Oscar Rewrite: 1959

 

Best Picture: Ben-Hur  North By Northwest

Best Director: William Wyler (Ben-Hur)  Francois Truffaut (The 400 Blows)

Best Actor: Charlton Heston (Ben-Hur)

Best Actress: Simone Signoret (Room at the Top) Emmanuelle Riva (Hiroshima Mon Amour)

Best Supporting Actor: Hugh Griffith (Ben-Hur) Dean Martin (Rio Bravo)

Best Supporting Actress: Shelley Winters (Anne Frank) Lee Remick (Anatomy of a Murder)

Best Original Screenplay: Pillow Talk

Best Adapted Screenplay: Room at the Top    Some Like it Hot

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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