Oscar Rewrite: 1946

 

Best Picture: The Best Years of Our Lives     It’s a Wonderful Life

Best Director: William Wyler (The Best Years of Our Lives) Jean Cocteau (Beauty and the Beast)

Best Actor: Fredric March (The Best Years of Our Lives) Henry Fonda (My Darling Clementine)

Best Actress: Olivia d’Havilland (To Each His Own)   Rita Hayworth (Gilda)

Best Supporting Actor: Harold Russell (The Best Years of Our Lives)

Best Supporting Actress: Anne Baxter (The Razor’s Edge) Dorothy Malone (The Big Sleep)

Best Original Screenplay: The Seventh Veil     Notorious

Best Adapted Screenplay: The Best Years of Our Lives  The Postman Always Rings Twice

 

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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