18th Academy Awards

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18th Academy Awards
DateMarch 7, 1946
Site Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Hollywood, California, USA
Hosted by James Stewart
Bob Hope
Highlights
Best Picture The Lost Weekend
Most awardsThe Lost Weekend (4)
Most nominations The Bells of St. Mary's (8)

The 18th Academy Awards were held on March 7, 1946, at Grauman's Chinese Theatre to honor the films of 1945. Being the first Oscars after the end of World War II, the ceremony returned to the glamour of the prewar years; notably, the plaster statuettes that had been used during the war were replaced by bronze statuettes with gold plating and an elevated base.

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Despite the optimistic postwar mood, director Billy Wilder's grim and socially significant drama The Lost Weekend won the major awards of Best Picture and Best Director, as well as two other awards. It was the first film to win both Best Picture and the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Best Actress nominee Joan Crawford was absent due to illness. [1] [2]

This was the first year in which every film nominated for Best Picture won at least one Oscar, and also the first time a sequel ( The Bells of St. Mary's ) was nominated for Best Picture.

Winners and nominees

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Charles Brackett; Best Picture winner and Best Screenplay co-winner
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Billy Wilder (right); Best Director winner and Best Screenplay co-winner
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Ray Milland; Best Actor winner
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Joan Crawford; Best Actress winner
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James Dunn; Best Supporting Actor winner
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Anne Revere; Best Supporting Actress winner
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Miklós Rózsa; Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
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Richard Rodgers; Best Original Song co-winner
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Oscar Hammerstein II; Best Original Song co-winner
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Peggy Ann Garner; Juvenile Academy Award recipient

Awards

Nominations announced on January 27, 1946. Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface. [3]

Best Motion Picture Best Director
Best Actor Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress
Best Original Screenplay Best Screenplay
Best Motion Picture Story Best Documentary Feature
Best Documentary Short Subject Best Live Action Short Subject, One-Reel
Best Live Action Short Subject, Two-Reel Best Short Subject – Cartoons
Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture Best Scoring of a Musical Picture
Best Original Song Best Sound Recording
Best Art Direction – Interior Decoration, Black-and-White Best Art Direction – Interior Decoration, Color
Best Cinematography, Black-and-White Best Cinematography, Color
Best Film Editing Best Special Effects

Academy Honorary Award

Academy Juvenile Award

Presenters and performers

Presenters

Performers

Multiple nominations and awards

Films with multiple nominations
NominationsFilm
8 The Bells of St. Mary's
7 The Lost Weekend
6 Mildred Pierce
A Song to Remember
Spellbound
5 Anchors Aweigh
National Velvet
4 The Keys of the Kingdom
Leave Her to Heaven
Love Letters
The Story of G.I. Joe
Wonder Man
3 Objective, Burma!
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Southerner
2 Belle of the Yukon
Can't Help Singing
The Corn Is Green
Flame of Barbary Coast
A Medal for Benny
Rhapsody in Blue
San Antonio
State Fair
They Were Expendable
A Thousand and One Nights
The Three Caballeros
Tonight and Every Night
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Valley of Decision
Why Girls Leave Home
Films with multiple awards
AwardsFilm
4 The Lost Weekend
2 National Velvet

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References

  1. Miller, Julie (September 26, 2012). "The Academy Award That Joan Crawford Accepted In Bed Sells; Can You Guess for How Much?". Vanity Fair. Condé Nast. Retrieved May 21, 2019.
  2. Wallechinsky, David; Wallace, Irving (1975). The People's Almanac. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc. p. 837. ISBN   0-385-04060-1.
  3. "The 18th Academy Awards (1946) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on July 6, 2011. Retrieved August 16, 2011.