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Which Academy Awards did The Lost Weekend win?
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Billy Wilder in a promotional photograph for Sunset Boulevard (1950), which he directed.
At the 18th Academy Awards, the film The Lost Weekend (1945) won four Academy Awards:
- Best Picture1
- Best Director (Billy Wilder)1
- Best Actor (Ray Milland)1
- Best Screenplay (Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett)1