1945 Academy Awards – Directing Winner
![Going My Way Leo McCarey](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/going-my-way-leo-mccarey-image.jpg)
Going My Way
Leo McCarey
Father Charles O’Malley, a young priest at a financially failing Church in a tough neighborhood, gains support and inspires his superior.
1945 Academy Awards – Directing Nominees
![Double Indemnity Billy Wilder](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/double-indemnity-billy-wilder-image.jpg)
Double Indemnity
Billy Wilder
![Laura Otto Preminger](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/laura-otto-preminger-image.jpg)
Laura
Otto Preminger
![Lifeboat Alfred Hitchcock](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/lifeboat-image.jpg)
Lifeboat
Alfred Hitchcock
![Wilson Henry King](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/wilson-henry-king-image.jpg)