Academy Awards 1945

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The 1945 Academy Awards took place on March 15, 1945 at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles . It was the 17th Annual Academy Awards . In the year of the award, films from the previous year are always recognized, in this case the films from 1944.

Statistics
(films with more than one nomination are listed)
N = nomination; S = victory
Movie N S.
The way to luck 10 7th
Wilson 10 5
When you said goodbye 9 1
Lady Alquist's house 7th 2
Woman without a conscience 7th 0
The goddess is dancing 5 1
Laura 5 1
None But the Lonely Heart 4th 1
Kismet 4th 0
Meet Me in St. Louis 4th 0
Hollywood Canteen 3 0
A woman's dreams 3 0
Brazilian serenade 3 0
Mark Twain's adventures 3 0
The lifeboat 3 0
Such a papa 3 0
Thirty seconds over Tokyo 2 1
It happened tomorrow 2 0
Belita is dancing 2 0
Higher and higher 2 0
The corsair ship 2 0
The life of Mrs. Skeffington 2 0
A woman's diary 2 0
Address Unknown 2 0
Minstrel Man 2 0
Song of the Open Road 2 0
Dragon Seed 2 0
Up in Arms 2 0
Voice in the Wind 2 0

Moderation

John Cromwell and Bob Hope

Winners and nominations

Best movie

presented by Hal B. Wallis

Going My Way (Going My Way) - Leo McCarey

Woman Without a Conscience (Double Indemnity) - Joseph Sistrom
Lady Alquist's House (Gaslight) - Arthur Hornblow Jr.
When you said goodbye (Since You Went Away) - David O. Selznick
Wilson - Darryl F. Zanuck

Best director

presented by Mervyn LeRoy

Leo McCarey - Going My Way (Going My Way)

Billy Wilder - Woman Without a Conscience (Double Indemnity)
Otto Preminger - Laura
Alfred Hitchcock - The Lifeboat
Henry King - Wilson (Wilson)

Best Actor

presented by Barry Fitzgerald

Bing Crosby - Going My Way (Going My Way)

Charles Boyer - The House of Lady Alquist (Gaslight)
Barry Fitzgerald - Going My Way
Cary Grant - None But the Lonely Heart
Alexander Knox - Wilson

Best main actress

presented by Jennifer Jones

Ingrid Bergman - The House of Lady Alquist (Gaslight)

Barbara Stanwyck - Woman Without a Conscience (Double Indemnity)
Bette Davis - The Life of Mrs. Skeffington (Mr. Skeffington)
Greer Garson - Diary of a Woman (Mrs. Parkington)
Claudette Colbert - Since You Went Away (Since You Went Away)

Best supporting actor

presented by Charles Coburn

Barry Fitzgerald - Going My Way (Going My Way)

Clifton Webb - Laura
Claude Rains - The Life of Mrs. Skeffington (Mr. Skeffington)
Hume Cronyn - The Seventh Cross (The Seventh Cross)
Monty Woolley - Since You Went Away (Since You Went Away)

The best supporting actress

presented by Teresa Wright

Ethel Barrymore - None But the Lonely Heart

Aline MacMahon - dragon's (Dragon Seed)
Angela Lansbury - The House of Lady Alquist (Gaslight)
Agnes Moorehead - Diary of a Woman (Mrs. Parkington)
Jennifer Jones - Since You Went Away (Since You Went Away)

Best original script

presented by Hugo Butler

Lamar Trotti - Wilson (Wilson)

Preston Sturges - Hail the conquering hero (Hail the Conquering Hero)
Preston Sturges - Sensation in Morgan's Creek (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek)
Richard Connell , Gladys Lehman - My Girls and a Sailor (Two Girls and a Sailor)
Jerome Cady - Mission in the Pacific (Wing and a Prayer)

Best original story

presented by Hugo Butler

Leo McCarey - Going My Way (Going My Way)

David Boehm , Chandler Sprague - Fight in the Clouds (A Guy Named Joe)
John Steinbeck - The Lifeboat
Alfred Neumann , Joseph Than - None Shall Escape
Edward Doherty , Jules Schermer - Five Heroes (The Sullivans)

Best adapted script

presented by Hugo Butler

Frank Butler , Frank Cavett - Going My Way (Going My Way)

Raymond Chandler , Billy Wilder - Woman Without a Conscience (Double Indemnity)
John L. Balderston , Walter Reisch , John Van Druten - The House of Lady Alquist (Gaslight)
Jay Dratler , Samuel Hoffenstein , Elizabeth Reinhardt - Laura
Irving Brecher , Fred F. Finklehoffe - Meet Me in St. Louis

