Oscar Rewrite: 1949

 

Best Picture: All the King’s Men   The Third Man

Best Director: Joseph Mankiewicz (A Letter to Three Wives) Carol Reed (The Third Man)

Best Actor: Broderick Crawford (All the King’s Men)   James Cagney (White Heat)

Best Actress: Olivia de Havilland (The Heiress) Peggy Cummings (Gun Crazy)

Best Supporting Actor: Dean Jagger (Twelve O’Clock High) Frank Sinatra (On the Town)

Best Supporting Actress: Mercedes McCambridge (All the King’s Men)

Best Original Screenplay: The Stratton Story  Adam’s Rib

Best Adapted Screenplay: A Letter to Three Wives  All the King’s Men

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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