Oscar Rewrite: 1956

 

Best Picture: Around the World in 80 Days    The Searchers

Best Director: George Stevens (Giant)  John Ford (The Searchers)

Best Actor: Yul Brynner (The King & I / The Ten Commandments)

Best Actress: Ingrid Bergman (Anastasia)  Joan Crawford (Johnny Guitar)

Best Supporting Actor: Anthony Quinn (Lust for Life) James Dean (Giant)

Best Supporting Actress: Dorothy Malone (Written on the Wind)

Best Original Screenplay: The Red Balloon   A Man Escaped

Best Adapted Screenplay: Around the World in 80 Days   Invasion of the Body Snatchers

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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