18th Annual Academy Awards Nominations (1946)

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• Date of Ceremony: Thursday, March 7, 1946
• For films released in: 1945

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Here is a complete list of nominations for the 18th Annual Academy Awards.

And the nominees are:

Best Motion Picture

• Anchors Aweigh
  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• The Bells of St. Mary's
  Rainbow Productions
• The Lost Weekend
  Paramount
• Mildred Pierce
  Warner Bros.
• Spellbound
  Selznick International Pictures

Best Directing

• The Bells of St. Mary's
  Leo McCarey
• The Lost Weekend
  Billy Wilder
• National Velvet
  Clarence Brown
• The Southerner
  Jean Renoir
• Spellbound
  Alfred Hitchcock

Best Actor

• Anchors Aweigh
  Gene Kelly
• The Bells of St. Mary's
  Bing Crosby
• The Keys of the Kingdom
  Gregory Peck
• The Lost Weekend
  Ray Milland
• A Song to Remember
  Cornel Wilde

Best Actress

• The Bells of St. Mary's
  Ingrid Bergman
• Leave Her to Heaven
  Gene Tierney
• Love Letters
  Jennifer Jones
• Mildred Pierce
  Joan Crawford
• The Valley of Decision
  Greer Garson

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• The Corn Is Green
  John Dall
• G. I. Joe
  Robert Mitchum
• A Medal for Benny
  J. Carrol Naish
• Spellbound
  Michael Chekhov
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  James Dunn

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• The Corn Is Green
  Joan Lorring
• Mildred Pierce
  Eve Arden
• Mildred Pierce
  Ann Blyth
• National Velvet
  Anne Revere
• The Picture of Dorian Gray
  Angela Lansbury

Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)

• Blood on the Sun
  Wiard Ihnen [Art Direction] and A. Roland Fields [Interior Decoration]
• Experiment Perilous
  Albert S. D'Agostino [Art Direction], Jack Okey [Art Direction], Darrell Silvera [Interior Decoration] and Claude Carpenter [Interior Decoration]
• The Keys of the Kingdom
  James Basevi [Art Direction], William Darling [Art Direction], Thomas Little [Interior Decoration] and Frank E. Hughes [Interior Decoration]
• Love Letters
  Hans Dreier [Art Direction], Roland Anderson [Art Direction], Sam Comer [Interior Decoration] and Ray Moyer [Interior Decoration]
• The Picture of Dorian Gray
  Cedric Gibbons [Art Direction], Hans Peters [Art Direction], Edwin B. Willis [Interior Decoration], Hugh Hunt [Interior Decoration] and John Bonar [Interior Decoration]

Best Art Direction (Color)

• Frenchman's Creek
  Hans Dreier [Art Direction], Ernst Fegte [Art Direction] and Sam Comer [Interior Decoration]
• Leave Her to Heaven
  Lyle Wheeler [Art Direction], Maurice Ransford [Art Direction] and Thomas Little [Interior Decoration]
• National Velvet
  Cedric Gibbons [Art Direction], Urie McCleary [Art Direction], Edwin B. Willis [Interior Decoration] and Mildred Griffiths [Interior Decoration]
• San Antonio
  Ted Smith [Art Direction] and Jack McConaghy [Interior Decoration]
• A Thousand and One Nights
  Stephen Goosson [Art Direction], Rudolph Sternad [Art Direction] and Frank Tuttle [Interior Decoration]

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• The Keys of the Kingdom
  Arthur Miller
• The Lost Weekend
  John F. Seitz
• Mildred Pierce
  Ernest Haller
• The Picture of Dorian Gray
  Harry Stradling Sr.
• Spellbound
  George Barnes

Best Cinematography (Color)

• Anchors Aweigh
  Robert Planck and Charles Boyle
• Leave Her to Heaven
  Leon Shamroy
• National Velvet
  Leonard Smith
• A Song to Remember
  Gaetano "Tony" Gaudio and Allen M. Davey
• The Spanish Main
  George Barnes

Best Documentary (Feature)

