Billy Wilder is a film director.
Billy Wilder . He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood 's golden age . After the rise of the Nazi Party , he left for Paris , where he made his directorial debut . Wilder established his directorial reputation with an adaption of James M. Cain 's Double Indemnity ( 1944 ) , a film noir . Wilder earned the Best Director and Best Screenplay Academy Awards for the adaptation of a Charles R. Jackson story The Lost Weekend ( 1945 ) , about alcoholism . Double Indemnity is a 1944 film noir directed by Billy Wilder , co-written by Wilder and Raymond Chandler , and produced by Buddy DeSylva and Joseph Sistrom .