1945 Alternate Oscars

Best Picture of 1945

Brief Encounter

Children Of Paradise

I Know Where I'm Going!

✔ The Lost Weekend

Mildred Pierce

Murder, My Sweet

Rome, Open City

They Were Expendable

★ To Have And Have Not

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

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Best Actor of 1945

Humphrey Bogart (To Have And Have Not)

Trevor Howard (Brief Encounter)

★ ✔ Ray Milland (The Lost Weekend)

Dick Powell (Murder, My Sweet)

Edward G. Robinson (The Woman in the Window and Scarlet Street)

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Best Actress of 1945

Lauren Bacall (To Have And Have Not)

Joan Bennett (The Woman in the Window and Scarlet Street)

★ ✔ Joan Crawford (Mildred Pierce)

Celia Johnson (Brief Encounter)

Gene Tierney (Leave Her To Heaven)

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Best Director of 1945

Marcel Carné (Children Of Paradise)

John Ford (They Were Expendable)

★ Howard Hawks (To Have and Have Not)

David Lean (Brief Encounter)

✔ Billy Wilder (The Lost Weekend)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1945

Jack Carson (Mildred Pierce)

✔ James Dunn (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)

Dan Duryea (The Woman in the Window and Scarlet Street)

★ Boris Karloff (The Body Snatcher)

S.Z. Sakall (Christmas in Connecticut)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1945

Eve Arden (Mildred Pierce)

Ann Blyth (Mildred Pierce)

María Casares (Children of Paradise)

✔ Anne Revere (National Velvet)

★ Margaret Rutherford (Blithe Spirit)

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Special Award

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello (The Naughty Nineties) (best comedy routine) ("Who's On First?")

Peggy Anne Garner (A Tree Grows In Brooklyn) (juvenile Oscar)

Gene Kelly and Jerry the Mouse (Anchors Aweigh) (best dance sequence)

Jules Furthman and William Faulkner, from the novel by Ernest Hemingway (To Have And Have Not) (best adapted screenplay)

Val Lewton (lifetime achievement)

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1944 Alternate Oscars

Best Picture of 1944

Arsenic And Old Lace

★ Double Indemnity

Gaslight

✔ Going My Way

Hail The Conquering Hero

Henry V

Laura

Lifeboat

Meet Me In St. Louis

The Miracle Of Morgan's Creek

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Best Actor of 1944

★ Charles Boyer (Gaslight)

Eddie Bracken (The Miracle Of Morgan's Creek and Hail The Conquering Hero)

✔ Bing Crosby (Going My Way)

Fred MacMurray (Double Indemnity)

Laurence Olivier (Henry V)

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Best Actress of 1944

Tallulah Bankhead (Lifeboat)

✔ Ingrid Bergman (Gaslight)

Judy Garland (Meet Me In St. Louis)

Betty Hutton (The Miracle Of Morgan's Creek)

★ Barbara Stanwyck (Double Indemnity)

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Best Director of 1944

George Cukor (Gaslight)

Vincente Minnelli (Meet Me In St. Louis)

Otto Preminger (Laura)

Preston Sturges (The Miracle Of Morgan's Creek and Hail The Conquering Hero)

★ Billy Wilder (Double Indemnity)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1944

William Bendix (Lifeboat)

William Demarest (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek and Hail The Conquering Hero)

✔ Barry Fitzgerald (Going My Way)

Edward G. Robinson (Double Indemnity)

★ Clifton Webb (Laura)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1944

✔ Ethel Barrymore (None But The Lonely Heart)

Josephine Hull (Arsenic and Old Lace)

Angela Lansbury (Gaslight)

Diana Lynn (The Miracle Of Morgan's Creek)

★ Margaret O'Brien (Meet Me In St. Louis)

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Special Award

"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (Meet Me In St. Louis) music and lyrics by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane (song)

John F. Seitz (Double Indemnity) (cinematography)

David Raksin (Laura) (score)

Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler, from the novel by James M. Cain (Double Indemnity) (adapted screenplay)

Preston Sturges (The Miracle Of Morgan's Creek and Hail The Conquering Hero) (original screenplay)

"Tootie" Smith (Meet Me In St. Louis) (child most likely to become serial killer or United States senator)

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1943 Alternate Oscars

Some years, the choices are easier than others ...

Best Picture of 1943

Cabin In The Sky

★ ✔ Casablanca

Day Of Wrath

Heaven Can Wait

I Walked With A Zombie

The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp

Ossessione

The Ox-Bow Incident

Sahara

Shadow Of A Doubt

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Best Actor of 1943

Don Ameche (Heaven Can Wait)

★ Humphrey Bogart (Casablanca and Sahara)

Joseph Cotten (Shadow Of A Doubt)

Roger Livesey (The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp)

✔ Paul Lukas (Watch on the Rhine)

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Best Actress of 1943

Jean Arthur (The More The Merrier)

★ Ingrid Bergman (Casablanca and For Whom The Bell Tolls)

✔ Jennifer Jones (The Song Of Bernadette)

Ethel Waters (Cabin In The Sky)

Teresa Wright (Shadow Of A Doubt)

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Best Director of 1943

★ ✔ Michael Curtiz (Casablanca)

Alfred Hitchcock (Shadow Of A Doubt)

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp)

Luchino Visconti (Ossessione)

William A. Wellman (The Ox-Bow Incident)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1943

✔ Charles Coburn (The More The Merrier and Heaven Can Wait)

Rex Ingram (Cabin in the Sky and Sahara)

★ Claude Rains (Casablanca)

Anton Walbrook (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)

Dooley Wilson (Casablanca and Stormy Weather)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1943

★ Lena Horne (Cabin In The Sky and Stormy Weather)

Veronica Lake (So Proudly We Hail!)

