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17th Academy Awards
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1944
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17 Academy Awards March 15, 1945 Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Hollywood, California John CromwellBob HopeSeptember 2015 Going My Way Going My Way (7) Going My Way and Wilson (10) 16th 18th
The 17th Academy Awards were held on March 15, 1945, at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, honoring the films of 1944. This was the first time the complete awards ceremony was broadcast nationally, on the Blue Network (later ABC Radio). Bob Hope hosted the 70-minute broadcast, which included film clips that required explanation for the radio audience.https://books.google.com/books?id=EwtRbXNca0oC&dq=%22The+Academy+Awards+Show%22&pg=PA4 Dunning John John Dunning (detective fiction author) On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio 1998 Oxford University Press New York, NY 978-0-19-507678-3 4–5 Revised 2019-10-01
Darryl F. Zanuck and 20th Century-Fox spent a fortune promoting Wilson out of determination to have it win the Best Picture Oscar, but it lost to Going My Way, which made Zanuck bitter.Wallechinsky David Wallace Irving 1975 The People's Almanac https://archive.org/details/peoplesalmanac00wall/page/836/mode/2up Garden City, New York Doubleday & Company, Inc. 836 0-385-04060-1
This year was notable for being the only time an individual was nominated for two acting awards for the same role in the same film: Barry Fitzgerald received nominations for both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Father Fitzgibbon in the Best Picture winner Going My Way. Fitzgerald won for Best Supporting Actor, while his co-star Bing Crosby won Best Actor.
Winners and nominees
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Awards
Nominees were announced on February 3, 1945. Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1945 The 17th Academy Awards (1945) Nominees and Winners 2011-08-14 oscars.org https://web.archive.org/web/20110706093748/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/17th-winners.html July 6, 2011 live
#F9EFAA Best Motion Picture
Going My Way – Leo McCarey for ParamountDouble Indemnity – Joseph Sistrom for Paramount
Gaslight – Arthur Hornblow Jr. for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Since You Went Away – David O. Selznick for United Artists
Wilson – Darryl F. Zanuck for 20th Century Fox
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#F9EFAA Best DirectingLeo McCarey – Going My Way
Billy Wilder – Double Indemnity
Otto Preminger – Laura
Alfred Hitchcock – Lifeboat
Henry King – Wilson#F9EFAA Best Actor
Bing Crosby – Going My Way as Father Chuck O'Malley
Charles Boyer – Gaslight as Gregory Anton/Sergius Bauer
Barry Fitzgerald – Going My Way as Father Fitzgibbon
Cary Grant – None but the Lonely Heart as Ernie Mott
Alexander Knox – Wilson as Woodrow Wilson#F9EFAA Best Actress
Ingrid Bergman – Gaslight as Paula Alquist Anton
Claudette Colbert – Since You Went Away as Mrs Anne Hilton
Bette Davis – Mr. Skeffington as Frances Beatrice "Fanny" Trellis Skeffington
Greer Garson – Mrs. Parkington as Susie Parkington
Barbara Stanwyck – Double Indemnity as Phyllis Dietrichson#F9EFAA Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Barry Fitzgerald – Going My Way as Father Fitzgibbon
Hume Cronyn – The Seventh Cross as Paul Roeder
Claude Rains – Mr. Skeffington as Job Skeffington
Clifton Webb – Laura as Waldo Lydecker
Monty Woolley – Since You Went Away as Colonel William G. Smollett#F9EFAA Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Ethel Barrymore – None but the Lonely Heart as Ma Mott
