Academy Awards 1946

Best Picture

WINNER:
The Lost Weekend: (Paramount)

NOMINEES:
Anchors Aweigh: (M-G-M)
The Bells of St. Mary's: (Rainbow Productions)
Mildred Pierce: (Warner Bros.)
Spellbound: (Selznick International Pictures)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

WINNER:
The Lost Weekend: Ray Milland

NOMINEES:
The Bells of St. Mary's: Bing Crosby
Anchors Aweigh: Gene Kelly
The Keys of the Kingdom: Gregory Peck
A Song to Remember: Cornel Wilde

Best Actress in a Leading Role

WINNER:
Mildred Pierce: Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford was not present at the awards ceremony and feigned ill that night. Meanwhile she listened to the show on the radio. When she won, she ushered the press into her bedroom, where she finally accepted her Oscar.

NOMINEES:
The Bells of St. Mary's: Ingrid Bergman
The Valley of Decision: Greer Garson
Love Letters: Jennifer Jones
Leave Her to Heaven: Gene Tierney

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

WINNER:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: James Dunn

NOMINEES:
Spellbound: Michael Chekhov
The Corn Is Green: John Dall
Story of G.I. Joe: Robert Mitchum
A Medal for Benny: J. Carrol Naish

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

WINNER:
National Velvet: Anne Revere

NOMINEES:
Mildred Pierce: Eve Arden
Mildred Pierce: Ann Blyth
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Angela Lansbury
The Corn Is Green: Joan Lorring

Best Director

WINNER:
The Lost Weekend: Billy Wilder

NOMINEES:
National Velvet: Clarence Brown
Spellbound: Alfred Hitchcock
The Bells of St. Mary's: Leo McCarey
The Southerner: Jean Renoir

Best Writing, Original Screenplay

WINNER:
Marie-Louise: Richard Schweizer

NOMINEES:
Dillinger: Philip Yordan
Music for Millions: Myles Connolly
Salty O'Rourke: Milton Holmes
What Next, Corporal Hargrove?: Harry Kurnitz

Best Writing, Original Story

WINNER:
The House on 92nd Street: Charles G. Booth

NOMINEES:
The Affairs of Susan: László Görög, Thomas Monroe
A Medal for Benny: John Steinbeck, Jack Wagner
Objective, Burma!: Alvah Bessie
A Song to Remember: Ernst Marischka

Best Writing, Screenplay

WINNER:
The Lost Weekend: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder

NOMINEES:
Mildred Pierce: Ranald MacDougall
Pride of the Marines: Albert Maltz
Story of G.I. Joe: Leopold Atlas, Guy Endore, Philip Stevenson
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: Frank Davis, Tess Slesinger

Best Cinematography, Color

WINNER:
Leave Her to Heaven: Leon Shamroy

NOMINEES:
Anchors Aweigh: Robert H. Planck, Charles P. Boyle
National Velvet: Leonard Smith
A Song to Remember: Tony Gaudio, Allen M. Davey
The Spanish Main: George Barnes

Best Cinematography, Black-and-White

WINNER:
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Harry Stradling Sr.

NOMINEES:
The Keys of the Kingdom: Arthur C. Miller
The Lost Weekend: John F. Seitz
Mildred Pierce: Ernest Haller
Spellbound: George Barnes

Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White

WINNER:
Blood on the Sun: Wiard Ihnen, A. Roland Fields

NOMINEES:
Experiment Perilous: Albert S. D'Agostino, Jack Okey, Darrell Silvera, Claude E. Carpenter
The Keys of the Kingdom: James Basevi, William S. Darling, Thomas Little, Frank E. Hughes
Love Letters: Hans Dreier, Roland Anderson, Sam Comer, Ray Moyer
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Cedric Gibbons, Hans Peters, Edwin B. Willis, John Bonar, Hugh Hunt

Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Color

WINNER:
Frenchman's Creek: Hans Dreier, Ernst Fegté, Sam Comer

NOMINEES:
Leave Her to Heaven: Lyle R. Wheeler, Maurice Ransford, Thomas Little
National Velvet: Cedric Gibbons, Urie McCleary, Edwin B. Willis, Mildred Griffiths
San Antonio: Ted Smith, Jack McConaghy
A Thousand and One Nights: Stephen Goosson, Rudolph Sternad, Frank Tuttle

