Best Motion Picture

• The Lost Weekend
• Anchors Aweigh
• The Bells of St. Mary's
• Mildred Pierce
• Spellbound

Best Actor

• Ray Milland, The Lost Weekend
• Bing Crosby, The Bells of St. Mary's
• Gene Kelly, Anchors Aweigh
• Gregory Peck, The Keys of the Kingdom
• Cornel Wilde, A Song to Remember

Best Actress

• Joan Crawford, Mildred Pierce
• Ingrid Bergman, The Bells of St. Mary's
• Jennifer Jones, Love Letters
• Greer Garson, The Valley of Decision
• Gene Tierney, Leave Her to Heaven

Actor in a Supporting Role

• James Dunn, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
• Michael Chekhov, Spellbound
• J. Carrol Naish, A Medal for Benny
• John Dall, The Corn Is Green
• Robert Mitchum, G. I. Joe

Actress in a Supporting Role

• Anne Revere, National Velvet
• Eve Arden, Mildred Pierce
• Ann Blyth, Mildred Pierce
• Angela Lansbury, The Picture of Dorian Gray
• Joan Loring, The Corn Is Green

Directing

• Billy Wilder, The Lost Weekend
• Clarence Brown, National Velvet
• Alfred Hitchcock, Spellbound
• Leo McCarey, The Bells of St. Mary's
• Jean Renoir, The Southerner

Writing

• Original Motion Picture Story
  • Charles G. Booth, The House on 92nd Street
  • Alvah Bessie, Objective, Burma!
  • Laszlo Gorog and Thomas Monroe, The Affairs of Susan
  • Ernst Marischka, A Song to Remember
  • John Steinbeck and Jack Wagner, A Medal for Benny
• Original Screenplay
  • Richard Schweizer, Marie-Louise
  • Myles Connolly, Music for Millions
  • Milton Holmes, Salty O'Rourke
  • Harry Kurnitz, What Next, Corporal Hargrove?
  • Philip Yordan, Dillinger
• Screenplay
  • Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, The Lost Weekend
  • Leopold Atlas, Guy Endore and Philip Stevenson, G. I. Joe
  • Frank Davis and Tess Slesinger, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  • Ranald MacDougall, Mildred Pierce
  • Albert Maltz, Pride of the Marines

Cinematography

• Black-and-White
  • Harry Stradling, The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • George Barnes, Spellbound
  • Ernest Haller, Mildred Pierce
  • Arthur Miller, The Keys of the Kingdom
  • John F. Seitz, The Lost Weekend
• Color
  • Leon Shamroy, Leave Her to Heaven
  • George Barnes, The Spanish Main
  • Tony Gaudio and Allen M. Davey, A Song to Remember
  • Robert Planck and Charles Boyle, Anchors Aweigh
  • Leonard Smith, National Velvet

Art Direction

• Black-and-White
  • Wiard Ihnen, art direction; A. Roland Fields, interior decoration, Blood on the Sun
  • James Basevi and William Darling, art direction; Thomas Little and Frank E. Hughes, interior decoration, The Keys of the Kingdom
  • Albert S. D'Agostino and Jack Okey, art direction; Darrell Silvera and Claude Carpenter, interior decoration, Experiment Perilous
  • Hans Dreier and Roland Anderson, art direction; Sam Comer and Ray Moyer, interior decoration, Love Letters
  • Cedric Gibbons and Hans Peters, art direction; Edwin B. Willis, John Bonar and Hugh Hunt, interior decoration, The Picture of Dorian Gray
• Color
  • Hans Dreier and Ernst Fegte, art direction; Sam Comer, interior decoration, Frenchman's Creek
  • Cedric Gibbons and Urie McCleary, art direction; Edwin B. Willis and Mildred Griffiths, interior decoration, National Velvet
  • Stephen Goosson and Rudolph Sternad, art direction; Frank Tuttle, interior decoration, A Thousand and One Nights
  • Ted Smith, art direction; Jack McConaghy, interior decoration, San Antonio
  • Lyle Wheeler and Maurice Ransford, art direction; Thomas Little, interior decoration, Leave Her to Heaven

