17th Annual Academy Awards Nominations (1945)

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  • Date of Ceremony: Thursday, March 15, 1945
  • For films released in: 1944
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Here is a complete list of nominations for the 17th Annual Academy Awards.

And the nominees are:

Best Motion Picture

  • Double Indemnity
    Paramount
  • Gaslight
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  • Going My Way
    Paramount
  • Since You Went Away
    Selznick International Pictures
  • Wilson
    20th Century-Fox

Best Directing

  • Double Indemnity
    Billy Wilder
  • Going My Way
    Leo McCarey
  • Laura
    Otto Preminger
  • Lifeboat
    Alfred Hitchcock
  • Wilson
    Henry King

Best Actor

  • Gaslight
    Charles Boyer
  • Going My Way
    Bing Crosby
  • Going My Way
    Barry Fitzgerald
  • None but the Lonely Heart
    Cary Grant
  • Wilson
    Alexander Knox

Best Actress

  • Double Indemnity
    Barbara Stanwyck
  • Gaslight
    Ingrid Bergman
  • Mr. Skeffington
    Bette Davis
  • Mrs. Parkington
    Greer Garson
  • Since You Went Away
    Claudette Colbert

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

  • Going My Way
    Barry Fitzgerald
  • Laura
    Clifton Webb
  • Mr. Skeffington
    Claude Rains
  • The Seventh Cross
    Hume Cronyn
  • Since You Went Away
    Monty Woolley

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

  • Dragon Seed
    Aline MacMahon
  • Gaslight
    Angela Lansbury
  • Mrs. Parkington
    Agnes Moorehead
  • None but the Lonely Heart
    Ethel Barrymore
  • Since You Went Away
    Jennifer Jones

Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)

  • Address Unknown
    Lionel Banks [Art Direction], Walter Holscher [Art Direction] and Joseph Kish [Interior Decoration]
  • The Adventures of Mark Twain
    John J. Hughes [Art Direction] and Fred MacLean [Interior Decoration]
  • Casanova Brown
    Perry Ferguson [Art Direction] and Julia Heron [Interior Decoration]
  • Gaslight
    Cedric Gibbons [Art Direction], William Ferrari [Art Direction], Edwin B. Willis [Interior Decoration] and Paul Huldschinsky [Interior Decoration]
  • Laura
    Lyle Wheeler [Art Direction], Leland Fuller [Art Direction] and Thomas Little [Interior Decoration]
  • No Time for Love
    Hans Dreier [Art Direction], Robert Usher [Art Direction] and Sam Comer [Interior Decoration]
  • Since You Went Away
    Mark-Lee Kirk [Art Direction] and Victor A. Gangelin [Interior Decoration]
  • Step Lively
    Albert S. D'Agostino [Art Direction], Carroll Clark [Art Direction], Darrell Silvera [Interior Decoration] and Claude Carpenter [Interior Decoration]

Best Art Direction (Color)

  • The Climax
    John B. Goodman [Art Direction], Alexander Golitzen [Art Direction], Russell A. Gausman [Interior Decoration] and Ira S. Webb [Interior Decoration]
  • Cover Girl
    Lionel Banks [Art Direction], Cary Odell [Art Direction] and Fay Babcock [Interior Decoration]
  • The Desert Song
    Charles Novi [Art Direction] and Jack McConaghy [Interior Decoration]
  • Kismet
    Cedric Gibbons [Art Direction], Daniel B. Cathcart [Art Direction], Edwin B. Willis [Interior Decoration] and Richard Pefferle [Interior Decoration]
  • Lady in the Dark
    Hans Dreier [Art Direction], Raoul Pene du Bois [Art Direction] and Ray Moyer [Interior Decoration]
  • The Princess and the Pirate
    Ernst Fegte [Art Direction] and Howard Bristol [Interior Decoration]
  • Wilson
    Wiard Ihnen [Art Direction] and Thomas Little [Interior Decoration]

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

  • Double Indemnity
    John Seitz
  • Dragon Seed
    Sidney Wagner
  • Gaslight
    Joseph Ruttenberg
  • Going My Way
    Lionel Lindon
  • Laura
    Joseph LaShelle
  • Lifeboat
    Glen MacWilliams
  • Since You Went Away
    Stanley Cortez and Lee Garmes
  • Thirty Seconds over Tokyo
    Robert Surtees and Harold Rosson
  • The Uninvited
    Charles B. Lang Jr.
  • The White Cliffs of Dover
    George Folsey

