1945 1h 41m Billy Wilder

The Lost Weekend

Name: The Lost Weekend
Genre: Drama
Released: 1945
Rating: 7.9
Cast: Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry, Howard Da Silva

★ 7.9 IMDb

Drama

Longtime alcoholic Don Birnam has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last – one way or another.

Writers Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder

Cast Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry, Howard Da Silva

DP John F. Seitz

Music Miklós Rózsa

Essays and Criticism

On Billy Wilder

Wilder the Humanist: New Perspectives on a Hollywood Legend by Kevin Lally, Cineaste A Foreign Affair: Billy Wilder’s American Films by D.B. Jones, Screening the Past

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Awards & Festivals

Won Academy Award for Best Director

Won Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay