1945

Best Picture

The Lost Weekend
-Detour
-Scarlet Street
-Children of Paradise
-Spellbound

Best Director

"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. I can't take quiet desperation!"
Billy Wilder for The Lost Weekend
-Marcel Carne for Children of Paradise
-Alfred Hitchcock for Spellbound
-David Lean for Brief Encounter
-Fritz Lang for Scarlet Street

Best Actor

"It shrinks my liver, doesn't it, Nat? It pickles my kidneys, yeah. But what it does to the mind? It tosses the sandbags overboard so the balloon can soar. Suddenly I'm above the ordinary. I'm competent. I'm walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. I'm one of the great ones."
Ray Milland as Don Birnam in The Lost Weekend
-Edward G. Robinson as Christopher Cross in Scarlet Street
-Tom Neal as Al Roberts in Detour
-Boris Karloff as Cabman John Gray in The Body Snatcher
-Rex Harrison as Charles Condomine in Blithe Spirit

Best Actress

"You look down on me, because I work for a living. Don't you."
Joan Crawford as Mildred Pierce Beragon in Mildred Pierce
-Arletty as Caire Reine in Children of Paradise
-Ann Savage as Vera in Detour
-Joan Bennett as Kitty March in Scarlet Street
-Ingrid Bergman as Sister Mary Benedict in The Bells of St. Mary's

Best Supporting Actor

You know, Ernie, I know it ain't my fault that they get killed, but it makes me feel like a murderer. I hate to look at 'em, the new kids."
Robert Mitchum as Capt. Bill Walker in The Story of G.I. Joe
-James Dunn as Johnny Nolan in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
-Michael Chekov as Dr. Alex Brulov in Spellbound
-Stanley Holloway as Albert Godby in Brief Encounter
-Dan Duryea as Johnny Prince in Scarlet Street

Best Supporting Actress

"Don't be ridic'."
Doris Dowling as Gloria in The Lost Weekend
-Margaret Rutherford as Madame Acarti in Blithe Spirit
-Eve Arden as Ida Corwin in Mildred Pierce
-Angela Lansbury as Sibyl Vane in The Picture of Dorian Gray
-Donna Reed as Lt. Sandy Davyss in They Were Expendable

Best Screenplay

"Shut-up, yer makin' noises like a husband."
Detour
-The Lost Weekend
-Children of Paradise
-Mildred Pierce
-Scarlet Street
-Brief Encounter