Jennifer Jones – Since You Went Away as Jane Deborah Hilton
Angela Lansbury – Gaslight as Nancy Oliver
Aline MacMahon – Dragon Seed as Ling Tan's Wife
Agnes Moorehead – Mrs. Parkington as Baroness Aspasia Conti#F9EFAA Best Writing (Original Motion Picture Story)
Going My Way – Leo McCareyA Guy Named Joe – David Boehm and Chandler Sprague
Lifeboat – John Steinbeck
None Shall Escape – Alfred Neumann and Joseph Than
The Sullivans – Edward Doherty and Jules Schermer
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#F9EFAA Best Writing (Original Screenplay)Wilson – Lamar TrottiHail the Conquering Hero – Preston Sturges
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek – Preston Sturges
Two Girls and a Sailor – Richard Connell and Gladys Lehman
Wing and a Prayer, The Story of Carrier X – Jerome Cady
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#F9EFAA Best Writing (Screenplay)Going My Way – Frank Butler and Frank Cavett, based on a story by Leo McCareyDouble Indemnity – Raymond Chandler and Billy Wilder, based on Double Indemnity in Three of a Kind by James M. Cain
Gaslight – John L. Balderston, Walter Reisch, and John Van Druten, based on Angel Street by Patrick Hamilton
Laura – Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, and Betty Reinhardt, based on the novel by Vera Caspary
Meet Me in St. Louis – Irving Brecher and Fred F. Finklehoffe, based on the novel by Sally Benson
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#F9EFAA Best Documentary (Feature)The Fighting Lady – United States Navy
Resisting Enemy Interrogation – United States Army Air Force#F9EFAA Best Documentary (Short Subject)
With the Marines at Tarawa – United States Marine Corps
Hymn of the Nations – United States Office of War Information, Overseas Motion Picture Bureau
New Americans – RKO Radio#F9EFAA Best Short Subject (One-Reel)
Who's Who in Animal Land – Jerry Fairbanks
Blue Grass Gentlemen – Edmund Reek
Jammin' the Blues – Gordon Hollingshead
Movie Pests – Pete Smith
Screen Snapshots' 50th Anniversary of Motion Pictures – Ralph Staub#F9EFAA Best Short Subject (Two-Reel)
I Won't Play – Gordon Hollingshead
Bombalera – Louis Harris
Main Street Today – Jerry Bresler and Herbert Moulton#F9EFAA Best Short Subject (Cartoon)
Mouse Trouble – Fred Quimby
And to Think I Saw It on Mulberry Street – George Pal
Dog, Cat and Canary – Raymond Katz
Fish Fry – Walter Lantz
How to Play Football – Walt Disney
My Boy, Johnny – Paul Terry
Swooner Crooner – Edward Selzer#F9EFAA Best Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)
Since You Went Away – Max Steiner
Address Unknown – Morris Stoloff and Ernst Toch
The Adventures of Mark Twain – Max Steiner
The Bridge of San Luis Rey – Dimitri Tiomkin
Casanova Brown – Arthur Lange
Christmas Holiday – H. J. Salter
Double Indemnity – Miklós Rózsa
The Fighting Seabees – Walter Scharf and Roy Webb
The Hairy Ape – Edward Paul and Michel Michelet
It Happened Tomorrow – Robert Stolz
Jack London – Frederic Efrem Rich
Kismet – Herbert Stothart
None but the Lonely Heart – Hanns Eisler and C. Bakaleinikoff
The Princess and the Pirate – David Rose
Summer Storm – Karl Hajos
Three Russian Girls – Franke Harling
Up in Mabel's Room – Edward Paul
Voice in the Wind – Michel Michelet
Wilson – Alfred Newman
The Woman of the Town – Miklós Rózsa#F9EFAA Best Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture)
Cover Girl – Morris Stoloff and Carmen Dragon
Brazil – Walter Scharf
Higher and Higher – C. Bakaleinikoff
Hollywood Canteen – Ray Heindorf
Irish Eyes Are Smiling – Alfred Newman
Knickerbocker Holiday – Werner R. Heymann and Kurt Weill
Lady in the Dark – Robert Emmett Dolan
Lady, Let's Dance – Edward Kay
