Question: The Fortune Cookie (alternative UK title: Meet Whiplash Willie) is a 1966 black comedy film starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau in their first on-screen collaboration, It was produced and directed by Billy Wilder, Samuel "Billy" Wilder was an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist whose career spanned more than how many decades?

full_context: Document 1: Walter Matthau: Walter Matthau ( ; born Walter John Matthow; October 1, 1920 – July 1, 2000) was an American actor and comedian, best known for his role as Oscar Madison in "The Odd Couple" and its sequel 30 years later, "The Odd Couple II", and his frequent collaborations with "Odd Couple" co-star Jack Lemmon, particularly in the '90s with "Grumpy Old Men" and its sequel "Grumpier Old Men". He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the 1966 Billy Wilder film "The Fortune Cookie." Besides the Oscar, he was the winner of BAFTA, Golden Globe and Tony awards.
Document 2: Jack Lemmon - A Twist of Lemmon: In the setting of his office, Jack Lemmon shares some memories of his childhood and his relationship with his father that led him to develop a certain sense of humour and, ultimately, to become a professional entertainer. Lemmon expresses his personal mantra about film acting (“Simple is good”), and discusses some of his most important parts in Some Like it Hot and The Days of Wine and Roses. The film also contains original interviews with Walter Matthau and Billy Wilder, and film clips from The Odd Couple (1968), Kotch (1971), Lemmon’s first directorial effort, The Front Page (1974) and the 1976 TV adaptation of The Entertainer (play).
Document 3: The Fortune Cookie: The Fortune Cookie (alternative UK title: Meet Whiplash Willie) is a 1966 black comedy film starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau in their first on-screen collaboration. It was produced and directed by Billy Wilder from a script by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond.
Document 4: The Lost Weekend (film): The Lost Weekend is a 1945 American drama directed by Billy Wilder and starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman. The film was based on Charles R. Jackson's 1944 novel of the same name about an alcoholic writer. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won four: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay). It also shared the Grand Prix at the first Cannes Film Festival, making it one of only two films to win both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the highest award at Cannes.
Document 5: Robert Wise: Robert Earl Wise (September 10, 1914 – September 14, 2005) was an American film director, producer and editor. He won Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for both "West Side Story" (1961) and "The Sound of Music" (1965). He was also nominated for Best Film Editing for "Citizen Kane" (1941) and directed and produced "The Sand Pebbles" (1966), which was nominated for Best Picture.
Document 6: William Castle: William Castle (April 24, 1914 – May 31, 1977) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor.
Document 7: The Front Page (1974 film): The Front Page is a 1974 American black comedy-drama film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. The screenplay by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond is based on Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's play of the same name (1928), which inspired several other films.
Document 8: William A. Wellman: William Augustus Wellman (February 29, 1896 – December 9, 1975) was an American film director notable for his work in crime, adventure and action genre films, often focusing on aviation themes, a particular passion. He also directed several well-regarded satirical comedies. Beginning his film career as an actor, he went on to direct over 80 films, at times co-credited as producer and consultant. In 1927, Wellman directed "Wings", which became the first film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture at the 1st Academy Awards ceremony.
Document 9: Billy Wilder: Samuel "Billy" Wilder ( ; ] ; June 22, 1906March 27, 2002) was an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist whose career spanned more than five decades. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age. With "The Apartment", Wilder became the first person to win Academy Awards as producer, director, and screenwriter for the same film.
Document 10: Ron Rich: Ron Rich (born 1938 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American actor who played the roles of football player Luther 'Boom Boom' Jackson in the 1966 Billy Wilder comedy "The Fortune Cookie", and Juno in the 1968 film "Chubasco".
Document 11: Joseph L. Mankiewicz: Joseph Leo Mankiewicz (February 11, 1909 – February 5, 1993) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Mankiewicz had a long Hollywood career, and he twice won the Academy Award for both Best Director and Best Writing, Screenplay for "A Letter to Three Wives" (1949) and "All About Eve" (1950).
Document 12: Buddy Buddy: Buddy Buddy is a 1981 American comedy film directed by Billy Wilder that stars Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. The screenplay by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond is based on the 1973 French language film "L'emmerdeur", which screenwriter Francis Veber had adapted from his play "Le contrat".
Document 13: Warren Beatty: Henry Warren Beatty ("né" Beaty; born March 30, 1937), better known as Warren Beatty, is an American actor and filmmaker. He has been nominated for fourteen Academy Awards – four for Best Actor, four for Best Picture, two for Best Director, three for Original Screenplay, and one for Adapted Screenplay – winning Best Director for "Reds" (1981). Beatty is the only person to have been nominated for acting in, directing, writing, and producing the same film, and he did it twice – first for "Heaven Can Wait" (1978), and again for "Reds" (1981).
Document 14: William Horberg: William Horberg is a Hollywood film producer, chair of the Producers Guild of America on the East coast, and guest curator at ArtYard. His films include Anthony Minghella's adaptations of the novels "The Talented Mr. Ripley" and "Cold Mountain". He also produced the critically acclaimed "Fallen Angels" series for Showtime from 1993-1995.
Document 15: The Odd Couple (film): The Odd Couple is a 1968 American comedy Technicolor film in Panavision, written by Neil Simon, based on his play of the same name, produced by Howard W. Koch and directed by Gene Saks, and starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. It is the story of two divorced men—neurotic neat-freak Felix Ungar and fun-loving slob Oscar Madison—who decide to live together, even though their personalities clash.
ground_truth: five