18th Academy Awards (1945)
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1. The Lost Weekend (1945)
Passed | 101 min | Drama, Film-Noir
The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry, Howard Da Silva
Votes: 40,215 | Gross: $9.46M
Winner - Best Motion Picture Winner - Best Director for Billy Wilder Winner - Best Actor for Ray Milland Winner - Best Adapted Screenplay for Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder Nominated - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Miklos Rozsa Nominated - Best Cinematography, Black and White for John F. Seitz Nominated - Best Film Editing for Doane Harrison
2. Anchors Aweigh (1945)
Passed | 140 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
A pair of sailors on leave try to help a movie extra become a singing star.
Directors: George Sidney, Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly, José Iturbi
Votes: 9,437
Nominated - Best Motion Picture Nominated - Best Actor for Gene Kelly Winner - Best Musical Score for Georgie Stoll Nominated - Best Original Song for "I Fall in Love Too Easily" Nominated - Best Cinematography, Color for Robert Planck and Charles P. Boyle
3. The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)
Unrated | 126 min | Drama
At a big city Catholic school, Father O'Malley and Sister Benedict indulge in friendly rivalry, and succeed in extending the school through the gift of a building.
Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman, Henry Travers, William Gargan
Votes: 9,371 | Gross: $21.30M
Nominated - Best Motion Picture Nominated - Best Director for Leo McCarey Nominated - Best Actor for Bing Crosby Nominated - Best Actress for Ingrid Bergman Nominated - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Robert Emmett Dolan Nominated - Best Original Song for "Aren't You Glad You're You" Winner - Best Sound Recording for Stephen Dunn Nominated - Best Film Editing for Harry Marker
4. Mildred Pierce (1945)
Approved | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden
Votes: 28,693
Nominated - Best Motion Picture Winner - Best Actress for Joan Crawford Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Eve Arden Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Ann Blyth Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Ranald MacDougall Nominated - Best Cinematography, Black and White for Ernest Haller
5. Spellbound (1945)
Approved | 111 min | Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance
A psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, Leo G. Carroll
Votes: 52,269 | Gross: $7.00M
Nominated - Best Motion Picture Nominated - Best Director for Alfred Hitchcock Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Michael Chekhov Winner - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Miklos Rozsa Nominated - Best Cinematography, Black and White for George Barnes Nominated - Best Special Effects
6. National Velvet (1944)
Passed | 123 min | Drama, Family, Sport
A jaded former jockey helps a young girl prepare a wild but gifted horse for England's Grand National Sweepstakes.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor, Donald Crisp, Anne Revere
Votes: 8,006
Nominated - Best Director for Clarence Brown Winner - Supporting Actress for Anne Revere Nominated - Best Art Direction, Color Nominated - Best Cinematography, Color for Leonard Smith Winner - Best Film Editing for Robert J. Kern
7. The Southerner (1945)
Approved | 92 min | Drama
The life of the poor Tucker family who worked as cotton pluggers and decided to get their own ground, but nature was against them.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Zachary Scott, Betty Field, J. Carrol Naish, Beulah Bondi
Votes: 3,875
Nominated - Best Director for Jean Renoir Nominated - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Werner Janssen Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Jack Whitney
8. The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
Passed | 137 min | Drama, War
A young priest is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish.
Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Gregory Peck, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price, Rose Stradner
Votes: 3,092
Nominated - Best Actor for Gregory Peck Nominated - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Alfred Newman Nominated - Best Art Direction, Black and White Nominated - Best Cinematography, Black and White for Arthur C. Miller
9. A Song to Remember (1945)
Approved | 113 min | Biography, Drama, Music
Biography of Frederic Chopin.
Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Paul Muni, Merle Oberon, Cornel Wilde, Nina Foch
Votes: 1,618
Nominated - Best Actor for Cornel Wilde Nominated - Best Story for Ernst Marischka Nominated - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Miklos Rozsa and Morris Stoloff Nominated - Best Sound Recording for John P. Livadary Nominated - Best Cinematography, Color for Tony Gaudio and Allen M. Davey Nominated - Best Film Editing for Charles Nelson
10. The Valley of Decision (1945)
Passed | 119 min | Drama, Romance
An Irish maid falls for the son of her wealthy boss, though their disapproving fathers and a bitter strike at the steel mill complicate matters.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Greer Garson, Gregory Peck, Donald Crisp, Lionel Barrymore
Votes: 2,376
Nominated - Best Actress for Greer Garson Nominated - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Herbert Stothart
11. Love Letters (1945)
Passed | 101 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Allen Quinton writes a fellow soldier's love letters; tragedy results. Later, Allen meets a beautiful amnesiac who fears postmen...