Best camera (black and white film)

presented by Bob Hope

Joseph LaShelle - Laura

John F. Seitz - Woman Without a Conscience (Double Indemnity)
Sidney Wagner - dragon's (Dragon Seed)
Joseph Ruttenberg - The House of Lady Alquist (Gaslight)
Lionel Lindon - Going My Way (Going My Way)
Glen MacWilliams - The Lifeboat
Stanley Cortez , Lee Garmes - Since You Went Away (Since You Went Away)
Charles Lang - The mysterious guest (The Uninvited)
George J. Folsey - The White Cliffs of Dover
Robert Surtees , Harold Rosson - Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo)

Best camera (color film)

presented by Bob Hope

Leon Shamroy - Wilson

Rudolph Maté , Allen M. Davey - The Goddess Dances (Cover Girl)
Edward Cronjager - At home in Indiana (Home in Indiana)
Charles Rosher - Kismet
Ray Rennahan - A Woman's Dreams (Lady in the Dark)
George J. Folsey - Meet Me in St. Louis

Best production design (black and white film)

presented by John Cromwell

Cedric Gibbons , William Ferrari , Edwin B. Willis , Paul Huldschinsky - Das Haus der Lady Alquist (Gaslight)

Lionel Banks , Walter Holscher , Joseph Kish - Address Unknown
Perry Ferguson , Julia Heron - Such a Daddy (Casanova Brown)
Lyle R. Wheeler , Leland Fuller , Thomas Little - Laura
Hans Dreier , Robert Usher , Sam Comer - No Time for Love (No Time for Love)
Mark-Lee Kirk , Victor A. Gangelin - Since You Went Away (Since You Went Away)
Albert S. D'Agostino , Carroll Clark , Darrell Silvera , Claude E. Carpenter - Step Lively
John Hughes , Fred M. MacLean - Die Abenteuer Mark Twain (The Adventures of Mark Twain)

Best production design (color film)

presented by John Cromwell

Wiard you , Thomas Little - Wilson

Lionel Banks , Cary Odell , Fay Babcock - The Goddess Dances (Cover Girl)
Cedric Gibbons , Daniel B. Cathcart , Edwin B. Willis , Richard Pefferle - Kismet
Hans Dreier , Raoul Pene Du Bois , Ray Moyer - A Woman's Dreams (Lady in the Dark)
John B. Goodman , Alexander Golitzen , Russell A. Gausman , Ira Webb - The Climax
Charles Novi , Jack McConaghy - love song of the desert (The Desert Song)
Ernst Fegté , Howard Bristol - Das Korsarenschiff (The Princess and the Pirate)

Best tone

presented by John Cromwell

Edmund H. Hansen - Wilson

Bernard B. Brown - The House Fairy (His Butler's Sister)
Daniel J. Bloomberg - Brazilian Serenade (Brazil)
Thomas T. Moulton - Such a Papa (Casanova Brown)
John P. Livadary - The Goddess Dances (Cover Girl)
Loren L. Ryder - Woman Without a Conscience (Double Indemnity)
Nathan Levinson - Hollywood Canteen
Jack Whitney - It Happened Tomorrow (It Happened Tomorrow)
Douglas Shearer - Kismet
Stephen Dunn - Music in Manhattan
Mac Dalgleish - Voice in the Wind

Best cut

presented by John Cromwell

Barbara McLean - Wilson

LeRoy Stone - Going My Way (Going My Way)
Owen Marks - Janie
Roland Gross - None But the Lonely Heart
Hal C. Kern , James E. Newcom - Since You Went Away (Since You Went Away)

Best visual effects

presented by John Cromwell

A. Arnold Gillespie , Donald Year in , Warren Newcombe , Douglas Shearer - Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo)

Vernon L. Walker , James G. Stewart , Roy Granville - Days of Glory
David Allen , Ray Cory , Robert Wright , Russell Malmgren , Harry Kusnick - Secret Command
Jack Cosgrove , Arthur Johns - Since You Went Away ( Since You Went Away )
Paul Detlefsen , John Crouse , Nathan Levinson - Die Abenteuer Mark Twain (The Adventures of Mark Twain)
Farciot Edouart , Gordon Jennings , George Dutton - Dr. Wassell's Escape from Java (The Story of Dr. Wassell)
Fred Sersen , Roger Heman Sr. - Wilson

Best song

presented by Bob Hope

Jimmy Van Heusen , Johnny Burke - Swinging on a Star in Der Weg zum Glück (Going My Way)

