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17th Academy Awards

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Award ceremony for films of 1944

17th Academy Awards
Date	March 15, 1945
Site	Grauman's Chinese Theatre,Hollywood,California
Hosted by	John Cromwell Bob Hope^{[citation needed]}
Highlights
Best Picture	Going My Way
Most awards	Going My Way (7)
Most nominations	Going My Way andWilson (10)
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The17th Academy Awards were held on March 15, 1945, atGrauman's Chinese Theatre, honoring the films of1944. This was the first time the complete awards ceremony was broadcast nationally, on theBlue Network (laterABC Radio).Bob Hope hosted the 70-minute broadcast, which included film clips that required explanation for the radio audience.^[1]

Darryl F. Zanuck and20th Century-Fox spent a fortune promotingWilson out of determination to have it win the Best Picture Oscar, but it lost toGoing My Way, which made Zanuck bitter.^[2]

This year was notable for being the only time an individual was nominated for two acting awards for thesame role in thesame film:Barry Fitzgerald received nominations for bothBest Actor andBest Supporting Actor for his performance as Father Fitzgibbon in the Best Picture winnerGoing My Way. Fitzgerald won for Best Supporting Actor, while his co-starBing Crosby won Best Actor.

Winners and nominees

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Bing Crosby; Best Actor winner

Ingrid Bergman; Best Actress winner

Barry Fitzgerald; Best Supporting Actor winner

Ethel Barrymore; Best Supporting Actress winner

Carmen Dragon; Best Scoring of a Musical Picture co-winner

Jimmy Van Heusen; Best Song co-winner

Cedric Gibbons; Best Art Direction, Black-and-White co-winner

Bob Hope; Academy Honorary Award recipient

Margaret O'Brien; Juvenile Academy Award recipient

Darryl F. Zanuck; Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipient

Awards

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Nominees were announced on February 3, 1945. Winners are listed first and highlighted inboldface.^[3]

