Academy Award for Best Original Song 1945
17th Academy Awards · held March 15, 1945 · 14 nominees
- 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 · Jimmy McHugh, Harold Adamson
- 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