Oscar Rewrite: 1961

 

Best Picture: West Side Story

Best Director: Robert Wise (West Side Story)  Alain Resnais (Last Year at Marienbad)

Best Actor: Maximilian Schell (Judgment at Nuremberg)  Paul Newman (The Hustler)

Best Actress: Sophia Loren (Two Women) Audrey Hepburn (Breakfast at Tiffany’s)

Best Supporting Actor: George Chakiris (West Side Story) Max von Sydow (Through a Glass Darkly)

Best Supporting Actress: Rita Moreno (West Side Story)

Best Original Screenplay: Splendor in the Grass   Yojimbo

Best Adapted Screenplay: Judgment at Nuremberg   A Raisin in the Sun

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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