The Oscars Academy Awards: 1944

The Academy Awards:
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

1944 (17th)

Charles Boyer -- Gaslight {"Gregory Anton"}

*	Bing Crosby -- Going My Way {"Father O'Malley"}

Barry Fitzgerald -- Going My Way {"Father Fitzgibbon"}

Cary Grant -- None but the Lonely Heart {"Ernie Mott"}

Alexander Knox -- Wilson {"Woodrow Wilson"}

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Hume Cronyn -- The Seventh Cross {"Paul Roeder"}

*	Barry Fitzgerald -- Going My Way {"Father Fitzgibbon"}

Claude Rains -- Mr. Skeffington {"Job Skeffington"}

Clifton Webb -- Laura {"Waldo Lydecker"}

Monty Woolley -- Since You Went Away {"Colonel Smollett"}

ACTRESS

*	Ingrid Bergman -- Gaslight {"Paula Alquist"}

Claudette Colbert -- Since You Went Away {"Anne Hilton"}

Bette Davis -- Mr. Skeffington {"Fanny Trellis Skeffington"}

Greer Garson -- Mrs. Parkington {"Susie Parkington"}

Barbara Stanwyck -- Double Indemnity {"Phyllis Dietrichson"}

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

*	Ethel Barrymore -- None but the Lonely Heart {"Ma Mott"}

Jennifer Jones -- Since You Went Away {"Jane Hilton"}

Angela Lansbury -- Gaslight {"Nancy Oliver"}

Aline MacMahon -- Dragon Seed {"Ling's Wife"}

Agnes Moorehead -- Mrs. Parkington {"Aspacia Conti"}

ART DIRECTION (Black-and-White)

Address Unknown -- Art Direction: Lionel Banks, Walter Holscher; Interior Decoration: Joseph Kish

The Adventures of Mark Twain -- Art Direction: John J. Hughes; Interior Decoration: Fred MacLean

Casanova Brown -- Art Direction: Perry Ferguson; Interior Decoration: Julia Heron

*	Gaslight -- Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, William Ferrari; Interior Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Paul Huldschinsky

Laura -- Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller; Interior Decoration: Thomas Little

No Time for Love -- Art Direction: Hans Dreier, Robert Usher; Interior Decoration: Sam Comer

Since You Went Away -- Art Direction: Mark-Lee Kirk; Interior Decoration: Victor A. Gangelin

Song of the Open Road

[NOTE: THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL NOMINATION. Nomination withdrawn by production company.]

Step Lively -- Art Direction: Albert S. D'Agostino, Carroll Clark; Interior Decoration: Darrell Silvera, Claude Carpenter

ART DIRECTION (Color)

The Climax -- Art Direction: John B. Goodman, Alexander Golitzen; Interior Decoration: Russell A. Gausman, Ira S. Webb

Cover Girl -- Art Direction: Lionel Banks, Cary Odell; Interior Decoration: Fay Babcock

The Desert Song -- Art Direction: Charles Novi; Interior Decoration: Jack McConaghy

Kismet -- Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Daniel B. Cathcart; Interior Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Richard Pefferle

Lady in the Dark -- Art Direction: Hans Dreier, Raoul Pene du Bois; Interior Decoration: Ray Moyer

The Princess and the Pirate -- Art Direction: Ernst Fegte; Interior Decoration: Howard Bristol

*	Wilson -- Art Direction: Wiard Ihnen; Interior Decoration: Thomas Little

CINEMATOGRAPHY (Black-and-White)

Double Indemnity -- John Seitz

Dragon Seed -- Sidney Wagner

Gaslight -- Joseph Ruttenberg

Going My Way -- Lionel Lindon

*	Laura -- Joseph LaShelle

Lifeboat -- Glen MacWilliams

Since You Went Away -- Stanley Cortez, Lee Garmes

Thirty Seconds over Tokyo -- Robert Surtees, Harold Rosson

The Uninvited -- Charles Lang

The White Cliffs of Dover -- George Folsey

CINEMATOGRAPHY (Color)

Cover Girl -- Rudolph Maté, Allen M. Davey

Home in Indiana -- Edward Cronjager

Kismet -- Charles Rosher

Lady in the Dark -- Ray Rennahan

Meet Me in St. Louis -- George Folsey

*	Wilson -- Leon Shamroy

DIRECTING

Double Indemnity -- Billy Wilder

*	Going My Way -- Leo McCarey

Laura -- Otto Preminger

Lifeboat -- Alfred Hitchcock

Wilson -- Henry King

DOCUMENTARY (Feature)

*	The Fighting Lady -- United States Navy

Resisting Enemy Interrogation -- United States Army Air Force

DOCUMENTARY (Short Subject)

Arturo Toscanini -- United States Office of War Information Overseas Motion Picture Bureau

