Winner 
18th Academy Awards
The 1945 file: winners first, ballot trails on demand, and the films that shaped the ceremony.
Ceremony at a glance
Best Picture went to The Lost Weekend. The winning leader is The Lost Weekend with 4 wins. The most nominated title is The Bells of St. Mary's with 8 nominations. 30 winners named across 26 categories.
Most awarded titles
- The Lost Weekend 4 wins7 nominations
- National Velvet 2 wins5 nominations
- The Bells of St. Mary's 1 win8 nominations
- Mildred Pierce 1 win6 nominations
- Spellbound 1 win6 nominations
Best Picture Nominees
The major races
The 1945 ceremony centers on The Lost Weekend. Picture, Director, Actor and Actress: 4 of 4 decided, 20 nominees in all.
Complete Ceremony Ledger
Every winner and nominee in every category, with film, person and review links.
24 categories162 records30 winners
1 winner5 records
The Lost Weekend
Credit: Paramount
Anchors Aweigh
Credit: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Mildred Pierce
Credit: Warner Bros.
The Bells of St. Mary's
Credit: Rainbow Productions
1 winner5 records
The Lost Weekend
Credit: Billy Wilder
National Velvet
Credit: Clarence Brown
Spellbound
Credit: Alfred Hitchcock
The Bells of St. Mary's
Credit: Leo McCarey
The Southerner
Credit: Jean Renoir
1 winner5 records
1 winner5 records
1 winner5 records
1 winner5 records
1 winner5 records
Marie-Louise
Credit: Richard Schweizer
Dillinger
Credit: Philip Yordan
Music for Millions
Credit: Myles Connolly
Salty O'Rourke
Credit: Milton Holmes
1 winner5 records
Mildred Pierce
Credit: Ranald MacDougall
Pride of the Marines
Credit: Albert Maltz
1 winner21 records
Spellbound
Credit: Miklos Rozsa
Brewster's Millions
Credit: Lou Forbes
Captain Kidd
Credit: Werner Janssen
G. I. Honeymoon
Credit: Edward J. Kay
G. I. Joe
Credit: Louis ApplebaumAnn Ronell
Guest in the House
Credit: Werner Janssen
Guest Wife
Credit: Daniele Amfitheatrof
Love Letters
Credit: Victor Young
Objective, Burma!
Credit: Franz Waxman
Paris--Underground
Credit: Alexander Tansman
The Enchanted Cottage
Credit: Roy Webb
The Keys of the Kingdom
Credit: Alfred Newman
The Lost Weekend
Credit: Miklos Rozsa
The Man Who Walked Alone
Credit: Karl Hajos
The Southerner
Credit: Werner Janssen
This Love of Ours
Credit: H. J. Salter
1 winner14 records
1 winner5 records
National Velvet
Credit: Robert J. Kern
A Song to Remember
Credit: Charles Nelson
Objective, Burma!
Credit: George Amy
The Bells of St. Mary's
Credit: Harry Marker
The Lost Weekend
Credit: Doane Harrison
1 winner5 records
Wonder Man
Credit: John FultonArthur W. Johns
Spellbound
Credit: Jack Cosgrove
1 winner5 records
1 winner5 records
1 winner5 records
Mildred Pierce
Credit: Ernest Haller
Spellbound
Credit: George Barnes
The Keys of the Kingdom
Credit: Arthur Miller
The Lost Weekend
Credit: John F. Seitz
1 winner5 records
Leave Her to Heaven
Credit: Leon Shamroy
National Velvet
Credit: Leonard Smith
The Spanish Main
Credit: George Barnes
1 winner2 records
The True Glory
Credit: The Governments of Great Britainthe United States of America
1 winner3 records
Hitler Lives?
Credit: Gordon Hollingshead
To the Shores of Iwo Jima
Credit: United States Marine Corps
1 winner12 records
Anchors Aweigh
Credit: Georgie Stoll
Belle of the Yukon
Credit: Arthur Lange
Hitchhike to Happiness
Credit: Morton Scott
Incendiary Blonde
Credit: Robert Emmett Dolan
Sunbonnet Sue
Credit: Edward J. Kay
Why Girls Leave Home
Credit: Walter Greene
Wonder Man
Credit: Ray HeindorfLou Forbes
1 winner7 records
Quiet Please!
Credit: Frederick Quimby
Donald's Crime
Credit: Walt Disney
Jasper and the Beanstalk
Credit: George Pal
Life with Feathers
Credit: Eddie Selzer
Mighty Mouse in Gypsy Life
Credit: Paul Terry
Rippling Romance
Credit: Screen Gems
The Poet and Peasant
Credit: Walter Lantz
1 winner6 records
Along the Rainbow Trail
Credit: Edmund Reek
Story of a Dog
Credit: Gordon Hollingshead
White Rhapsody
Credit: Grantland Rice
1 winner4 records
Star in the Night
Credit: Gordon Hollingshead
The Little Witch
Credit: George Templeton
1 winner12 records
The Unseen
Credit: ParamountLoren L. Ryder
Three Is a Family
Credit: RCA SoundW. V. Wolfe
1 winner5 records
A Song to Remember
Credit: Ernst Marischka
Objective, Burma!
Credit: Alvah Bessie
Ceremony Highlights
Winner A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Winner National Velvet
Winner Blood on the Sun
Winner Frenchman's Creek
Winner The Picture of Dorian Gray
Winner Leave Her to Heaven
Winner The True Glory
Winner Hitler Lives?
Winner State Fair
Winner Quiet Please!
Winner Stairway to Light
Winner Star in the Night
Winner The House I Live In
Categories in this ceremony
Winner Circle
The Lost Weekend
Billy Wilder
Joan Crawford
Ray Milland
Anne Revere
James Dunn
Marie-Louise
The Lost Weekend
Spellbound
It Might As Well Be Spring
Robert J. Kern
Photographic Effects by John Fulton; Sound Effects by Arthur W. Johns
Art Direction: Wiard Ihnen; Interior Decoration: A. Roland Fields
Art Direction: Hans Dreier, Ernst Fegte; Interior Decoration: Sam Comer
Harry Stradling
Leon Shamroy
The Governments of Great Britain and the United States of America
Gordon Hollingshead, Producer
Georgie Stoll
Loren L. Ryder, Charles R. Daily and Paramount
Michael S. Leshing, BENJAMIN C. ROBINSON, ARTHUR B. CHATELAIN, ROBERT C. STEVENS and JOHN G. CAPSTAFF
Frederick Quimby, Producer
Herbert Moulton, Producer; Jerry Bresler, Executive Producer
Gordon Hollingshead, Producer
RKO Radio Studio Sound Department, Stephen Dunn, Sound Director
Peggy Ann Garner
Republic Studio and Daniel J. Bloomberg
Walter Wanger
Frank Ross, Mervyn LeRoy, Albert Maltz, Earl Robinson, Lewis Allan, Frank Sinatra and RKO Radio
The House on 92nd Street
Sortable ledger
Every nomination from this ceremony as a sortable table, for research that needs the raw record beside the posters and winners above.