Academy Awards®
Awards for 1945


Picture
Joe Pasternak - Producer, ANCHORS AWEIGH
Leo McCarey - Producer, THE BELLS OF ST. MARY'S
* Charles Brackett - Producer, THE LOST WEEKEND
Jerry Wald - Producer, MILDRED PIERCE
David O. Selznick - Producer, SPELLBOUND

Actor
Bing Crosby, THE BELLS OF ST. MARY'S
Gene Kelly, ANCHORS AWEIGH
* Ray Milland, THE LOST WEEKEND
Gregory Peck, THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM
Cornel Wilde, A SONG TO REMEMBER

Actress
Ingrid Bergman, THE BELLS OF ST. MARY'S
* Joan Crawford, MILDRED PIERCE
Greer Garson, THE VALLEY OF DECISION
Jennifer Jones, LOVE LETTERS
Gene Tierney, LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN

Supporting Actor
Michael Chekhov, SPELLBOUND
John Dall, THE CORN IS GREEN
* James Dunn, A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN
Robert Mitchum, THE STORY OF G.I. JOE
J. Carrol Naish, A MEDAL FOR BENNY

Supporting Actress
Eve Arden, MILDRED PIERCE
Ann Blyth, MILDRED PIERCE
Joan Lorring, THE CORN IS GREEN
* Anne Revere, NATIONAL VELVET
Angela Lansbury, THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY


Director
Clarence Brown, NATIONAL VELVET
Sir Alfred Hitchcock, SPELLBOUND
Leo McCarey, THE BELLS OF ST. MARY'S
Jean Renoir, THE SOUTHERNER
* Billy Wilder, THE LOST WEEKEND

Writing - Original Story
* Charles G. Booth, THE HOUSE ON 92ND ST.
Laszlo Gorog, Thomas Monroe, THE AFFAIRS OF SUSAN
John Steinbeck, Jack Wagner, A MEDAL FOR BENNY
Alvah Bessie, OBJECTIVE, BURMA!
Ernst Marischka, A SONG TO REMEMBER

Writing - Original Screenplay
Philip Yordan, DILLINGER
* Richard Schweizer, MARIE-LOUISE
Myles Connolly, MUSIC FOR MILLIONS
Milton Holmes, SALTY O'ROURKE
Harry Kurnitz, WHAT NEXT, CORPORAL HARGROVE?

Writing - Screenplay
Leopold Atlas, Guy Endore, Philip Stevenson, THE STORY OF G.I. JOE
* Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, THE LOST WEEKEND
Ranald MacDougall, MILDRED PIERCE
Albert Maltz, PRIDE OF THE MARINES
Frank Davis, Tess Slesinger, A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN

Interior Decoration - Color
* Hans Dreier - Art Direction, Ernst Fegte - Art Direction, Sam Comer - Interior Decoration, FRENCHMAN'S CREEK
Lyle Wheeler - Art Direction, Maurice Ransford - Art Direction, Thomas Little - Interior Decoration, LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN
Cedric Gibbons - Art Direction, Urie McCleary - Art Direction, Edwin B. Willis - Interior Decoration, Mildred Griffiths - Interior Decoration, NATIONAL VELVET
Ted Smith - Art Direction, Jack McConaghy - Interior Decoration, SAN ANTONIO
Stephen Goosson - Art Direction, Rudolph Sternad - Art Direction, Frank Tuttle - Interior Decoration, A THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS

Interior Decoration - Black & White
* Wiard Ihnen - Art Direction, A. Roland Fields - Interior Decoration, BLOOD ON THE SUN
Albert S. D'Agostino - Art Direction, Jack Okey - Art Direction, Darrell Silvera - Interior Decoration, Claude Carpenter - Interior Decoration, EXPERIMENT PERILOUS
James Basevi - Art Direction, William Darling - Art Direction, Thomas Little - Interior Decoration, Frank E. Hughes - Interior Decoration, THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM
Hans Dreier - Art Direction, Roland Anderson - Art Direction, Sam Comer - Interior Decoration, Ray Moyer - Interior Decoration, LOVE LETTERS
Cedric Gibbons - Art Direction, Hans Peters - Art Direction, Edwin B. Willis - Interior Decoration, John Bonar - Interior Decoration, Hugh Hunt - Interior Decoration, THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY

Cinematography - Color
Robert Planck, Charles Boyle, ANCHORS AWEIGH
* Leon Shamroy, LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN
Leonard Smith, NATIONAL VELVET
Tony Gaudio, Allen M. Davey, A SONG TO REMEMBER
George Barnes, THE SPANISH MAIN

Cinematography - Black & White
Arthur C. Miller, THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM
Ernest Haller, MILDRED PIERCE
* Harry Stradling, Sr., THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
George Barnes, SPELLBOUND
John F. Seitz, THE LOST WEEKEND

Documentary Feature
U.S. Army Air Force, THE LAST BOMB
* Governments of Great Britain and USA, THE TRUE GLORY

Documentary Short Subject
* Warner Bros., HITLER LIVES?
Overseas Motion Picture Bureau, Office of War Information, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
U.S. Marine Corps, TO THE SHORES OF IWO JIMA

Film Editing
Harry Marker, THE BELLS OF ST. MARY'S
Doane Herrison, THE LOST WEEKEND
* Robert J. Kern, NATIONAL VELVET
George Amy, OBJECTIVE, BURMA!
Charles Nelson, A SONG TO REMEMBER

Music - Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
Robert Emmett Dolan, THE BELLS OF ST. MARY'S
Lou Forbes, BREWSTER'S MILLIONS
Werner Janssen, CAPTAIN KIDD
Roy Webb, THE ENCHANTED COTTAGE
Dale Butts, Morton Scott, FLAME OF BARBARY COAST
Edward J. Kay, G.I. HONEYMOON
Louis Applebaum, Ann Ronell, THE STORY OF G.I. JOE
Werner Janssen, GUEST IN THE HOUSE
Daniele Amfitheatrof, GUEST WIFE
Alfred Newman, THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM
Miklos Rozsa, THE LOST WEEKEND
Victor Young, LOVE LETTERS
Karl Hajos, THE MAN WHO WALKED ALONE
Franz Waxman, OBJECTIVE, BURMA!
Alexander Tansman, PARIS UNDERGROUND
Miklos Rozsa, Morris Stoloff, A SONG TO REMEMBER
Werner Janssen, THE SOUTHERNER
* Miklos Rozsa, SPELLBOUND
Hans J. Salter, THIS LOVE OF OURS
Herbert Stothart, THE VALLEY OF DECISION
Hugo Friedhofer, Arthur Lange, THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW

Music - Scoring of a Musical Picture
* Georgie Stoll, ANCHORS AWEIGH
Arthur Lange, BELLE OF THE YUKON
Jerome Kern, Hans J. Salter, CAN'T HELP SINGING
Morton Scott, HITCHHIKE TO HAPPINESS
Robert Emmett Dolan, INCENDIARY BLONDE
Ray Heindorf, Max Steiner, RHAPSODY IN BLUE
Charles Henderson, Alfred Newman, STATE FAIR
Edward J. Kay, SUNBONNET SUE
Edward Plumb, Paul J. Smith, Charles Wolcott, THE THREE CABALLEROS
Marlin Skiles, Morris Stoloff, TONIGHT AND EVERY NIGHT
Walter Greene, WHY GIRLS LEAVE HOME
Lou Forbes, Ray Heindorf, WONDER MAN

Song
Harold Arlen - Music, Johnny Mercer - Lyrics, HERE COME THE WAVES
"Accentuate the Positive"
Jule Styne - Music, Sammy Cahn - Lyrics, TONIGHT AND EVERY NIGHT
"Anywhere"
Jimmy Van Heusen - Music, Johnny Burke - Lyrics, THE BELLS OF ST. MARY'S
"Aren't You Glad You're You"
Jay Livingston - Music, Ray Evans - Lyrics, WHY GIRLS LEAVE HOME
"The Cat and the Canary"
Walter Kent - Music, Kim Gannon - Lyrics, EARL CARROLL VANITIES
"Endlessly"
Allie Wrubel - Music, Herb Magidson - Lyrics, SING YOUR WAY HOME
"I'll Buy That Dream"
Jule Styne - Music, Sammy Cahn - Lyrics, ANCHORS AWEIGH
"I Fall in Love Too Easily"
* Richard Rodgers - Music, Oscar Hammerstein II - Lyrics, STATE FAIR
"It Might As Well Be Spring"
Ann Ronell - Music & Lyrics, THE STORY OF G.I. JOE
"Linda"
Victor Young - Music, Edward Heyman - Lyrics, LOVE LETTERS
"Love Letters"
Jerome Kern - Music, E.Y. Harburg - Lyrics, CAN'T HELP SINGING
"More and More"
James Van Heusen - Music, Johnny Burke - Lyrics, BELLE OF THE YUKON
"Sleighride in July"
David Rose - Music, Leo Robin - Lyrics, WONDER MAN
"So in Love"
Ray Heindorf - Music, M.K. Jerome - Music, Ted Koehler - Lyrics, SAN ANTONIO
"Some Sunday Morning"

