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"1945! Winner: David Lean! Nominees: Clarence Brown - National Velvet Alfred Hitchcock - Spellbound Leo McCarey - The Bells of St. Mary's Billy Wilder - The Lost Weekend"
"1945! Winner: Brief Encounter! Nominees: Anchors Aweigh The Lost Weekend Mildred Pierce Spellbound"
"Best Picture! Winner: Brief Encounter! Nominees: Anchors Aweigh The Lost Weekend Mildred Pierce Spellbound"
"David Lean's unassailable masterpiece of stiff-upper-lip thwarted romance did pick up nods for Lean himself as director and lead actress Celia Johnson, as well as one for screenplay. And even in retrospect it feels like that year ("Brief Encounter" actually competed at the 1947 Oscars) the Best Picture statue would inevitably have gone to "The Best Years of Our Lives" โ a film that dealt directly with the aftermath of the war that just ended. But despite an otherwise strong field too (no one w"