The Academy Awards
1945 Best Picture The Lost Weekend Anchors Aweigh The Bells of St. Mary’s Mildred Pierce Spellbound Best Director Billy Wilder - The Lost Weekend Leo McCarey - The Bells of St. Mary’s Clarence Brown - National Velvet Jean Renoir - The Southerner Alfred Hitchcock - Spellbound Best Actor Ray Milland - The Lost Weekend Bing Crosby - The Bells of St. Mary’s Gene Kelly - Anchors Aweigh Gregory Peck - The Keys of the Kingdom Cornel Wilde - A Song to Remember Best Actress Joan Crawford - Mildred Pierce Ingrid Bergman - The Bells of St. Mary’s Greer Garson - The Valley of Decision Jennifer Jones - Love Letters Gene Tierney - Leave Her to Heaven Best Supporting Actor James Dunn - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Michael Chekhov - Spellbound John Dall - The Corn Is Green Robert Mitchum - The Story of G.I. Joe J. Carrol Naish - A Medal for Benny Best Supporting Actress Anne Revere - National Velvet Eve Arden - Mildred Pierce Ann Blyth - Mildred Pierce Angela Lansbury - The Picture of Dorian Gray Joan Lorring - The Corn Is Green Best Original Screenplay Marie-Louise Dillinger Music for Millions Salty O’Rourke What Next, Corporal Hargrove? Best Adapted Screenplay The Lost Weekend Mildred Pierce Pride of the Marines The Story of G.I. Joe A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Best Score of a Dramatic Picture Miklos Rozsa - Spellbound 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 and Morton Scott - Flame of Barbary Coast Edward J. Kay - G.I. Honeymoon 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! Alexandre Tansman - Paris Underground Miklos Rozsa and Morris Stoloff - A Song to Remember Werner Janssen - The Southerner Louis Applebaum and Ann Ronell - The Story of G.I. Joe Hans J. Salter - This Love of Ours Herbert Stothart - The Valley of Decision Hugo Friedhofer and Arthur Lange - The Woman in the Window Best Original Song “It Might as Well Be Spring” - State Fair “Accentuate the Positive” - Here Come the Waves “Anywhere” - Tonight and Every Night “Aren’t You Glad You’re You” - The Bells of St. Mary’s “The Cat and the Canary” - Why Girls Leave Home “Endlessly” - Earl Carroll Vanities “I Fall in Love Too Easily” - Anchors Aweigh “I’ll Buy That Dream” - Sing Your Way Home “Linda” - The Story of G.I. Joe “Love Letters” - Love Letters “More and More” - Can’t Help Singing “Sleighride in July” - Belle of the Yukon “So in Love” - Wonder Man “Some Sunday Morning” - San Antonio |
Hot Toasty Rag Awards (video presentation here)
1945 Best Picture Objective, Burma! The Enchanted Cottage Pride of the Marines They Were Expendable A Tree Grows in Brooklyn The Valley of Decision The Woman in the Window Best Director Raoul Walsch - Objective, Burma! George Sidney - Anchors Aweigh John Cromwell - The Enchanted Cottage Otto Preminger - Fallen Angel Clarence Brown - National Velvet Delmer Daves - Pride of the Marines John Ford - They Were Expendable Best Actor James Dunn - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Robert Montgomery - They Were Expendable Robert Young - The Enchanted Cottage Best Actress Greer Garson - The Valley of Decision Ingrid Bergman - Spellbound Dorothy McGuire - The Enchanted Cottage Best Supporting Actor Henry Hull - Objective, Burma! Michael Checkhov - Spellbound John Dall - The Corn is Green Herbert Marshall - The Enchanted Cottage Best Supporting Actress Joan Blondell - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Beulah Bondi - The Southerner Adele Jurgens - She Wouldn’t Say Yes Juvenile Awards Peggy Ann Gardner Elizabeth Taylor Best Screenplay Pride of the Marines The Enchanted Cottage Objective, Burma! She Wouldn’t Say Yes The Woman in the Window Best Musical Score Alfred Newman - Leave Her to Heaven Roy Webb - The Enchanted Cottage David Raksin - Fallen Angel Miklos Rozsa - The Lost Weekend Miklos Rozsa - Spellbound Best Original Song “Love Letters” - Love Letters “It Might as Well Be Spring” - State Fair “It’s a Grand Night for Singing” - State Fair |
Notes from the Members of the Board:
1945 was the last year of WWII, and war movies in the future will have a different flavor than those made during the early 1940s when the outcome was unknown. This was one of the hardest years to select just one winner, namely Director, Actress, and Musical Score.
Hidden Gem: Pride of the Marines
- M.E.
1945 was the last year of WWII, and war movies in the future will have a different flavor than those made during the early 1940s when the outcome was unknown. This was one of the hardest years to select just one winner, namely Director, Actress, and Musical Score.
Hidden Gem: Pride of the Marines
- M.E.