Best Motion Picture Going My Way –Leo McCarey forParamount‡ Double Indemnity – Joseph Sistrom for Paramount Gaslight –Arthur Hornblow Jr. forMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer Since You Went Away –David O. Selznick forUnited Artists Wilson –Darryl F. Zanuck for20th Century Fox	Best Directing Leo McCarey –Going My Way‡ Billy Wilder –Double Indemnity Otto Preminger –Laura Alfred Hitchcock –Lifeboat Henry King –Wilson
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 asWoodrow Wilson	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 asPhyllis Dietrichson
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 –Lauraas Waldo Lydecker Monty Woolley –Since You Went Away asColonel William G. Smollett	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
Best Writing (Original Screenplay) Wilson –Lamar Trotti‡ Hail the Conquering Hero –Preston Sturges The Miracle of Morgan's Creek –Preston Sturges Two Girls and a Sailor –Richard Connell andGladys Lehman Wing and a Prayer, The Story of Carrier X –Jerome Cady	Best Writing (Screenplay) Going My Way –Frank Butler andFrank Cavett, based on a story byLeo McCarey‡ Double Indemnity –Raymond Chandler andBilly Wilder, based onDouble Indemnity in Three of a Kind byJames M. Cain Gaslight –John L. Balderston,Walter Reisch, andJohn Van Druten, based onAngel Street byPatrick Hamilton Laura –Jay Dratler,Samuel Hoffenstein, and Elizabeth Reinhardt, based onthe novel byVera Caspary Meet Me in St. Louis –Irving Brecher andFred F. Finklehoffe, based onthe novel bySally Benson
Best Writing (Original Motion Picture Story) Going My Way –Leo McCarey‡ A Guy Named Joe –David Boehm andChandler Sprague Lifeboat –John Steinbeck None Shall Escape –Alfred Neumann and Joseph Than The Sullivans –Edward Doherty and Jules Schermer	Best Documentary (Feature) The Fighting Lady–United States Navy‡ Resisting Enemy Interrogation –United States Army Air Force
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	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
Best Short Subject (Two-Reel) I Won't Play –Gordon Hollingshead‡ Bombalera – Louis Harris Main Street Today –Jerry Bresler	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
Best Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) Since You Went Away –Max Steiner‡ Address Unknown –Morris Stoloff andErnst 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 andRoy Webb The Hairy Ape – Edward Paul andMichel Michelet It Happened Tomorrow –Robert Stolz Jack London –Frederic Efrem Rich Kismet –Herbert Stothart None but the Lonely Heart –Hanns Eisler andC. Bakaleinikoff The Princess and the Pirate –David Rose Summer Storm –Karl Hajos Three Russian Girls –W. 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	Best Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture) Cover Girl –Morris Stoloff andCarmen Dragon‡ Brazil –Walter Scharf Higher and Higher –C. Bakaleinikoff Hollywood Canteen –Ray Heindorf Irish Eyes Are Smiling –Alfred Newman Knickerbocker Holiday –Werner R. Heymann andKurt 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 andLeo Erdody Sensations of 1945 – Mahlon Merrick Song of the Open Road –Charles Previn Up in Arms – Ray Heindorf and Louis Forbes
Best Music (Song) "Swinging on a Star" fromGoing My Way – Music byJames Van Heusen; Lyrics byJohnny Burke‡ "I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night" fromHigher and Higher – Music byJimmy McHugh; Lyrics byHarold Adamson "I'll Walk Alone" fromFollow the Boys – Music byJule Styne; Lyrics bySammy Cahn "I'm Making Believe" fromSweet and Lowdown – Music byJames V. Monaco; Lyrics byMack Gordon "Long Ago and Far Away" fromCover Girl – Music byJerome Kern; Lyrics byIra Gershwin "Now I Know" fromUp in Arms – Music byHarold Arlen; Lyrics byTed Koehler "Remember Me to Carolina" fromMinstrel Man – Music byHarry Revel; Lyrics byPaul Webster "Rio de Janeiro" fromBrazil – Music byAry Barroso; Lyrics byNed Washington "Silver Shadows and Golden Dreams" fromLady, Let's Dance – Music byLew Pollack; Lyrics by Charles Newman "Sweet Dreams Sweetheart" fromHollywood Canteen – Music by Maurice K. Jerome; Lyrics byTed Koehler "Too Much in Love" fromSong of the Open Road – Music byWalter Kent; Lyrics byKim Gannon "The Trolley Song" fromMeet Me in St. Louis – Music and Lyrics byRalph Blane andHugh Martin	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
Best Art Direction (Black-and-White) Gaslight – Art Direction:Cedric Gibbons andWilliam Ferrari; Interior Decoration:Paul Huldschinsky andEdwin B. Willis‡ Address Unknown – Art Direction:Lionel Banks andWalter 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 andLeland Fuller; Interior Decoration:Thomas Little No Time for Love – Art Direction:Hans Dreier andRobert 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 andCarroll Clark; Interior Decoration:Darrell Silvera andClaude Carpenter Song of the Open Road – N/A (nomination withdrawn by production company)	Best Art Direction (Color) Wilson – Art Direction:Wiard Ihnen; Interior Decoration:Thomas Little‡ The Climax – Art Direction:John B. Goodman andAlexander Golitzen; Interior Decoration:Russell A. Gausman andIra S. Webb Cover Girl – Art Direction:Lionel Banks andCary Odell; Interior Decoration:Fay Babcock The Desert Song – Art Direction:Charles Novi; Interior Decoration:Jack McConaghy Kismet – Art Direction:Cedric Gibbons andDaniel B. Cathcart; Interior Decoration:Edwin B. Willis andRichard Pefferle Lady in the Dark – Art Direction:Hans Dreier andRaoul Pene Du Bois; Interior Decoration:Ray Moyer The Princess and the Pirate – Art Direction:Ernst Fegté; Interior Decoration:Howard Bristol
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 andLee Garmes Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo –Robert L. Surtees andHarold Rosson The Uninvited –Charles Lang The White Cliffs of Dover –George J. Folsey	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
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 andJames E. Newcom	Best Special Effects Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo – Photographic EffectsA. Arnold Gillespie,Donald Jahraus andWarren Newcombe; Sound Effects:Douglas Shearer‡ The Adventures of Mark Twain – Photographic Effects:Paul Detlefsen andJohn Crouse; Sound Effects:Nathan Levinson Days of Glory – Photographic EffectsVernon L. Walker; Sound Effects:James G. Stewart andRoy Granville Secret Command – Photographic Effects:David Allen,Ray Cory andRobert Wright; Sound Effects:Russell Malmgren andHarry Kusnick Since You Went Away – Photographic Effects:Jack Cosgrove; Sound Effects:Arthur Johns The Story of Dr. Wassell – Photographic Effects:Farciot Edouart andGordon Jennings; Sound Effects:George Dutton Wilson – Photographic Effects:Fred Sersen; Sound Effects:Roger Heman Sr.

Special Awards

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ToMargaret O'Brien, outstanding child actress of 1944.
ToBob Hope for his many services to the Academy.

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

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Darryl F. Zanuck

Presenters and performers

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Presenters

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(in order of appearance)^[4]

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

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multiple nominations
Nominations	Film
10	Going My Way
10	Wilson
9	Since You Went Away
7	Double Indemnity
7	Gaslight
5	Cover Girl
5	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 awards
Awards	Film
7	Going My Way
5	Wilson
2	Gaslight

References

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^"The 17th Academy Awards (1945) Nominees and Winners".oscars.org.Archived from the original on July 6, 2011. RetrievedAugust 14, 2011.
^"1945 Academy Awards Radio Broadcast".YouTube. Old Is Best. December 29, 2018. RetrievedFebruary 20, 2024.

Academy Awards

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)

Awards of Merit

Proposed awards	Popular Film

Special awards

Governors Awards	Academy Honorary Award Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Special Achievement Academy Award
Academy Scientific and Technical Awards	Academy Award of Merit (non-competitive) Scientific and Engineering Award Technical Achievement Award John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation Gordon E. Sawyer Award
Student Awards	Student Academy Award