Date: March 15, 1945
Best Picture
Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Bing Crosby for Going My Way
Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Ingrid Bergman for Gaslight
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- Barry Fitzgerald for Going My Way
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- Ethel Barrymore for None But the Lonely Heart
Best Director
- Leo McCarey for Going My Way
Best Original Screenplay
- Lamar Trotti for Wilson
Best Original Story
- Leo McCarey for Going My Way
Best Screenplay
- Frank Butler & Frank Cavett for Going My Way
Best Cinematography, Colour
- Leon Shamroy for Wilson
Best Cinematography, Black-and-White
- Joseph LaShelle for Laura
Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White
- Cedric Gibbons, William Ferrari, Edwin B. Willis, Paul Huldschinsky for Gaslight
Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Colour
- Wiard Ihnen & Thomas Little for Wilson
Best Sound, Recording
- Edmund H. Hansen for Wilson
Best Film Editing
- Barbara McLean for Wilson
Best Special Effects
- A. Arnold Gillespie, Donald Jahraus, Warren Newcombe, & Douglas Shearer for Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Best Original Song
- Jimmy Van Heusen & Johnny Burke for “Swinging on a Star” from Going My Way
Best Scoring of a Musical Picture
- Carmen Dragon & Morris Stoloff for Cover Girl
Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
- Max Steiner for Since You Went Away
Best Short Subject, Two-Reel
- Gordon Hollingshead for I Won’t Play
Best Short Subject, One-Reel
- Jerry Fairbanks for Who’s Who in Animal Land
Best Short Subject, Cartoons
- Fred Quimby for Mouse Trouble
Best Documentary, Short Subjects
- With the Marines at Tarawa
Best Documentary, Features
- The Fighting Lady
Honorary Award
- Bob Hope
Juvenile Award
- Margaret O’Brien for Meet Me in St. Louis