Meet Me in St. Louis – Georgie Stoll
The Merry Monahans – H. J. Salter
Minstrel Man – Ferde Grofé and Leo Erdody
Sensations of 1945 – Mahlon Merrick
Song of the Open Road – Charles Previn
Up in Arms – Ray Heindorf and Louis Forbes#F9EFAA Best Music (Song)
"Swinging on a Star" from Going My Way – Music by James Van Heusen; Lyrics by Johnny Burke
"I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night" from Higher and Higher – Music by Jimmy McHugh; Lyrics by Harold Adamson
"I'll Walk Alone" from Follow the Boys – Music by Jule Styne; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
"I'm Making Believe" from Sweet and Lowdown – Music by James V. Monaco; Lyrics by Mack Gordon
"Long Ago and Far Away" from Cover Girl – Music by Jerome Kern; Lyrics by Ira Gershwin
"Now I Know" from Up in Arms – Music by Harold Arlen; Lyrics by Ted Koehler
"Remember Me to Carolina" from Minstrel Man – Music by Harry Revel; Lyrics by Paul Webster
"Rio de Janeiro" from Brazil – Music by Ary Barroso; Lyrics by Ned Washington
"Silver Shadows and Golden Dreams" from Lady, Let's Dance – Music by Lew Pollack; Lyrics by Charles Newman
"Sweet Dreams Sweetheart" from Hollywood Canteen – Music by M. K. Jerome; Lyrics by Ted Koehler
"Too Much in Love" from Song of the Open Road – Music by Walter Kent; Lyrics by Kim Gannon
"The Trolley Song" from Meet Me in St. Louis – Music and Lyrics by Ralph Blane and Hugh Martin#F9EFAA Best Sound Recording
Wilson – Edmund H. Hansen
Brazil – Daniel J. Bloomberg
Casanova Brown – Thomas T. Moulton
Cover Girl – John P. Livadary
Double Indemnity – Loren L. Ryder
His Butler's Sister – Bernard B. Brown
Hollywood Canteen – Nathan Levinson
It Happened Tomorrow – Jack Whitney
Kismet – Douglas Shearer
Music in Manhattan – Stephen Dunn
Voice in the Wind – W. M. Dalgleish#F9EFAA Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)
Gaslight – Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons and William Ferrari; Interior Decoration: Paul Huldschinsky and Edwin B. Willis
Address Unknown – Art Direction: Lionel Banks and Walter Holscher; Interior Decoration: Joseph Kish
The Adventures of Mark Twain – Art Direction: John Hughes; Interior Decoration: Fred M. MacLean
Casanova Brown – Art Direction: Perry Ferguson; Interior Decoration: Julia Heron
Laura – Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler and Leland Fuller; Interior Decoration: Thomas Little
No Time for Love – Art Direction: Hans Dreier and Robert Usher; Interior Decoration: Samuel M. Comer
Since You Went Away – Art Direction: Mark-Lee Kirk; Interior Decoration: Victor A. Gangelin
Step Lively – Art Direction: Albert S. D'Agostino and Carroll Clark; Interior Decoration: Darrell Silvera and Claude Carpenter
Song of the Open Road – N/A (nomination withdrawn by production company)#F9EFAA Best Art Direction (Color)
Wilson – Art Direction: Wiard Ihnen; Interior Decoration: Thomas Little
The Climax – Art Direction: John B. Goodman and Alexander Golitzen; Interior Decoration: Russell A. Gausman and Ira S. Webb
Cover Girl – Art Direction: Lionel Banks and Cary Odell; Interior Decoration: Fay Babcock
The Desert Song – Art Direction: Charles Novi; Interior Decoration: Jack McConaghy
Kismet – Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons and Daniel B. Cathcart; Interior Decoration: Edwin B. Willis and Richard Pefferle
Lady in the Dark – Art Direction: Hans Dreier and Raoul Pene Du Bois; Interior Decoration: Ray Moyer
The Princess and the Pirate – Art Direction: Ernst Fegté; Interior Decoration: Howard Bristol#F9EFAA Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Laura – Joseph LaShelle
Double Indemnity – John F. Seitz
Dragon Seed – Sidney Wagner
Gaslight – Joseph Ruttenberg
Going My Way – Lionel Lindon