Best Cinematography (Color)

  • Cover Girl
    Rudolph Maté and Allen M. Davey
  • Home in Indiana
    Edward Cronjager
  • Kismet
    Charles Rosher
  • Lady in the Dark
    Ray Rennahan
  • Meet Me in St. Louis
    George Folsey
  • Wilson
    Leon Shamroy

Best Documentary (Feature)

  • The Fighting Lady
    United States Navy
  • Resisting Enemy Interrogation
    United States Army Air Force

Best Documentary (Short Subject)

  • Arturo Toscanini
    United States Office of War Information Overseas Motion Picture Bureau
  • New Americans
    RKO Radio
  • With the Marines at Tarawa
    United States Marine Corps

Best Film Editing

  • Going My Way
    Leroy Stone
  • Janie
    Owen Marks
  • None but the Lonely Heart
    Roland Gross
  • Since You Went Away
    Hal C. Kern and James E. Newcom
  • Wilson
    Barbara McLean

Best Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)

  • Address Unknown
    Morris Stoloff and Ernst Toch
  • The Adventures of Mark Twain
    Max Steiner
  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey
    Dimitri Tiomkin
  • Casanova Brown
    Arthur Lange
  • Christmas Holiday
    H. J. Salter
  • Double Indemnity
    Miklos Rozsa
  • The Fighting Seabees
    Walter Scharf and Roy Webb
  • The Hairy Ape
    Edward Paul and Michel Michelet
  • It Happened Tomorrow
    Robert Stoltz
  • Jack London
    Frederic Efrem Rich
  • Kismet
    Herbert Stothart
  • None but the Lonely Heart
    Hanns Eisler and C. Bakaleinikoff
  • The Princess and the Pirate
    David Rose
  • Since You Went Away
    Max Steiner
  • Summer Storm
    Karl Hajos
  • Three Russian Girls
    Franke Harling
  • Up in Mabel's Room
    Edward Paul
  • Voice in the Wind
    Michel Michelet
  • Wilson
    Alfred Newman
  • Woman of the Town
    Miklos Rozsa

Best Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture)

  • Brazil
    Walter Scharf
  • Cover Girl
    Morris Stoloff and Carmen Dragon
  • Higher and Higher
    C. Bakaleinikoff
  • Hollywood Canteen
    Ray Heindorf
  • Irish Eyes Are Smiling
    Alfred Newman
  • Knickerbocker Holiday
    Werner R. Heymann and Kurt Weill
  • Lady in the Dark
    Robert Emmett Dolan
  • Lady, Let's Dance
    Edward Kay
  • Meet Me in St. Louis
    George Stoll
  • The Merry Monahans
    H. J. Salter
  • Minstrel Man
    Ferde Grofe and Leo Erdody
  • Sensations of 1945
    Mahlon Merrick
  • Song of the Open Road
    Charles Previn
  • Up in Arms
    Ray Heindorf and Louis Forbes

Best Music (Song)

  • Brazil "Rio de Janeiro"
    Ary Barroso [Music by] and Ned Washington [Lyrics by]
  • Cover Girl "Long Ago and Far Away"
    Jerome Kern [Music by] and Ira Gershwin [Lyrics by]
  • Follow the Boys "I'll Walk Alone"
    Jule Styne [Music by] and Sammy Cahn [Lyrics by]
  • Going My Way "Swinging on a Star"
    James Van Heusen [Music by] and Johnny Burke [Lyrics by]
  • Higher and Higher "I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night"
    Jimmy McHugh [Music by] and Harold Adamson [Lyrics by]
  • Hollywood Canteen "Sweet Dreams Sweetheart"
    M.K. Jerome [Music by] and Ted Koehler [Lyrics by]
  • Lady, Let's Dance "Silver Shadows and Golden Dreams"
    Lew Pollack [Music by] and Charles Newman [Lyrics by]
  • Meet Me in St. Louis "The Trolley Song"
    Ralph Blane [Music by] and Hugh Martin [Lyrics by]
  • Minstrel Man "Remember Me to Carolina"
    Harry Revel [Music by] and Paul Webster [Lyrics by]
  • Song of the Open Road "Too Much in Love"
    Walter Kent [Music by] and Kim Gannon [Lyrics by]
  • Sweet and Lowdown "I'm Making Believe"
    James V. Monaco [Music by] and Mack Gordon [Lyrics by]
  • Up in Arms "Now I Know"
    Harold Arlen [Music by] and Ted Koehler [Lyrics by]

Best Short Subject (Cartoon)

  • And to Think I Saw It on Mulberry Street
    George Pal
  • Dog, Cat and Canary
    Screen Gems
  • Fish Fry
    Walter Lantz
  • How to Play Football
    Walt Disney
  • Mouse Trouble
    Frederick C. Quimby
  • My Boy Johnny
    Paul Terry
  • Swooner Crooner
    Warner Bros.

