'' Double Indemnity '' has been compared with Wilder 's other acclaimed film noir , '' Sunset Boulevard '' ( 1950 ) . The narrative structure in both films begin and end in the present , but the bulk of the plot is told in flashback narrated by their protagonists . Sklar explains , " T he unusual juxtaposition of temporalities gives the spectator a premonition of what will occur/has occurred in the flashback story . ... Besides '' Double Indemnity '' and '' Detour '' , voice-over is a key aspect of '' Mildred Pierce '' , '' Gilda '' , '' The Lady from Shanghai '' , and '' Out of the Past '' ... as well as many others . " Critic and writer Wendy Lesser notes that the narrator of '' Sunset Boulevard '' is dead before he begins narrating , but in '' Double Indemnity '' , " the voice-over has a different meaning . It is not the voice of a dead man ... it is ... the voice of an already doomed man . " At the 17th Academy Awards on March 15 , 1945 , '' Double Indemnity '' was nominated for seven Oscars , but did not win any
17th Academy Awards
17th Academy Awards
Double Indemnity (film)