Produced and Staged by Dore Schary
Producer, Presentation Film, Farciot Edouart
Conductor, Academy Awards Orchestra and Musical Director, Johnny Green
Program Director, Joseph Losey
Program Narrators: Ken Carpenter and Buddy Twiss

Part One:

Overture - Academy Award Hit Parade
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Opening remarks by Jean Hersholt, President, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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Part One Host, James Stewart
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Short Subject Awards - Presented by Y. Frank Freeman

For Cartoon Short Subject:
"Quiet Please!" - Frederick Quimby, Producer

For One-Reel Short Subject:
"Stairway to Light" - Herbert Moulton, Producer; Jerry Bresler, Executive Producer

For Two-Reel Short Subject:
"Star in the Night" - Gordon Hollingshead, Producer
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Documentary Awards - Presented by Y. Frank Freeman

For Short Subject Documentary:
"Hitler Lives?" - Gordon Hollingshead, Producer

For Feature-Length Documentary:
"The True Glory" - A co-production of Britain's Minitry of Information and the U.S. Office of War Information; Ditributed in the U.S. by Columbia Pictures
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Scientific or Technical Awards - Presened by Y. Frank Freeman

Class II Award (Sound)
Loren Ryder and Charles R. Daily of the Paramount Studio Sound Department for the design, construction and use of the first dial-controlled step-by-step sound channel line-up and test circuit.

Class III Award (Laboratory)
Michael S. Leshing, Benjamin C. Robinson, Arthur B. Chatelain and Robert C. Stevens of the 20th Century-Fox Studio, and John G. Capstaff of the Eastman Kodak Company for the 20th Century-Fox processing machine.
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Film Editing Award - Presented by Frank Capra

Robert J. Kern - "National Velvet"
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Sound Recording Award - Presented by Frank Capra

"The Bells of St. Mary's" - R-K-O Radio Studio Sound Department, Stephen Dunn, Sound Director
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Special Effects Award - Presented by Frank Capra

"Wonder Man" - Photographic Effects by John Fulton; Sound Effects by Arthur W. Johns
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Honorary Award to Walter Wanger - Presented by Donald Nelson
For his six years service as President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Scoring of Dramatic or Comedy Picture Award - Presented by Ginger Rogers

"Spellbound" - Miklos Rozsa
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Art Direction Awards - Presented by Ginger Rogers

For Black and White:
"Blood on the Sun" - Art Direction, Wiard Ihnen; Interior Decoration by A. Roland Fields

For Color:
"Frenchman's Creek" - Art Direction by Hans Dreier and Ernst Fegte; Interior Decoration by Sam Comer
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Scoring of a Musical Picture Award - Presented by Ginger Rogers

"Anchors Aweigh" - Georgie Stoll
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Armed Forces Tribute - Music and Words
"The Battle Hymn of the Republic" with Gene Markey
"The Cassions Go Rolling Along" with Robert Riskin
"Semper Paratus" with Caesar Romero
"The Halls of Montezuma" with Peter Viertel
"Roger Young" with Don Duffield
"Anchors Aweigh" with June Carpenter
"Air Coprs Song" with Cy Bartlett
"America the Beautiful" with John Huston
"Drums and Taps"
"Battle Hymn Coda"

INTERMISSION

Part Two:

Entre-Acte
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Part Two Host: Bob Hope
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Cinematography Awards - Presented by David Wark Griffith

For Black and White:
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" - Harry Stradling

For Color:
"Leave Her to Heaven" - Leon Shamroy
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Performances of all nominated songs:

"Accentuate the Positive" from "Here Come the Waves" — sung by Frank Sinatra
"More and More" from "Can't Help Singing" —  sung by Katherine Grayson
"I Fall in Love too Easily" from "Anchors Aweigh" — sung by Frank Sinatra
"Some Sunday Morning" from "San Antonio" — sung by Dinah Shore
"I'll Buy that Dream" from "Sing Your Way Home" — sung by Dick Haymes
"Linda" from "The Story of G.I. Joe" — sung by Katherine Grayson
"Endlessly" from "Earl Carroll Vanities" — sung by Katherine Grayson
"Anywhere" from "Tonight and Every Night" — sung by Frank Sinatra
"Sleighride in July" from "Belle of the Yukon" — sung by Dinah Shore
"The Cat and the Canary" from "Why Girls Leave Home" — sung by Dick Haymes
"Aren't You Glad You Met Me?" from "The Bells of St. Mary's" — sung by Frank Sinatra
"Love Letters" from "Love Letters" — sung by Dinah Shore
"So in Love" from "Wonder Man" — sung by Frank Sinatra
"It Might as Well be Spring" from "State Fair" — sung by Dick Haymes
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Original Song Award - Presented by Esther Williams

"It Might as Well be Spring" from "State Fair" - Music by Richard Rogers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
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Writing Awards - Presented by Bette Davis

For Original Motion Picture Story
"The House on 92nd Street" - Charles G. Booth

For Original Screenplay:
"Marie-Louise" - Richard Schweizer

For Screenplay:
Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder - "The Lost Weekend"
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Direction Award - Presented by William Wyler

Billy Wilder - "The Lost Weekend"
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Motion Picture of the Year Award - Presented by Eric Johnson

"The Lost Weekend" - Paramount
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Juvenile Award - Presented by Bob Hope

Peggy Ann Garner - as the outstanding child actress of 1945
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Honorary Award to "The House I Live In" - Presented by George Murphy
For tolerance short subject ; produced by Frank Ross and Mervyn LeRoy; directed by Mervyn LeRoy; screenplay by Albert Maltz; song "The House I Live In" music by Earl Robinson, lyrics by Lewis Allan; starring Frank Sinatra; released by R-K-O Radio Pictures.
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Supporting Actor Award - Presented by Van Heflin

James Dunn - "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"
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Supporting Actress Award - Presented by Van Heflin

Anne Revere - "National Velvet"
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Best Actor Award - Presented by Ingrid Bergman

Ray Milland - "The Lost Weekend"
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Best Actress Award - Presented by Charles Boyer

Joan Crawford - "Mildred Pierce"

"You're the Top"

"Star Spangled Banner"

MUSIC ARRANGERS AND ORCHESTRATORS
George Bassman
Ted Duncan
Al Glasser
Marlin Skiles
Robert Franlyn
Danny Goal

Charles Miller, Music Editor
Lew Finehan, Orchestra Manager
Irving Armenian, Assistant to Mr. Green

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences acknowledges with thanks the cooperation and work of Arthur Bergh and the MGM Music Library Staff.

"Prelude and Salute to Oscar" Especially composed for the 18th Annual Awards by Adolph Deutsch

Musical Accompaniment for Nominations Film for Best Scoring of a Musical Picture arranged by Leo Arnaud

STAGE MANAGERS
Nick Ray
William E. Watts
Robert Lowell

FILM EDITORS
Frederick B. Richards
G. Carlton Hunt
William H. Ziegler

ACDEMY OFFICERS
Jean Hersholt, President
Y. Frank Freeman, Vice-President
George Murphy, Vice-President
Emmet Lavery, Vice-President
Mervyn LeRoy, Vice-President
John LeRoy Johnston, Treasurer
Gordon Hollingshead, Assistant Treasurer
Loyd Wright, Counsel
Wiard Ihnen, Secretary
Joseph Sistrom, Assistant Secretary
Margaret Herrick, Executive Secretary

BOARD OF GOVERNORS
Charles Boyer
Charles Brackett
Harry Brand
Frank Capra
Charles G. Clarke
William Dozier
Philip Dunne
Farciot Edouart
Ray Heindorf
Jean Hersholt
Mervyn LeRoy
Frank Lloyd
Mary C. McCall, Jr.
Gene Markey
Thomas T. Moulton
Alfred Newman
James Stewart
Herbert Stothart
Walter Wanger
Jules White

PRESENTATION FILM COMMITTEE
Harold Adamson
Peter Ballibusch
Charles Brackett
Robert Emmett Dolan
William Dozier
Hal C. Elias
A. Arnold Gillespie
Johnny Green
Bernard Herzbrun
Gordon Hollingshead
Wiard Ihnen
Stacy Keach
William F. Kelly
Hal C. Kern
Mary C. McCall, Jr.
Louis Mesenkop
Victor Milner
Thomas T. Moulton
Sidney Paul Solow
Franz Waxman
Richard A. Blaydon, Business Manager for Presentation Film

PRESS COMMITTEE
Perry W. Lieber, Chairman
Whitney Bolton
Harry Brand
George Brown
Alex Evelove
John LeRoy Johnston
John E. Joseph
Arch Reeve
Howard Strickling
Hall Hall, Academy Publicity Counsel

TRAFFIC COMMITTEE
Whitey Hendry, Chairman
Capt. Lee C. German
Lieut. Clarence B. Swan
Lieut. Loyd E. Tucker

AWARDS SCREENING COMMITTEE
William Dozier, Chairman
Joan Harrison
Howard Koch
Dore Schary

SPECIAL DOCUMENTARY AWARDS COMMITTEE
Sidney Paul Solow, Chairman
William Dozier
Philip Dunne
James Wong Howe
Nunnally Johnson
William Cameron Menzies
Harriet Parsons
Anne Revere
Joseph Sistrom
Frank Tuttle

SHORT SUBJECTS AWARDS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Jules White, Chairman
Gordon Hollingshead
Walter Lantz
Louis Notarius
Pete Smith

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:

To Hollywood studios, executives, and the personnel of our industry whose generosity and cooperation made this program possible.
To Mr. Charles Skouras and Fox West Coast Theatres for donating the facilities of Grauman's Chinese Theatre.
To the artists who are appearing on the program.
To the many Academy Committees and individual members who have contributed invaluable time and effort.
To the Screen Actors Guild, the Screen Directors Guild, the Screen Writers Guild, the Association of Motion Picture Producers, Theatre Authority, Musicians Mutual Protective Association, and Radio Corporation of America for their cooperation.

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