18th Academy Awards
Held in 1946 · 18 categories
Best Picture
- Winner The Lost Weekend
- Nominee Anchors Aweigh
- Nominee Mildred Pierce
- Nominee Spellbound
- Nominee The Bells of St. Mary's
Best Actor
- Winner The Lost Weekend · Ray Milland
- Nominee A Song to Remember · Cornel Wilde
- Nominee Anchors Aweigh · Gene Kelly
- Nominee The Bells of St. Mary's · Bing Crosby
- Nominee The Keys of the Kingdom · Gregory Peck
Best Actress
- Winner Mildred Pierce · Joan Crawford
- Nominee Leave Her to Heaven · Gene Tierney
- Nominee Love Letters · Jennifer Jones
- Nominee The Bells of St. Mary's · Ingrid Bergman
- Nominee The Valley of Decision · Greer Garson
Best Supporting Actor
- Winner A Tree Grows in Brooklyn · James Dunn
- Nominee A Medal for Benny · J. Carrol Naish
- Nominee Spellbound · Michael Chekhov
- Nominee The Corn Is Green · John Dall
- Nominee The Story of G.I. Joe · Robert Mitchum
Best Supporting Actress
- Winner National Velvet · Anne Revere
- Nominee Mildred Pierce · Ann Blyth
- Nominee Mildred Pierce · Eve Arden
- Nominee The Corn Is Green · Joan Lorring
- Nominee The Picture of Dorian Gray · Angela Lansbury
Best Director
- Winner The Lost Weekend · Billy Wilder
- Nominee National Velvet · Clarence Brown
- Nominee Spellbound · Alfred Hitchcock
- Nominee The Bells of St. Mary's · Leo McCarey
- Nominee The Southerner · Jean Renoir
Best Original Screenplay
- Winner Marie-Louise · Richard Schweizer
- Nominee Dillinger · Philip Yordan
- Nominee Music for Millions · Myles Connolly
- Nominee Salty O'Rourke · Milton Holmes
- Nominee What Next, Corporal Hargrove? · Harry Kurnitz
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Winner The Lost Weekend · Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett
- Nominee A Tree Grows in Brooklyn · Frank Davis, Tess Slesinger
- Nominee Mildred Pierce · Ranald MacDougall
- Nominee Pride of the Marines · Albert Maltz
- Nominee The Story of G.I. Joe · Guy Endore, Leopold Atlas, Philip Stevenson
Best Documentary Feature
- Winner The True Glory
- Nominee The Last Bomb
Best Original Score
- Winner Anchors Aweigh · Georgie Stoll
- Winner Spellbound · Miklós Rózsa
- Nominee A Song to Remember · Miklós Rózsa, Morris Stoloff
- Nominee Belle of the Yukon · Arthur Lange
- Nominee Can't Help Singing · Hans J. Salter, Jerome Kern
- Nominee Guest Wife · Daniele Amfitheatrof
- Nominee Hitchhike to Happiness
- Nominee Incendiary Blonde · Robert Emmett Dolan
- Nominee Love Letters · Victor Young
- Nominee Objective, Burma! · Franz Waxman
- Nominee Paris Underground · Alexandre Tansman
- Nominee Rhapsody in Blue · Max Steiner, Ray Heindorf
- Nominee State Fair · Alfred Newman, Charles Henderson
- Nominee Sunbonnet Sue · Edward J. Kay
- Nominee The Enchanted Cottage · Roy Webb
- Nominee The Keys of the Kingdom · Alfred Newman
- Nominee The Man Who Walked Alone · Karl Hajos
- Nominee The Southerner · Werner Janssen
- Nominee The Story of G.I. Joe · Ann Ronell, Louis Applebaum
- Nominee The Three Caballeros · Charles Wolcott, Edward H. Plumb, Paul Smith
- Nominee The Valley of Decision · Herbert Stothart
- Nominee The Woman in the Window · Arthur Lange, Hugo Friedhofer
- Nominee This Love of Ours · Hans J. Salter
- Nominee Tonight and Every Night · Marlin Skiles, Morris Stoloff
- Nominee Why Girls Leave Home · Walter Greene
- Nominee Wonder Man · Lou Forbes, Ray Heindorf
Best Original Song
- Winner It Might as Well Be Spring from State Fair · Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers
- Nominee Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive from Here Come the Waves · Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer
- Nominee Anywhere from Tonight and Every Night · Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn
- Nominee Aren't You Glad You're You? from The Bells of St. Mary's · Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke
- Nominee Endlessly from Earl Carroll Vanities · Kim Gannon, Walter Kent
- Nominee I Fall in Love Too Easily from Anchors Aweigh · Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn
- Nominee I'll Buy That Dream from Sing Your Way Home · Allie Wrubel, Herb Magidson
- Nominee I’ll Buy That Dream · Allie Wrubel, Herb Magidson
- Nominee Linda from The Story of G.I. Joe · Ann Ronell
- Nominee Love Letters from Love Letters · Edward Heyman, Victor Young
- Nominee More and More from Can't Help Singing · Jerome Kern, Yip Harburg
- Nominee Sleigh Ride in July · Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke
- Nominee Sleighride in July from Belle of the Yukon · Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke
- Nominee So in Love from Wonder Man · David Rose, Leo Robin
- Nominee Some Sunday Morning from San Antonio · M.K. Jerome, Ray Heindorf, Ted Koehler
- Nominee The Cat and the Canary from Why Girls Leave Home · Jay Livingston, Ray Evans
Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
- Winner The Picture of Dorian Gray · Harry Stradling
- Nominee Mildred Pierce · Ernest Haller
- Nominee Spellbound · George Barnes
- Nominee The Keys of the Kingdom · Arthur Charles Miller
- Nominee The Lost Weekend · John F. Seitz
Best Cinematography (Color)
- Winner Leave Her to Heaven · Leon Shamroy
- Nominee A Song to Remember · Allen M. Davey, Tony Gaudio
- Nominee Anchors Aweigh · Charles P. Boyle, Robert H. Planck
- Nominee National Velvet · Leonard Smith
- Nominee The Spanish Main · George Barnes
Best Film Editing
- Winner National Velvet · Robert J. Kern
- Nominee A Song to Remember · Charles Nelson
- Nominee Objective, Burma! · George Amy
- Nominee The Bells of St. Mary's · Harry Marker
- Nominee The Lost Weekend · Doane Harrison
Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)
- Winner Blood on the Sun · A. Roland Fields, Wiard Ihnen
- Nominee Experiment Perilous · Albert S. D'Agostino, Claude E. Carpenter, Darrell Silvera, Jack Okey
- Nominee Love Letters · Hans Dreier, Ray Moyer, Roland Anderson, Samuel M. Comer
- Nominee The Keys of the Kingdom · Frank E. Hughes, James Basevi, Thomas Little, William S. Darling
- Nominee The Picture of Dorian Gray · Cedric Gibbons, Edwin B. Willis, Hans O. Peters, Hugh Hunt, John Bonar
Best Art Direction (Color)
- Winner Frenchman's Creek · Ernst Fegté, Hans Dreier, Samuel M. Comer
- Nominee A Thousand and One Nights · Frank Tuttle, Rudolph Sternad, Stephen Goosson
- Nominee Leave Her to Heaven · Lyle R. Wheeler, Maurice Ransford, Thomas Little
- Nominee National Velvet · Cedric Gibbons, Edwin B. Willis, Mildred Griffiths, Urie McCleary
- Nominee San Antonio · Jack McConaghy, Ted Smith
Best Sound
- Winner The Bells of St. Mary's · Stephen Dunn
- Nominee A Song to Remember · John P. Livadary
- Nominee Flame of Barbary Coast · Daniel J. Bloomberg
- Nominee Lady on a Train · Bernard B. Brown
- Nominee Leave Her to Heaven · Thomas T. Moulton
- Nominee Rhapsody in Blue · Nathan Levinson
- Nominee The Southerner · Jack Whitney
- Nominee The Three Caballeros · Sam Slyfield
- Nominee The Unseen · Loren L. Ryder
- Nominee They Were Expendable · Douglas Shearer
- Nominee Three Is a Family · W. V. Wolfe
- Nominee Wonder Man · Gordon E. Sawyer
Best Visual Effects
- Winner Wonder Man · Arthur Johns, John P. Fulton
- Nominee A Thousand and One Nights · Lawrence W. Butler, Ray Bomba
- Nominee Captain Eddie · Fred Sersen, Harry M. Leonard, Roger Heman, Sr., Sol Halperin
- Nominee Spellbound · John R. Cosgrove
- Nominee They Were Expendable · A. Arnold Gillespie, Donald Jahraus, Michael Steinore, R. A. MacDonald