Not rated 1h 41min drama, filmnoir january 1946 usa. The lost weekend is a grimly realistic account of four days in the life of a chronic alcoholic, played by ray milland. The lost weekend is an excellent drama, featuring a brilliant lead performance, a focused study of the life of an alcoholic battling himself. Ironically, this brilliant billy wilder film was almost never. The score and direction are also impressive and the whole film in general feels ahead of its time. The best picture of 1945 has lost none of its bite or power in this uncompromising look at the devastating effects of alcoholism. In the 1945 best picture winner, ray millands haunting portrayal of a wouldbe writers dissatisfaction with his life leads him on a selfdestructive threeday. The film was nominated for seven academy awards and won four. The most striking is millands drunken efforts to remember where in his apartment the last hiding place he used is. The lost weekend is a 1945 american film directed by billy wilder starring ray milland and jane wyman. In films of this quality one always takes away unforgettable images. Best picture, best director, best actor, and best adapted screenplay. Don birnam, a longtime alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four.
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