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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. It also shared the Grand Prix at the first Cannes Film Festival, making it one of only four…
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The practice of films harvesting Oscars on account of their main characters being struck with physical or mental affliction is something many find annoying today, but it is hardly limited to our times. It is a long tradition that dates to *The Lost Weekend*, the celebrated 1945 drama directed by Billy Wilder, best known as the first major Hollywood film to tackle the issue of alcoholism seriously. The film is based…More