Sound Recording

• RKO Radio Studio Sound Dept., The Bells of St. Mary's
• Columbia Studio Sound Dept., A Song to Remember
• General Service, The Southerner
• MGM Studio Sound Dept., They Were Expendable
• Paramount Studio Sound Dept., The Unseen
• RCA Sound, Three Is a Family
• Republic Studio Sound Dept., Flame of Barbary Coast
• Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Dept., Wonder Man
• Twentieth Century-Fox Studio Sound Dept., Leave Her to Heaven
• Universal Studio Sound Dept., Lady on a Train
• Walt Disney Studio Sound Dept., The Three Caballeros
• Warner Bros. Studio Sound Dept., Rhapsody in Blue

Music

• Song
  • "It Might as Well Be Spring", State Fair, Richard Rodgers, music; Oscar Hammerstein II, lyrics
  • "Accentuate the Positive", Here Come the Waves, Harold Arlen, music; Johnny Mercer, lyrics
  • "Anywhere", Tonight and Every Night, Jule Styne, music; Sammy Cahn, lyrics
  • "Aren't You Glad You're You", The Bells of St. Mary's, James Van Heusen, music; Johnny Burke, lyrics
  • "The Cat and the Canary", Why Girls Leave Home, Jay Livingston, music; Ray Evans, lyrics
  • "Endlessly", Earl Carroll Vanities, Walter Kent, music; Kim Gannon, lyrics
  • "I Fall in Love Too Easily", Anchors Aweigh, Jule Styne, music; Sammy Cahn, lyrics
  • "I'll Buy That Dream", Sing Your Way Home, Allie Wrubel, music; Herb Magidson, lyrics
  • "Linda", G. I. Joe, Ann Ronell, music and Lyrics; Ann Ronell
  • "Love Letters", Love Letters, Victor Young, music; Eddie Heyman, lyrics
  • "More and More", Can't Help Singing, Jerome Kern, music; E. Y. Harburg, lyrics
  • "Sleighride in July", Belle of the Yukon, James Van Heusen, music; Johnny Burke, lyrics
  • "So in Love", Wonder Man, David Rose, music; Leo Robin, lyrics
  • "Some Sunday Morning", San Antonio, Ray Heindorf and M. K. Jerome, music; Ted Koehler, lyrics
• Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
  • Miklos Rozsa, Spellbound
  • Daniele Amfitheatrof, Guest Wife
  • Louis Applebaum and Ann Ronell, G. I. Joe
  • Dale Butts and Morton Scott, Flame of the Barbary Coast
  • Robert Emmett Dolan, The Bells of St. Mary's
  • Lou Forbes, Brewster's Millions
  • Hugo Friedhofer and Arthur Lange, The Woman in the Window
  • Karl Hajos, The Man Who Walked Alone
  • Werner Janssen, Captain Kidd
  • Werner Janssen, Guest in the House
  • Werner Janssen, The Southerner
  • Edward J. Kay, G. I. Honeymoon
  • Alfred Newman, The Keys of the Kingdom
  • Miklos Rozsa, The Lost Weekend
  • Miklos Rozsa and Morris Stoloff, A Song to Remember
  • H. J. Salter, This Love of Ours
  • Herbert Stothart, The Valley of Decision
  • Alexander Tansman, Paris, Underground
  • Franz Waxman, Objective, Burma
  • Roy Webb, The Enchanted Cottage
  • Victor Young, Love Letters
• Scoring of a Musical Picture
  • Georgie Stoll, Anchors Aweigh
  • Robert Emmett Dolan, Incendiary (Generic Funny Minority)
  • Lou Forbes and Ray Heindorf, Wonder Man
  • Walter Greene, Why Girls Leave Home
  • Ray Heindorf and Max Steiner, Rhapsody in Blue
  • Charles Henderson and Alfred Newman, State Fair
  • Edward J. Kay, Sunbonnet Sue
  • Jerome Kern and H. J. Salter, Can't Help Singing
  • Arthur Lange, Belle of the Yukon
  • Edward Plumb, Paul J. Smith and Charles Wolcott, The Three Caballeros
  • Morton Scott, Hitchhike to Happiness
  • Marlin Skiles and Morris Stoloff, Tonight and Every Night

