17th Annual Academy Awards Nominations (1945)
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- Date of Ceremony: Thursday, March 15, 1945
- For films released in: 1944
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