17th Academy Awards

Best Motion Picture

• Going My Way – Leo McCarey for Paramount‡
  • Double Indemnity – Joseph Sistrom for Paramount
  • Gaslight – Arthur Hornblow Jr. for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  • Since You Went Away – David O. Selznick for United Artists
  • Wilson – Darryl F. Zanuck for 20th Century Fox

Best Director

• Leo McCarey – Going My Way‡
  • Billy Wilder – Double Indemnity
  • Otto Preminger – Laura
  • Alfred Hitchcock – Lifeboat
  • Henry King – Wilson

Best Actor

• Bing Crosby – Going My Way as Father Chuck O'Malley‡
  • Charles Boyer – Gaslight as Gregory Anton/Sergius Bauer
  • Barry Fitzgerald – Going My Way as Father Fitzgibbon
  • Cary Grant – None but the Lonely Heart as Ernie Mott
  • Alexander Knox – WilsonasWoodrow Wilson

Best Actress

• Ingrid Bergman – Gaslight as Paula Alquist Anton‡
  • Claudette Colbert – Since You Went Away as Mrs Anne Hilton
  • Bette Davis – Mr. Skeffington as Frances Beatrice "Fanny" Trellis Skeffington
  • Greer Garson – Mrs. Parkington as Susie Parkington
  • Barbara Stanwyck – Double IndemnityasPhyllis Dietrichson

Best Supporting Actor

• Barry Fitzgerald – Going My Way as Father Fitzgibbon‡
  • Hume Cronyn – The Seventh Cross as Paul Roeder
  • Claude Rains – Mr. Skeffington as Job Skeffington
  • Clifton Webb – Laura as Waldo Lydecker
  • Monty Woolley – Since You Went AwayasColonel William G. Smollett

Best Supporting Actress

• Ethel Barrymore – None But the Lonely Heart as Ma Mott‡
  • Jennifer Jones – Since You Went Away as Jane Deborah Hilton
  • Angela Lansbury – Gaslight as Nancy Oliver
  • Aline MacMahon – Dragon Seed as Ling Tan's Wife
  • Agnes Moorehead – Mrs. Parkington as Baroness Aspasia Conti

Best Original Screenplay

• Wilson – Lamar Trotti‡
  • Hail the Conquering Hero – Preston Sturges
  • The Miracle of Morgan's Creek – Preston Sturges
  • Two Girls and a Sailor – Richard Connell and Gladys Lehman
  • Wing and a Prayer, The Story of Carrier X – Jerome Cady

Best Screenplay

• Going My Way – Frank Butler and Frank Cavett, based on a story by Leo McCarey‡
  • Double Indemnity – Raymond Chandler and Billy Wilder, based on Double Indemnity in Three of a KindbyJames M. Cain
  • Gaslight – John L. Balderston, Walter Reisch, and John Van Druten, based on Angel StreetbyPatrick Hamilton
  • Laura – Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, and Elizabeth Reinhardt, based on the novelbyVera Caspary
  • Meet Me in St. Louis – Irving Brecher and Fred F. Finklehoffe, based on the novelbySally Benson

Best Original Motion Picture Story

• Going My Way – Leo McCarey‡
  • A Guy Named Joe – David Boehm and Chandler Sprague
  • Lifeboat – John Steinbeck
  • None Shall Escape – Alfred Neumann and Joseph Than
  • The Sullivans – Edward Doherty and Jules Schermer

Best Documentary Feature

• The Fighting Lady – United States Navy‡
  • Resisting Enemy Interrogation – United States Army Air Force

Best Documentary Short Subject

• With the Marines at Tarawa – United States Marine Corps‡
  • Hymn of the Nations – United States Office of War Information, Overseas Motion Picture Bureau
  • New Americans – RKO Radio

Best Live Action Short Subject, One-Reel

• Who's Who in Animal Land – Jerry Fairbanks‡
  • Blue Grass Gentlemen – Edmund Reek
  • Jammin' the Blues – Gordon Hollingshead
  • Movie Pests – Pete Smith
  • Screen Snapshots' 50th Anniversary of Motion Pictures – Ralph Staub

