The 16th Academy Awards (1944)

Best Picture

Announced as Outstanding Motion Picture

Casablanca
Warner Bros.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Paramount
Heaven Can Wait
20th Century-Fox
In Which We Serve
Two Cities
Madame Curie
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
The Human Comedy
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
The More the Merrier
Columbia
The Ox-Bow Incident
20th Century-Fox
The Song of Bernadette
20th Century-Fox
Watch on the Rhine
Warner Bros.

Best Actor

Announced as Actor

Paul Lukas · Kurt Muller
Watch on the Rhine
Humphrey Bogart · Rick Blane
Casablanca
Gary Cooper · Robert Jordan
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Walter Pidgeon · Pierre Curie
Madame Curie
Mickey Rooney · Homer Macauley
The Human Comedy

Best Actress

Announced as Actress

Jennifer Jones · Bernadette Soubirous
The Song of Bernadette
Ingrid Bergman · Maria
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Greer Garson · Madame Marie Curie
Madame Curie
Joan Fontaine · Teresa 'Tessa' Sanger
The Constant Nymph
Jean Arthur · Connie Milligan
The More the Merrier

Best Supporting Actor

Charles Coburn · Benjamin Dingle
The More the Merrier
Claude Rains · Captain Louis Renault
Casablanca
Akim Tamiroff · Pablo
For Whom the Bell Tolls
J. Carrol Naish · Giuseppe
Sahara
Charles Bickford · Dean Peyramale
The Song of Bernadette

Best Supporting Actress

Katina Paxinou · Pilar
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Paulette Goddard · Lieutenant Joan O'Doul
So Proudly We Hail!
Gladys Cooper · Sister Vauzous
The Song of Bernadette
Anne Revere · Louise Soubirous
The Song of Bernadette
Lucile Watson · Fanny Farrelly
Watch on the Rhine

Best Original Story

Announced as Writing (Original Motion Picture Story)

NOTE: THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL NOMINATION. Title was on a preliminary list of 8 films announced as nominations from which the Documentary Award Committee subsequently selected 5 titles for inclusion on the final ballot.

Desert Victory
British Ministry of Information
Army Chaplain
United States Army Pictorial Service
Baptism of Fire
United States Army
Report from the Aleutians
United States Army Pictorial Service
The Battle of Russia
United States Department of War Special Service Division
The Silent Village
British Ministry of Information
War Department Report
United States Office of Strategic Services Field Photographic Bureau
We've Come a Long, Long Way
Negro Marches On, Inc.

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

The Song of Bernadette
Arthur Miller
Arthur C. Miller
Air Force
James Wong Howe, Elmer Dyer, Charles Marshall
Charles A. Marshall
Casablanca
Arthur Edeson
Corvette K-225
Tony Gaudio
Five Graves to Cairo
John Seitz
John F. Seitz
Madame Curie
Joseph Ruttenberg
Sahara
Rudolph Maté
So Proudly We Hail!
Charles Lang
The Human Comedy
Harry Stradling
Harry Stradling Sr.
The North Star
James Wong Howe

Best Cinematography (Color)

Phantom of the Opera
Hal Mohr, W. Howard Greene
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ray Rennahan
Heaven Can Wait
Edward Cronjager
Hello Frisco, Hello
Charles G. Clarke, Allen Davey
Allen M. Davey
Lassie Come Home
Leonard Smith
Thousands Cheer
George Folsey
George J. Folsey

Best Film Editing

Best Production Design (Black-and-White)

The Song of Bernadette
Art Direction: James Basevi, William Darling; Interior Decoration: Thomas Little
William S. Darling
Five Graves to Cairo
Art Direction: Hans Dreier, Ernst Fegte; Interior Decoration: Bertram Granger
Ernst Fegté Bertram C. Granger
Flight for Freedom
Art Direction: Albert S. D'Agostino, Carroll Clark; Interior Decoration: Darrell Silvera, Harley Miller
Madame Curie
Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse; Interior Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt
Mission to Moscow
Art Direction: Carl Weyl; Interior Decoration: George J. Hopkins
Carl Jules Weyl George James Hopkins
The North Star
Art Direction: Perry Ferguson; Interior Decoration: Howard Bristol

Best Production Design (Color)

Phantom of the Opera
Art Direction: John B. Goodman, Alexander Golitzen; Interior Decoration: Russell A. Gausman, Ira S. Webb
Ira Webb
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Art Direction: Hans Dreier, Haldane Douglas; Interior Decoration: Bertram Granger
Bertram C. Granger
The Gang's All Here
Art Direction: James Basevi, Joseph C. Wright; Interior Decoration: Thomas Little
This Is the Army
Art Direction: John Hughes, Lt. John Koenig; Interior Decoration: George J. Hopkins
George James Hopkins
Thousands Cheer
Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Daniel Cathcart; Interior Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Jacques Mersereau
Daniel B. Cathcart

