Oscars: Every Best Picture Winner Ever Ranked From Worst To Best

45. The Lost Weekend (1945)

Billy Wilder turned a lot of heads with this shockingly severe, even grim account of one man (Ray Milland) desperately trying to get the better of his drinking problem, and while certain aspects of it are surely dated - the shamelessly melodramatic tone and jarring ending in particular - it remains a surprisingly visceral slice of cinematic miserablism.

Movies about alcoholism might be a dime-a-dozen nowadays, but The Lost Weekend broke new ground at the time of its release, and while hardly among Wilder's greats, it is an interesting dive into the dark world of addiction, subtlety be-damned.