New Americans -- RKO Radio

*	With the Marines at Tarawa -- United States Marine Corps

FILM EDITING

Going My Way -- Leroy Stone

Janie -- Owen Marks

None but the Lonely Heart -- Roland Gross

Since You Went Away -- Hal C. Kern, James E. Newcom

*	Wilson -- Barbara McLean

MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)

Address Unknown -- Morris Stoloff, Ernst Toch

The Adventures of Mark Twain -- Max Steiner

The Bridge of San Luis Rey -- Dimitri Tiomkin

Casanova Brown -- Arthur Lange

Christmas Holiday -- H. J. Salter

Double Indemnity -- Miklos Rozsa

The Fighting Seabees -- Walter Scharf, Roy Webb

The Hairy Ape -- Edward Paul, Michel Michelet

It Happened Tomorrow -- Robert Stolz

Jack London -- Frederic Efrem Rich

Kismet -- Herbert Stothart

None but the Lonely Heart -- Hanns Eisler, C. Bakaleinikoff

The Princess and the Pirate -- David Rose

*	Since You Went Away -- Max Steiner

Summer Storm -- Karl Hajos

Three Russian Girls -- Franke Harling

Up in Mabel's Room -- Edward Paul

Voice in the Wind -- Michel Michelet

Wilson -- Alfred Newman

Woman of the Town -- Miklos Rozsa

MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture)

Brazil -- Walter Scharf

*	Cover Girl -- Morris Stoloff, Carmen Dragon

Higher and Higher -- C. Bakaleinikoff

Hollywood Canteen -- Ray Heindorf

Irish Eyes Are Smiling -- Alfred Newman

Knickerbocker Holiday -- Werner R. Heymann, Kurt Weill

Lady in the Dark -- Robert Emmett Dolan

Lady, Let's Dance -- Edward Kay

Meet Me in St. Louis -- Georgie Stoll

The Merry Monahans -- H. J. Salter

Minstrel Man -- Ferde Grofe, Leo Erdody

Sensations of 1945 -- Mahlon Merrick

Song of the Open Road -- Charles Previn

Up in Arms -- Ray Heindorf, Louis Forbes

MUSIC (Song)

"I Couldn't Sleep A Wink Last Night" from Higher and Higher -- Music by Jimmy McHugh; Lyrics by Harold Adamson

"I'll Walk Alone" from Follow the Boys -- Music by Jule Styne; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn

"I'm Making Believe" from Sweet and Lowdown -- Music by James V. Monaco; Lyrics by Mack Gordon

"Long Ago And Far Away" from Cover Girl -- Music by Jerome Kern; Lyrics by Ira Gershwin

"Now I Know" from Up in Arms -- Music by Harold Arlen; Lyrics by Ted Koehler

"Remember Me To Carolina" from Minstrel Man -- Music by Harry Revel; Lyrics by Paul Webster

"Rio De Janeiro" from Brazil -- Music by Ary Barroso; Lyrics by Ned Washington

"Silver Shadows And Golden Dreams" from Lady, Let's Dance -- Music by Lew Pollack; Lyrics by Charles Newman

"Sweet Dreams Sweetheart" from Hollywood Canteen -- Music by M. K. Jerome; Lyrics by Ted Koehler

*	"Swinging On A Star" from Going My Way -- Music by James Van Heusen; Lyrics by Johnny Burke

"Too Much In Love" from Song of the Open Road -- Music by Walter Kent; Lyrics by Kim Gannon

"The Trolley Song" from Meet Me in St. Louis -- Music and Lyrics by Ralph Blane and Hugh Martin

BEST MOTION PICTURE

Double Indemnity -- Paramount

Gaslight -- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

*	Going My Way -- Paramount

Since You Went Away -- Selznick International Pictures

Wilson -- 20th Century-Fox

SHORT SUBJECT (Cartoon)

And to Think I Saw It on Mulberry Street -- George Pal, Producer

Dog, Cat and Canary -- Screen Gems

Fish Fry -- Walter Lantz, Producer

How to Play Football -- Walt Disney, Producer

*	Mouse Trouble -- Frederick C. Quimby, Producer

My Boy Johnny -- Paul Terry, Producer

Swooner Crooner -- Warner Bros.

SHORT SUBJECT (One-reel)

Blue Grass Gentlemen -- Edmund Reek, Producer

Jammin' the Blues -- Gordon Hollingshead, Producer

Movie Pests -- Pete Smith, Producer

Screen Snapshots' 50th Anniversary of Motion Pictures -- Ralph Staub, Producer

*	Who's Who in Animal Land -- Jerry Fairbanks, Producer

SHORT SUBJECT (Two-reel)

Bombalera -- Louis Harris, Producer

*	I Won't Play -- Gordon Hollingshead, Producer

Main Street Today -- Jerry Bresler, Producer; Herbert Moulton, Associate Producer

SOUND RECORDING

Brazil -- Republic Studio Sound Department, Daniel J. Bloomberg, Sound Director

Casanova Brown -- Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Thomas T. Moulton, Sound Director

