The winners of the Retro Hugo Awards 1945 are:

Best Novel

• “Shadow Over Mars” (The Nemesis from Terra) by Leigh Brackett (Startling Stories, Fall 1944)

Best Novella

• “Killdozer!” by Theodore Sturgeon (Astounding Science Fiction , November 1944)

Best Novelette

• “City” by Clifford D. Simak (Astounding Science Fiction , May 1944)

Best Short Story

• “I, Rocket” by Ray Bradbury (Amazing Stories , May 1944)

Best Series

• The Cthulhu Mythos by H. P. Lovecraft, August Derleth, and others

Best Related Work

• “The Science-Fiction Field” by Leigh Brackett (Writer’s Digest, July 1944)

Best Graphic Story or Comic

• Superman: “The Mysterious Mr. Mxyztplk” by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster (Detective Comics, Inc.)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

[Tie]

• The Canterville Ghost, screenplay by Edwin Harvey Blum from a story by Oscar Wilde, directed by Jules Dassin (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM))
• The Curse of the Cat People, written by DeWitt Bodeen, directed by Gunther V. Fritsch and Robert Wise (RKO Radio Pictures)

Best Editor, Short Form

• John W. Campbell, Jr.

Best Professional Artist

• Margaret Brundage

Best Fanzine

• Voice of the Imagi-Nation , edited by Forrest J Ackerman and Myrtle R. Douglas

Best Fan Writer

• Fritz Leiber