‘The Lost Weekend’ won the Best Picture category in the 18th Academy Awards. The movie is about the life of Don – a chronic, tortured alcoholic and failed writer. Burdened with a severe case of writer’s block, he turns to alcohol for inspiration and emotional support. Wick, Don’s brother, tries to bring his sibling back from the abyss of alcoholic despair. Even the protestations of Don’s girlfriend are not enough to stop the writer’s descent into a black hole from which he may never return.
The film’s screenplay by director Billy Wilder and screenwriting partner Charles Brackett was based on Charles R. Jackson’s 1944 best-selling novel of the same name.
At the Academy Awards ceremony in 1945, ‘The Lost Weekend’ swept the major categories with Ray Milland winning the Best Actor award, while the film also received Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay. In addition, it garnered nominations for Best Score, Best Editing, and Cinematography.
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