18th Academy Awards

18th Academy Awards
Date	March 7, 1946
Site	Grauman’s Chinese Theater, Hollywood, California, USA
Host	James Stewart and Bob Hope
	Highlights
Best Picture	The Lost Weekend

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The 18th Academy Awards was the first such ceremony after World War II. As a result, the ceremony featured more glamour than had been present during the war. Plaster statuettes that had been given out during the war years were replaced with bronze statuettes with gold plating. Despite this, director Billy Wilder's grim and socially significant drama The Lost Weekend took the top honors. It became the first film to win both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Palme d'Or. Joan Crawford was absent, claiming she had pnemonia (although it was said it was because she was sure she wouldn't win the Academy Award for Best Actress for Mildred Pierce). As it turned it she did win, and the award was delivered to while in bed that night.