And the Winner Still Is Season 3: The 1945 Oscars

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Matt Taylor and our film editor Marisa Carpico are finally back for a third season of their Oscar retrospective podcast, And the Winner Still Is….

They break down the Best Picture nominees and discuss the major categories like Director and the Actresses. As well as a few of their own personal snubs and under-appreciated films from each year.

This episode, they discuss the 1945 Oscars, including Best Picture winner, The Lost Weekend. Elsewhere in the episode, they rave over Joan Crawford in the iconic melodrama/noir, Mildred Pierce, praise Gene Tierney’s performance in Leave Her to Heaven and wonder what the hell is going on in Love Letters.

The other nominees for Picture that year were Anchors Aweigh, The Bells of St. Mary’s, Mildred Pierce and Spellbound.

For the other major categories, the nominees for the 1945 Oscars were:

Best Director:

Billy Wilder – The Lost Weekend
Alfred Hitchcock – Spellbound
Clarence Brown – National Velvet
Jean Renoir – The Southerner
Leo McCarey – The Bells of St. Mary’s

Best Actor:

Ray Milland – The Lost Weekend
Bing Crosby – The Bells of St. Mary’s
Cornel Wilde – A Song to Remember
Gene Kelly – Anchors Aweigh
Gregory Peck – The Keys of the Kingdom

Best Supporting Actor:

James Dunn – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
J. Carrol Naish – A Medal for Benny
John Dall – The Corn is Green
Michael Chekhov – Spellbound
Robert Mitchum – Story of G.I. Joe

Best Actress:

Joan Crawford – Mildred Pierce
Gene Tierney – Leave Her to Heaven
Greer Garson – The Valley of Decision
Ingrid Bergman – The Bells of St. Mary’s
Jennifer Jones – Love Letters

Best Supporting Actress:

Anne Revere – National Velvet
Angela Lansbury – The Picture of Dorian Gray
Ann Blyth – Mildred Pierce
Eve Arden – Mildred Pierce
Joan Lorring – The Corn is Green

Listen to the previous episode here.