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ann Richards, Cecil Kellaway
Votes: 1,788
Nominated - Best Actress for Jennifer Jones Nominated - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Victor Young Nominated - Best Original Song for "Love Letters" Nominated - Best Art Direction, Black and White
12. Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
Passed | 110 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
A writer falls in love with a young socialite and they're soon married, but her obsessive love for him threatens to be the undoing of them both as well as everyone around them.
Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price
Votes: 14,786
Nominated - Best Actress for Gene Tierney Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Thomas T. Moulton Nominated - Best Art Direction, Color Winner - Best Cinematography, Color for Leon Shamroy
13. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
PG | 129 min | Drama, Family, Romance
Encouraged by her idealistic if luckless father, a bright and imaginative young woman comes of age in a Brooklyn tenement during the early 1900s.
Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Lloyd Nolan
Votes: 8,411
Winner - Best Supporting Actor for James Dunn Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Frank Davis and Tess Slesinger
14. The Corn Is Green (1945)
Approved | 115 min | Drama
A schoolteacher becomes the mentor of a talented young miner and seeks to get him into a university.
Director: Irving Rapper | Stars: Bette Davis, John Dall, Nigel Bruce, Rhys Williams
Votes: 3,223
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for John Dall Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Joan Lorring
15. Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
Approved | 108 min | Biography, Drama, War
At the close of WWII, Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Ernie Pyle travels with the U.S. Army's Company C Division during their liberation of Italy.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Burgess Meredith, Robert Mitchum, Freddie Steele, Wally Cassell
Votes: 3,730
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Robert Mitchum Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Leopold Atlas, Guy Endore and Philip Stevenson Nominated - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Louis Applebaum and Ann Ronell Nominated - Best Original Song for "Linda"
16. A Medal for Benny (1945)
Approved | 77 min | Drama
Outcast Benny Martin joined the army to escape public scorn. But when the townspeople learn that he is to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, they pretend that he and his family are cherished, eminent citizens.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Dorothy Lamour, Arturo de Córdova, J. Carrol Naish, Mikhail Rasumny
Votes: 219
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for J. Carrol Naish Nominated - Best Story for John Steinbeck and Jack Wagner
17. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.
Director: Albert Lewin | Stars: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury
Votes: 14,456
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Angela Lansbury Nominated - Best Art Direction, Black and White Winner - Best Cinematography, Black and White for Harry Stradling
18. Marie-Louise (1944)
Approved | 93 min | Drama
Amidst the Nazi invasion of France in 1942, a young girl is evacuated to Switzerland but is still haunted by the terrors she has witnessed.
Directors: Leopold Lindtberg, Hermann Haller, Franz Schnyder | Stars: Josiane Hegg, Germaine Tournier, Heinrich Gretler, Anne-Marie Blanc
Votes: 164
Winner - Best Original Screenplay for Richard Schweizer
19. Music for Millions (1944)
Passed | 117 min | Drama, Family, War
Six year old "Mike" joins her sister Barbara Ainsworth who plays in a classical orchestra during WW II.
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Margaret O'Brien, José Iturbi, June Allyson, Jimmy Durante
Votes: 648
Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Myles Connolly
20. Salty O'Rourke (1945)
Passed | 100 min | Crime, Drama
Salty owes money to Doc Baxter, and he and his pal Smitty have one month to pay up. They get a race horse and a disbarred jockey, Johnny Cates, who must fake his identity to race. Johnny ... See full summary »
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Alan Ladd, Gail Russell, William Demarest, Stanley Clements
Votes: 279
Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Milton Holmes
21. What Next, Corporal Hargrove? (1945)
Approved | 95 min | Comedy, War
The further adventures of Hargrove as he and his scheming pals take France by storm during World War 2.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Robert Walker, Keenan Wynn, Jean Porter, Chill Wills
Votes: 298
Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Harry Kurnitz
22. Dillinger (1945)
Passed | 70 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
John Dillinger begins his life of crime as a petty thief, meets his future gang in prison and eventually masterminds a series of daring robberies.
