Billy WilderBilly Wilder was a true Renaissance man in the film business, the first person to win Academy Awards as a producer, director, and screenwriter—for the same film. That's a massive acco...

Charles Brackett and Billy WilderAlthough The Lost Weekend is based on Charles R. Jackson's 1944 novel of the same name, the film's Academy Award-winning script differs from its source material in...

Paramount PicturesThe Lost Weekend was distributed by Paramount Pictures and produced by Billy Wilder's long-time collaborator Charles Brackett. Brackett also co-wrote the script with Wilder, so th...

Realistic ExpressionismFor the most part, The Lost Weekend features the realistic production style that defined filmmaking in the 1940's. Within this basic framework, however, the movie takes the o...

Miklós RózsaAlthough The Lost Weekend's score is one of its most defining features, it almost never existed. That's a scary thought. Maybe even scarier than the score itself.It might be hard to i...

We could make a joke about how all whiskey lovers (and maybe bat lovers as well) are all fans of The Lost Weekend … but, in reality, there's no such thing as a Lost Weekender. Although Billy Wild...