The Lost Weekend

The Lost Weekend
The Lost Weekend
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Billy Wilder
Screenplay by	Charles Brackett; Billy Wilder;
Based on	The Lost Weekend; by Charles R. Jackson
Produced by	Charles Brackett
Starring	Ray Milland; Jane Wyman; Phillip Terry; Howard da Silva; Doris Dowling; Frank Faylen;
Cinematography	John F. Seitz
Edited by	Doane Harrison
Music by	Miklós Rózsa
Color process	Black and white
Production; company	Paramount Pictures
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	November 29, 1945;
Running time	101 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$1.25 million
Box office	$11,000,000 plus $4.3 million (US rentals)

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 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.

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 97% based on 70 reviews, with an average rating of 8.4/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Director Billy Wilder's unflinchingly honest look at the effects of alcoholism may have had some of its impact blunted by time, but it remains a powerful and remarkably prescient film."^[4] In 2011, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."^[5]^[6]

^ "The Lost Weekend – Diary of a Dipsomaniac (PG)". British Board of Film Classification. 1945-08-23. Retrieved 2013-01-27.
^ Box Office Information for The Lost Weekend. The Numbers. Retrieved March 8, 2014.
^ "Variety (January 1947)". New York: Variety Publishing Company. December 3, 1947 – via Internet Archive.
^ "The Lost Weekend (1945)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango. Retrieved January 31, 2022.
^ "With "20,000 Leagues," the National Film Registry Reaches 700". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
^ "Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-11-24.

[1] "The Lost Weekend – Diary of a Dipsomaniac (PG)". British Board of Film Classification. 1945-08-23. Retrieved 2013-01-27.

[numbers-2] Box Office Information for The Lost Weekend. The Numbers. Retrieved March 8, 2014.

[3] "Variety (January 1947)". New York: Variety Publishing Company. December 3, 1947 – via Internet Archive.

[4] "The Lost Weekend (1945)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango. Retrieved January 31, 2022.

[5] "With "20,000 Leagues," the National Film Registry Reaches 700". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-11-24.

[6] "Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-11-24.

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