Best Films – 1945

Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard in Brief Encounter
FILM
Blithe Spirit
d: David Lean; scr: Noel Coward
Boule de suif / Angel and Sinner
d: Christian-Jaque; scr: Henri Jeanson
Brief Encounter
d: David Lean; scr: Noel Coward, Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean, Ronald Neame
Dead of Night
d: Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer; scr: John Baines, Angus MacPhail
Les Enfants du paradis / Children of Paradise
d: Marcel Carné; scr: Jacques Prévert
Leave Her to Heaven
d: John M. Stahl; scr: Jo Swerling
Love Letters
d: William Dieterle; scr: Ayn Rand
Mildred Pierce
d: Michael Curtiz; scr: Ranald McDougall, Catherine Turney
A Royal Scandal
d: Otto Preminger; scr: Edwin Justus Mayer
State Fair
d: Walter Lang; scr: Paul Green, Oscar Hammerstein II, Sonya Levien
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
d: Elia Kazan; scr: Tess Slesinger, Frank Davis

Hurd Hatfield in The Picture of Dorian Gray
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The Corn Is Green
d: Irving Rapper; scr: Casey Robinson, Frank Cavett
The Enchanted Cottage
d: John Cromwell; scr: DeWitt Bodeen, Herman J. Mankiewicz
The Picture of Dorian Gray
d, scr: Albert Lewin
Roma, città aperta / Open City
d: Roberto Rossellini; scr: Sergio Amidei, Federico Fellini
The Southerner
d: Jean Renoir; scr: Hugo Butler, Jean Renoir

Pierre Brasseur, Arletty in Children of Paradise
ACTOR
Pierre Brasseur
Children of Paradise
Gary Cooper
Along Came Jones
Aldo Fabrizi
Roma, città aperta / Open City
Boris Karloff
The Body Snatcher
Claude Rains
Caesar and Cleopatra
Edward G. Robinson
Scarlet Street
Edward G. Robinson
The Woman in the Window
Zachary Scott
The Southerner

Ann Blyth, Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce
ACTRESS
Tallulah Bankhead
A Royal Scandal
Joan Crawford
Mildred Pierce
Constance Cummings
Blithe Spirit
Peggy Ann Garner
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Kay Hammond
Blithe Spirit
Jennifer Jones
Love Letters
Dorothy McGuire
The Enchanted Cottage
Dorothy McGuire
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Micheline Presle
Boule de suif
Gene Tierney
Leave Her to Heaven
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Charles Coburn
A Royal Scandal
James Dunn
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Pavel Kadochnikov
Ivan Groznyi I / Ivan the Terrible Part I
Gene Lockhart
The House on 92nd Street
Vincent Price
Leave Her to Heaven
Vincent Price
A Royal Scandal
Cyril Raymond
Brief Encounter
Michael Redgrave
Dead of Night
Zachary Scott
Mildred Pierce
Georges Tourreil
Boule de Suif

Joan Blondell, Peggy Ann Garner in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Eve Arden
Mildred Pierce
Joan Blondell
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Ann Blyth
Mildred Pierce
María Casarès
Children of Paradise
Joan Lorring
The Corn Is Green
Anna Magnani
Open City
Eleanor Parker
Pride of the Marines
Donna Reed
They Were Expendable
Margaret Rutherford
Blithe Spirit
Alexis Smith
Rhapsody in Blue

Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde in Leave Her to Heaven
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Edward Cronjager
Nob Hill
Lee Garmes
Love Letters
Tony Gaudio
A Song to Remember
Ernest Haller
Mildred Pierce
James Wong Howe
Confidential Agent
Robert Krasker
Brief Encounter
Leon Shamroy
Leave Her to Heaven
Douglas Slocombe, Stan Pavey
Dead of Night
Harry Stradling
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Ted Tetzlaff
The Enchanted Cottage
MUSIC
Max Steiner
The Corn Is Green
Max Steiner
Mildred Pierce
Franz Waxman
Pride of the Marines
Victor Young
Love Letters
SONG SCORE
Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II
State Fair
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