17th Academy Awards
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American Motion Picture Academy film award ceremony
Key facts
- Date
- March 15, 1945
- Site
- Grauman's Chinese Theatre , Hollywood , California
- Hosted by
- John Cromwell , Bob Hope
- Best picture
- Going My Way
- Most awards
- Going My Way (7)
- Most nominations
- Going My Way and Wilson (10)
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Series
- Academy Awards
- Followed by
- 18th Academy Awards
- Follows
- 16th Academy Awards
- Location
- Grauman's Chinese Theatre
- Official website
- www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1945
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- presenter
- John Cromwell
- awarded for period
- 1944-00-00
- point in time
- 1945-03-15
- edition number
- 17
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Encyclopedic overview
The 17th Academy Awards were held on March 15, 1945, at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, honoring the films of 1944. This was the first time the complete awards ceremony was broadcast nationally, on the Blue Network (later ABC Radio). Bob Hope hosted the 70-minute broadcast, which included film clips that required explanation for the radio audience.
Darryl F. Zanuck and 20th Century-Fox spent a fortune promoting Wilson out of determination to have it win the Best Picture Oscar, but it lost to Going My Way, which made Zanuck bitter.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “17th Academy Awards” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.