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“Academy" (Greymouth): The award of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences statuettes took place at Graumann’s Chinese * Theatre, Hollywood, on March 9. The awards included: Best picture: Paramount’s “The Lost Week-end.” Best actor: Ray Milland, who portrayed a drunkard in “The Lost Week-end." Best director: Billy Wilder (“The Lost Week-end”). Best written screen play: Wilder and Charles (“The Lost Week-end”). Best feminine performance: Joan Crawford in “Mildred Pierce.” Other awards were: Supporting roles: James Dunn in “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,” Anne Revere in “National Velvet.” Most distinctive achievement in documentary production: “The True Glory,” made by the Governments of Britain and America. Original motion picture story: “The House on 92nd Street,” by Charles Booth. Short subjects: “Hitler Lives,” by Warner Brothers. Original song: “It Might as Well be Spring,” (Pritchard Rodgers, music; Oscar Hammerstein, lyrics). Photography: Black and white, “The Picture of Dorian Grey”; colour, “Leave Her to Heaven.” Music score: “Spellbound.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 22 March 1946, Page 4
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