Post #424800 by bigbrotiki on Thu, Dec 18, 2008 9:03 PM

Wow, so The Apartment won an Oscar for art direction! And thanks for those U-Tube links, it really makes it fun to shuttle through the angles. I always tend to forget that it was shot as late as 1960, because black and white seems so unusual for the time. But Billy Wilder was an old school director, his best films were done in black and white, and so even if by 1960 on location shooting was beginning to happen, he went with in studio sets all the way.