[1]
Running time
125 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$3 million
Box office
$24.6 million[2]
The Apartment is a 1960 American romantic comedy-drama film directed and produced by Billy Wilder from a screenplay he co-wrote with I. A. L. Diamond. It stars Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen, David Lewis, Willard Waterman, David White, Hope Holiday and Edie Adams.
The film follows an insurance clerk (Lemmon) who, in hopes of climbing the corporate ladder, allows more senior coworkers to use his Upper West Side apartment to conduct their extramarital affairs. He is attracted to an elevator operator (MacLaine) in his office building, unaware that she is having an affair with the head of personnel (MacMurray).
The Apartment was distributed by United Artists to widespread critical acclaim and was a commercial success, despite controversy owing to its subject matter. It became the 8th highest-grossing film of 1960. At the 33rd Academy Awards, the film was nominated for ten awards, and won five, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay. Lemmon, MacLaine and Kruschen were Oscar-nominated. Lemmon and MacLaine won Golden Globe Awards for their performances. It provided the basis for Promises, Promises, a 1968 Broadway musical by Burt Bacharach, Hal David and Neil Simon.
The Apartment has come to be regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, appearing in lists by the American Film Institute and Sight and Sound magazine. In 1994, it was one of the 25 films selected for inclusion to the United States Library of Congress National Film Registry.[3][4]
^ abcThe Apartment at the American Film Institute Catalog
^"The Apartment (1960)". The Numbers. Retrieved April 13, 2012.
^"25 Films Added to National Registry". The New York Times. 1994-11-15. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-05-18.
^"Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-05-18.
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