I. A. L. Diamond

I. A. L. Diamond partnered with director Billy Wilder for three decades, co-writing twelve films together including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, and Irma la Douce. Born Ițec Domnici in Romania, he emigrated to Brooklyn, excelled at mathematics, and studied journalism at Columbia University before turning to screenwriting under his adopted pen name. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Apartment in 1960, after an earlier nomination for Some Like It Hot, and shared the Writers Guild's Laurel Award for career achievement with Wilder in 1980.