Oscar Rewrite: 1945

 

Best Picture: The Lost Weekend         Brief Encounter

Best Director: Billy Wilder (The Lost Weekend)  Rome, Open City)

Best Actor: Ray Milland (The Lost Weekend)

Best Actress: Joan Crawford (Mildred Pierce)

Best Supporting Actor: James Dunn (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn) Jack Carson (Mildred Pierce)

Best Supporting Actress: Anne Revere (National Velvet)

Best Original Screenplay: Marie-Louise      Children of Paradise

Best Adapted Screenplay: The Lost Weekend   Spellbound

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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