Lifeboat – Glen MacWilliams
Since You Went Away – Stanley Cortez and Lee Garmes
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo – Robert L. Surtees and Harold Rosson
The Uninvited – Charles Lang
The White Cliffs of Dover – George J. Folsey#F9EFAA Best Cinematography (Color)
Wilson – Leon Shamroy
Cover Girl – Rudolph Maté and Allen M. Davey
Home in Indiana – Edward Cronjager
Kismet – Charles Rosher
Lady in the Dark – Ray Rennahan
Meet Me in St. Louis – George J. Folsey#F9EFAA Best Film Editing
Wilson – Barbara McLean
Going My Way – Leroy Stone
Janie – Owen Marks
None but the Lonely Heart – Roland Gross
Since You Went Away – Hal C. Kern and James E. Newcom#F9EFAA Best Special Effects
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo – Photographic Effects: A. Arnold Gillespie, Donald Jahraus and Warren Newcombe; Sound Effects: Douglas Shearer
The Adventures of Mark Twain – Photographic Effects: Paul Detlefsen and John Crouse; Sound Effects: Nathan Levinson
Days of Glory – Photographic Effects: Vernon L. Walker; Sound Effects: James G. Stewart and Roy Granville
Secret Command – Photographic Effects: David Allen, Ray Cory and Robert Wright; Sound Effects: Russell Malmgren and Harry Kusnick
Since You Went Away – Photographic Effects: John R. Cosgrove; Sound Effects: Arthur Johns
The Story of Dr. Wassell – Photographic Effects: Farciot Edouart and Gordon Jennings; Sound Effects: George Dutton
Wilson – Photographic Effects: Fred Sersen; Sound Effects: Roger Heman Sr.
Special awards
To Margaret O'Brien, outstanding child actress of 1944.
To Bob Hope for his many services to the Academy.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Darryl F. Zanuck
Presenters and performers
Presenters
(in order of appearance)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MBiGDFppYw&t=2352s 1945 Academy Awards Radio Broadcast December 29, 2018 YouTube Old Is Best February 20, 2024
Walter Wanger (Presenter: Academy Honorary Award to Bob Hope)
Bob Hope (Presenter: Best Art Direction (Black-and-White), Best Art Direction (Color), Best Cinematography (Black-and-White), Best Cinematography (Color), Best Documentary Feature, Best Documentary Short Subject, Best Film Editing, Best Live Action Short Subject (One-Reel), Best Scoring of a Musical Picture, Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture, Best Song, Best Sound Recording, Best Special Effects, and the Scientific & Technical Awards)
Hugo Butler (Presenter: Best Screenplay, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Original Motion Picture Story)
Mervyn LeRoy (Presenter: Best Director)
Hal B. Wallis (Presenter: Best Picture)
Norma Shearer (Presenter: Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award)
Bob Hope (Presenter: Academy Juvenile Award)
Charles Coburn (Presenter: Best Supporting Actor)
Teresa Wright (Presenter: Best Supporting Actress)
Gary Cooper (Presenter: Best Actor)
Jennifer Jones (Presenter: Best Actress)
Multiple nominations and awards
+ multiple nominationsNominationsFilm 10 Going My Way Wilson 9 Since You Went Away 7 Double Indemnity Gaslight 5 Cover Girl Laura 4 Kismet Meet Me in St. Louis None but the Lonely Heart 3 The Adventures of Mark Twain Brazil Casanova Brown Hollywood Canteen Lady in the Dark Lifeboat 2 Address Unknown Dragon Seed Higher and Higher It Happened Tomorrow Lady, Let's Dance Minstrel Man Mr. Skeffington Mrs. Parkington The Princess and the Pirate Song of the Open Road Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo Up in Arms Voice in the Wind
+ multiple awardsAwardsFilm 7 Going My Way 5 Wilson 2 Gaslight
See also
2nd Golden Globe Awards
1944 in film
References
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