Best Live Action Short Subject, Two-Reel

• I Won't Play – Gordon Hollingshead‡
  • Bombalera – Louis Harris
  • Main Street Today – Jerry Bresler

Best Short Subjects – Cartoons

• Mouse Trouble – Fred Quimby‡
  • And to Think I Saw It on Mulberry Street – George Pal
  • Dog, Cat and Canary – Raymond Katz
  • Fish Fry – Walter Lantz
  • How to Play Football – Walt Disney
  • My Boy, Johnny – Paul Terry
  • Swooner Crooner – Edward Selzer

Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture

• Since You Went Away – Max Steiner‡
  • Address Unknown – Morris Stoloff and Ernst Toch
  • The Adventures of Mark Twain – Max Steiner
  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey – Dimitri Tiomkin
  • Casanova Brown – Arthur Lange
  • Christmas Holiday – H. J. Salter
  • Double Indemnity – Miklós Rózsa
  • The Fighting Seabees – Walter Scharf and Roy Webb
  • The Hairy Ape – Edward Paul and Michel Michelet
  • It Happened Tomorrow – Robert Stolz
  • Jack London – Frederic Efrem Rich
  • Kismet – Herbert Stothart
  • None but the Lonely Heart – Hanns Eisler and C. Bakaleinikoff
  • The Princess and the Pirate – David Rose
  • Summer Storm – Karl Hajos
  • Three Russian Girls – W. Franke Harling
  • Up in Mabel's Room – Edward Paul
  • Voice in the Wind – Michel Michelet
  • Wilson – Alfred Newman
  • The Woman of the Town – Miklós Rózsa

Best Scoring of a Musical Picture

• Cover Girl – Morris Stoloff and Carmen Dragon‡
  • Brazil – Walter Scharf
  • Higher and Higher – C. Bakaleinikoff
  • Hollywood Canteen – Ray Heindorf
  • Irish Eyes Are Smiling – Alfred Newman
  • Knickerbocker Holiday – Werner R. Heymann and Kurt Weill
  • Lady in the Dark – Robert Emmett Dolan
  • Lady, Let's Dance – Edward Kay
  • Meet Me in St. Louis – Georgie Stoll
  • The Merry Monahans – H. J. Salter
  • Minstrel Man – Ferde Grofé and Leo Erdody
  • Sensations of 1945 – Mahlon Merrick
  • Song of the Open Road – Charles Previn
  • Up in Arms – Ray Heindorf and Louis Forbes

Best Song

• "Swinging on a Star" from Going My Way – Music by James Van Heusen; Lyrics by Johnny Burke‡
  • "I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night" from Higher and Higher – Music by Jimmy McHugh; Lyrics by Harold Adamson
  • "I'll Walk Alone" from Follow the Boys – Music by Jule Styne; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
  • "I'm Making Believe" from Sweet and Lowdown – Music by James V. Monaco; Lyrics by Mack Gordon
  • "Long Ago and Far Away" from Cover Girl – Music by Jerome Kern; Lyrics by Ira Gershwin
  • "Now I Know" from Up in Arms – Music by Harold Arlen; Lyrics by Ted Koehler
  • "Remember Me to Carolina" from Minstrel Man – Music by Harry Revel; Lyrics by Paul Webster
  • "Rio de Janeiro" from Brazil – Music by Ary Barroso; Lyrics by Ned Washington
  • "Silver Shadows and Golden Dreams" from Lady, Let's Dance – Music by Lew Pollack; Lyrics by Charles Newman
  • "Sweet Dreams Sweetheart" from Hollywood Canteen – Music by Maurice K. Jerome; Lyrics by Ted Koehler
  • "Too Much in Love" from Song of the Open Road – Music by Walter Kent; Lyrics by Kim Gannon
  • "The Trolley Song" from Meet Me in St. Louis – Music and Lyrics by Ralph Blane and Hugh Martin

Best Sound Recording

• Wilson – Edmund H. Hansen‡
  • Brazil – Daniel J. Bloomberg
  • Casanova Brown – Thomas T. Moulton
  • Cover Girl – John P. Livadary
  • Double Indemnity – Loren L. Ryder
  • His Butler's Sister – Bernard B. Brown
  • Hollywood Canteen – Nathan Levinson
  • It Happened Tomorrow – Jack Whitney
  • Kismet – Douglas Shearer
  • Music in Manhattan – Stephen Dunn
  • Voice in the Wind – W. M. Dalgleish

