Nominated for ten Oscars—and winning five of them, including those for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay—The Apartment is a mordant comedy about getting ahead in today's corporate world. Jack Lemmon plays the 'schnook' who lends out his Upper West Side apartment for his boss's sexual trysts, only to fall in love with the boss's troubled girlfriend (Shirely MacLaine). A classic film for a variety of reasons, The Apartment boasts a beautifully written script in which the cynical tone and content of the narrative are saved by Wilder and Diamond's tenderness towards their central characters. This edition also offers a specially commissioned intoduction by Mark Cousins.

Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine star in this acclaimed satire from writer-director Billy Wilder. Insurance clerk C.C. Baxter (Lemmon) lets his superiors use his apartment as a secret love nest and as a result begins to make his way up in the company. Things go awry when director Mr. Sheldrake (Fred MacMurray) wants to use the apartment for a rendevouz with Fran Kubelik (MacLaine), an elevator operator whom the young clerk already holds a candle for. The film won five Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay.