70 years for the Sunset Blvd.

On August 10, 1950, Billy Wilder's "Sunset Blvd." premiered in New York.

The next, 1951, year, "Sunset Blvd." received 7 Golden Globe nominations, of which 4 won, including the most important: Best Dramatic Film and Best Director. In the same 1951, the film received 11 Oscar nominations, of which it won three, but not the most important. In the most important nominations - Best Film and Best Director "Sunset Blvd." and Billy Wilder lost to "All About Eve", and, respectively, to its director Joseph L. Mankiewicz.

At European film forums, the highest achievement for the "Sunset Blvd." was the Danish Bodil Film Award for Best American Film.

With a budget of $ 1.75 million, the film grossed $ 2.35 million.

Roger Ebert gave the "Sunset Blvd." a maximum 4 stars, included it in his list of "Great Movies" and named it "the best drama ever made about the movies". Moreover, he did it almost half a century after the release of the film on the screens. But, probably, it would be more correct to say not about the movies, but about Hollywood. However, it is as anyone.

The film was not shown in the Soviet Union.

75% of IMDB and Kinopoisk users rated this film from 8 to 10. Taking into account this indicator and the above, the film's rating according to FilmGourmand's version was 8.843, making it 196th in the Golden Thousand.