17TH ACADEMY AWARDS
March 15, 1945
Grauman’s Chinese Theatre
Hosted by John Cromwell & Bob Hope
MOTION PICTURE
| “Double Indemnity” |
| “Gaslight” |
| “Going My Way” |
| “Since You Went Away” |
| “Wilson” |
DIRECTOR
| Alfred Hitchcock – “Lifeboat” |
| Henry King – “Wilson” |
| Leo McCarey – “Going My Way” |
| Otto Preminger – “Laura” |
| Billy Wilder – “Double Indemnity” |
ACTOR
| Charles Boyer – “Gaslight” |
| Bing Crosby – “Going My Way” |
| Barry Fitzgerald – “Going My Way” |
| Cary Grant – “None but the Lonely Heart” |
| Alexander Knox – “Wilson” |
ACTRESS
| Ingrid Bergman – “Gaslight” |
| Claudette Colbert – “Since You Went Away” |
| Bette Davis – “Mr. Skeffington” |
| Greer Garson – “Mrs. Parkington” |
| Barbara Stanwyck – “Double Indemnity” |
SUPPORTING ACTOR
| Hume Cronyn – “The Seventh Cross” |
| Barry Fitzgerald – “Going My Way” |
| Claude Rains – “Mr. Skeffington” |
| Clifton Webb – “Laura” |
| Monty Woolley – “Since You Went Away” |
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
| Ethel Barrymore – “None But the Lonely Heart” |
| Jennifer Jones – “Since You Went Away” |
| Angela Lansbury – “Gaslight” |
| Aline MacMahon – “Dragon Seed” |
| Agnes Moorehead – “Mrs. Parkington” |
ART DIRECTION
(BLACK & WHITE)
| “Address Unknown” Art Direction: Lionel Banks and Walter Holscher; Interior Decoration: Joseph Kish |
| “The Adventures of Mark Twain” Art Direction: John Hughes; Interior Decoration: Fred M. MacLean |
| “Casanova Brown” Art Direction: Perry Ferguson; Interior Decoration: Julia Heron |
| “Gaslight” Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons and William Ferrari; Interior Decoration: Paul Huldschinsky and Edwin B. Willis |
| “Laura” Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler and Leland Fuller; Interior Decoration: Thomas Little |
| “No Time for Love” Art Direction: Hans Dreier and Robert Usher; Interior Decoration: Samuel M. Comer |
| “Since You Went Away” Art Direction: Mark-Lee Kirk; Interior Decoration: Victor A. Gangelin |
| “Step Lively” Art Direction: Albert S. D’Agostino and Carroll Clark; Interior Decoration: Darrell Silvera and Claude Carpenter |
ART DIRECTION
(COLOR)
| “The Climax” Art Direction: John B. Goodman and Alexander Golitzen; Interior Decoration: Russell A. Gausman and Ira S. Webb |
| “Cover Girl” Art Direction: Lionel Banks and Cary Odell; Interior Decoration: Fay Babcock |
| “The Desert Song” Art Direction: Charles Novi; Interior Decoration: Jack McConaghy |
| “Kismet” Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons and Daniel B. Cathcart; Interior Decoration: Edwin B. Willis and Richard Pefferle |
| “Lady in the Dark” Art Direction: Hans Dreier and Raoul Pene Du Bois; Interior Decoration: Ray Moyer |
| “The Princess and the Pirate” Art Direction: Ernst Fegté; Interior Decoration: Howard Bristol |
| “Wilson” Art Direction: Wiard Ihnen; Interior Decoration: Thomas Little |
CINEMATOGRAPHY
(BLACK & WHITE)
| “Double Indemnity” – John F. 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 L. Surtees and Harold Rosson |
| “The Uninvited” – Charles Lang |
| “The White Cliffs of Dover” – George J. Folsey |
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 J. Folsey |
| “Wilson” – Leon Shamroy |
DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)
| “The Fighting Lady” – United States Navy |
| “Resisting Enemy Interrogation” – United States Army Air Force |
DOCUMENTARY
(SHORT SUBJECT)
| “Hymn of the Nations” – United States Office of War Information, Overseas Motion Picture Bureau |
| “New Americans” – RKO Radio |
| “With the Marines at Tarawa” – United States Marine Corps |
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 |
SHORT SUBJECT (CARTOON)
| “And to Think I Saw It on Mulberry Street” – George Pal |
| “Dog, Cat and Canary” – Raymond Katz |
| “Fish Fry” – Walter Lantz |
| “How to Play Football” – Walt Disney |
| “Mouse Trouble” – Fred Quimby |
| “My Boy, Johnny” – Paul Terry |
| “Swooner Crooner” – Edward Selzer |
LIVE ACTION SHORT SUBJECT
(ONE-REEL)
| “Blue Grass Gentlemen” – Edmund Reek |
| “Jammin’ the Blues” – Gordon Hollingshead |
| “Movie Pests” – Pete Smith |
| “Who’s Who in Animal Land” – Jerry Fairbanks |
| “Screen Snapshots’ 50th Anniversary of Motion Pictures” – Ralph Staub |
LIVE ACTION SHORT SUBJECT
(TWO-REEL)
| “Bombalera” – Louis Harris |
| “I Won’t Play” – Gordon Hollingshead |
| “Main Street Today” – Jerry Bresler |
Scoring 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” – Miklós Rózsa |
| “The Fighting Seabees” – Walter Scharf and Roy Webb |
| “The Hairy Ape” – Edward Paul and Michel Michelet |
| “It Happened Tomorrow” – Robert Stolz |
| “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” – W. Franke Harling |
| “Up in Mabel’s Room” – Edward Paul |
| “Voice in the Wind” – Michel Michelet |
| “Wilson” – Alfred Newman |
| “The Woman of the Town” – Miklós Rózsa |
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” – Georgie Stoll |
| “The Merry Monahans”– H. J. Salter |
| “Minstrel Man” – Ferde Grofé and Leo Erdody |
| “Sensations of 1945” – Mahlon Merrick |
| “Song of the Open Road” – Charles Previn |
| “Up in Arms” – Ray Heindorf and Louis Forbes |
SONG
| “Rio de Janeiro” from “Brazil” Music by Ary Barroso; Lyrics by Ned Washington |
| “Long Ago and Far Away” from “Cover Girl” Music by Jerome Kern; Lyrics by Ira Gershwin |
| “I’ll Walk Alone” from “Follow the Boys” Music by Jule Styne; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn |
| “Swinging on a Star” from “Going My Way” Music by James Van Heusen; Lyrics by Johnny Burke |
| “I Couldn’t Sleep a Wink Last Night” from “Higher and Higher” Music by Jimmy McHugh; Lyrics by Harold Adamson |
| “Sweet Dreams Sweetheart” from “Hollywood Canteen” Music by Maurice K. Jerome; Lyrics by Ted Koehler |
| “Silver Shadows and Golden Dreams” from “Lady, Let’s Dance” Music by Lew Pollack; Lyrics by Charles Newman |
| “The Trolley Song” from “Meet Me in St. Louis” Music and Lyrics by Ralph Blane and Hugh Martin |
| “Remember Me to Carolina” from “Minstrel Man” Music by Harry Revel; Lyrics by Paul Webster |
| “Too Much in Love” from “Song of the Open Road” Music by Walter Kent; Lyrics by Kim Gannon |
| “I’m Making Believe” from “Sweet and Lowdown” Music by James V. Monaco; Lyrics by Mack Gordon |
| “Now I Know” from “Up in Arms” Music by Harold Arlen; Lyrics by Ted Koehler |
SOUND RECORDING
| “Brazil” – Daniel J. Bloomberg |
| “Casanova Brown” – Thomas T. Moulton |
| “Cover Girl” – John P. Livadary |
| “Double Indemnity” – Loren L. Ryder |
| “His Butler’s Sister” – Bernard B. Brown |
| “Hollywood Canteen” – Nathan Levinson |
| “It Happened Tomorrow” – Jack Whitney |
| “Kismet” – Douglas Shearer |
| “Music in Manhattan” – Stephen Dunn |
| “Voice in the Wind” – W. M. Dalgleish |
| “Wilson” – Edmund H. Hansen |
SPECIAL EFFECTS
| “The Adventures of Mark Twain” Photographic Effects: Paul Detlefsen and John Crouse; Sound Effects: Nathan Levinson |
| “Days of Glory” Photographic Effects Vernon L. Walker; Sound Effects: James G. Stewart and Roy Granville |
