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Film Director Billy Wilder (C) with US actor Jack Lemmon (L) and US actor Tony Curtis (R). Wilder has earned a total of 21 Academy Award nominations throughout his career. Some of his films include "The Seven Year Itch","Sunset Blvd.","The Apartment","Irma la Douce" and "Some Like it Hot" which starred Lemmon, Curtis and Marilyn Monroe. Wilder, born in Austria, has died of pneumonia at the age of 95 in his Beverly Hills home, industry daily Variety reported 28 March, 2002. Wilder was admitted to a local hospital with breathing difficulties in December and died late 27 March. Wilder was born in Austria and worked as a journalist in Berlin before emigrating to Hollywood in 1933 after the rise of Adolph Hitler. (KEYSTONE/EPA PHOTO AFP/Str) === ===