Sunset Blvd (1950)

Academy Awards, USA
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
1951	Won	Oscar	Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White Hans Dreier John Meehan Sam Comer Ray Moyer
			Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture Franz Waxman
			Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Charles Brackett Billy Wilder D.M. Marshman Jr.
	Nominated	Oscar	Best Actor in a Leading Role William Holden
			Best Actor in a Supporting Role Erich von Stroheim
			Best Actress in a Leading Role Gloria Swanson
			Best Actress in a Supporting Role Nancy Olson
			Best Cinematography, Black-and-White John F. Seitz
			Best Director Billy Wilder
			Best Film Editing Arthur P. Schmidt Doane Harrison
			Best Picture (Paramount).

Paramount Pictures
Directed by Billy Wilder
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, Paramount)

Down and out Hollywood writer William Holden stumbles on the decaying mansion of a silent film icon Gloria Swanson and ends up staying for awhile. In exchange for re-writing a script meant to be her comeback after 20 years, she lavishes him with expensive clothes, jewelry and gifts. At first he lives above the garage, but after a few months he's living in her bedroom. He sneaks out at night to write a real screenplay with buddy Nancy Olson, but when she ends up falling in love with him complications ensue. The whole movie is self-referential, including some gratuitous shots of the Paramount studios, a major plot point is given away by the opening scene and Swanson not only chews the scenery she spits it out, but undeniably entertaining. The final scene is justifiably legendary.