1945
1945
1945 Academy Awards (Oscar winners and nominees)
(winners listed first in bold print)
Best Picture
The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945)
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Ray Milland The Lost Weekend (1945)
Gene Kelly Anchors Aweigh (1945)
Bing Crosby The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945)
Gregory Peck The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
Cornel Wilde A Song to Remember (1945)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Joan Crawford Mildred Pierce (1945)
Ingrid Bergman The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945)
Gene Tierney Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
Jennifer Jones Love Letters (1945)
Greer Garson The Valley of Decision (1945)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
James Dunn A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
John Dall The Corn Is Green (1945)
J. Carrol Naish A Medal for Benny (1945)
Michael Chekhov Spellbound (1945)
Robert Mitchum Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Anne Revere National Velvet (1944)
Joan Lorring The Corn Is Green (1945)
Eve Arden Mildred Pierce (1945)
Ann Blyth Mildred Pierce (1945)
Angela Lansbury The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
Best Director
Billy Wilder The Lost Weekend (1945)
Leo McCarey The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945)
Clarence Brown National Velvet (1944)
Jean Renoir The Southerner (1945)
Alfred Hitchcock Spellbound (1945)
Best Writing Original Screenplay
Richard Schweizer Marie-Louise (1944)
Philip Yordan Dillinger (1945)
Myles Connolly Music for Millions (1944)
Milton Holmes Salty O’Rourke (1945)
Harry Kurnitz What Next Corporal Hargrove? (1945)
Best Writing Original Story
Charles Booth The House on 92nd Street (1945)
László Görög & Thomas Monroe The Affairs of Susan (1945)
John Steinbeck & Jack Wagner A Medal for Benny (1945)
Alvah Bessie Objective Burma! (1945)
Ernst Marischka A Song to Remember (1945)
Best Writing Screenplay
Charles Brackett & Billy Wilder The Lost Weekend (1945)
Ranald MacDougall Mildred Pierce (1945)
Albert Maltz Pride of the Marines (1945)
Leopold Atlas & Guy Endore & Philip Stevenson Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
Frank Davis & Tess Slesinger A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
Best B&W Cinematography
Harry Stradling Sr. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
Arthur Miller The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
John Seitz The Lost Weekend (1945)
Ernest Haller Mildred Pierce (1945)
George Barnes Spellbound (1945)
Best Color Cinematography
Leon Shamroy Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
Robert Planck & Charles Boyle Anchors Aweigh (1945)
Leonard Smith National Velvet (1944)
Tony Gaudio & Allen Davey A Song to Remember (1945)
George Barnes The Spanish Main (1945)
Best Color Art Direction-Interior Decoration
Hans Dreier & Ernst Fegté & Sam Comer Frenchman’s Creek (1944)
Lyle Wheeler & Maurice Ransford & Thomas Little Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
Cedric Gibbons & Urie McCleary & Edwin Willis & Mildred Griffiths National Velvet (1944)
Ted Smith & Jack McConaghy San Antonio (1945)
Stephen Goosson & Rudolph Sternad & Frank Tuttle A Thousand and One Nights (1945)
Best B&W Art Direction-Interior Decoration
Wiard Ihnen & A. Roland Fields Blood on the Sun (1945)
Albert D’Agostino & Jack Okey & Darrell Silvera & Claude Carpenter Experiment Perilous (1945)
James Basevi & William Darling & Thomas Little & Frank Hughes The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
Hans Dreier & Roland Anderson & Sam Comer & Ray Moyer Love Letters (1945)
Cedric Gibbons & Hans Peters & Edwin Willis & John Bonar & Hugh Hunt The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
Best Sound Recording
Stephen Dunn The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945)
Daniel Bloomberg Flame of Barbary Coast (1945)
Bernard Brown Lady on a Train (1945)
Thomas Moulton Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