Best Original Score

Announced as Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)

Best Song Score or Adaptation Score

Announced as Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture)

Best Original Song

Announced as Music (Song)

Hello Frisco, Hello · You'll Never Know
Music by Harry Warren; Lyrics by Mack Gordon
Cabin in the Sky · Happiness Is A Thing Called Joe
Music by Harold Arlen; Lyrics by E. Y. Harburg
E.Y. Harburg
Hers to Hold · Say A Pray'r For The Boys Over There
Music by Jimmy McHugh; Lyrics by Herb Magidson
Hit Parade of 1943 · A Change Of Heart
Music by Jule Styne; Lyrics by Harold Adamson
Saludos Amigos · Saludos Amigos
Music by Charles Wolcott; Lyrics by Ned Washington
Something to Shout About · You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Stage Door Canteen · We Mustn't Say Goodbye
Music by James Monaco; Lyrics by Al Dubin
James V. Monaco
Star Spangled Rhythm · That Old Black Magic
Music by Harold Arlen; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
NOTE: This song was nominated under the title \"Black Magic,\" as it was submitted by Paramount's Music Department. Academy records have been changed to show the more common form of the title.
Thank Your Lucky Stars · They're Either Too Young Or Too Old
Music by Arthur Schwartz; Lyrics by Frank Loesser
The Sky's the Limit · My Shining Hour
Music by Harold Arlen; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer

Best Sound

This Land Is Mine
RKO Radio Studio Sound Department, Stephen Dunn, Sound Director
Hangmen Also Die!
Sound Service, Inc., Jack Whitney, Sound Director
In Old Oklahoma
Republic Studio Sound Department, Daniel J. Bloomberg, Sound Director
Madame Curie
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Douglas Shearer, Sound Director
Phantom of the Opera
Universal Studio Sound Department, Bernard B. Brown, Sound Director
Riding High
Paramount Studio Sound Department, Loren L. Ryder, Sound Director
Sahara
Columbia Studio Sound Department, John Livadary, Sound Director
John P. Livadary
Saludos Amigos
Walt Disney Studio Sound Department, C. O. Slyfield, Sound Director
C.O. Slyfield
So This Is Washington
RCA Sound, J. L. Fields, Sound Director
James L. Fields
The North Star
Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Thomas T. Moulton, Sound Director
The Song of Bernadette
20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, E. H. Hansen, Sound Director
Edmund H. Hansen
This Is the Army
Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, Nathan Levinson, Sound Director

Best Visual Effects

Announced as Special Effects

Crash Dive
Photographic Effects by Fred Sersen; Sound Effects by Roger Heman
Roger Heman Sr.
Air Force
Photographic Effects by Hans Koenekamp, Rex Wimpy; Sound Effects by Nathan Levinson
Hans F. Koenekamp
Bombardier
Photographic Effects by Vernon L. Walker; Sound Effects by James G. Stewart, Roy Granville
So Proudly We Hail!
Photographic Effects by Gordon Jennings, Farciot Edouart; Sound Effects by George Dutton
Stand by for Action
Photographic Effects by A. Arnold Gillespie, Donald Jahraus; Sound Effects by Michael Steinore
The North Star
Photographic Effects by Clarence Slifer, R. O. Binger; Sound Effects by Thomas T. Moulton
Ray Binger

Best Documentary Short

NOTE: THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL NOMINATION. Title was on a preliminary list of 21 films announced as nominations from which the Documentary Award Committee subsequently selected 7 titles for inclusion on the final ballot. This film did not appear on the final ballot.

December 7th
United States Navy
Children of Mars
RKO Radio
Day of Battle
United States Office of War Information Domestic Motion Picture Bureau
Kill or Be Killed
British Ministry of Information
Land of My Mother
Polish Information Centre
Letter from Livingston
United States Army 4th Signal Photographic Unit
Life Line
United States Army Pictorial Service
Plan for Destruction
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Servant of a Nation
Union of South Africa
Swedes in America
United States Office of War Information Overseas Motion Picture Bureau
Task Force
United States Coast Guard
The Bismarck Convoy Smashed
Australian Department of Information Film Unit
The Dutch Tradition
National Film Board of Canada
The Labor Front
National Film Board of Canada
The March of Time, Vol. 10, No. 3: Youth in Crisis
The March of Time
The Rear Gunner
United States Department of War
The Voice That Thrilled the World
Warner Bros.
To the People of the United States
Walter Wanger, Producer
Tomorrow We Fly
United States Navy Bureau of Aeronautics
Water: Friend or Enemy
Walt Disney, Producer
Wings Up
United States Army Air Force 1st Motion Picture Unit