• The Last Bomb
  United States Army Air Force
• The True Glory
  The Governments of Great Britain and the United States of America

Best Documentary (Short Subject)

• Hitler Lives?
  Gordon Hollingshead
• Library of Congress
  United States Office of War Information Overseas Motion Picture Bureau
• To the Shores of Iwo Jima
  United States Marine Corps

Best Film Editing

• The Bells of St. Mary's
  Harry Marker
• The Lost Weekend
  Doane Harrison
• National Velvet
  Robert J. Kern
• Objective, Burma!
  George Amy
• A Song to Remember
  Charles Nelson

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

• The Bells of St. Mary's
  Robert Emmett Dolan
• Brewster's Millions
  Lou Forbes
• Captain Kidd
  Werner Janssen
• The Enchanted Cottage
  Roy Webb
• Flame of Barbary Coast
  Morton Scott and Dale Butts
• G. I. Honeymoon
  Edward J. Kay
• G. I. Joe
  Louis Applebaum and Ann Ronell
• Guest in the House
  Werner Janssen
• Guest Wife
  Daniele Amfitheatrof
• The Keys of the Kingdom
  Alfred Newman
• The Lost Weekend
  Miklos Rozsa
• Love Letters
  Victor Young
• The Man Who Walked Alone
  Karl Hajos
• Objective, Burma!
  Franz Waxman
• Paris--Underground
  Alexander Tansman
• A Song to Remember
  Miklos Rozsa and Morris Stoloff
• The Southerner
  Werner Janssen
• Spellbound
  Miklos Rozsa
• This Love of Ours
  H. J. Salter
• The Valley of Decision
  Herbert Stothart
• The Woman in the Window
  Arthur Lange and Hugo Friedhofer

Best Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture)

• Anchors Aweigh
  George Stoll
• Belle of the Yukon
  Arthur Lange
• Can't Help Singing
  Jerome Kern and H. J. Salter
• Hitchhike to Happiness
  Morton Scott
• Incendiary Blonde
  Robert Emmett Dolan
• Rhapsody in Blue
  Ray Heindorf and Max Steiner
• State Fair
  Alfred Newman and Charles Henderson
• Sunbonnet Sue
  Edward J. Kay
• The Three Caballeros
  Charles Wolcott, Edward Plumb and Paul J. Smith
• Tonight and Every Night
  Marlin Skiles and Morris Stoloff
• Why Girls Leave Home
  Walter Greene
• Wonder Man
  Ray Heindorf and Lou Forbes

Best Music (Song)

• Anchors Aweigh "I Fall in Love Too Easily"
  Jule Styne [Music by] and Sammy Cahn [Lyrics by]
• Belle of the Yukon "Sleighride in July"
  James Van Heusen [Music by] and Johnny Burke [Lyrics by]
• The Bells of St. Mary's "Aren't You Glad You're You?"
  James Van Heusen [Music by] and Johnny Burke [Lyrics by]
• Can't Help Singing "More and More"
  Jerome Kern [Music by] and E.Y. Harburg [Lyrics by]
• Earl Carroll Vanities "Endlessly"
  Walter Kent [Music by] and Kim Gannon [Lyrics by]
• G. I. Joe "Linda"
  Ann Ronell [Music and Lyrics by]
• Here Come the Waves "Accentuate the Positive"
  Harold Arlen [Music by] and Johnny Mercer [Lyrics by]
• Love Letters "Love Letters"
  Victor Young [Music by] and Eddie Heyman [Lyrics by]
• San Antonio "Some Sunday Morning"
  Ray Heindorf [Music by], M.K. Jerome [Music by] and Ted Koehler [Lyrics by]
• Sing Your Way Home "I'll Buy That Dream"
  Allie Wrubel [Music by] and Herb Magidson [Lyrics by]
• State Fair "It Might As Well Be Spring"
  Richard Rodgers [Music by] and Oscar Hammerstein II [Lyrics by]
• Tonight and Every Night "Anywhere"
  Jule Styne [Music by] and Sammy Cahn [Lyrics by]
• Why Girls Leave Home "The Cat and the Canary"
  Jay Livingston [Music by] and Ray Evans [Lyrics by]
• Wonder Man "So in Love"
  David Rose [Music by] and Leo Robin [Lyrics by]

