1945 in film

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The year 1945 in film involved some significant events.

Events

• Paramount Studios releases theatrical short cartoon titled The Friendly Ghost, featuring ghost named Casper.
• With Rossellini's Roma Città aperta, Italian neorealist cinema begins.
• October 5 - A strike between the set decorators' union and the studios boils over and became what is now considered Hollywood Black Friday.
• December 28 - Spellbound is released.
• Son of Lassie, the 2nd Lassie film, becomes the first movie ever to be filmed using the Technicolor Monobook method, where a single magazine of film was used to record all of the primary colors. Prior to this method, the most popular recording method was 3-Strip Technicolor, which simultaneously used 3 individual film magazines to record the primary colors.

Top grossing films

North America

1. The Bells of St. Mary's
2. Mom and Dad
3. Leave Her to Heaven
4. The Lost Weekend
5. State Fair (musical remake of 1933 film)
6. The Dolly Sisters
7. The Valley of Decision
8. A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
9. Spellbound
10. Anchors Aweigh
11. Thrill of a Romance
12. Dillinger
13. Mildred Pierce
14. The Clock

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: The Lost Weekend - Paramount

Best Director: Billy Wilder - The Lost Weekend

Best Actor: Ray Milland - The Lost Weekend

Best Actress: Joan Crawford - Mildred Pierce

Best Supporting Actor: James Dunn - A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

Best Supporting Actress: Anne Revere - National Velvet

Golden Globe Awards:

Best Picture: The Lost Weekend

Best Director: Billy Wilder - The Lost Weekend

Best Actor: Ray Milland - The Lost Weekend

Best Actress: Ingrid Bergman - The Bells of St. Mary's

Best Film for Promoting International Good Will: The House I Live In (short film)

Films released in 1945

• Abbott and Costello in Hollywood, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• Along Came Jones, starring Gary Cooper and Loretta Young
• Anchors Aweigh
• Back to Bataan, directed by Edward Dmytryk, with John Wayne
• The Bells of St. Mary's
• Blithe Spirit, directed by David Lean and based on the play by Noel Coward
• Brief Encounter, starring Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard, and directed by David Lean
• Caesar and Cleopatra
• Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis), by Marcel Carné and Jacques Prévert, released following the liberation of France
• The Clock
• Dead of Night, Ealing Studios chiller compendium
• Detour
• Dillinger
• The Dolly Sisters - nominated for Oscar
• Guest Wife
• Here Come The Co-Eds, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• The House I Live In (short film)
• House of Dracula
• The House on 92nd Street, produced by Louis de Rochemont
• Leave Her to Heaven
• The Lost Weekend
• Mildred Pierce
• Mom and Dad
• The Naughty Nineties, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• Rome, Open City -(Roma Città aperta) by Rossellini
• Saratoga Trunk
• Sherlock Holmes and the House of Fear
• Son of Lassie
• The Spanish Main
• Spellbound
• State Fair
• ''The Three Caballeros
• Thrill of a Romance, directed by Richard Thorpe
• A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
• The Valley of Decision
• The Way to the Stars, starring John Mills and Michael Redgrave, written by Terence Rattigan
• The Wicked Lady, with Margaret Lockwood and James Mason

Serials

• Brenda Starr, Reporter, starring Joan Woodbury
• Federal Operator 99, starring Marten Lamont
• Jungle Queen, starring Edward Norris and Eddie Quillan
• Jungle Raiders
• Manhunt on Mystery Island, starring Richard Bailey and Linda Stirling
• The Master Key, starring Dennis Moore
• The Monster and The Ape, starring Robert Lowery
• The Purple Monster Strikes, starring Dennis Moore and Linda Stirling
• The Royal Mounted Rides Again
• Secret Agent X-9, starring Lloyd Bridges
• Who's Guilty?

Short film series

• Mickey Mouse (1928-1953)
• Looney Tunes (1930-1969)
• Terrytoons (1930-1964)
• Merrie Melodies (1931-1969)
• Scrappy (1931-1941)
• Popeye (1933-1957)
• Color Rhapsodies (1934-1949)
• Donald Duck (1937-1956)
• Goofy (1939-1955)
• Andy Panda (1939-1949)
• Tom and Jerry (MGM) (1940-1958)
• Bugs Bunny (1940-1962)
• Woody Woodpecker (1941-1949)
• Swing Symphonies (1941-1945)
• The Fox and the Crow (1941-1950)
• Red Hot Riding Hood (1943-1949)
• Droopy (1943-1958)
• Screwball Squirrel (1944-1946)
• Yosemite Sam (1945-1963)

Births

• May 21 - Richard Hatch, actor
• May 31 - Rainer Werner Fassbinder, director
• August 14 - Steve Martin, actor and comedian
• August 14 - Wim Wenders, director
• September 21 - Jerry Bruckheimer producer

Deaths

• July 13 - Alla Nazimova, Ukrainian-born stage and film actress

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