Director: Max Nosseck | Stars: Lawrence Tierney, Edmund Lowe, Anne Jeffreys, Eduardo Ciannelli
Votes: 2,142 | Gross: $4.00M
Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Philip Yordan
23. Pride of the Marines (1945)
Approved | 120 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Marine hero Al Schmid is blinded in battle and returns home to be rehabilitated. He readjusts to his civilian life with the help of his soon to be wife.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: John Garfield, Eleanor Parker, Dane Clark, John Ridgely
Votes: 1,645
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Albert Maltz
24. The House on 92nd Street (1945)
Approved | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Bill Dietrich becomes a double agent for the F.B.I. in a German spy ring.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso, Gene Lockhart
Votes: 3,296
Winner - Best Story for Charles G. Booth
25. Objective, Burma! (1945)
Approved | 142 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A platoon of special ops are tasked to parachute into the remote Burmese jungle and destroy a strategic Japanese radar station, but getting out isn't as easy.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Errol Flynn, James Brown, William Prince, George Tobias
Votes: 5,550
Nominated - Best Story for Alvah Bessie Nominated - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Franz Waxman Nominated - Best Film Editing for George Amy
26. The Affairs of Susan (1945)
Approved | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Susan is about to be married, but the wedding may get called off after her fiancé summons three former beaus. Each reveals a different portrait of Susan: one describes her as a naive ... See full summary »
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Joan Fontaine, George Brent, Dennis O'Keefe, Walter Abel
Votes: 426
Nominated - Best Story for László Görög and Thomas Monroe
27. Quiet Please! (1945)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The bulldog wants to take a nap. Tom wants to chase Jerry around the house. Naps and noise don't mix, and so the bulldog threatens Tom to keep quiet or else.
Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Billy Bletcher, William Hanna, Harry Lang
Votes: 2,253
Winner - Best Animated Short Film
28. Donald's Crime (1945)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Donald has a date with Daisy, but no money. He raids his nephews' piggy bank, but his guilty conscience catches up with him.
Director: Jack King | Stars: Gloria Blondell, Harry Lang, Clarence Nash
Votes: 905
Nominated - Best Animated Short Film
29. Jasper and the Beanstalk (1945)
Passed | 8 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
This adaptation of the famous fairy tale finds Jasper trading Scarecrow his jaw harp harmonica for a handful of beans.
Director: George Pal | Stars: Peggy Lee, Sara Berner, Alvin Childress, Glenn Leedy
Votes: 88
Nominated - Best Animated Short Film
30. Life with Feathers (1945)
Approved | 8 min | Family, Animation, Short
A love bird's wife has left him. He wants to end it all and tries to force Sylvester to eat him. Sylvester thinks there's something fishy about the situation and refuses to eat the bird.
Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Mel Blanc, Dave Barry, Sara Berner
Votes: 446
Nominated - Best Animated Short Film
31. Gypsy Life (1945)
6 min | Animation, Short
A Mighty Mouse cartoon which sees Mighty Mouse protect a group of gypsy travelling mice from a colony of bats.
Director: Connie Rasinski | Stars: Betty Jaynes, Tom Morrison
Votes: 202
Nominated - Best Animated Short Film
32. The Poet & Peasant (1945)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Andy Panda conducts the "Hollywood Washbowl Orchestra" (an ensemble of farm animals, on a farm) in the title tune. After Andy removes a frog from under his wig, he begins. All is well until... See full summary »
Director: Dick Lundy | Star: William Shaw
Votes: 191
Nominated - Best Animated Short Film
33. Rippling Romance (1945)
8 min | Animation, Short
Director: Bob Wickersham | Star: Harry Lang
Votes: 20
Nominated - Best Animated Short Film
34. The True Glory (1945)
Not Rated | 87 min | Documentary, War
A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly 1400 cameramen.
