Oscar Rewrite: 1936

 

Best Picture: The Great Ziegfeld     Modern Times

Best Director: Frank Capra (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town) Alfred Hitchcock (Sabotage)

 Best Actor: Paul Muni (The Story of Louis Pasteur)    Fred Astaire (Swing Time)

Best Actress:  Luise Rainer (The Great Ziegfeld)    Greta Garbo (Camille)

Best Supporting Actor: Walter Brennan (Come and Get It) Curly Howard (Disorder in the Court)

Best Supporting Actress: Gale Sondegaard (Anthony Adverse) Maria Ouspenskaya (Dodsworth)

Best Original Screenplay: The Story of Louis Pasteur     Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Best Adapted Screenplay: Dodsworth My Man Godfrey

Jason Fraley

Hailed by The Washington Post for “his savantlike ability to name every Best Picture winner in history," Jason Fraley began at WTOP as Morning Drive Writer in 2008, film critic in 2011 and Entertainment Editor in 2014, providing daily arts coverage on-air and online.

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