Best Art Direction, Black-and-White

• Gaslight – Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons and William Ferrari; Interior Decoration: Paul Huldschinsky and Edwin B. Willis‡
  • Address Unknown – Art Direction: Lionel Banks and Walter Holscher; Interior Decoration: Joseph Kish
  • The Adventures of Mark Twain – Art Direction: John Hughes; Interior Decoration: Fred M. MacLean
  • Casanova Brown – Art Direction: Perry Ferguson; Interior Decoration: Julia Heron
  • Laura – Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler and Leland Fuller; Interior Decoration: Thomas Little
  • No Time for Love – Art Direction: Hans Dreier and Robert Usher; Interior Decoration: Samuel M. Comer
  • Since You Went Away – Art Direction: Mark-Lee Kirk; Interior Decoration: Victor A. Gangelin
  • Step Lively – Art Direction: Albert S. D'Agostino and Carroll Clark; Interior Decoration: Darrell Silvera and Claude Carpenter
  • Song of the Open Road – N/A (nomination withdrawn)

Best Art Direction, Color

• Wilson – Art Direction: Wiard Ihnen; Interior Decoration: Thomas Little‡
  • The Climax – Art Direction: John B. Goodman and Alexander Golitzen; Interior Decoration: Russell A. Gausman and Ira S. Webb
  • Cover Girl – Art Direction: Lionel Banks and Cary Odell; Interior Decoration: Fay Babcock
  • The Desert Song – Art Direction: Charles Novi; Interior Decoration: Jack McConaghy
  • Kismet – Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons and Daniel B. Cathcart; Interior Decoration: Edwin B. Willis and Richard Pefferle
  • Lady in the Dark – Art Direction: Hans Dreier and Raoul Pene Du Bois; Interior Decoration: Ray Moyer
  • The Princess and the Pirate – Art Direction: Ernst Fegté; Interior Decoration: Howard Bristol

Best Cinematography, Black-and-White

• Laura – Joseph LaShelle‡
  • Double Indemnity – John F. Seitz
  • Dragon Seed – Sidney Wagner
  • Gaslight – Joseph Ruttenberg
  • Going My Way – Lionel Lindon
  • Lifeboat – Glen MacWilliams
  • Since You Went Away – Stanley Cortez and Lee Garmes
  • Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo – Robert L. Surtees and Harold Rosson
  • The Uninvited – Charles Lang
  • The White Cliffs of Dover – George J. Folsey

Best Cinematography, Color

• Wilson – Leon Shamroy‡
  • Cover Girl – Rudolph Maté and Allen M. Davey
  • Home in Indiana – Edward Cronjager
  • Kismet – Charles Rosher
  • Lady in the Dark – Ray Rennahan
  • Meet Me in St. Louis – George J. Folsey

Best Film Editing

• Wilson – Barbara McLean‡
  • Going My Way – Leroy Stone
  • Janie – Owen Marks
  • None but the Lonely Heart – Roland Gross
  • Since You Went Away – Hal C. Kern and James E. Newcom

Best Special Effects

• Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo – Photographic Effects A. Arnold Gillespie, Donald Jahraus and Warren Newcombe; Sound Effects: Douglas Shearer‡
  • The Adventures of Mark Twain – Photographic Effects: Paul Detlefsen and John Crouse; Sound Effects: Nathan Levinson
  • Days of Glory – Photographic Effects Vernon L. Walker; Sound Effects: James G. Stewart and Roy Granville
  • Secret Command – Photographic Effects: David Allen, Ray Cory and Robert Wright; Sound Effects: Russell Malmgren and Harry Kusnick
  • Since You Went Away – Photographic Effects: Jack Cosgrove; Sound Effects: Arthur Johns
  • The Story of Dr. Wassell – Photographic Effects: Farciot Edouart and Gordon Jennings; Sound Effects: George Dutton
  • Wilson – Photographic Effects: Fred Sersen; Sound Effects: Roger Heman Sr.