The Apartment (1960)
Starring
Jack Lemmon, Shirley
Maclaine, Fred MacMurray
Director
Billy Wilder
Awards
Academy Awards
Best Picture
Best Director - Billy Wilder
Screenplay - Wilder and I. A. L.
Diamond
Editing - Daniel Mandell
Art Direction and Set Decoration -
Alexander Trauner and Edward G. Boyle
Academy Award Nomination
Best Actor - Jack Lemmon
Best Actress - Shirley MacLaine
Plot Synopsis
An ambitious young insurance clerk tries to get ahead by lending
his apartment key to several of the company's philandering executives. But when he falls
in love with the building's elevator operator, he soon realizes that she's the woman his
married boss has been taking to the apartment for romantic trysts. Spurred on by the
exhortations of the philosophising doctor who lives next door to him, the troubled young
man eventually re-examines his priorities and decides to be true to himself and drop out
of the rat race. In the process, he also wins the girl.