Directors: Garson Kanin, Carol Reed | Stars: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Leslie Banks, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle
Votes: 631
Winner - Best Documentary Feature
35. The Last Bomb (1945)
Not Rated | 35 min | Short, Documentary, War
Documentary of the planning and delivery of the last great bomber attack on the city of Tokyo by the U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Reed Hadley, Arthur Kennedy, Jack Klock, Curtis LeMay
Votes: 112
Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
36. Hitler Lives (1945)
Approved | 17 min | Documentary, Short
This short propaganda film, produced at the end of World War II, warns that although Adolf Hitler is dead, his ideas of racial hatred, violence and conquest live on in the German people, and in like-minded people in the United States.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Knox Manning, Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin
Votes: 399
Winner - Best Documentary Short
37. Library of Congress (1945)
20 min | Documentary, Short
One of 26 documentary shorts produced between 1942 and 1945 by the U.S. Overseas Film Bureau, and intended to show foreign viewers something about America and it's values, this one focuses ... See full summary »
Director: Alexander Hammid | Stars: Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Woody Guthrie
Votes: 53
Nominated - Best Documentary Short
38. To the Shores of Iwo Jima (1945)
PG | 20 min | Documentary, Short, War
Documentary short film depicting the American assault on the Japanese-held island of Iwo Jima and the massive battle that raged on that key island in the Allied advance on Japan.
Stars: Harlon Block, John H. Bradley, Rene A. Gagnon, Ira H. Hayes
Votes: 172
Nominated - Best Documentary Short
39. Stairway to Light (1945)
Approved | 10 min | Short, Drama, History
The story of 18th Century French physician Dr. Phillipe Pinel, whose initiated enlightened, humane treatment of the mentally ill.
Director: Sammy Lee | Stars: John Nesbitt, Harry Cording, Lotte Palfi Andor, Dewey Robinson
Votes: 271
Winner - Best Live Action Short Film, One-Reel
40. Along the Rainbow Trail (1946)
Approved | 8 min | Documentary, Short
This 1946 entry in the "Movietone Adventures" series of shorts was in Technicolor when originally released. Narrated by Lowell Thomas, it is a trip from Medicine Hat in southern Utah down ... See full summary »
Star: Lowell Thomas
Votes: 12
Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, One-Reel
41. Screen Snapshots Series 25, No. 1: 25th Anniversary (1945)
Approved | 9 min | Documentary, Short
A look back at 25 years of Columbia's series of newsreels chronicling the film industry and the lives of Hollywood stars. Clips from earlier films in the series are featured, along with a ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: Cecil B. DeMille, Louella Parsons, Walt Disney, Rosalind Russell
Votes: 30
Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, One-Reel
42. Story of a Dog (1945)
Approved | 10 min | Documentary, Short
We watch the life of a Coast Guard dog, from the dog's point of view, from induction to graduation and then into a jungle to hunt for an enemy sniper. To pass muster, dogs must be of a ... See full summary »
Star: Knox Manning
Votes: 144
Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, One-Reel
43. White Rhapsody (1945)
10 min | Documentary, Short
Skiiing on New Hampshire's Cannon Mountain.
Director: Jack Eaton | Star: Ted Husing
Votes: 18
Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, One-Reel
Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, One-Reel
45. Star in the Night (1945)
Not Rated | 22 min | Short, Drama, Family
Three cowboys riding across the desert with gifts for no particular recipient see a distant bright light, and find it comes from the Star Auto Court sign where the owners and guests work together to help a young expectant couple.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: J. Carrol Naish, Donald Woods, Rosina Galli, Richard Erdman
Votes: 1,218
Winner - Best Live Action Short Film, Two-Reel
46. A Gun in His Hand (1945)
Passed | 19 min | Drama, Crime, Short
A man joins the police force to learn police procedures with the intention of getting away with crimes.
Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Tom Trout, Richard Gaines, Anthony Caruso, Hugh Beaumont
Votes: 311
Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, Two-Reel
47. The Jury Goes Round 'n' Round (1945)
Approved | 17 min | Comedy, Short
Vera is one of many of a group of jurors who must work together to come up with a decision whether or not a man is guilty of murder.
Director: Jules White | Stars: Barbara Jo Allen, Barton Yarborough, Vernon Dent, Frank Alten
Votes: 44
Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, Two-Reel
48. The Little Witch (1945)
Approved | 20 min | Short, Musical, Romance
Olga San Juan is the singing and dancing star of a night club in a South America country,and is in love with Bob Graham, the orchestra leader and vocalist, whose wealthy parents are unaware... See full summary »
Director: George Templeton | Stars: Olga San Juan, Bob Graham, Adeline De Walt Reynolds, Pedro de Cordoba
Votes: 13
Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, Two-Reel
49. Guest Wife (1945)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Romance
A newspaper correspondent who has convinced his publisher he is married implores his friend's wife to pose as his bride.
