Academy Awards

annual awards for cinematic achievements

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1944 edition

• Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Two-reel

  🏆 Jerry Bresler

  🏆 Sam Coslow

  For the film: Heavenly Music

  Also nominated: Frederic Ullman junior · Gordon Hollingshead · Letter to a Hero · Mardi Gras · Walter MacEwen · Women at War

• Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

  🏆 Fred Quimby

  For the film: The Yankee Doodle Mouse

  Also nominated: Dave Fleischer · George Pal · Imagination · Greetings Bait · Leon Schlesinger · Reason and Emotion · The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins · The Dizzy Acrobat · Walt Disney · Walter Lantz

• Academy Award for Best Director

  🏆 Michael Curtiz

  For the film: Casablanca

  Also nominated: The Song of Bernadette · The Human Comedy · Clarence Brown · Ernst Lubitsch · George Stevens · Henry King · Heaven Can Wait · The More the Merrier

• Academy Award for Best Film Editing

  🏆 George Amy

  For the film: Air Force

  Also nominated: The Song of Bernadette · Barbara McLean · Casablanca · Doane Harrison · Five Graves to Cairo · John F. Link · Owen Marks · For Whom the Bell Tolls · Sherman Todd

• Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score

  🏆 Ray Heindorf

  For the film: This Is the Army

  Also nominated: Alfred Newman · Charles Wolcott · Coney Island · Edward H. Plumb · Edward Ward · Fred Rich · Herbert Stothart · Hit Parade of 1943 · Leigh Harline · Morris Stoloff · Paul Smith · Robert E. Dolan · Saludos Amigos · Something to Shout About · Stage Door Canteen · Star Spangled Rhythm · Phantom of the Opera · The Sky's the Limit · Thousands Cheer · Walter Scharf

• Academy Award for Best Sound

  🏆 Stephen Dunn

  For the film: This Land Is Mine

  Also nominated: The Song of Bernadette · The North Star · Bernard B. Brown · Daniel J. Bloomberg · Douglas Shearer · Edmund H. Hansen · This Is the Army · In Old Oklahoma · Jack Whitney · James L. Fields · John P. Livadary · Loren L. Ryder · Madame Curie · Nathan Levinson · Hangmen Also Die! · Riding High · Sahara · Saludos Amigos · Sam Slyfield · So This Is Washington · Phantom of the Opera · Thomas T. Moulton

• Academy Award for Best Story

  🏆 William Saroyan

  For the film: The Human Comedy

  Also nominated: Action in the North Atlantic · Destination Tokyo · Frank Ross · Gordon McDonell · Guy Gilpatric · Robert W. Russell · Shadow of a Doubt · Steve Fisher · The More the Merrier

• Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

  🏆 Charles Coburn

  For the film: The More the Merrier

  Also nominated: The Song of Bernadette · Akim Tamiroff · Casablanca · Charles Bickford · Claude Rains · J. Carrol Naish · For Whom the Bell Tolls · Sahara

• Academy Award for Technical Achievement

  🏆 Daniel J. Bloomberg

  🏆 Farciot Edouart

• Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)

  🏆 December 7th

  Also nominated: Children of Mars · Corpo de Fuzileiros Navais dos Estados Unidos · Plan for Destruction · Swedes in America · The Dutch Tradition · Tomorrow We Fly · To the People of the United States · Youth in Crisis

• Academy Award for Best Picture

  🏆 Casablanca

  Also nominated: The Song of Bernadette · The Human Comedy · The Ox-Bow Incident · In Which We Serve · Madame Curie · Heaven Can Wait · For Whom the Bell Tolls · The More the Merrier · Watch on the Rhine

• Academy Scientific and Technical Award

  🏆 Willard H. Turner

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