The Lost Weekend 1945

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 96 min

genre: drama

theme: film noir

director: Billy Wilder

Score: 7 / 10

The Lost Weekend is a 1945 American film noir drama film directed by Billy Wilder starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman. It was based on Charles R. Jackson's 1944 novel of the same name 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 three films (the other two being Marty (1955) and Parasite (2019)) to win both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the highest award at Cannes.

Plot

On Thursday, alcoholic New York writer Don Birnam is packing for a weekend vacation with his brother Wick. When Don's girlfriend Helen drops by with two tickets for a concert that day, Don suggests that Wick attend with Helen. Knowing they had disposed of all the liquor Don had hidden in the apartment and thinking he has no money for more, they go to the concert.

Awards

Cast

More details

author	Billy Wilder Charles Brackett
award	Academy Award for Best Actor Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay National Board of Review: Top Ten Films National Film Registry
contentLocation	Manhattan New York City
director	Billy Wilder
editor	Doane Harrison
events	alcoholism
genre	drama
keywords	cleaning lady dedicate delirium tremens drink help liquor store morning opera house pack suffer talk think unemployed write yom kippur
musicBy	Miklós Rózsa
nomination	Academy Award for Best Actor Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Film Editing Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
producer	Charles Brackett
productionCompany	Paramount Pictures
publisher	Paramount Pictures
recordedAt	Los Angeles New York City
theme	film noir