Academy Awards 1946

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The 1946 Academy Awards were held on March 7, 1946 at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles . It was the 18th Annual Academy Awards . In the year of the award, awards are always given to films from the previous year, in this case films from 1945.

Statistics
(films with more than one nomination are listed)
N = nomination; S = victory
Movie N S.
The bells of St. Mary 8th 1
The lost weekend 7th 4th
I'm fighting for you 6th 1
As long as a heart beats 6th 1
Polonaise 6th 0
Little girl, big heart 5 2
Hollywood vacation 5 1
The miracle man 4th 1
mortal sin 4th 1
Love letters 4th 0
Battle storm on Monte Cassino 4th 0
Key to the kingdom of heaven 4th 0
The portrait of Dorian Gray 3 1
The hero of Burma 3 0
The man from the south 3 0
A tree grows in Brooklyn 2 1
Love fair 2 1
A Medal for Benny 2 0
Belle of the Yukon 2 0
The green grain 2 0
The song of the golden west 2 0
The decision 2 0
Three caballeros 2 0
A man of action 2 0
Rhapsody in blue 2 0
San Francisco Lilly 2 0
Speedboats in front of Bataan 2 0
1001 night 2 0
Tonight and Every Night 2 0
Why Girls Leave Home 2 0

Moderation

Bob Hope and James Stewart

Nominations and winners

Best movie

presented by Eric Johnston

The Lost Weekend (The Lost Weekend) - Charles Brackett

The Bells of St. Mary's (The Bells of St. Mary's) - Leo McCarey
I fight for you (Spellbound) - David O. Selznick
As long as a heart beats (Mildred Pierce) - Jerry Wald , Jack L. Warner
Vacation in Hollywood (Anchors Aweigh) - Joe Pasternak

Best director

presented by William Wyler

Billy Wilder - The Lost Weekend (The Lost Weekend)

Clarence Brown - Little Girl, Big Heart (National Velvet)
Alfred Hitchcock - I'll fight for you (Spellbound)
Leo McCarey - The Bells of St. Mary's (The Bells of St. Mary's)
Jean Renoir - The man from the south (The Southerner)

Best Actor

presented by Ingrid Bergman

Ray Milland - The Lost Weekend (The Lost Weekend)

Bing Crosby - The Bells of St. Mary's (The Bells of St. Mary's)
Gene Kelly - Hollywood Vacation (Anchors Aweigh)
Gregory Peck - Keys of the Kingdom (The Keys of the Kingdom)
Cornel Wilde - Polonaise (A Song to Remember)

Best main actress

presented by Charles Boyer

Joan Crawford - As Long a Heart Beats (Mildred Pierce)

Ingrid Bergman - The Bells of St. Mary's (The Bells of St. Mary's)
Greer Garson - The decision (The Valley of Decision)
Jennifer Jones - Love Letters (Love Letters)
Gene Tierney - Mortal Sin (Leave Her to Heaven)

Best supporting actor

presented by Van Heflin

James Dunn - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)

John Dall - The green grain (The Corn Is Green)
Robert Mitchum - Battle Thunderstorm on Monte Cassino (Story of GI Joe)
J. Carrol Naish - A Medal for Benny
Michael Chekhov - I fight for you (Spellbound)

The best supporting actress

presented by Van Heflin

Anne Revere - Little Girl, Big Heart (National Velvet)

Eve Arden - As long as a heart beats (Mildred Pierce)
Ann Blyth - As Long as a Heart Beats (Mildred Pierce)
Angela Lansbury - Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray (The Picture of Dorian Gray)
Joan Lorring - The green grain (The Corn Is Green)

Best adapted script

presented by Bette Davis

Charles Brackett , Billy Wilder - The Lost Weekend (The Lost Weekend)

Leopold Atlas , Guy Endore , Philip Stevenson - Battle Thunderstorm on Monte Cassino (Story of GI Joe)
Frank Davis , Tess Slesinger - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)
Ranald MacDougall - As long as a heart beats (Mildred Pierce)
Albert Maltz - Pride of the Marines (1945)

Best original script

presented by Bette Davis

Richard Schweizer - Marie-Louise

Myles Connolly - Music for millions (Music for Millions)
Milton Holmes - Crooks and Gangsters (Salty O'Rourke)
Harry Kurnitz - What Next, Corporal Hargrove?
Philip Yordan - Hunt for Dillinger (Dillinger)

Best original story

presented by Bette Davis

Charles G. Booth - The House on 92nd Street (The House on 92nd Street)

Alvah Bessie - The Hero of Burma (Objective, Burma!)
László Görög , Thomas Monroe - Oh, Susanne! (The Affairs of Susan)
John Steinbeck , Jack Wagner - A Medal for Benny
Ernst Marischka - Polonaise (A Song to Remember)