Deborah Kerr (The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp)

Marjorie Main (Heaven Can Wait)

✔ Katina Paxinou (For Whom The Bell Tolls)

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Special Award

"Pal" (Lassie Come Home) (best gender-bending performance) (dog category)

Jane Russell (The Outlaw) (best gravity-defying bosom)

Red Hot Riding Hood (short subject: cartoon)

Meshes of the Afternoon (short subject: one-reel)

Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch, from the play "Everybody Comes To Rick's" by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison (Casablanca) (adapted screeenplay)

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp) (original screenplay)

"Happiness is a Thing Called Joe" (Cabin in the Sky) music by Harold Arlen; lyrics by E.Y. Harburg (song)

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1942 Alternate Oscars

Alright already (or all right already, depending on your preferences. "Alright" has been in circulation since the end of the American Civil War, but "all right" is still more frequently used. Some people have strong opinions about this, as they seem to have strong opinions about everything. It's a symptom of the age as the United States begins to resemble Northern Ireland in the times of The Troubles. Me, I don't care) ...

Where was I? Oh, yes. The Monty Woolley Question. I have been asked privately many times now — too many times — "Monty Woolley? Is a supporting actor?" With those eyes like "Are you insane?!?" and then after I explain my reasoning, those eyes like you get when the doctor tells you that, yes, you are, in fact, insane. You poor, poor thing ...

So, Monty Woolley is now a lead actor — and you do what you want, but James Cagney be damned, I'm still voting for him! He was great!

Replacing Woolley (and Henry Travers) in the supporting actor category are Paul Henreid and some guy named Ronald Reagan in their best roles. In that category, as much as I like a sweaty Van Heflin in anything, especially Airport, I'm voting for Sig Ruman as "Concentration Camp" Ehrhardt in, with apologies to The Producers, the funniest movie ever made with Nazis in it, To Be Or Not to Be. Very, very hard to get a laugh with Nazis in the picture, especially these days with so many neo-Nazis running around. Neo or not, they're a bunch of genuine jackasses ...

But I digress. If you voted yesterday, you'll be able to vote for actor and supporting actor today. If you didn't vote yesterday, what the hell, man?!.

Have at it.

Best Picture of 1942

Bambi

Cat People

The Magnificent Ambersons

✔ Mrs. Miniver

Now, Voyager

The Palm Beach Story

Random Harvest

★ Sullivan's Travels

To Be Or Not To Be

Yankee Doodle Dandy

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Best Actor of 1942

Jack Benny (To Be Or Not To Be)

★ ✔ James Cagney (Yankee Doodle Dandy)

Alan Ladd (This Gun For Hire and The Glass Key)

Joel McCrea (Sullivan's Travels and The Palm Beach Story)

Monty Woolley (The Man Who Came To Dinner)

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Best Actress of 1942 (Poll Closed)

• Claudette Colbert (The Palm Beach Story)  3.73%  (6 votes)  
   
• ★ Bette Davis (Now, Voyager)  40.99%  (66 votes)  
   
• ✔ Greer Garson (Mrs. Miniver and Random Harvest)  34.16%  (55 votes)  
   
• Veronica Lake (Sullivan's Travels, This Gun For Hire, The Glass Key and I Married A Witch)  9.32%  (15 votes)  
   
• Carole Lombard (To Be Or Not To Be)  11.8%  (19 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 161

 

Best Director of 1942

Ernst Lubitsch (To Be Or Not To Be)

★ Preston Sturges (Sullivan's Travels and The Palm Beach Story)

Jacques Tourneur (Cat People)

Orson Welles (The Magnificent Ambersons)

✔ William Wyler (Mrs. Miniver)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1942

✔ Van Heflin (Johnny Eager)

Paul Henreid (Now, Voyager)

Walter Huston (Yankee Doodle Dandy)

Ronald Reagan (Kings Row)

★ Sig Ruman (To Be Or Not To Be)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1942

Gladys Cooper (Now, Voyager)

Diana Lynn (The Major and the Minor)

★ Agnes Moorehead (The Magnificent Ambersons)

Mary Wickes (The Man Who Came To Dinner)

✔ Teresa Wright (Mrs. Miniver)

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Special Award

"White Christmas" (Holiday Inn) music and lyrics by Irving Berlin (song)

Nicholas Musuraca (Cat People) (cinematography)

Albert S. D'Agostino; Al Fields and Darrell Silvera (The Magnificent Ambersons) (art direction-set decoration)

Preston Sturges (Sullivan's Travels) (original screenplay)

Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour (The Road pictures) (lifetime achievement)

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My choices are noted with a ★. A tie is indicated with a ✪. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. Best foreign-language picture winners are noted with an ƒ. A historical winner who won in a different category is noted with a ✱.