Oscar Rewrite: 1952

 

Best Picture: The Greatest Show on Earth     Singin’ in the Rain

Best Director: John Ford (The Quiet Man)  Vincente Minnelli (The Bad & The Beautiful)

Best Actor: Gary Cooper (High Noon)

Best Actress: Shirley Booth (Come Back Little Sheeba) Maureen O’Hara (The Quiet Man)

Best Supporting Actor: Anthony Quinn (Viva Zapata) Donald O’Conner (Singin’ in the Rain)

Best Supporting Actress: Gloria Grahame (The Bad and the Beautiful)

Best Original Screenplay: The Bad & The Beautiful  Ikiru

Best Adapted Screenplay: High Noon   The Big Sky

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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