Oscar Rewrite: 1973

 

Best Picture: The Sting  The Exorcist

Best Director: George Roy Hill (The Sting)  Nicolas Roeg (Don’t Look Now)

Best Actor: Jack Lemmon (Save the Tiger)  Robert Redford (The Sting / The Way We Were)

Best Actress: Glenda Jackson (A Touch of Class)  Sissy Spacek (Badlands)

Best Supporting Actor: John Houseman (The Paper Chase) Robert DeNiro (Mean Streets)

Best Supporting Actress: Tatum O’Neal (Paper Moon) Valentina Cortese (Day for Night)

Best Original Screenplay: The Sting   American Graffiti

Best Adapted Screenplay: The Exorcist   The Long Goodbye

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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