Best Short Subject (One-reel)

  • Blue Grass Gentlemen
    Edmund Reek
  • Jammin' the Blues
    Gordon Hollingshead
  • Movie Pests
    Pete Smith
  • Screen Snapshots' 50th Anniversary of Motion Pictures
    Ralph Staub
  • Who's Who in Animal Land
    Jerry Fairbanks

Best Short Subject (Two-reel)

  • Bombalera
    Louis Harris
  • I Won't Play
    Gordon Hollingshead
  • Main Street Today
    Jerry Bresler and Herbert Moulton [Associate Producer]

Best Sound Recording

  • Brazil
    Republic Studio Sound Department and Daniel J. Bloomberg [Sound Director]
  • Casanova Brown
    Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department and Thomas T. Moulton [Sound Director]
  • Cover Girl
    Columbia Studio Sound Department and John Livadary [Sound Director]
  • Double Indemnity
    Paramount Studio Sound Department and Loren L. Ryder [Sound Director]
  • His Butler's Sister
    Universal Studio Sound Department and Bernard B. Brown [Sound Director]
  • Hollywood Canteen
    Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department and Nathan Levinson [Sound Director]
  • It Happened Tomorrow
    Sound Service Inc. and Jack Whitney [Sound Director]
  • Kismet
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department and Douglas Shearer [Sound Director]
  • Music in Manhattan
    RKO Radio Studio Sound Department and Stephen Dunn [Sound Director]
  • Voice in the Wind
    RCA Sound and W.M. Dalgleish [Sound Director]
  • Wilson
    20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department and E.H. Hansen [Sound Director]

Best Special Effects

  • The Adventures of Mark Twain
    Paul Detlefsen [Photographic Effects by], John Crouse [Photographic Effects by] and Nathan Levinson [Sound Effects by]
  • Days of Glory
    Vernon L. Walker [Photographic Effects by], James G. Stewart [Sound Effects by] and Roy Granville [Sound Effects by]
  • Secret Command
    David Allen [Photographic Effects by], Ray Cory [Photographic Effects by], Robert Wright [Photographic Effects by], Russell Malmgren [Sound Effects by] and Harry Kusnick [Sound Effects by]
  • Since You Went Away
    John R. Cosgrove [Photographic Effects by] and Arthur Johns [Sound Effects by]
  • The Story of Dr. Wassell
    Gordon Jennings [Photographic Effects by], Farciot Edouart [Photographic Effects by] and George Dutton [Sound Effects by]
  • Thirty Seconds over Tokyo
    A. Arnold Gillespie [Photographic Effects by], Donald Jahraus [Photographic Effects by], Warren Newcombe [Photographic Effects by] and Douglas Shearer [Sound Effects by]
  • Wilson
    Fred Sersen [Photographic Effects by] and Roger Heman [Sound Effects by]

Best Writing (Original Screenplay)

  • Hail the Conquering Hero
    Preston Sturges
  • The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
    Preston Sturges
  • Two Girls and a Sailor
    Richard Connell and Gladys Lehman
  • Wilson
    Lamar Trotti
  • Wing and a Prayer
    Jerome Cady

Best Writing (Screenplay)

  • Double Indemnity
    Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler
  • Gaslight
    John Van Druten, Walter Reisch and John L. Balderston
  • Going My Way
    Frank Butler and Frank Cavett
  • Laura
    Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein and Betty Reinhardt
  • Meet Me in St. Louis
    Irving Brecher and Fred F. Finklehoffe

Best Writing (Original Motion Picture Story)

  • Going My Way
    Leo McCarey
  • A Guy Named Joe
    Chandler Sprague and David Boehm
  • Lifeboat
    John Steinbeck
  • None Shall Escape
    Alfred Neumann and Joseph Than
  • The Sullivans
    Edward Doherty and Jules Schermer
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