The Lost Weekend
The Lost Weekend may refer to:
Shunko
Shunko is a 1960 Argentine film directed by Lautaro Murúa.
It won the Silver Condor Award for Best Film.
Charles R. Jackson
Charles Reginald Jackson( April 6, 1903 September 21, 1968) was an American author who wrote the 1944 novel" The Lost Weekend".
List of American films of 1945
This is a list of American films that were released in 1945.
In that year, the film" The Lost Weekend" won Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
Mr. Right (2009 film)
Mr. Right is a 2009 British film directed by David Morris and Jacqui Morris.
The jointly- made gay- themed film is the debut for both directors.
Charles R. Jackson
Charles Reginald Jackson( April 6, 1903 September 21, 1968) was an American author who wrote the 1944 novel" The Lost Weekend".
Lost Weekend (EP)
Lost Weekend is an EP by The Clientele.
The EP was first issued in 2002 on Acuarela Records.
Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder( born Samuel Wilder, June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was an Austrian- born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist whose career spanned more than five decades.
He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of the Hollywood Golden Age of cinema.
With" The Apartment", Wilder became the first person to win Academy Awards as producer, director, and screenwriter for the same film.
Wilder became a screenwriter in the late 1920s while living in Berlin.
After the rise of the Nazi Party, he left for Paris, where he made his directorial debut.
He moved to Hollywood in 1933, and in 1939 he had a hit when he co-wrote the screenplay for the romantic comedy" Ninotchka", starring Greta Garbo.
Wilder established his directorial reputation with an adaption of James M. Cain's" Double Indemnity"( 1944), a film noir.
Wilder co-wrote the screenplay with crime novelist Raymond Chandler.
Wilder earned the Best Director and Best Screenplay Academy Awards for the adaptation of a Charles R. Jackson story" The Lost Weekend"( 1945), about alcoholism.
In 1950, Wilder co-wrote and directed the critically acclaimed" Sunset Boulevard", as well as" Stalag 17" in 1953.
From the mid-1950s on, Wilder made mostly comedies.
Among the classics Wilder created in this period are the farces" The Seven Year Itch"( 1955) and" Some Like It Hot"( 1959), and satires such as" The Apartment"( 1960).
He directed fourteen different actors in Oscar- nominated performances.
Wilder was recognized with the American Film Institute( AFI) Life Achievement Award in 1986.
In 1988, Wilder was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.
In 1993, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.
The Lost Weekend (film)
The Lost Weekend is a 1945 American film directed by Billy Wilder starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman.
It was based on Charles R. Jackson's 1944 novel of the same name about an alcoholic writer.
The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won four: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay.
It also shared the Grand Prix at the first Cannes Film Festival, making it one of only two films( the other being" Marty") to win both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the highest award at Cannes.
In 2011," The Lost Weekend" was added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress as being" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 100% based on 33 reviews, with an average rating of 8.32/ 10.
The site's critical consensus reads," Director Billy Wilder's unflinchingly honest look at the effects of alcoholism may have had some of its impact blunted by time, but it remains a powerful and remarkably prescient film."
Lautaro Murúa
Lautaro Murúa( 29 December 1926 in Tacna, Chile – 3 December 1995 in Madrid) was a Chilean- Argentine actor, film director, and screenwriter.
He is one of the best known actors in the cinema of Argentina.
Born in Chile, Murúa moved to Argentina at the beginning of the fifties.
He studied architecture and fine arts before entering the film industry.
He worked primarily as an actor and appeared in over 80 films between 1949 and his death in 1995 although he also directed a handful of important films such as" ShunkoAlias Gardelito" and" La Raulito", all with stories usually revolving around social topics.
As an actor, Murúa participated in the 1960s film industry revival, acting in the movies of Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, Rodolfo Kuhn, Manuel Antín and David José Kohon.
He left to live in Spain for political reasons in the 1970s, and then he returned to Argentina to film several movies until sickness set in and he died in Spain in 1995.

Question: Are both directors of films Shunko and The Lost Weekend (Film) from the same country?
Answer: no