Best camera (black and white film)

presented by David Wark Griffith

Harry Stradling Sr. - Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

George Barnes - I'll Fight For You (Spellbound)
Ernest Haller - As long as a heart beats (Mildred Pierce)
Arthur C. Miller - Keys of the Kingdom (The Keys of the Kingdom)
John F. Seitz - The Lost Weekend (The Lost Weekend)

Best camera (color film)

presented by David Wark Griffith

Leon Shamroy - Mortal Sin (Leave Her to Heaven)

George Barnes - The Anglerfish of Cartagena (The Spanish Main)
Charles P. Boyle , Robert H. Planck - Hollywood Vacation (Anchors Aweigh)
Allen M. Davey , Tony Gaudio - Polonaise (A Song to Remember)
Leonard Smith - Little Girl, Big Heart (National Velvet)

Best production design (black and white film)

presented by Ginger Rogers

A. Roland Fields , Wiard you - Spying in the Far East (Blood on the Sun)

Roland Anderson , Sam Comer , Hans Dreier , Ray Moyer - Love Letters (Love Letters)
James Basevi , William S. Darling , Frank E. Hughes , Thomas Little - Keys of the Kingdom (The Keys of the Kingdom)
John Bonar , Cedric Gibbons , Hugh Hunt , Hans O. Peters , Edwin B. Willis - Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray (The Picture of Dorian Gray)
Claude E. Carpenter , Albert S. D'Agostino , Jack Okey , Darrell Silvera - Experiment in Terror (Experiment Perilous)

Best production design (color film)

presented by Ginger Rogers

Sam Comer , Hans Dreier , Ernst Fegté - The Pirate and the Lady (Frenchman's Creek)

Cedric Gibbons , Mildred Griffiths , Urie McCleary , Edwin B. Willis - Little Girl, Big Heart (National Velvet)
Stephen Goosson , Rudolph Sternad , Frank Tuttle - 1001 Nights (A Thousand and One Nights)
Thomas Little , Maurice Ransford , Lyle R. Wheeler - Mortal Sin (Leave Her to Heaven)
Jack McConaghy , Ted Smith - A Man of Action (San Antonio)

Best tone

presented by Frank Capra

Stephen Dunn - The Bells of St. Mary's (The Bells of St. Mary's)

Daniel J. Bloomberg - San Francisco Lilly (Flame of Barbary Coast)
Bernard B. Brown - The Lady on a Train
Nathan Levinson - Rhapsody in Blue (Rhapsody in Blue)
John P. Livadary - Polonaise (A Song to Remember)
Thomas T. Moulton - Mortal Sin (Leave Her to Heaven)
Loren L. Ryder - Death Lives Next Door (The Unseen)
Gordon Sawyer - The Wonder Man
Douglas Shearer - Speed ​​Boats off Bataan (They Were Expendable)
CO Slyfield - Drei Caballeros (The Three Caballeros)
Jack Whitney - The man from the south (The Southerner)
Wallace V. Wolfe - Three Is a Family

Best cut

presented by Frank Capra

Robert Kern - Little Girl, Big Heart (National Velvet)

George Amy - The Hero of Burma (Objective, Burma!)
Harry Marker - The Bells of St. Mary's (The Bells of St. Mary's)
Charles Nelson - Polonaise (A Song to Remember)
Doane Harrison - The Lost Weekend (The Lost Weekend)

Best visual effects

presented by Frank Capra

John P. Fulton , Arthur Johns - The Wonder Man

Ray Bomba , Lawrence W. Butler - 1001 Nights (A Thousand and One Nights)
Jack Cosgrove - The Daredevil Adventures of Captain Eddie (Captain Eddie)
A. Arnold Gillespie , Donald Jahraus , Robert MacDonald , Michael Steinore - Schnellboote vor Bataan (They Were Expendable)
Sol Halperin , Roger Heman senior , Harry M. Leonard , Fred Sersen - The daring adventures of Captain Eddie (Captain Eddie)

Best movie song

presented by ???

" It Might as Well Be Spring " from the State Fair - Oscar Hammerstein , Richard Rodgers

" Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive " from Here Come the Waves - Harold Arlen , Johnny Mercer
" Anywhere " from Tonight and Every Night - Sammy Cahn , Jule Styne
" Are not You Glad You're You " from The Bells of St. Mary's (The Bells of St. Mary's) - Johnny Burke , Jimmy Van Heusen
" Endlessly " from Earl Carroll Vanities - Kim Gannon , Walter Kent
" I Fall in Love Too Easily " from Vacation in Hollywood (Anchors Aweigh) - Sammy Cahn , Jule Styne
" I'll Buy That Dream " from Sing Your Way Home - Herb Magidson , Allie Wrubel
" Linda " from Battle Thunderstorm on Monte Cassino (Story of GI Joe) - Ann Ronell
" Love Letters " of love letters (Love Letters) - Edward Heyman , Victor Young
“ More and More ” from The Song of the Golden West (Can't Help Singing) - EY Harburg , Jerome Kern
" Sleigh Ride in July " from Belle of the Yukon - Johnny Burke , Jimmy Van Heusen
" So in Love " from The Miracle Man (Wonder Man) - Leo Robin , David Rose
" Some Sunday Morning " from A Man of Action (San Antonio) - Ray Heindorf , Maurice K. Jerome , Ted Koehler
" The Cat and the Canary " from Why Girls Leave Home - Ray Evans , Jay Livingston

Best Score (Drama / Comedy)

presented by ???

