17th Academy Awards
Held in 1945 · 16 categories
Best Picture
- Winner Going My Way
- Nominee Double Indemnity
- Nominee Gaslight
- Nominee Since You Went Away
- Nominee Wilson
Best Actor
- Winner Going My Way · Bing Crosby
- Nominee Gaslight · Charles Boyer
- Nominee Going My Way · Barry Fitzgerald
- Nominee None but the Lonely Heart · Cary Grant
- Nominee Wilson · Alexander Knox
Best Actress
- Winner Gaslight · Ingrid Bergman
- Nominee Double Indemnity · Barbara Stanwyck
- Nominee Mr. Skeffington · Bette Davis
- Nominee Mrs. Parkington · Greer Garson
- Nominee Since You Went Away · Claudette Colbert
Best Supporting Actor
- Winner Going My Way · Barry Fitzgerald
- Nominee Laura · Clifton Webb
- Nominee Mr. Skeffington · Claude Rains
- Nominee Since You Went Away · Monty Woolley
- Nominee The Seventh Cross · Hume Cronyn
Best Supporting Actress
- Winner None but the Lonely Heart · Ethel Barrymore
- Nominee Dragon Seed · Aline MacMahon
- Nominee Gaslight · Angela Lansbury
- Nominee Mrs. Parkington · Agnes Moorehead
- Nominee Since You Went Away · Jennifer Jones
Best Director
- Winner Going My Way · Leo McCarey
- Nominee Double Indemnity · Billy Wilder
- Nominee Laura · Otto Preminger
- Nominee Lifeboat · Alfred Hitchcock
- Nominee Wilson · Henry King
Best Original Screenplay
- Winner Wilson · Lamar Trotti
- Nominee Hail the Conquering Hero · Preston Sturges
- Nominee The Miracle of Morgan's Creek · Preston Sturges
- Nominee Two Girls and a Sailor · Gladys Lehman, Richard Connell
- Nominee Wing and a Prayer · Jerome Cady
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Winner Going My Way · Frank Butler, Frank Cavett
- Nominee Double Indemnity · Billy Wilder, Raymond Chandler
- Nominee Gaslight · John L. Balderston, John Van Druten, Walter Reisch
- Nominee Laura · Elizabeth Reinhardt, Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein
- Nominee Meet Me in St. Louis · Fred F. Finklehoffe, Irving Brecher
Best Documentary Feature
- Winner The Fighting Lady
- Nominee Resisting Enemy Interrogation
Best Original Score
- Winner Cover Girl · Carmen Dragon, Ernst Toch, Morris Stoloff
- Winner Since You Went Away · Max Steiner
- Nominee Brazil · Roy Webb, Walter Scharf
- Nominee Casanova Brown · Arthur Lange
- Nominee Double Indemnity · Miklós Rózsa
- Nominee Higher and Higher · C. Bakaleinikoff
- Nominee Hollywood Canteen · Ray Heindorf
- Nominee Irish Eyes Are Smiling · Alfred Newman
- Nominee It Happened Tomorrow · Robert Stolz
- Nominee Jack London · Frederic E. Rich
- Nominee Kismet · Herbert Stothart
- Nominee Knickerbocker Holiday · Kurt Weill, Werner R. Heymann
- Nominee Lady in the Dark · Robert Emmett Dolan
- Nominee Lady, Let's Dance · Edward J. Kay
- Nominee Meet Me in St. Louis · Georgie Stoll
- Nominee Minstrel Man · Ferde Grofé, Leo Erdody
- Nominee None but the Lonely Heart · C. Bakaleinikoff, Hanns Eisler
- Nominee Sensations of 1945
- Nominee Song of the Open Road · Charles Previn
- Nominee Summer Storm · Karl Hajos
- Nominee The Bridge of San Luis Rey · Dimitri Tiomkin
- Nominee The Hairy Ape · Michel Michelet
- Nominee The Merry Monahans · Hans J. Salter
- Nominee The Princess and the Pirate · David Rose
- Nominee Three Russian Girls · W. Franke Harling
- Nominee Up in Arms · Lou Forbes
Best Original Song
- Winner Swinging on a Star from Going My Way · Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke
- Nominee I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night from Higher and Higher · Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh
- Nominee I Couldn’t Sleep a Wink Last Night / A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening · Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh
- Nominee I'll Walk Alone from Follow the Boys · Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn
- Nominee I’m Making Believe from Sweet and Lowdown · James V. Monaco, Mack Gordon
- Nominee Long Ago (and Far Away) from Cover Girl · Ira Gershwin, Jerome Kern
- Nominee Now I Know from Up in Arms · Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler
- Nominee Remember Me to Carolina from Minstrel Man · Harry Revel, Paul Francis Webster
- Nominee Rio de Janeiro from Brazil · Ary Barroso, Ned Washington
- Nominee Silver Shadows and Golden Dreams from Lady, Let's Dance · Charles Newman, Lew Pollack
- Nominee Sweet Dreams Sweetheart from Hollywood Canteen · Ted Koehler
- Nominee Sweet Dreams, Sweetheart · M.K. Jerome, Ted Koehler
- Nominee The Trolley Song from Meet Me in St. Louis · Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane
- Nominee Too Much in Love from Song of the Open Road · Kim Gannon, Walter Kent
Best Cinematography
- Winner Laura · Joseph LaShelle
- Winner Wilson · Leon Shamroy
- Nominee Cover Girl · Allen M. Davey, Rudolph Maté
- Nominee Double Indemnity · John F. Seitz
- Nominee Dragon Seed · Sidney Wagner
- Nominee Gaslight · Joseph Ruttenberg
- Nominee Going My Way · Lionel Lindon
- Nominee Home in Indiana · Edward Cronjager
- Nominee Kismet · Charles Rosher
- Nominee Lady in the Dark · Ray Rennahan
- Nominee Lifeboat · Glen MacWilliams
- Nominee Meet Me in St. Louis · George J. Folsey
- Nominee Since You Went Away · Lee Garmes, Stanley Cortez
- Nominee The Uninvited · Charles Lang
- Nominee Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo · Harold Rosson, Robert L. Surtees
Best Film Editing
- Winner Wilson · Barbara McLean
- Nominee Going My Way · LeRoy Stone
- Nominee Janie · Owen Marks
- Nominee None but the Lonely Heart · Roland Gross
- Nominee Since You Went Away · Hal C. Kern, James E. Newcom
Best Production Design
- Winner Wilson · Thomas Little, Wiard Ihnen
- Nominee Casanova Brown · Julia Heron, Perry Ferguson
- Nominee Cover Girl · Cary Odell, Fay Babcock, Joseph Kish, Lionel Banks, Walter Holscher
- Nominee Kismet · Cedric Gibbons, Daniel B. Cathcart, Edwin B. Willis, Paul Huldschinsky, Richard Pefferle, William Ferrari
- Nominee Lady in the Dark · Hans Dreier, Raoul Pene Du Bois, Ray Moyer, Robert Usher, Samuel M. Comer
- Nominee Laura · Leland Fuller, Lyle R. Wheeler, Thomas Little
- Nominee Since You Went Away · Mark-Lee Kirk, Victor A. Gangelin
- Nominee Song of the Open Road
- Nominee Step Lively · Albert S. D'Agostino, Carroll Clark, Claude Carpenter, Darrell Silvera
- Nominee The Adventures of Mark Twain · Fred M. MacLean, John Hughes
- Nominee The Climax · Alexander Golitzen, Ira S. Webb, John B. Goodman, Russell A. Gausman
- Nominee The Desert Song · Charles Novi, Jack McConaghy
- Nominee The Princess and the Pirate · Ernst Fegté, Howard Bristol
Best Sound
- Winner Wilson · Edmund H. Hansen
- Nominee Brazil · Daniel J. Bloomberg
- Nominee Casanova Brown · Thomas T. Moulton
- Nominee Cover Girl · John P. Livadary
- Nominee Double Indemnity · Loren L. Ryder
- Nominee His Butler's Sister · Bernard B. Brown
- Nominee Hollywood Canteen · Nathan Levinson
- Nominee It Happened Tomorrow · Jack Whitney
- Nominee Kismet · Douglas Shearer
- Nominee Music in Manhattan · Stephen Dunn
- Nominee Voice in the Wind · Mac Dalgleish
Best Visual Effects
- Winner Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo · A. Arnold Gillespie, Donald Jahraus, Douglas Shearer, Warren Newcombe
- Nominee Days of Glory · James G. Stewart, Roy Granville, Vernon L. Walker
- Nominee Secret Command · David Allen, Harry Kusnick, Ray Cory, Robert Wright, Russell Malmgren
- Nominee Since You Went Away · Arthur Johns, John R. Cosgrove
- Nominee The Adventures of Mark Twain · John Crouse, Nathan Levinson, Paul Detlefsen
- Nominee The Story of Dr. Wassell · Farciot Edouart, George Dutton, Gordon Jennings
- Nominee Wilson · Fred Sersen, Roger Heman, Sr.