Academy Awards 1946 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

• Anchors Aweigh
• Mildred Pierce
• Spellbound
• The Bells of St. Mary's
• The Lost Weekend

Best Director

• National Velvet (Clarence Brown)
• Spellbound (Alfred Hitchcock)
• The Bells of St. Mary's (Leo McCarey)
• The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder)
• The Southerner (Jean Renoir)

Best Actor

• A Song to Remember (Cornel Wilde)
• Anchors Aweigh (Gene Kelly)
• The Bells of St. Mary's (Bing Crosby)
• The Keys of the Kingdom (Gregory Peck)
• The Lost Weekend (Ray Milland)

Best Actress

• Leave Her to Heaven (Gene Tierney)
• Love Letters (Jennifer Jones)
• Mildred Pierce (Joan Crawford)
• The Bells of St. Mary's (Ingrid Bergman)
• The Valley of Decision (Greer Garson)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• A Medal for Benny (J. Carrol Naish)
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (James Dunn)
• Spellbound (Michael Chekhov)
• Story of G.I. Joe (Robert Mitchum)
• The Corn Is Green (John Dall)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Mildred Pierce (Eve Arden)
• Mildred Pierce (Ann Blyth)
• National Velvet (Anne Revere)
• The Corn Is Green (Joan Lorring)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray (Angela Lansbury)

Best Original Screenplay

• Dillinger
• Marie-Louise
• Music for Millions
• Salty O'Rourke
• What Next, Corporal Hargrove?

Best Original Motion Picture Story

• A Medal for Benny
• A Song to Remember
• Objective, Burma!
• The Affairs of Susan
• The House on 92nd Street

Best Screenplay

• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
• Mildred Pierce
• Pride of the Marines
• Story of G.I. Joe
• The Lost Weekend

Best Documentary Feature

• The Last Bomb
• The True Glory

Best Documentary Short

• Hitler Lives
• Library of Congress
• To the Shores of Iwo Jima

Best Live Action Short Subject (One-reel)

• Along the Rainbow Trail
• Screen Snapshots Series 25, No. 1: 25th Anniversary
• Stairway to Light
• Story of a Dog
• White Rhapsody
• Your National Gallery

Best Live Action Short Subject (Two-reel)

• A Gun in His Hand
• Star in the Night
• The Jury Goes Round 'n' Round
• The Little Witch

Best Short Subject (Cartoon)

• Donald's Crime
• Gypsy Life
• Jasper and the Beanstalk
• Life with Feathers
• Quiet Please!
• Rippling Romance
• The Poet & Peasant

Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture

• A Song to Remember
• Brewster's Millions
• Captain Kidd
• Flame of Barbary Coast
• G.I. Honeymoon
• Guest in the House
• Guest Wife
• Love Letters
• Objective, Burma!
• Paris Underground
• Spellbound
• Story of G.I. Joe
• The Bells of St. Mary's
• The Enchanted Cottage
• The Keys of the Kingdom
• The Lost Weekend
• The Man Who Walked Alone
• The Southerner
• The Valley of Decision
• The Woman in the Window
• This Love of Ours

Best Scoring of a Musical Picture

• Anchors Aweigh
• Belle of the Yukon
• Can't Help Singing
• Hitchhike to Happiness
• Incendiary Blonde
• Rhapsody in Blue
• State Fair
• Sunbonnet Sue
• The Three Caballeros
• Tonight and Every Night
• Why Girls Leave Home
• Wonder Man

Best Song

• Anchors Aweigh ("I Fall in Love Too Easily")
• Belle of the Yukon ("Sleighride in July")
• Can't Help Singing ("More and More")
• Earl Carroll Vanities ("Endlessly")
• Here Come the Waves ("Accentuate the Positive")
• Love Letters ("Love Letters")
• San Antonio ("Some Sunday Morning")
• Sing Your Way Home ("I'll Buy That Dream")
• State Fair ("It Might as Well Be Spring")
• Story of G.I. Joe ("Linda")
• The Bells of St. Mary's ("Aren't You Glad You're You")
• Tonight and Every Night ("Anywhere")
• Why Girls Leave Home ("The Cat and the Canary")
• Wonder Man ("So in Love")

Best Sound Recording

• A Song to Remember
• Flame of Barbary Coast
• Lady on a Train
• Leave Her to Heaven
• Rhapsody in Blue
• The Bells of St. Mary's
• The Southerner
• The Three Caballeros
• The Unseen
• They Were Expendable
• Three Is a Family
• Wonder Man

Best Art Direction (Color)

• A Thousand and One Nights
• Frenchman's Creek
• Leave Her to Heaven
• National Velvet
• San Antonio

Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)

• Blood on the Sun
• Experiment Perilous
• Love Letters
• The Keys of the Kingdom
• The Picture of Dorian Gray

Best Cinematography (Color)

• A Song to Remember
• Anchors Aweigh
• Leave Her to Heaven
• National Velvet
• The Spanish Main

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• Mildred Pierce
• Spellbound
• The Keys of the Kingdom
• The Lost Weekend
• The Picture of Dorian Gray

Best Film Editing

• A Song to Remember
• National Velvet
• Objective, Burma!
• The Bells of St. Mary's
• The Lost Weekend

Best Special Effects

• A Thousand and One Nights
• Captain Eddie
• Spellbound
• They Were Expendable
• Wonder Man