Cover Girl -- Columbia Studio Sound Department, John Livadary, Sound Director

Double Indemnity -- Paramount Studio Sound Department, Loren L. Ryder, Sound Director

His Butler's Sister -- Universal Studio Sound Department, Bernard B. Brown, Sound Director

Hollywood Canteen -- Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, Nathan Levinson, Sound Director

It Happened Tomorrow -- Sound Service, Inc., Jack Whitney, Sound Director

Kismet -- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Douglas Shearer, Sound Director

Music in Manhattan -- RKO Radio Studio Sound Department, Stephen Dunn, Sound Director

Voice in the Wind -- RCA Sound, W. M. Dalgleish, Sound Director

*	Wilson -- 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, E. H. Hansen, Sound Director

SPECIAL EFFECTS

The Adventures of Mark Twain -- Photographic Effects by Paul Detlefsen, John Crouse; Sound Effects by Nathan Levinson

Days of Glory -- Photographic Effects by Vernon L. Walker; Sound Effects by James G. Stewart, Roy Granville

Secret Command -- Photographic Effects by David Allen, Ray Cory, Robert Wright; Sound Effects by Russell Malmgren, Harry Kusnick

Since You Went Away -- Photographic Effects by John R. Cosgrove; Sound Effects by Arthur Johns

The Story of Dr. Wassell -- Photographic Effects by Gordon Jennings, Farciot Edouart; Sound Effects by George Dutton

*	Thirty Seconds over Tokyo -- Photographic Effects by A. Arnold Gillespie, Donald Jahraus, Warren Newcombe; Sound Effects by Douglas Shearer

Wilson -- Photographic Effects by Fred Sersen; Sound Effects by Roger Heman

WRITING (Original Motion Picture Story)

*	Going My Way -- Leo McCarey

A Guy Named Joe -- Chandler Sprague, David Boehm

Lifeboat -- John Steinbeck

None Shall Escape -- Alfred Neumann, Joseph Than

The Sullivans -- Edward Doherty, Jules Schermer

WRITING (Original Screenplay)

Hail the Conquering Hero -- Preston Sturges

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek -- Preston Sturges

Two Girls and a Sailor -- Richard Connell, Gladys Lehman

*	Wilson -- Lamar Trotti

Wing and a Prayer -- Jerome Cady

WRITING (Screenplay)

Double Indemnity -- Billy Wilder, Raymond Chandler

Gaslight -- John Van Druten, Walter Reisch, John L. Balderston

*	Going My Way -- Frank Butler, Frank Cavett

Laura -- Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, Betty Reinhardt

Meet Me in St. Louis -- Irving Brecher, Fred F. Finklehoffe

SPECIAL AWARD

*	To Margaret O'Brien, outstanding child actress of 1944.

*	To Bob Hope for his many services to the Academy.

IRVING G. THALBERG MEMORIAL AWARD

*	Darryl F. Zanuck

SCIENTIFIC OR TECHNICAL AWARD (Class II)

*	To STEPHEN DUNN and the RKO RADIO STUDIO SOUND DEPARTMENT and RADIO CORPORATION OF AMERICA for the design and development of the electronic compressor-limiter. [Sound]

SCIENTIFIC OR TECHNICAL AWARD (Class III)

*	To LINWOOD DUNN, CECIL LOVE and ACME TOOL AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY for the design and construction of the Acme-Dunn Optical Printer. [Laboratory]

*	To GROVER LAUBE and the 20TH CENTURY-FOX STUDIO CAMERA DEPARTMENT for the development of a continuous loop projection device. [Sound]

*	To WESTERN ELECTRIC COMPANY for the design and construction of the 1126A Limiting Amplifier for variable density sound recording. [Sound]

*	To RUSSELL BROWN, RAY HINSDALE and JOSEPH E. ROBBINS for the development and production use of the Paramount floating hydraulic boat rocker. [Stage Operations]

*	To GORDON JENNINGS for the design and construction of the Paramount nodal point tripod. [Photography]

*	To RADIO CORPORATION OF AMERICA and the RKO RADIO STUDIO SOUND DEPARTMENT for the design and construction of the RKO reverberation chamber. [Sound]

*	To DANIEL J. BLOOMBERG and the REPUBLIC STUDIO SOUND DEPARTMENT for the design and development of a multi-interlock selector switch. [Stage Operations]

*	To BERNARD B. BROWN and JOHN P. LIVADARY for the design and engineering of a separate soloist and chorus recording room. [Sound]

*	To PAUL ZEFF, S. J. TWINING and GEORGE SEID of the Columbia Studio Laboratory for the formula and application to production of a simplified variable area sound negative developer. [Laboratory]

*	To PAUL LERPAE for the design and construction of the Paramount traveling matte projection and photographing device. [Special Photographic]