Sunset Boulevard
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Starring: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim
Director: Billy Wilder
Writer: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D. M. Marshman, Jr.
Producer: Charles Brackett
Sunset Boulevard is a 1950 American black comedy film noir directed by Billy Wilder and co-written by Wilder, Charles Brackett, and D. M. Marshman Jr. It is named after a major street that runs through Hollywood and western Los Angeles.
Trivia
- Won the Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay.
- Won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Black and White.
- Won the Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score.
- Selected for the National Board of Review: Top Ten Films.
- Won the National Board of Review Award for Best Film.
- Also nominated for: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress; Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor; Academy Award for Best Actor; Academy Award for Best Actress; and 4 more.
- Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles has been associated with Hollywood film production since 1911, when the town's first film studio, Nestor, opened there.
- Film workers lived modestly in the growing neighborhood, but during the 1920s, profits and salaries rose to unprecedented levels.
- With the advent of the star system, luxurious homes noted for their often incongruous grandeur were built in the area.
Previous Showings
16 Runs • 11 Festivals
24,978 tickets sold
Original Billings: 1 run (March 29, 1951)
Original Run: March 29, 1951 (Thursday - Friday)
All runs on record (16):
- March 29, 1951 (Thursday - Friday)Gloria Swanson, William Holden
- February 4 - 11, 1994 · 4,925 ticketsw/ Sabrina
- May 19 - 21, 1995 · 1,333 ticketsw/ Bride of Frankenstein (The Bride of Frankenstein)
- August 24 - 27, 1996 · 2,496 ticketsw/ Citizen Kane
- September 23 - 30, 2000 · 3,021 ticketsSummer 2000w/ The Third Man
- June 14 - 19, 2002 · 1,794 ticketssummer02w/ Double Indemnity
- August 20 - 23, 2005 · 2,280 ticketsSummer 2005w/ Bride of Frankenstein
- October 20 - 23, 2007 · 1,042 ticketsFall 2007 The Films of Frank Capra, plus other favoritesw/ Some Like It Hot
- August 28 - 31, 2009 · 1,775 ticketsSummer 2009w/ Picnic
- November 3 - 5, 2009 · 355 tickets20th Anniversary Festivalw/ The Bad and the Beautiful
- December 7 - 9, 2011 · 755 ticketsFall 2011w/ Five Graves to Cairo
- February 25 - 28, 2016 · 1,432 ticketsw/ Singin' in the Rain
- March 3 - 6, 2016 · 1,118 ticketsHitchcock 2016w/ Psycho
- September 24, 2016 · 350 ticketsVienna and the Movies Curated by David Thomson. Booklets available at the theatrw/ Queen Kelly
- August 10 - 13, 2019 · 1,105 ticketsSummer 2019w/ Picnic
- September 28 - 29, 2024 · 1,197 ticketsFilm Noir plus Val Lewtonw/ Nightmare Alley