Best Sound, Recording

WINNER:
The Bells of St. Mary's: Stephen Dunn (RKO Radio SSD)

NOMINEES:
Flame of Barbary Coast: Daniel J. Bloomberg (Republic SSD)
Lady on a Train: Bernard B. Brown (Universal SSD)
Leave Her to Heaven: Thomas T. Moulton (20th Century-Fox SSD)
Rhapsody in Blue: Nathan Levinson (Warner Bros. SSD)
A Song to Remember: John P. Livadary (Columbia SSD)
The Southerner: Jack Whitney (Sound Services Inc.)
They Were Expendable: Douglas Shearer (M-G-M SSD)
The Three Caballeros: C.O. Slyfield (Walt Disney SSD)
Three Is a Family: W.V. Wolfe (RCA Sound)
The Unseen: Loren L. Ryder (Paramount SSD)
Wonder Man: Gordon Sawyer (Samuel Goldwyn SSD)

Best Film Editing

WINNER:
National Velvet: Robert Kern

NOMINEES:
The Bells of St. Mary's: Harry Marker
The Lost Weekend: Doane Harrison
Objective, Burma!: George Amy
A Song to Remember: Charles Nelson

Best Effects, Special Effects

WINNER:
Wonder Man: John P. Fulton (photographic), Arthur Johns (sound)

NOMINEES:
Captain Eddie: Fred Sersen (photographic), Sol Halperin (photographic), Roger Heman Sr. (sound), Harry M. Leonard (sound)
Spellbound: Jack Cosgrove (photographic)
They Were Expendable: A. Arnold Gillespie (photographic), Donald Jahraus (photographic), R.A. MacDonald (photographic), Michael Steinore (sound)
A Thousand and One Nights: Lawrence W. Butler (photographic), Ray Bomba (sound)

Best Music, Original Song

WINNER:
State Fair: Richard Rodgers (music), Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics)
For the song "It Might as Well Be Spring"

NOMINEES:
Here Come the Waves: Harold Arlen (music), Johnny Mercer (lyrics)
For the song "Accentuate the Positive"
Tonight and Every Night: Jule Styne (music), Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
For the song "Anywhere"
The Bells of St. Mary's: Jimmy Van Heusen (music), Johnny Burke (lyrics)
For the song "Aren't You Glad You're You"
Why Girls Leave Home: Jay Livingston (music), Ray Evans (lyrics)
For the song "The Cat and the Canary"
Earl Carroll Vanities: Walter Kent (music), Kim Gannon (lyrics)
For the song "Endlessly"
Anchors Aweigh: Jule Styne (music), Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
For the song "I Fall in Love Too Easily"
Sing Your Way Home: Allie Wrubel (music), Herb Magidson (lyrics)
For the song "I'll Buy That Dream"
Story of G.I. Joe: Ann Ronell
For the song "Linda"
Love Letters: Victor Young (music), Edward Heyman (lyrics)
For the song "Love Letters"
Can't Help Singing: Jerome Kern (music), E.Y. Harburg (lyrics)
For the song "More and More"
Belle of the Yukon: Jimmy Van Heusen (music), Johnny Burke (lyrics)
For the song "Sleighride in July"
Wonder Man: David Rose (music), Leo Robin (lyrics)
For the song "So in Love"
San Antonio: Ray Heindorf (music), M.K. Jerome (music), Ted Koehler (lyrics)
For the song "Some Sunday Morning"

Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture

WINNER:
Anchors Aweigh: George Stoll
On 10 September 2001 Kevin Spacey purchased Stoll's Oscar statuette at a Butterfields auction in Los Angeles and returned it to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

NOMINEES:
Belle of the Yukon: Arthur Lange
Can't Help Singing: Jerome Kern, Hans J. Salter
Hitchhike to Happiness: Morton Scott
Incendiary Blonde: Robert Emmett Dolan
Rhapsody in Blue: Ray Heindorf, Max Steiner
State Fair: Charles Henderson, Alfred Newman
Sunbonnet Sue: Edward J. Kay
The Three Caballeros: Edward H. Plumb, Paul J. Smith, Charles Wolcott
Tonight and Every Night: Marlin Skiles, Morris Stoloff
Why Girls Leave Home: Walter Greene
Wonder Man: Louis Forbes, Ray Heindorf

Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture

WINNER:
Spellbound: Miklós Rózsa

NOMINEES:
The Bells of St. Mary's: Robert Emmett Dolan
Brewster's Millions: Louis Forbes
Captain Kidd: Werner Janssen
The Enchanted Cottage: Roy Webb
Flame of Barbary Coast: R. Dale Butts, Morton Scott
G.I. Honeymoon: Edward J. Kay
Guest in the House: Werner Janssen
Guest Wife: Daniele Amfitheatrof
The Keys of the Kingdom: Alfred Newman
The Lost Weekend: Miklós Rózsa
Love Letters: Victor Young
The Man Who Walked Alone: Karl Hajos
Objective, Burma!: Franz Waxman
Paris Underground: Alexander Tansman
A Song to Remember: Miklós Rózsa, Morris Stoloff
The Southerner: Werner Janssen
Story of G.I. Joe: Louis Applebaum, Ann Ronell
This Love of Ours: Hans J. Salter
The Valley of Decision: Herbert Stothart
The Woman in the Window: Hugo Friedhofer, Arthur Lange

Best Short Subject, Two-reel

WINNER:
Star in the Night: Gordon Hollingshead

NOMINEES:
A Gun in His Hand: Chester M. Franklin
The Jury Goes Round 'n' Round: Jules White
The Little Witch: George Templeton

Best Short Subject, One-reel

WINNER:
Stairway to Light: Herbert Moulton

NOMINEES:
Along the Rainbow Trail: Edmund Reek
Screen Snapshots Series 25, No. 1: 25th Anniversary: Ralph Staub
Story of a Dog: Gordon Hollingshead
White Rhapsody: Grantland Rice
Your National Gallery: Joseph O'Brien, Thomas Mead

Best Short Subject, Cartoons

WINNER:
Quiet Please!: Fred Quimby

NOMINEES:
Donald's Crime: Walt Disney
Jasper and the Beanstalk: George Pal
Life with Feathers: Edward Selzer
Mighty Mouse in Gypsy Life: Paul Terry
The Poet & Peasant: Walter Lantz
Rippling Romance: (Columbia)

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

WINNER:
Hitler Lives: (Warner Bros.)

NOMINEES:
Library of Congress: (Office of War Information)
To the Shores of Iwo Jima: (U.S. Marine Corps)

Best Documentary, Features

WINNER:
The True Glory: (Government of Great Britain, Government of USA)

NOMINEE:
The Last Bomb: (U.S. Army Air Force)

Juvenile Award

WINNER:
Peggy Ann Garner
For the outstanding child actress of 1945.

Honorary Award

WINNERS:
Walter Wanger
For his six years service as President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (special plaque).
The House I Live In: Frank Ross, Mervyn LeRoy, Albert Maltz, Earl Robinson, Lewis Allen, Frank Sinatra
For tolerance short subject; produced by Frank Ross and Mervyn LeRoy; directed by Mervyn LeRoy; screenplay by Albert Maltz; song "The House I Live In" music by Earl Robinson, lyrics by Lewis Allen; starring Frank Sinatra; released by RKO Radio.
Daniel J. Bloomberg (Republic Studio, Republic Sound Department)
For the building of an outstanding musical scoring auditorium which provides optimum recording conditions and combines all elements of acoustic and engineering design (certificate).

Academy Award of Merit

WINNER:

Not awarded.

Scientific and Engineering Award

WINNER:

Not awarded.

Technical Achievement Award

WINNERS:
Loren L. Ryder, Charles R. Daily (Paramount Studio Sound Department)
For the design, construction and use of the first dial-controlled step-by-step sound channel line-up and test circuit.
Michael S. Leshing (20th Century-Fox Studio), Benjamin C. Robinson (20th Century-Fox Studio), Arthur B. Chatelain (20th Century-Fox Studio), Robert C. Stevens (20th Century-Fox Studio), John G. Capstaff (Eastman Kodak Co.)
For the 20th Century-Fox film processing machine.

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