1945 (18th Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1945 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.

Best Motion Picture

The Lost Weekend, Paramount.

Best Actor

Ray Milland in The Lost Weekend, Paramount.

Best Actress

Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce, Warner Bros.

Actor in a Supporting Role

James Dunn in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 20th Century-Fox.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Anne Revere in National Velvet, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Directing

The Lost Weekend, Paramount. Billy Wilder.

Art Direction-Interior Decoration

(Black-and-White)

Blood on the Sun, Cagney Productions; United Artists. Art direction by Wiard Ihnen; interior decoration by A. Roland Fields.

(Color)

Frenchman’s Creek, Paramount. Art direction by Hans Dreier and Ernst Fegte; interior decoration by Sam Comer.

Cinematography

(Black-and-White)

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Harry Stradling.

(Color)

Leave Her to Heaven, 20th Century-Fox. Leon Shamroy.

Documentary

(Feature)

The True Glory, United States Office of War Information; Columbia. The Governments of Great Britain and the United States of America.

(Short Subject)

Hitler Lives?, Warner Bros. [Featurette Series] Gordon Hollingshead, Producer.

Film Editing

National Velvet, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Robert J. Kern.

Music

(Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)

Spellbound, Selznick International Pictures; United Artists. Miklos Rozsa.

(Scoring of a Musical Picture)

Anchors Aweigh, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Georgie Stoll.

(Song)

It Might as Well Be Spring from State Fair, 20th Century-Fox. Music by Richard Rodgers; lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.

Short Subjects

(Cartoons)

Quiet Please!, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. [Tom & Jerry Series] Frederick Quimby, Producer.

(One-reel)

Stairway to Light, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. [John Nesbitt Passing Parade Series] Herbert Moulton, Producer; Jerry Bresler, Executive Producer.

(Two-reel)

Star in the Night, Warner Bros. [Broadway Brevities Series] Gordon Hollingshead, Producer.

Sound Recording

The Bells of St. Mary’s, Rainbow Productions; RKO Radio. RKO Radio Studio Sound Department, Stephen Dunn, Sound Director.

Special Effects

Wonder Man, Beverly Productions; RKO Radio. Photographic effects by John Fulton; sound effects by Arthur W. Johns.

Writing

(Original Motion Picture Story)

The House on 92nd Street, 20th Century-Fox. Charles G. Booth.

(Original Screenplay)

Marie-Louise, Praesens Films (Swiss). Richard Schweizer.

(Screenplay)

The Lost Weekend, Paramount. Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder.

Special Award

To Walter Wanger for his six years service as President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. [Special Plaque]

To The House I Live In, tolerance short subject; produced by Frank Ross and Mervyn LeRoy; directed by Mervyn LeRoy; screenplay by Albert Maltz; song The House I Live In, music by Earl Robinson, lyrics by Lewis Allen; starring Frank Sinatra; released by RKO Radio. [Statuette]

To Republic Studio, Daniel J. Bloomberg, and the Republic Studio 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. [Certificate]

(Juvenile)

To Peggy Ann Garner, outstanding child actress of 1945. [Miniature Statuette]

Scientific or Technical Award

(Class III)

To Loren L. Ryder, Charles R. Daily and the 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.

To Michael S. Leshing, Benjamin C. Robinson, Arthur B. Chatelain and Robert C. Stevens of 20th Century-Fox Studio and John G. Capstaff of Eastman Kodak Company for the 20th Century-Fox film processing machine.