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The Lost Weekend
MEANRANK
81/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #519
- IMDb #630
- Rotten Tomatoes #279
- Letterboxd #630
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #210
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #712
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Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 68, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 97. Critics average 97, everyone else 79.
See the most agreed on films →A struggling writer in New York City plans a weekend getaway with his brother to help overcome his alcoholism. His plans unravel almost immediately as he is left alone, and his addiction takes over. The story chronicles his desperate, days-long journey through the city's bars and his own deteriorating psyche as he concocts schemes to get a drink while his patient girlfriend searches for him.
Details
- Director
- Billy Wilder
- Writers
- Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures
- Released
- 29 November 1945
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Rated
- NR
- Budget
- $1.2M
- Box office
- $11.0M
- Awards
- 4 wins, 3 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 7 →4 wins from 7 nominations across 7 ceremonies
| Best Actor 1945 | Best Actor | Ray Milland | Winner |
| Best Adapted Screenplay 1945 | Best Adapted Screenplay | Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett | Winner |
| Best Cinematography 1945 | Best Cinematography | John F. Seitz | Nominee |
| Best Director 1945 | Best Director | Billy Wilder | Winner |
| Best Film Editing 1945 | Best Film Editing | Doane Harrison | Nominee |
| Best Original Score 1945 | Best Original Score | Miklós Rózsa | Nominee |
| Best Picture 1945 | Best Picture | Charles Brackett | Winner |
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7 awards — The Lost Weekend
×| Best Actor | Ray Milland | Winner |
| Best Adapted Screenplay | Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett | Winner |
| Best Director | Billy Wilder | Winner |
| Best Picture | Charles Brackett | Winner |
| Best Cinematography | John F. Seitz | Nominee |
| Best Film Editing | Doane Harrison | Nominee |
| Best Original Score | Miklós Rózsa | Nominee |