The Academy's rule that every studio or production company could submit a song for automatic nomination reached its apex in 1945 with 14 songs vying for the top award. It could be argued that one of the songs should not have been nominated because it never appeared in the film. But, the competition for the 1945 Best Song Academy Award was tight, with Bing Crosby originating two of the songs and some of the industry's most successful songwriters contributing some of their best work that year.