Oscar Rewrite: 1981

 

Best Picture: Chariots of Fire       Raiders of the Lost Ark

Best Director: Warren Beatty (Reds) Wolfgang Petersen (Das Boot)

Best Actor: Henry Fonda (On Golden Pond)  Warren Beatty (Reds)

Best Actress: Katharine Hepburn (On Golden Pond) Kathleen Turner (Body Heat)

Best Supporting Actor: John Guilgud (Arthur) Griffin Dune (An American Werewolf in London)

Best Supporting Actress: Maureen Stapleton (Reds)  Jane Fonda (On Golden Pond)

Best Original Screenplay: Chariots of Fire  The Evil Dead

Best Adapted Screenplay: On Golden Pond   Mommie Dearest

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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