Academy Awards 1945 Nominations

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Best Motion Picture	Best Director
Best Actor	Best Actress
Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Best Original Screenplay	Best Original Motion Picture Story
Best Screenplay	Best Documentary Feature
Best Documentary Short	Best Live Action Short Subject (One-reel)
Best Live Action Short Subject (Two-reel)	Best Short Subject (Cartoon)
Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture	Best Scoring of a Musical Picture
Best Song	Best Sound Recording
Best Art Direction (Color)	Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)
Best Cinematography (Color)	Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Best Film Editing	Best Special Effects

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Best Motion Picture

• Double Indemnity
• Gaslight
• Going My Way
• Since You Went Away
• Wilson

Best Director

• 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 (Barry Fitzgerald)
• Going My Way (Bing Crosby)
• 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)
• Since You Went Away (Monty Woolley)
• The Seventh Cross (Hume Cronyn)

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 Original Screenplay

• Hail the Conquering Hero
• The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
• Two Girls and a Sailor
• Wilson
• Wing and a Prayer

Best Original Motion Picture Story

• A Guy Named Joe
• Going My Way
• Lifeboat
• None Shall Escape
• The Sullivans

Best Screenplay

• Double Indemnity
• Gaslight
• Going My Way
• Laura
• Meet Me in St. Louis

Best Documentary Feature

• Resisting Enemy Interrogation
• The Fighting Lady

Best Documentary Short

• Hymn of the Nations
• New Americans
• With the Marines at Tarawa

Best Live Action Short Subject (One-reel)

• 50th Anniversary of Motion Pictures
• Blue-Grass Gentlemen
• Jammin' the Blues
• Movie Pests
• Who's Who in Animal Land

Best Live Action Short Subject (Two-reel)

• Bombalera
• I Won't Play
• Main Street Today

Best Short Subject (Cartoon)

• And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
• Dog, Cat, and Canary
• Fish Fry
• How to Play Football
• Mouse Trouble
• My Boy Johnny
• Swooner Crooner

Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture

• Address Unknown
• Casanova Brown
• Christmas Holiday
• Double Indemnity
• It Happened Tomorrow
• Jack London
• Kismet
• None But the Lonely Heart
• Since You Went Away
• Summer Storm
• The Adventures of Mark Twain
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey
• The Fighting Seabees
• The Hairy Ape
• The Princess and the Pirate
• The Woman of the Town
• Three Russian Girls
• Up in Mabel's Room
• Voice in the Wind
• Wilson

Best Scoring of a Musical Picture

• Brazil
• Cover Girl
• Higher and Higher
• Hollywood Canteen
• Irish Eyes Are Smiling
• Knickerbocker Holiday
• Lady in the Dark
• Lady, Let's Dance
• Meet Me in St. Louis
• Minstrel Man
• Sensations of 1945
• Song of the Open Road
• The Merry Monahans
• Up in Arms

Best Song

• Brazil ("Rio de Janeiro")
• Cover Girl ("Long Ago and Far Away")
• Follow the Boys ("I'll Walk Alone")
• Going My Way ("Swinging on a Star")
• Higher and Higher ("I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night")
• Hollywood Canteen ("Sweet Dreams Sweetheart")
• Lady, Let's Dance ("Silver Shadows and Golden Dreams")
• Meet Me in St. Louis ("The Trolley Song")
• Minstrel Man ("Remember Me to Carolina")
• Song of the Open Road ("Too Much in Love")
• Sweet and Low-Down ("I'm Making Believe")
• Up in Arms ("Now I Know")

Best Sound Recording

• Brazil
• Casanova Brown
• Cover Girl
• Double Indemnity
• His Butler's Sister
• Hollywood Canteen
• It Happened Tomorrow
• Kismet
• Music in Manhattan
• Voice in the Wind
• Wilson

Best Art Direction (Color)

• Cover Girl
• Kismet
• Lady in the Dark
• The Climax
• The Desert Song
• The Princess and the Pirate
• Wilson

Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)

• Address Unknown
• Casanova Brown
• Gaslight
• Laura
• No Time for Love
• Since You Went Away
• Step Lively
• The Adventures of Mark Twain

Best Cinematography (Color)

• Cover Girl
• Home in Indiana
• Kismet
• Lady in the Dark
• Meet Me in St. Louis
• Wilson

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• Double Indemnity
• Dragon Seed
• Gaslight
• Going My Way
• Laura
• Lifeboat
• Since You Went Away
• The Uninvited
• The White Cliffs of Dover
• Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

Best Film Editing

• Going My Way
• Janie
• None But the Lonely Heart
• Since You Went Away
• Wilson

Best Special Effects

• Days of Glory
• Secret Command
• Since You Went Away
• The Adventures of Mark Twain
• The Story of Dr. Wassell
• Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
• Wilson