Film Editing

• Robert J. Kern, National Velvet
• George Amy, Objective, Burma!
• Doane Harrison, The Lost Weekend
• Harry Marker, The Bells of St. Mary's
• Charles Nelson, A Song to Remember

Special Effects

• John Fulton, photography; Arthur W. Johns, sound, Wonder Man
• Lawrence W. Butler, photography; Ray Bomba, sound, A Thousand and One Nights
• Jack Cosgrove, photography, Spellbound
• A. Arnold Gillespie, Donald Jahraus and Robert A. MacDonald, photography; Michael Steinore, sound, They Were Expendable
• Fred Sersen and Sol Halprin, photography; Roger Heman and Harry Leonard, sound, Captain Eddie

Short Subjects

• Cartoon
  • Quiet Please! (Tom and Jerry Series) (Frederick Quimby, producer; MGM)
  • Donald's Crime (Donald Duck Series) (Walt Disney Productions; RKO Radio)
  • Jasper and the Beanstalk (George Pal Puppetoon-Jasper Series) (George Pal Productions; Paramount)
  • Life With Feathers (Merrie Melodies Series) (Eddie Selzer, producer; Warner Bros.)
  • Mighty Mouse in Gypsy Life (Terrytoon Series) (Paul Terry, producer; Twentieth Century-Fox)
  • The Poet and Peasant (Lantz Technicolor Cartune Series) (Walter Lantz Productions; Universal)
  • Rippling Romance (Color Rhapsodies Series) (Screen Gems; Columbia)
• One-Reel
  • Stairway to Light (John Nesbitt Passing Parade Series) (Herbert Moulton, producer; MGM)
  • Along the Rainbow Trail (Movietone Adventure Series) (Edmund Reek, producer; Twentieth Century-Fox)
  • Screen Snapshots' 25th Anniversary (Screen Snapshots Series) (Ralph Staub, producer; Columbia)
  • Story of a Dog (Vitaphone Varieties Series) (Gordon Hollingshead, producer; Warner Bros.)
  • White Rhapsody (Grantland Rice Spotlights Series) (Grantland Rice, producer; Paramount)
  • Your National Gallery (Variety Views Series) (Joseph O'Brien and Thomas Mead, producers; Universal)
• Two-Reel
  • Star in the Night (Broadway Brevities Series) (Gordon Hollingshead, producer; Warner Bros.)
  • A Gun in His Hand (Crime Doesn't Pay Series) (Chester Franklin, producer; MGM)
  • The Jury Goes Round 'N' Round (All Star Comedies Series) (Jules White, producer; Columbia)
  • The Little Witch (Musical Parade Series) (George Templeton, producer; Paramount)

Documentary

• Short Subject
  • Hitler Lives? (Featurette Series) (Gordon Hollingshead, producer; Warner Bros.)
  • Library of Congress (U.S. War Information Office Overseas Motion Picture Bureau)
  • To the Shores of Iwo Jima (U.S. Marine Corps.)
• Feature
  • The True Glory (Governments of Great Britain and the United States; Columbia)
  • The Last Bomb (U.S. Army Air Force)

Special Awards

• To Walter Wanger for his six years service as President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
• To Peggy Ann Garner , outstanding child actress of 1945
• To The House I Live In, 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
• To Republic Studio, Daniel J. Bloomberg and the 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

Facts:

• Winners Announced: March 7, 1946
• Held at: Grauman's Chinese Theater, Hollywood, California
• Host: Jimmy Stewart and Bob Hope
• Eligibility Year: 1945