Ary Barroso , Ned Washington - Rio de Janeiro in Brazilian Serenade (Brazil)
Jerome Kern , Ira Gershwin - Long Ago (and Far Away) in The Goddess Dances (Cover Girl)
Jule Styne , Sammy Cahn - I'll Walk Alone in Follow the Boys
Jimmy McHugh , Harold Adamson - I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night in Higher and Higher
Maurice K. Jerome , Ted Koehler - Sweet Dreams, Sweetheart in Hollywood Canteen
Lew Pollack , Charles Newman - Silver Shadows and Golden Dreams in Belita tanzt (Lady, Let's Dance)
Ralph Blane , Hugh Martin - The Trolley Song in Meet Me in St. Louis
Harry Revel , Paul Francis Webster - Remember Me to Carolina in Minstrel Man
Walter Kent , Kim Gannon - Too Much in Love in Song of the Open Road
James V. Monaco , Mack Gordon - I'm Making Believe in Sweet and Low-Down
Harold Arlen , Ted Koehler - Now I Know in Up in Arms

Best Score (Drama / Comedy)

presented by Bob Hope

Max Steiner - As you said goodbye (Since You Went Away)

Constantin Bakaleinikoff , Hanns Eisler - None But the Lonely Heart
Karl Hajos - summer storms (Summer Storm)
Arthur Lange - Such a Papa (Casanova Brown)
Michel Michelet , Edward Paul - The Hairy Ape
Miklós Rózsa - Woman Without a Conscience (Double Indemnity)
Freddie Rich - Jack London
David Rose - Das Korsarenschiff (The Princess and the Pirate)
Hans J. Salter - Christmas holidays (Christmas Holiday)
Walter Scharf , Roy Webb - Alarm in the Pacific (The Fighting Seabees)
Max Steiner - The Adventures of Mark Twain (The Adventures of Mark Twain)
Morris Stoloff , Ernst Toch - Address Unknown
Robert Stolz - It Happened Tomorrow (It Happened Tomorrow)
Herbert Stothart - Kismet
Dimitri Tiomkin - The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Miklós Rózsa - A Woman for the Marshall (The Woman of the Town)
W. Franke Harling - Three Russian Girls
Edward Paul - Up in Mabel's Room
Michel Michelet - Voice in the Wind
Alfred Newman - Wilson

Best Score (Music Film)

presented by Bob Hope

Carmen Dragon , Morris Stoloff - The Goddess Dances (Cover Girl)

Walter Scharf - Brazilian Serenade (Brazil)
Constantin Bakaleinikoff - Higher and Higher
Ray Heindorf - Hollywood Canteen
Alfred Newman - Irish Eyes Are Smiling
Werner R. Heymann , Kurt Weill - Knickerbocker Holiday
Robert Emmett Dolan - A Woman's Dreams (Lady in the Dark)
Edward J. Kay - Belita dances (Lady, Let's Dance)
George Stoll - Meet Me in St. Louis
Leo Erdody , Ferde Grofé - Minstrel Man
Mahlon Merrick - Sensations for Millions (Sensations of 1945)
Charles Previn - Song of the Open Road
Hans J. Salter - The Merry Monahans
Louis Forbes , Ray Heindorf - Up in Arms

Best short film (1 film roll)

presented by John Cromwell

Who's Who in Animal Land - Jerry Fairbanks

Screen Snapshots' 50th Anniversary of Motion Pictures - Ralph Staub
Blue Grass Gentlemen - Edmund Reek
Jammin 'the Blues - Gordon Hollingshead
Movie Pests - Pete Smith

Best short film (2 film roles)

presented by John Cromwell

I won't play! - Gordon Hollingshead

Bombalera - Louis Harris
Main Street Today - Jerry Bresler

Best animated short film

presented by Mervyn LeRoy

Tom Educates (Mouse Trouble) - Fred Quimby

And to Think I Saw It on Mulberry Street - George Pal
Dog, Cat, and Canary - Columbia Pictures
Baked Fish (Fish Fry) - Walter Lantz
How to play football (How to Play Football) - Walt Disney
My Boy Johnny - Paul Terry
Piggy Dick lays an egg (Swooner Crooner) - Warner Bros.

Best Documentary (Short Film)

presented by John Cromwell

With the Marines at Tarawa - US Marine Corps

Hymn of the Nations - Office of War Information
New Americans - RKO Radio

Best documentary

presented by John Cromwell

The Fighting Lady - 20th Century Fox , US Navy

Resisting Enemy Interrogation - United States Air Force

Prizes of honor

Honorary Oscar

presented by Walter Wanger

Bob Hope

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

presented by Norma Shearer

Darryl F. Zanuck

Juvenile Award

Margaret O'Brien

Scientific and Engineering Award

presented by John Cromwell

Stephen Dunn

Technical Achievement Award

presented by John Cromwell

Daniel J. Bloomberg
Bernard B. Brown , John P. Livadary
Russ Brown , Ray Hinsdale , Joseph E. Robbins
Linwood G. Dunn , Cecil Love
Gordon Jennings
Grover arbor
Paul K. Lerpae
Paul Zeff , SJ Twining , George Seid

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