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, Dick Foran, Charles Dingle
Votes: 500
Nominated - Best Dramatic or Original Score for Daniele Amfitheatrof
50. Flame of Barbary Coast (1945)
Passed | 91 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A cowboy competes with a gambling tycoon on the Barbary Coast for the hand of a beautiful dance-hall queen.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: John Wayne, Ann Dvorak, Joseph Schildkraut, William Frawley
Votes: 1,644
Nominated - Best Dramatic or Original Score for Dale Butts and Morton Scott Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Daniel J. Bloomberg
51. Brewster's Millions (1945)
Approved | 79 min | Comedy, Romance
In order to inherit $7,000,000, an ex-soldier must spend $1,000,000 in two months' time.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Helen Walker, June Havoc, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson
Votes: 1,491
Nominated - Best Dramatic or Original Score for Lou Forbes
52. The Woman in the Window (1944)
Passed | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
When a conservative middle aged professor engages in a relationship with a femme fatale, he's plunged into a nightmarish world of blackmail and murder.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, Edmund Breon
Votes: 17,795
Nominated - Best Dramatic or Original Score for Hugo Friedhofer and Arthur Lange
53. The Man Who Walked Alone (1945)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Drama
A hitch-hiking stranger manages a lift from a young woman into the town he's destined for, and she's from. Both land up in jail, twice, as the small town and its leading family slowly unravel the in-plain-sight mystery behind this man.
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Dave O'Brien, Kay Aldridge, Walter Catlett, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
Votes: 263
Nominated - Best Dramatic or Original Score for Karl Hajos
54. Captain Kidd (1945)
Passed | 90 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The unhistorical adventures of pirate Captain Kidd revolve around treasure and treachery.
Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Charles Laughton, Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton, John Carradine
Votes: 2,069
Nominated - Best Dramatic or Original Score for Werner Janssen
55. Guest in the House (1944)
Approved | 100 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
A young manipulative woman moves in with her fiancé's family and turns a happy household against itself.
Directors: John Brahm, John Cromwell, André De Toth, Lewis Milestone | Stars: Anne Baxter, Ralph Bellamy, Aline MacMahon, Ruth Warrick
Votes: 1,013
Nominated - Best Dramatic or Original Score for Werner Janssen
56. G.I. Honeymoon (1945)
Approved | 70 min | Comedy
The efforts of a young soldier and his new bride to make their marriage "official" are continually thwarted by a string of army "emergencies".
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Gale Storm, Peter Cookson, Arline Judge, Frank Jenks
Votes: 84
Nominated - Best Dramatic or Original Score for Edward J. Kay
57. This Love of Ours (1945)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, Romance
At a convention, medical researcher Michel Touzac goes with colleagues to see stage caricaturist Targel, whose assistant Florence recognizes him--and attempts suicide. Saved by Touzac's new... See full summary »
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Merle Oberon, Charles Korvin, Claude Rains, Carl Esmond
Votes: 159
Nominated - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for H. J. Salter
58. Paris Underground (1945)
Approved | 97 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
Among the terrified refugees jamming the roads out of Paris in 1940 are Kitty de Mornay, a rich American divorced from her French husband, and her companion Emmyline (Emmy) Quayle. A German... See full summary »
Director: Gregory Ratoff | Stars: Constance Bennett, Gracie Fields, Jorge Rigaud, Kurt Kreuger
Votes: 317
Nominated - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Alexander Tansman
59. The Enchanted Cottage (1945)
Approved | 91 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A plain maid and a wounded war veteran are transformed by their love for each other while residing in an enchanted honeymoon cottage.
