The complete list of nominees is never released; and the finalists have only been announced since 1995. The winner of the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for Drama was Mary Chase for her odd comedy, Harvey, the story of a delusional man who talks to a 6-foot, 3-and-a-half in tall "Pooka," which apparently resembles a two-legged rabbit.
Aaron Copland won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1945 for his ballet score "Appalachian Spring."
Joe Rosenthal took the Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of the flag raising on Iwo Jima during World War II. The iconic image was captured on February 23, 1945.
Joe Rosenthal, an Associated Press photographer, won a Pulitzer Prize for Photography in 1945 for his image of the Marines planting the American flag on Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima.You can see a reproduction of this photograph via Related Links, below.
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Karl Shapiro was an American poet and essayist. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1945 and served as the fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946.
Wolfgang Pauli won The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1945.
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Brenner Prize was created in 1945.
Holweck Prize was created in 1945.
Artturi Ilmari Virtanen won The Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1945.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1945 was awarded to Cordell Hull.
The Billy Wilder drama was nominated for seven 1945 Academy Awards and won four: Best Picture, Best Director (Wilder), Best Actor (Ray Milland) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Wilder, Charles Brackett).