Oscar Rewrite: 1960

 

Best Picture: The Apartment   Breathless

Best Director: Billy Wilder (The Apartment) Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita)

Best Actor: Burt Lancaster (Elmer Gentry)   Anthony Perkins (Psycho)

Best Actress: Elizabeth Taylor (Butterfield 8)   Monica Vitta (L’avventura)

Best Supporting Actor: Peter Ustinov (Spartacus)   Laurence Olivier (Spartacus)

Best Supporting Actress: Shirley Jones (Elmer Gantry) Edith Scob (Eyes Without a Face)

Best Original Screenplay: The Apartment

Best Adapted Screenplay: Elmer Gantry  Inherit the Wind

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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