Oscar Rewrite: 1941

 

Best Picture: How Green Was My Valley   Citizen Kane

Best Director: John Ford (How Green Was My Valley)   Orson Welles (Citizen Kane)

Best Actor: Gary Cooper (Sergeant York)   Humphrey Bogart (The Maltese Falcon)

Best Actress: Joan Fontaine (Suspicion)  Barbara Stanwyck (The Lady Eve)

Best Supporting Actor: Donald Crisp (How Green Was My Valley) Joseph Cotton (Citizen Kane)

Best Supporting Actress: Mary Astor (The Great Life) Veronica Lake (Sullivan’s Travels)

Best Original Screenplay: Citizen Kane

Best Adapted Screenplay: Here Comes Mr. Jordan   Suspicion

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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