ACADEMY AWARDS MADE AT HOLLYWOOD

Chronicle (Levin), 11 March 1946, Page 8

ACADEMY AWARDS MADE AT HOLLYWOOD

YEAR'S BEST PERFORMANCES. 1NEW YORK, March 8. In a setting of splendour comparahle to its own extravaganzas, Hollyv/ood's ^creen heroes and heroines gathered at 3-rauman's Chinese Theatre to attend ffie ceremony of the awarding of the itatuettes of the Academy of Motion fficture Arts and Sciences for the best performances of 1945. Thousands of film fans packed the Hollywocd Boulevard and greeted the stars, the "bobbysockers" reserving cheix snrillest screaras for Frank Sinatra. The awards were: The best picture of the year, Paramount's "The Lost Week-End"; the^best actor, Ray Milland, who portrayed the drunkard in the film; the best director, Billy Wilder, for "The Lost Week-End"; the besfc written screen-play, Billy Wilder and Charles Bracket for "The Lost Week End"; thp best feminine performance, -Joan Crawford in "Mildred Pierce." Other awards" were: Best supporting roles, James Dunn in "A Tree Grows m Brooklyn", and Anne Revere in "National Velvet"; most distinctive achievement, the documentary production, "The True Glory", made hy the Governments of Britain and America; original motion-picture story, ' ' The House on Ninety-Second Street," hy Charles Booth. Best "short suh jects, ' ' Hitler Lives, ' ' oy Warner Brothers; original song, "It Might as Well be Spring" (Richard Rodgers, music; Oscar Hammerstein II, lyrics) ; photography, black and wkite, "The Picture of Dorian Grey"; photography, colour, "Leave Her to Heaven ' ' ; music score, ' ' Spellbound. ' '