Animated Short
Walt Disney - Producer, DONALD'S CRIME
George Pal - Producer, JASPER AND THE BEANSTALK
Eddie Selzer - Producer, LIFE WITH FEATHERS
Paul Terry - Producer, MIGHTY MOUSE IN GYPSY LIFE
Walter Lantz - Producer, POET AND PEASANT
* Frederick Quimby - Producer, QUIET PLEASE
Columbia, RIPPLING ROMANCE

Short Subjects - One-Reel
Edmund Reek - Producer, ALONG THE RAINBOW TRAIL
Ralph Staub - Producer, SCREEN SNAPSHOTS 25TH ANNIVERSARY
* Herbert Moulton - Producer, STAIRWAY TO LIGHT
Gordon Hollingshead - Producer, STORY OF A DOG
Grantland Rice - Producer, WHITE RHAPSODY
Joseph O'Brien - Producer, Thomas Mead - Producer, YOUR NATIONAL GALLERY

Short Subjects - Two-Reel
Chester Franklin - Producer, A GUN IN HIS HAND
Jules White - Producer, THE JURY GOES ROUND 'N' ROUND
George Templeton - Producer, THE LITTLE WITCH
* Gordon Hollingshead - Producer, STAR IN THE NIGHT (BROADWAY BREVITIES)

Sound Recording
* Stephen Dunn, THE BELLS OF ST. MARY'S
Daniel J. Bloomberg, FLAME OF BARBARY COAST
Bernard B. Brown, LADY ON A TRAIN
Thomas T. Moulton, LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN
Nathan Levinson, RHAPSODY IN BLUE
John Livadary, A SONG TO REMEMBER
Jack Whitney - General Service, THE SOUTHERNER
Douglas Shearer, THEY WERE EXPENDABLE
C.O. Slyfield, THE THREE CABALLEROS
W.V. Wolfe - RCA Sound, THREE IS A FAMILY
Loren L. Ryder, THE UNSEEN
Gordon Sawyer, WONDER MAN

Special Effects
Fred Sersen, Sol Halprin (Photographic), Roger Heman, Harry Leonard (Sound), CAPTAIN EDDIE
Jack Cosgrove (Photographic), SPELLBOUND
No credit listed for audible work on this film.
A. Arnold Gillespie, Donald Jahraus, R.A. MacDonald (Photographic), Michael Steinore (Sound), THEY WERE EXPENDABLE
Lawrence W. Butler (Photographic), Ray Bomba (Sound), A THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS
* John Fulton (Photographic), A.W. Johns (Sound), WONDER MAN

Class I (Statuette)
No award given for 1945.

Class II (Plaque)
No award given for 1945.

Class III (Citation)
* Loren L. Ryder, Charles R. Daily, Paramount Studio Sound Department, For the design, construction and use of the first dial-controlled step-by-step sound channel line-up and test circuit.
* Michael S. Leshing (20th Century-Fox Studio)
Benjamin C. Robinson (20th Century-Fox Studio)
Arthur B. Chatelain (20th Century-Fox Studio)
Robert C. Stevens (20th Century-Fox Studio)
John G. Capstaff (Eastman Kodak Company)
For the 20th Century-Fox film processing machine.

Honorary and Other Awards
* Walter Wanger, For his six years service as President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Winner presented a Special Plaque.
* Peggy Ann Garner, Outstanding child actress of 1945. Winner presented a Miniature Statuette.
* Republic Studio, Daniel J. Bloomberg, Republic Sound Department, For the building of an outstanding musical scoring auditorium which provides optimum recording conditions and combines all elements of acoustic and engineering design. Winners presented Certificates.
* Frank Ross - Producer, Mervyn LeRoy - Producer, Albert Maltz - Screenplay, Earl Robinson - Music, Lewis Allen - Lyrics, Frank Sinatra - Cast, THE HOUSE I LIVE IN, Tolerance short subject. Winners presented Statuettes.

The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
No award given for 1945.