Nathan Levinson Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
John Livadary A Song to Remember (1945)
Jack Whitney The Southerner (1945)
Douglas Shearer They Were Expendable (1945)
C.O. Slyfield The Three Caballeros (1944)
W.V. Wolfe Three Is a Family (1944)
Loren Ryder The Unseen (1945)
Gordon Sawyer Wonder Man (1945)
Best Film Editing
Robert Kern National Velvet (1944)
Harry Marker The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945)
Doane Harrison The Lost Weekend (1945)
George Amy Objective Burma! (1945)
Charlie Nelson A Song to Remember (1945)
Best Effects Special Effects
John Fulton (photographic); Arthur Johns (sound) Wonder Man (1945)
Fred Sersen & Sol Halperin (photographic); Roger Heman Sr. & Harry Leonard (sound) Captain Eddie (1945)
Jack Cosgrove Spellbound (1945)
A. Arnold Gillespie & Donald Jahraus & R.A. MacDonald (photographic); Michael Steinore (sound) They Were Expendable (1945)
Lawrence Butler (photographic); Ray Bomba (sound) A Thousand and One Nights (1945)
Best Music Original Song
Richard Rodgers (music); Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics) "It Might as Well Be Spring" State Fair (1945)
Jule Styne (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics) "I Fall in Love Too Easily" Anchors Aweigh (1945)
Jimmy Van Heusen (music); Johnny Burke (lyrics) "Sleighride in July" Belle of the Yukon (1944)
Jimmy Van Heusen (music); Johnny Burke (lyrics) "Aren’t You Glad You’re You" The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945)
Jerome Kern (music); E.Y. Harburg (lyrics) "More and More" Can’t Help Singing (1944)
Walter Kent (music); Kim Gannon (lyrics) "Endlessly" Earl Carroll Vanities (1945)
Harold Arlen (music); Johnny Mercer (lyrics) "Accentuate the Positive" Here Come the Waves (1944)
Victor Young (music); Edward Heyman (lyrics) "Love Letters" Love Letters (1945)
Ray Heindorf & M.K. Jerome (music); Ted Koehler (lyrics) "Some Sunday Morning" San Antonio (1945)
Allie Wrubel (music); Herb Magidson (lyrics) "I’ll Buy That Dream" Sing Your Way Home (1945)
Ann Ronell "Linda" Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
Jule Styne (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics) "Anywhere" Tonight and Every Night (1945)
Jay Livingston (music); Ray Evans (lyrics) "The Cat and the Canary" Why Girls Leave Home (1945)
David Rose (music); Leo Robin (lyrics) "So in Love" Wonder Man (1945)
Best Music Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
Miklós Rózsa Spellbound (1945)
Robert Emmett Dolan The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945)
Louis Forbes Brewster’s Millions (1945)
Werner Janssen Captain Kidd (1945)
Roy Webb The Enchanted Cottage (1945)
R. Dale Butts & Morton Scott Flame of Barbary Coast (1945)
Edward Kay G.I. Honeymoon (1945)
Werner Janssen Guest in the House (1944)
Daniele Amfitheatrof Guest Wife (1945)
Alfred Newman The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
Miklós Rózsa The Lost Weekend (1945)
Victor Young Love Letters (1945)
Karl Hajos The Man Who Walked Alone (1945)
Franz Waxman Objective Burma! (1945)
Alexander Tansman Paris Underground (1945)
Miklós Rózsa & Morris Stoloff A Song to Remember (1945)
Werner Janssen The Southerner (1945)
Louis Applebaum & Ann Ronell Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
Hans Salter This Love of Ours (1945)
Herbert Stothart The Valley of Decision (1945)
Hugo Friedhofer & Arthur Lange The Woman in the Window (1944)
Best Music Scoring of a Musical Picture
George Stoll Anchors Aweigh (1945)
Arthur Lange Belle of the Yukon (1944)
Jerome Kern & Hans Salter Can’t Help Singing (1944)
Morton Scott Hitchhike to Happiness (1945)
Robert Emmett Dolan Incendiary Blonde (1945)
Ray Heindorf & Max Steiner Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
Charles Henderson & Alfred Newman State Fair (1945)
Edward Kay Sunbonnet Sue (1945)
Edward Plumb & Paul J. Smith & Charles Wolcott The Three Caballeros (1944)
Marlin Skiles & Morris Stoloff Tonight and Every Night (1945)
Walter Greene Why Girls Leave Home (1945)
Louis Forbes & Ray Heindorf Wonder Man (1945)