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Wilder's Oscars Returned to Academy
The widow of the late Hollywood director Billy Wilder, who died in March at the age of 95 after a long bout with pneumonia, has donated the iconic filmmaker's six Oscars to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for safekeeping.
The awards were returned on Tuesday before a Los Angeles screening of Wilder's 1945 classic alcoholism drama, The Lost Weekend. Audrey Wilder gave academy president Frank Pierson all six statuettes, as well as her husband's Irving G. Thalberg Award, which was given to him in 1988 for lifetime achievement.
"We like to have them stay with the family if possible, but if not, we prefer that they either come back to us or go to a reputable museum or something like that. Many recipients include in their will that they should go to a university or institution if they don't have family," explains academy spokesman John Pavlik. "But in this instance, Mrs. Wilder decided the academy would be a better choice since they would be well protected."
The Oscars include the two Wilder won for cowriting and directing Weekend, a third for cowriting Sunset Boulevard (1950), and the remaining troika for cowriting, producing and directing 1960's Best Picture winner The Apartment. He was nominated a total of 21 times.
The Academy frowns on recipients hocking the little golden guys for profit and now makes winners sign an agreement giving the academy a chance to buy the statuettes back for $1. Usually most recipients end up passing the award on to their heirs.
"We don't want them selling so that's what [the contract] is for," noted Pavlick.
When Mrs. Wilder informed the Oscar folks that she wanted to give her hubby's statuettes back, it just so happened that Weekend was showing as part of the Motion Picture Academy's 75th anniversary screenings of the Best Picture winners. So they invited her to come out before the movie to present the awards, and the audience gave her a standing ovation.
"It was a nice little moment," says Pavlik.
And a fitting tribute to Wilder, the iconic filmmaker who, in addition to his Oscar-winning work, gave moviegoers such classics as Double Indemnity, Ninotchka, Stalag 17, Some Like It Hot, The Seven Year Itch and Sabrina.
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