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Herbert Marshall, Mildred Natwick
Votes: 3,530
Nominated - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Roy Webb
60. Incendiary Blonde (1945)
Approved | 113 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The life of boisterous entertainer Texas Guinan is recalled from her poor childhood with a down-on-his-luck father to her reign as the Queen of the Night Clubs. Along the way, she also finds romance and heartbreak.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Betty Hutton, Arturo de Córdova, Charles Ruggles, Albert Dekker
Votes: 419
Nominated - Best Musical Score for Robert Emmett Dolan
61. Wonder Man (1945)
Approved | 98 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
After being murdered by gangsters, an exuberant nightclub entertainer returns as a ghost to persuade his meek twin brother to help bring his killers to justice.
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen, Donald Woods
Votes: 2,492
Nominated - Best Musical Score for Lou Forbes and Ray Heindorf Nominated - Best Original Song for "So in Love" Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Gordon Sawyer Winner - Best Special Effects
62. Why Girls Leave Home (1945)
Approved | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Music
A young woman leaves home to become a night club singer, but her job is nearly fatal when she learns about mobsters' operations, leading to her boss's suicide.
Director: William Berke | Stars: Lola Lane, Sheldon Leonard, Pamela Blake, Elisha Cook Jr.
Votes: 74
Nominated - Best Musical Score for Walter Greene Nominated - Best Original Song for "The Cat and the Canary"
63. Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
Passed | 135 min | Biography, Drama, Musical
George Gershwin is a driven composer whose need to succeed destroys his relationship with singer Julie Adams and socialite Christine Gilbert.
Director: Irving Rapper | Stars: Robert Alda, Joan Leslie, Alexis Smith, Charles Coburn
Votes: 1,798
Nominated - Best Musical Score for Ray Heindorf and Max Steiner Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Nathan Levinson
64. State Fair (1945)
Passed | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Each member of the Frake clan has his/her own reason for attending the annual Iowa State Fair.
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews, Dick Haymes, Vivian Blaine
Votes: 4,501
Nominated - Best Musical Score for Charles Henderson and Alfred Newman Winner - Best Original Score for "It Might as Well Be Spring"
65. Sunbonnet Sue (1945)
Passed | 89 min | Comedy
It's 1890s New York, and a rich society woman is scandalized that her niece is planning on a show-business career; not only that, but her first engagement is to be singing and dancing in a ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Gale Storm, Phil Regan, George Cleveland, Alan Mowbray
Votes: 54
Nominated - Best Musical Score for Edward J. Kay
66. Can't Help Singing (1944)
Passed | 90 min | Musical, Romance, Western
A senator's daughter (who can't help singing) follows her boyfriend West in the days of the California gold rush.
Director: Frank Ryan | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Robert Paige, Akim Tamiroff, David Bruce
Votes: 650
Nominated - Best Musical Score for Jerome Kern and H. J. Salter Nominated - Best Original Song for "More and More"
67. Belle of the Yukon (1944)
Approved | 83 min | Action, Musical, Romance
In the Yukon mining town of Malemute, saloon owner John Calhoun and an assortment of shady characters are after the bags of gold dust the miners deposit in the new bank managed by Calhoun himself.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Randolph Scott, Gypsy Rose Lee, Dinah Shore, Bob Burns
Votes: 494
Nominated - Best Musical Score for Arthur Lange Nominated - Best Original Song for "Sleighride in July"
68. The Three Caballeros (1944)
Approved | 71 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
Donald receives his birthday gifts, which include traditional gifts and information about Brazil (hosted by Zé Carioca) and Mexico (by Panchito, a Mexican Charro Rooster).
Directors: Norman Ferguson, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney, Bill Roberts, Harold Young | Stars: Aurora Miranda, Carmen Molina, Dora Luz, Sterling Holloway
Votes: 15,586
Nominated - Best Musical Score for Edward Plumb, Paul J. Smith and Charles Wolcott Nominated - Best Sound Recording for C. O. Slyfield
69. Hitchhike to Happiness (1945)
Passed | 74 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A famous radio singer takes time off from her career and returns to New York City to visit with old friends, who don't know she's a famous singer (she uses a stage name). She falls in love ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Al Pearce, Dale Evans, Stanley Brown, William Frawley
Votes: 69
Nominated - Best Musical Score for Morton Scott
70. Tonight and Every Night (1945)
Approved | 92 min | Drama, Musical, War
The theater in which this film is set was called The Windmill and performers there refused to be deterred by the blitz that was leveling much of London at the time.
Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Rita Hayworth, Lee Bowman, Janet Blair, Marc Platt
Votes: 1,122
Nominated - Best Musical Score for Marlin Skiles and Morris Stoloff Nominated - Best Original Song for "Anywhere"
71. Here Come the Waves (1944)
Approved | 99 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Show business twin sisters Rosemary and Susie, one serious and the other a scatterbrain, join the WAVES and both fall in love with crooner Johnny Cabot.
Director: Mark Sandrich | Stars: Bing Crosby, Betty Hutton, Sonny Tufts, Ann Doran
Votes: 483
Nominated - Best Original Song for "Accentuate the Positive"
72. Earl Carroll Vanities (1945)
Approved | 91 min | Musical, Romance
A producer puts an unknown European princess (Constance Moore) in his show, and she falls for its author (Dennis O'Keefe).
Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Constance Moore, Eve Arden, Otto Kruger
Votes: 94
Nominated - Best Original Song for "Endlessly"
73. Sing Your Way Home (1945)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Conceited war correspondent Steve Kimball, desperate to get back to the USA from occupied Paris, reluctantly agrees to chaperone a troupe of stranded teenage hepcat entertainers--plus ... See full summary »
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Jack Haley, Marcy McGuire, Glen Vernon, Anne Jeffreys
Votes: 250
Nominated - Best Original Song for "I'll Buy That Dream"
74. San Antonio (1945)
Passed | 109 min | Western
Tough dance hall girl working for the local villain falls for a cowboy trying to clean up the town.
Directors: David Butler, Robert Florey, Raoul Walsh | Stars: Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, S.Z. Sakall, Victor Francen
Votes: 1,847
Nominated - Best Original Song for "Some Sunday Morning" Nominated - Best Art Direction, Color
75. They Were Expendable (1945)
Approved | 135 min | Drama, War
A Navy commander fights to prove the battle-worthiness of the PT boat at the start of World War II.
Directors: John Ford, Robert Montgomery | Stars: Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed, Jack Holt
Votes: 9,264
Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Douglas Shearer Nominated - Best Special Effects
76. The Unseen (1945)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Horror
A secretive widower hires a governess for his children, a willful boy and impressionable girl. Strange occurrences and the governess's curiosity lead her to unlock the secrets of the mysterious and uninhabited brownstone next door.
Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Joel McCrea, Gail Russell, Herbert Marshall, Phyllis Brooks
Votes: 611
Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Loren L. Ryder
77. Three Is a Family (1944)
81 min | Comedy
Ruggles isn't providing enough money to have his family live well. His wife takes over and goes to work.
Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Marjorie Reynolds, Charles Ruggles, Fay Bainter, Helen Broderick
Votes: 57
Nominated - Best Sound Recording for W. V. Wolfe
78. Blood on the Sun (1945)
Approved | 94 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A dedicated American reporter in 1930s Japan is determined to expose that government's plan for world domination.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney, Porter Hall, John Emery
Votes: 2,273
Winner - Best Art Direction, Black and White
79. Experiment Perilous (1944)
Approved | 91 min | Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller
In 1903, a doctor suspects murder in the gothic Bederaux family.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Hedy Lamarr, George Brent, Paul Lukas, Albert Dekker
Votes: 2,126
Nominated - Best Art Direction, Black and White
80. Frenchman's Creek (1944)
Approved | 110 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
An English lady falls madly in love with a French pirate.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Joan Fontaine, Arturo de Córdova, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce
Votes: 817
Winner - Best Art Direction, Color
81. A Thousand and One Nights (1945)
Passed | 93 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Tongue-in-cheek fantasy film set in Baghdad and loosely based on the One Thousand and One Nights medieval story.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Evelyn Keyes, Phil Silvers, Adele Jergens, Cornel Wilde
Votes: 695
Nominated - Best Art Direction, Color Nominated - Best Special Effects
82. The Spanish Main (1945)
Passed | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
After being wronged by the Caribbean authorities, a Dutch captain turns pirate to wage war.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Paul Henreid, Maureen O'Hara, Walter Slezak, Binnie Barnes
Votes: 1,876
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Color for George Barnes
83. Captain Eddie (1945)
Approved | 107 min | Biography, Drama
WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the early years of civil airline service, after... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Lynn Bari, Charles Bickford, Thomas Mitchell
Votes: 171
Nominated - Best Special Effects
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