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The Lost Weekend is a 1945 American drama film noir directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman. It was based on Charles R. Jackson's 1944 novel about an alcoholic writer. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won four: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay.
Ray Milland (born Alfred Reginald Jones; 3 January 1907 – 10 March 1986) was a Welsh-American actor and film director. [1] [2] He is often remembered for his portrayal of an alcoholic writer in Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend (1945), which won him Best Actor at Cannes, a Golden Globe Award, and ultimately an Academy Award—the first such accolades for any Welsh actor.
The Lost Weekend, a 1945 film adaptation of the novel "The Lost Weekend" (The Cosby Show), a 1989 television episode "The Lost Weekend" (Dawson's Creek), a 2001 television episode "Lost Weekend" (St. Elsewhere), a 1986 television episode "The Lost Weekend", a 1997 straight-to-video feature-length episode of Brookside
The Lost Weekend is Charles R. Jackson's first novel, published by Farrar & Rinehart in 1944. The story of a talented but alcoholic writer was praised for its powerful realism, closely reflecting the author’s own experience of alcoholism, from which he was temporarily cured. It served as the basis for the classic 1945 Oscar winning film ...
The 18th Academy Awards were held on March 7, 1946, at Grauman's Chinese Theatre to honor the films of 1945.Being the first Oscars after the end of World War II, the ceremony returned to the glamour of the prewar years; notably, the plaster statuettes that had been used during the war were replaced by bronze statuettes with gold plating and an elevated base.
The Lost Weekend; Love in the Afternoon (1957 film) M. ... Sabrina (1954 film) The Seven Year Itch; Some Like It Hot; The Spirit of St. Louis (film) Stalag 17; Sunset ...
Two years later, Wilder adapted from Charles R. Jackson's novel The Lost Weekend into a film of the same name. It was the first major American film with a serious examination of alcoholism, another difficult theme under the Production Code. It follows an alcoholic writer (Ray Milland) opposing the protestations of his girlfriend .
The film was produced and directed by Eve Brandstein, Richard Kaufman and Stuart Samuels. [38] The Lost Weekend appeared in theaters internationally for a limited run April 13th and 14th 2023 [39] [40] and became available via streaming and on BluRay in October 2023. [41] [42]