Miklós Rózsa - I fight for you (Spellbound)

Daniele Amfitheatrof - His wife is my wife (Guest Wife)
Louis Applebaum , Ann Ronell - Battle Thunderstorm on Monte Cassino (Story of GI Joe)
R. Dale Butts , Morton Scott - San Francisco Lilly (Flame of Barbary Coast)
Robert Emmett Dolan - The Bells of St. Mary's (The Bells of St. Mary's)
Louis Forbes - Help, I'm a Millionaire (Brewster's Millions)
Hugo Friedhofer , Arthur Lange - Dangerous Encounters (The Woman in the Window)
Karl Hajos - The Man Who Walked Alone
Werner Janssen - The Man from the South (The Southerner)
Werner Janssen - Guest in the House
Werner Janssen - Under the Black Flag (Captain Kidd)
Edward J. Kay - GI Honeymoon
Alfred Newman - Keys of the Kingdom (The Keys of the Kingdom)
Miklos Rozsa - The Lost Weekend (The Lost Weekend)
Miklós Rózsa , Morris Stoloff - Polonaise (A Song to Remember)
Hans J. Salter - The love of our lives (This Love of Ours)
Herbert Stothart - The decision (The Valley of Decision)
Alexander Tansman - Paris Underground
Franz Waxman - The Hero of Burma (Objective, Burma!)
Roy Webb - With the Eyes of Love (The Enchanted Cottage)
Victor Young - Love Letters (Love Letters)

Best Score (Musical)

presented by ???

George E. Stoll - Hollywood Vacation (Anchors Aweigh)

Robert Emmett Dolan - Incendiary Blonde
Louis Forbes , Ray Heindorf - The Wonder Man (Wonder Man)
Walter Greene - Why Girls Leave Home
Ray Heindorf , Max Steiner - Rhapsody in Blue (Rhapsody in Blue)
Charles Henderson , Alfred Newman - carnival of love (State Fair)
Edward J. Kay - Sunbonnet Sue
Jerome Kern , Hans J. Salter - The Song of the Golden West (Can't Help Singing)
Arthur Lange - Belle of the Yukon
Edward H. Plumb , Paul J. Smith , Charles Wolcott - Drei Caballeros (The Three Caballeros)
Morton Scott - Hitchhike to Happiness
Marlin Skiles , Morris Stoloff - Tonight and Every Night

Best short film (1 film roll)

presented by Y. Frank Freeman

Stairway to Light - Herbert Moulton

Along the Rainbow Trail - Edmund Reek
Screen Snapshots Series 25, No. 1: 25th Anniversary - Ralph Staub
Story of a Dog - Gordon Hollingshead
White Rhapsody - Grantland Rice
Your National Gallery - Joseph O'Brien , Thomas Mead

Best short film (2 film roles)

presented by Y. Frank Freeman

Star in the Night - Gordon Hollingshead

A Gun in His Hand - Chester M. Franklin
The Jury Goes Round 'n' Round - Jules White
The Little Witch - George Templeton

Best Short Film (Cartoon)

presented by Y. Frank Freeman

Tom the Night Watchman (Quiet Please!) - Fred Quimby

Donald's Crime (Donald's Crime) - Walt Disney
Jasper and the Beanstalk - George Pal
Without love, life is empty (Life with Feathers) - Edward Selzer
Mighty Mouse in Gypsy Life - Paul Terry
Poet and Bauer (The Poet & Peasant) - Walter Lantz
Rippling Romance - Columbia Pictures

Best short documentary film

presented by Y. Frank Freeman

Hitler Lives - Warner Bros.

Library of Congress - Office of War Information
To the Shores of Iwo Jima - US Marine Corps

Best documentary

The True Glory - United Kingdom and United States Government

The Last Bomb - United States Air Force

Honorary Oscars

Honorary Oscar

Frank Ross , Mervyn LeRoy , Albert Maltz , Earl Robinson , Lewis Allen , Frank Sinatra - The House I Live In
Daniel J. Bloomberg
Walter Wanger

Juvenile Award

Peggy Ann Garner

Technical Achievement Award

Michael S. Leshing , Benjamin C. Robinson , Arthur B. Chatelain , Robert C. Stevens , John G. Capstaff
Loren L. Ryder , Charles R. Daily

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