Best Short Subject (Cartoon)

• Donald's Crime
  Walt Disney
• Jasper and the Beanstalk
  George Pal
• Life with Feathers
  Eddie Selzer
• Mighty Mouse in Gypsy Life
  Paul Terry
• The Poet and Peasant
  Walter Lantz
• Quiet Please!
  Frederick Quimby
• Rippling Romance
  Screen Gems

Best Short Subject (One-reel)

• Along the Rainbow Trail
  Edmund Reek
• Screen Snapshots' 25th Anniversary
  Ralph Staub
• Stairway to Light
  Herbert Moulton and Jerry Bresler [Executive Producer]
• Story of a Dog
  Gordon Hollingshead
• White Rhapsody
  Grantland Rice
• Your National Gallery
  Joseph O'Brien and Thomas Mead

Best Short Subject (Two-reel)

• A Gun in His Hand
  Chester Franklin and Jerry Bresler [Executive Producer]
• The Jury Goes Round 'N' Round
  Jules White
• The Little Witch
  George Templeton
• Star in the Night
  Gordon Hollingshead

Best Sound Recording

• The Bells of St. Mary's
  RKO Radio Studio Sound Department and Stephen Dunn [Sound Director]
• Flame of Barbary Coast
  Republic Studio Sound Department and Daniel J. Bloomberg [Sound Director]
• Lady on a Train
  Universal Studio Sound Department and Bernard B. Brown [Sound Director]
• Leave Her to Heaven
  20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department and Thomas T. Moulton [Sound Director]
• Rhapsody in Blue
  Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department and Nathan Levinson [Sound Director]
• A Song to Remember
  Columbia Studio Sound Department and John P. Livadary [Sound Director]
• The Southerner
  General Service and Jack Whitney [Sound Director]
• They Were Expendable
  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department and Douglas Shearer [Sound Director]
• The Three Caballeros
  Walt Disney Studio Sound Department and C.O. Slyfield [Sound Director]
• Three Is a Family
  RCA Sound and W.V. Wolfe [Sound Director]
• The Unseen
  Paramount Studio Sound Department and Loren L. Ryder [Sound Director]
• Wonder Man
  Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department and Gordon E. Sawyer [Sound Director]

Best Special Effects

• Captain Eddie
  Fred Sersen [Photographic Effects by], Sol Halprin [Photographic Effects by], Roger Heman [Sound Effects by] and Harry Leonard [Sound Effects by]
• Spellbound
  Jack Cosgrove [Photographic Effects by]
• They Were Expendable
  A. Arnold Gillespie [Photographic Effects by], Donald Jahraus [Photographic Effects by], Robert A. MacDonald [Photographic Effects by] and Michael Steinore [Sound Effects by]
• A Thousand and One Nights
  Lawrence W. Butler [Photographic Effects by] and Ray Bomba [Sound Effects by]
• Wonder Man
  John Fulton [Photographic Effects by] and Arthur W. Johns [Sound Director]

Best Writing (Original Screenplay)

• Dillinger
  Philip Yordan
• Marie-Louise
  Richard Schweizer
• Music for Millions
  Miles Connolly
• Salty O'Rourke
  Milton Holmes
• What Next, Corporal Hargrove?
  Harry Kurnitz

Best Writing (Screenplay)

• G. I. Joe
  Leopold Atlas, Guy Endore and Philip Stevenson
• The Lost Weekend
  Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder
• Mildred Pierce
  Ranald Macdougall
• Pride of the Marines
  Albert Maltz
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  Tess Slesinger and Frank Davis

Best Writing (Original Motion Picture Story)

• The Affairs of Susan
  Thomas Monroe and Laszlo Gorog
• The House on 92nd Street
  Charles G. Booth
• A Medal for Benny
  John Steinbeck and Jack Wagner
• Objective, Burma!
  Alvah Bessie
• A Song to Remember
  Ernst Marischka