| “Secret Command” Photographic Effects: David Allen, Ray Cory and Robert Wright; Sound Effects: Russell Malmgren and Harry Kusnick |
| “Since You Went Away” Photographic Effects: Jack Cosgrove; Sound Effects: Arthur Johns |
| “The Story of Dr. Wassell” Photographic Effects: Farciot Edouart and Gordon Jennings; Sound Effects: George Dutton |
| “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo” Photographic Effects A. Arnold Gillespie, Donald Jahraus and Warren Newcombe; Sound Effects: Douglas Shearer |
| “Wilson” Photographic Effects: Fred Sersen; Sound Effects: Roger Heman Sr. |
WRITING (ADAPTATION)
| “Double Indemnity” – Raymond Chandler and Billy Wilder |
| “Gaslight” – John L. Balderston, Walter Reisch, and John Van Druten |
| “Going My Way” – Frank Butler and Frank Cavett |
| “Laura” – Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, and Elizabeth Reinhardt |
| “Meet Me in St. Louis” – Irving Brecher and Fred F. Finklehoffe |
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, The Story of Carrier X” – Jerome Cady |
WRITING (ORIGINAL STORY)
| “Going My Way” – Leo McCarey |
| “A Guy Named Joe” – David Boehm and Chandler Sprague |
| “Lifeboat” – John Steinbeck |
| “None Shall Escape” – Alfred Neumann and Joseph Than |
| “The Sullivans” – Edward Doherty and Jules Schermer |
ACADEMY HONORARY AWARD
| Bob Hope “for his many services to the Academy” |
Academy Juvenile Award
| Margaret O’Brien |
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
| Darryl F. Zanuck |
- “Address Unknown”
- “The Adventures of Mark Twain”
- “Brazil”
- “The Bridge of San Luis Rey”
- “Casanova Brown”
- “Christmas Holiday”
- “The Climax”
- “Cover Girl”
- “Days of Glory”
- “The Desert Song”
- “Double Indemnity”
- “Dragon Seed”
- “The Fighting Seabees”
- “Follow the Boys”
- “Gaslight”
- “Going My Way”
- “A Guy Named Joe”
- “Hail the Conquering Hero”
- “The Hairy Ape”
- “Higher and Higher”
- “His Butler’s Sister”
- “Hollywood Canteen”
- “Home in Indiana”
- “Irish Eyes Are Smiling”
- “It Happened Tomorrow”
- “Jack London”
- “Janie”
- “Kismet”
- “Knickerbocker Holiday”
- “Lady in the Dark”
- “Lady, Let’s Dance”
- “Laura”
- “Lifeboat”
- “Meet Me in St. Louis”
- “The Merry Monahans”
- “Minstrel Man”
- “The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek”
- “Mr. Skeffington”
- “Mrs. Parkington”
- “Music in Manhattan”
- “None But The Lonely Heart
- “None Shall Escape”
- “No Time for Love”
- “The Princess and the Pirate”
- “Secret Command”
- “Sensations of 1945”
- “The Seventh Cross”
- “Since You Went Away”
- “Song of the Open Road”
- “Step Lively”
- “The Story of Dr. Wassell”
- “The Sullivans”
- “Summer Storm”
- “Sweet and Lowdown”
- “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo”
- “Three Russian Girls”
- “Two Girls and a Sailor”
- “The Uninvited”
- “Up in Arms”
- “Up in Mabel’s Room”
- “Voice in the Wind”
- “The White Cliffs of Dover”
- “Wilson”
- “Wing and a Prayer, The Story of Carrier X”
- “The Woman of the Town”
DOCUMENTARY
- “The Fighting Lady”
- “Resisting Enemy Interrogation”
SHORT FILMS
- “And to Think I Saw It on Mulberry Street”
- “Blue Grass Gentlemen”
- “Bombalera”
- “Dog, Cat and Canary”
- “Fish Fry”
- “How to Play Football”
- “Hymn of the Nations”
- “I Won’t Play”
- “Jammin’ the Blues”
- “Main Street Today”
- “Mouse Trouble”
- “Movie Pests”
- “My Boy, Johnny”
- “New Americans”
- “Screen Snapshots’ 50th Anniversary of Motion Pictures”
- “Swooner Crooner”
- “Who’s Who in Animal Land”
- “With the Marines at Tarawa”
