Oscar Rewrite: 1954

 

Best Picture: On the Waterfront   The Seven Samurai

Best Director: Elia Kazan (On the Waterfront) Alfred Hitchcock (Rear Window)

Best Actor: Marlon Brando (On the Waterfront)

Best Actress: Grace Kelly (Rear Window / The Country Girl / Dial M for Murder)

Best Supporting Actor: Edmond O’Brien (Barefoot Contessa) Danny Kaye (White Christmas)

Best Supporting Actress: Eva Marie Saint (On the Waterfront) Thelma Ritter (Rear Window)

Best Original Screenplay: On the Waterfront

Best Adapted Screenplay: The Country Girl   A Star is Born

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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