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Academy Awards, USA: 1946

Oscar

Date:7 March
Host:Bob Hope (I); James Stewart (I)
Location:Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Los Angeles, California, USA

Best Picture
  Winner:
 
  Other Nominees:
 
  • Anchors Aweigh (1945) - M-G-M
  • Mildred Pierce (1945) - Warner Bros.
  • Spellbound (1945) - Selznick International Pictures
  • The Bells of St. Mary's (1945) - Rainbow Productions

  • Best Actor in a Leading Role
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • A Song to Remember (1945) - Cornel Wilde
  • Anchors Aweigh (1945) - Gene Kelly (I)
  • The Bells of St. Mary's (1945) - Bing Crosby
  • The Keys of the Kingdom (1944) - Gregory Peck

  • Best Actress in a Leading Role
      Winner:
     
    • Mildred Pierce (1945) - Joan Crawford (I)
      - Joan Crawford was not present at the awards ceremony and feigned ill that night. Meanwhile she listened to the show on the radio. When she won, she ushered the press into her bedroom, where she finally accepted her Oscar.
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Leave Her to Heaven (1945) - Gene Tierney
  • Love Letters (1945) - Jennifer Jones (I)
  • The Bells of St. Mary's (1945) - Ingrid Bergman (I)
  • The Valley of Decision (1945) - Greer Garson

  • Best Actor in a Supporting Role
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • A Medal for Benny (1945) - J. Carrol Naish
  • Spellbound (1945) - Michael Chekhov
  • Story of G.I. Joe (1945) - Robert Mitchum
  • The Corn Is Green (1945) - John Dall (I)

  • Best Actress in a Supporting Role
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Mildred Pierce (1945) - Eve Arden
  • Mildred Pierce (1945) - Ann Blyth
  • The Corn Is Green (1945) - Joan Lorring
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) - Angela Lansbury

  • Best Director
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • National Velvet (1944) - Clarence Brown (I)
  • Spellbound (1945) - Alfred Hitchcock (I)
  • The Bells of St. Mary's (1945) - Leo McCarey
  • The Southerner (1945) - Jean Renoir

  • Best Writing, Original Screenplay
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Dillinger (1945) - Philip Yordan
  • Music for Millions (1944) - Myles Connolly (I)
  • Salty O'Rourke (1945) - Milton Holmes
  • What Next, Corporal Hargrove? (1945) - Harry Kurnitz

  • Best Writing, Original Story
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • A Medal for Benny (1945) - John Steinbeck; Jack Wagner (III)
  • A Song to Remember (1945) - Ernst Marischka
  • Objective, Burma! (1945) - Alvah Bessie
  • The Affairs of Susan (1945) - László Görög (I); Thomas Monroe

  • Best Writing, Screenplay
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) - Frank Davis (I); Tess Slesinger
  • Mildred Pierce (1945) - Ranald MacDougall
  • Pride of the Marines (1945) - Albert Maltz
  • Story of G.I. Joe (1945) - Leopold Atlas; Guy Endore; Philip Stevenson (I)

  • Best Cinematography, Color
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • A Song to Remember (1945) - Tony Gaudio; Allen M. Davey (I)
  • Anchors Aweigh (1945) - Robert H. Planck; Charles P. Boyle
  • National Velvet (1944) - Leonard Smith (I)
  • The Spanish Main (1945) - George Barnes (I)

  • Best Cinematography, Black-and-White
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Mildred Pierce (1945) - Ernest Haller
  • Spellbound (1945) - George Barnes (I)
  • The Keys of the Kingdom (1944) - Arthur C. Miller
  • The Lost Weekend (1945) - John F. Seitz

  • Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Experiment Perilous (1944) - Albert S. D'Agostino; Jack Okey; Darrell Silvera; Claude E. Carpenter
  • Love Letters (1945) - Hans Dreier; Roland Anderson; Sam Comer; Ray Moyer (I)
  • The Keys of the Kingdom (1944) - James Basevi; William S. Darling; Thomas Little (I); Frank E. Hughes
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) - Cedric Gibbons; Hans Peters (I); Edwin B. Willis; John Bonar; Hugh Hunt (I)

  • Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Color
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • A Thousand and One Nights (1945) - Stephen Goosson; Rudolph Sternad; Frank Tuttle (II)
  • Leave Her to Heaven (1945) - Lyle R. Wheeler; Maurice Ransford; Thomas Little (I)
  • National Velvet (1944) - Cedric Gibbons; Urie McCleary; Edwin B. Willis; Mildred Griffiths
  • San Antonio (1945) - Ted Smith (I); Jack McConaghy

  • Best Sound, Recording
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • A Song to Remember (1945) - John P. Livadary (Columbia SSD)
  • Flame of Barbary Coast (1945) - Daniel J. Bloomberg (Republic SSD)
  • Lady on a Train (1945) - Bernard B. Brown (Universal SSD)
  • Leave Her to Heaven (1945) - Thomas T. Moulton (20th Century-Fox SSD)
  • Rhapsody in Blue (1945) - Nathan Levinson (Warner Bros. SSD)
  • The Southerner (1945) - Jack Whitney (I) (Sound Services Inc.)
  • The Three Caballeros (1944) - C.O. Slyfield (Walt Disney SSD)
  • The Unseen (1945) - Loren L. Ryder (Paramount SSD)
  • They Were Expendable (1945) - Douglas Shearer (M-G-M SSD)
  • Three Is a Family (1944) - W.V. Wolfe (RCA Sound)
  • Wonder Man (1945) - Gordon Sawyer (Samuel Goldwyn SSD)

  • Best Film Editing
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • A Song to Remember (1945) - Charles Nelson (I)
  • Objective, Burma! (1945) - George Amy
  • The Bells of St. Mary's (1945) - Harry Marker
  • The Lost Weekend (1945) - Doane Harrison

  • Best Effects, Special Effects
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • A Thousand and One Nights (1945) - Lawrence W. Butler (photographic); Ray Bomba (sound)
  • Captain Eddie (1945) - Fred Sersen (photographic); Sol Halperin (photographic); Roger Heman Sr. (sound); Harry M. Leonard (sound)
  • Spellbound (1945) - Jack Cosgrove (I) (photographic)
  • They Were Expendable (1945) - A. Arnold Gillespie (photographic); Donald Jahraus (photographic); R.A. MacDonald (photographic); Michael Steinore (sound)

  • Best Music, Original Song
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Anchors Aweigh (1945) - Jule Styne (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
    - For the song "I Fall in Love Too Easily"
  • Belle of the Yukon (1944) - Jimmy Van Heusen (music); Johnny Burke (II) (lyrics)
    - For the song "Sleighride in July"
  • Can't Help Singing (1944) - Jerome Kern (music); E.Y. Harburg (lyrics)
    - For the song "More and More"
  • Earl Carroll Vanities (1945) - Walter Kent (I) (music); Kim Gannon (lyrics)
    - For the song "Endlessly"
  • Here Come the Waves (1944) - Harold Arlen (music); Johnny Mercer (lyrics)
    - For the song "Accentuate the Positive"
  • Love Letters (1945) - Victor Young (I) (music); Edward Heyman (lyrics)
    - For the song "Love Letters"
  • San Antonio (1945) - Ray Heindorf (music); M.K. Jerome (music); Ted Koehler (lyrics)
    - For the song "Some Sunday Morning"
  • Sing Your Way Home (1945) - Allie Wrubel (music); Herb Magidson (lyrics)
    - For the song "I'll Buy That Dream"
  • Story of G.I. Joe (1945) - Ann Ronell
    - For the song "Linda"
  • The Bells of St. Mary's (1945) - Jimmy Van Heusen (music); Johnny Burke (II) (lyrics)
    - For the song "Aren't You Glad You're You"
  • Tonight and Every Night (1945) - Jule Styne (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
    - For the song "Anywhere"
  • Why Girls Leave Home (1945) - Jay Livingston (music); Ray Evans (I) (lyrics)
    - For the song "The Cat and the Canary"
  • Wonder Man (1945) - David Rose (I) (music); Leo Robin (I) (lyrics)
    - For the song "So in Love"

  • Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Belle of the Yukon (1944) - Arthur Lange
  • Can't Help Singing (1944) - Jerome Kern; Hans J. Salter
  • Hitchhike to Happiness (1945) - Morton Scott
  • Incendiary Blonde (1945) - Robert Emmett Dolan
  • Rhapsody in Blue (1945) - Ray Heindorf; Max Steiner (I)
  • State Fair (1945) - Charles Henderson (I); Alfred Newman
  • Sunbonnet Sue (1945) - Edward J. Kay
  • The Three Caballeros (1944) - Edward H. Plumb; Paul J. Smith (III); Charles Wolcott
  • Tonight and Every Night (1945) - Marlin Skiles; Morris Stoloff
  • Why Girls Leave Home (1945) - Walter Greene (II)
  • Wonder Man (1945) - Louis Forbes; Ray Heindorf

  • Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • A Song to Remember (1945) - Miklós Rózsa; Morris Stoloff
  • Brewster's Millions (1945) - Louis Forbes
  • Captain Kidd (1945) - Werner Janssen
  • Flame of Barbary Coast (1945) - R. Dale Butts; Morton Scott
  • G.I. Honeymoon (1945) - Edward J. Kay
  • Guest in the House (1944) - Werner Janssen
  • Guest Wife (1945) - Daniele Amfitheatrof
  • Love Letters (1945) - Victor Young (I)
  • Objective, Burma! (1945) - Franz Waxman
  • Paris Underground (1945) - Alexander Tansman
  • Story of G.I. Joe (1945) - Louis Applebaum; Ann Ronell
  • The Bells of St. Mary's (1945) - Robert Emmett Dolan
  • The Enchanted Cottage (1945) - Roy Webb (I)
  • The Keys of the Kingdom (1944) - Alfred Newman
  • The Lost Weekend (1945) - Miklós Rózsa
  • The Man Who Walked Alone (1945) - Karl Hajos
  • The Southerner (1945) - Werner Janssen
  • The Valley of Decision (1945) - Herbert Stothart
  • The Woman in the Window (1944) - Hugo Friedhofer; Arthur Lange
  • This Love of Ours (1945) - Hans J. Salter

  • Best Short Subject, Two-reel
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • A Gun in His Hand (1945) - Chester M. Franklin
  • The Jury Goes Round 'n' Round (1945) - Jules White (I)
  • The Little Witch (1945) - George Templeton

  • Best Short Subject, One-reel
      Winner:
     
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  • Along the Rainbow Trail (1946) - Edmund Reek
  • Screen Snapshots Series 25, No. 1: 25th Anniversary (1945) - Ralph Staub
  • Story of a Dog (1945) - Gordon Hollingshead
  • White Rhapsody (1945) - Grantland Rice
  • Your National Gallery (1945) - Joseph O'Brien (I); Thomas Mead

  • Best Short Subject, Cartoons
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Donald's Crime (1945) - Walt Disney
  • Jasper and the Beanstalk (1945) - George Pal
  • Life with Feathers (1945) - Edward Selzer
  • Mighty Mouse in Gypsy Life (1945) - Paul Terry (I)
  • Rippling Romance (1945) - Columbia
  • The Poet & Peasant (1945) - Walter Lantz

  • Best Documentary, Short Subjects
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Library of Congress (1945) - Office of War Information
  • To the Shores of Iwo Jima (1945) - U.S. Marine Corps

  • Best Documentary, Features
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • The Last Bomb (1945) - U.S. Army Air Force

  • Juvenile Award

      Awarded to:
     

    Honorary Award

      Awarded to:
     
    • Daniel J. Bloomberg; Republic Studio; 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 (certificate).
    • Walter Wanger
      - For his six years service as President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (special plaque).
    • The House I Live In (1945) - Frank Ross (I); Mervyn LeRoy; Albert Maltz; Earl Robinson (I); Lewis Allen (II); Frank Sinatra
      - For 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.

    Academy Award of Merit

      Winner:
     

    • - Not awarded.

    Scientific and Engineering Award

      Winner:
     

    • - Not awarded.

    Technical Achievement Award

      Winners:
     
    • Michael S. Leshing (20th Century-Fox Studio); Benjamin C. Robinson (20th Century-Fox Studio); Arthur B. Chatelain (20th Century-Fox Studio); Robert C. Stevens (II) (20th Century-Fox Studio); John G. Capstaff (Eastman Kodak Co.)
      - For the 20th Century-Fox film processing machine.
    • 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.