Oscar Rewrite: 1948

 

Best Picture: Hamlet     Bicycle Thieves

Best Director: John Huston (Treasure of Sierra Madre) Max Ophuls (Letter from an Unknown Woman)

Best Actor: Laurence Olivier (Hamlet)

Best Actress: Jane Wyman (Johnny Belinda)  Moira Shearer (The Red Shoes)

Best Supporting Actor:  Walter Huston (Treasure of the Sierra Madre)

Best Supporting Actress: Claire Trevor (Key Largo) Joanne Dru (Red River)

Best Original Screenplay: The Search    Red River

Best Adapted Screenplay: Treasure of the Sierra Madre   They Live By Night

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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