16th Annual Academy Awards Nominations (1944)

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• Date of Ceremony: Thursday, March 2, 1944
• For films released in: 1943

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Here is a complete list of nominations for the 16th Annual Academy Awards.

And the nominees are:

Outstanding Motion Picture

• Casablanca
  Warner Bros.
• For Whom the Bell Tolls
  Paramount
• Heaven Can Wait
  20th Century-Fox
• The Human Comedy
  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• In Which We Serve
  Two Cities
• Madame Curie
  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 Directing

• Casablanca
  Michael Curtiz
• Heaven Can Wait
  Ernst Lubitsch
• The Human Comedy
  Clarence Brown
• The More the Merrier
  George Stevens
• The Song of Bernadette
  Henry King

Best Actor

• Casablanca
  Humphrey Bogart
• For Whom the Bell Tolls
  Gary Cooper
• The Human Comedy
  Mickey Rooney
• Madame Curie
  Walter Pidgeon
• Watch on the Rhine
  Paul Lukas

Best Actress

• The Constant Nymph
  Joan Fontaine
• For Whom the Bell Tolls
  Ingrid Bergman
• Madame Curie
  Greer Garson
• The More the Merrier
  Jean Arthur
• The Song of Bernadette
  Jennifer Jones

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Casablanca
  Claude Rains
• For Whom the Bell Tolls
  Akim Tamiroff
• The More the Merrier
  Charles Coburn
• Sahara
  J. Carrol Naish
• The Song of Bernadette
  Charles Bickford

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• For Whom the Bell Tolls
  Katina Paxinou
• So Proudly We Hail!
  Paulette Goddard
• The Song of Bernadette
  Gladys Cooper
• The Song of Bernadette
  Anne Revere
• Watch on the Rhine
  Lucile Watson

Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)

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

Best Art Direction (Color)

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

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

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

Best Cinematography (Color)

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

Best Documentary (Feature)

• Baptism of Fire
  United States Army
• The Battle of Russia
  United States Department of War Special Service Division
• Desert Victory
  British Ministry of Information
• Report from the Aleutians
  United States Army Pictorial Service
• War Department Report
  United States Office of Strategic Services Field Photographic Bureau

Best Documentary (Short Subject)

• Children of Mars
  RKO Radio
• December 7th
  United States Navy
• Plan for Destruction
  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Swedes in America
  United States Office of War Information Overseas Motion Picture Bureau
• To the People of the United States
  Walter Wanger
• Tomorrow We Fly
  United States Navy Bureau of Aeronautics
• Youth in Crisis
  The March of Time

Best Film Editing

• Air Force
  George Amy
• Casablanca
  Owen Marks
• Five Graves to Cairo
  Doane Harrison
• For Whom the Bell Tolls
  Sherman Todd and John Link
• The Song of Bernadette
  Barbara McLean

Best Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)

• The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
  Frank Skinner and Hans J. Salter
• Casablanca
  Max Steiner
• Commandos Strike at Dawn
  Morris Stoloff and Louis Gruenberg
• The Fallen Sparrow
  Roy Webb and C. Bakaleinikoff
• For Whom the Bell Tolls
  Victor Young
• Hangmen Also Die
  Hanns Eisler
• Hi Diddle Diddle
  Phil Boutelje
• In Old Oklahoma
  Walter Scharf
• Johnny Come Lately
  Leigh Harline
• The Kansan
  Gerard Carbonara
• Lady of Burlesque
  Arthur Lange
• Madame Curie
  Herbert Stothart
• The Moon and Sixpence
  Dimitri Tiomkin
• The North Star
  Aaron Copland
• The Song of Bernadette
  Alfred Newman
• Victory through Air Power
  Edward H. Plumb, Paul J. Smith and Oliver G. Wallace

Best Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture)

• Coney Island
  Alfred Newman
• Hit Parade of 1943
  Walter Scharf
• Phantom of the Opera
  Edward Ward
• Saludos Amigos
  Charles Wolcott, Edward H. Plumb and Paul J. Smith
• The Sky's the Limit
  Leigh Harline
• Something to Shout About
  Morris Stoloff
• Stage Door Canteen
  Frederic E. Rich
• Star Spangled Rhythm
  Robert Emmett Dolan
• This Is the Army
  Ray Heindorf
• Thousands Cheer
  Herbert Stothart

Best Music (Song)

• Cabin in the Sky "Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe"
  Harold Arlen [Music by] and E.Y. Harburg [Lyrics by]
• Hello, Frisco, Hello "You'll Never Know"
  Harry Warren [Music by] and Mack Gordon [Lyrics by]
• Hers to Hold "Say a Pray'r for the Boys Over There"
  Jimmy McHugh [Music by] and Herb Magidson [Lyrics by]
• Hit Parade of 1943 "A Change of Heart"
  Jule Styne [Music by] and Harold Adamson [Lyrics by]
• Saludos Amigos "Saludos Amigos"
  Charles Wolcott [Music by] and Ned Washington [Lyrics by]
• The Sky's the Limit "My Shining Hour"
  Harold Arlen [Music by] and Johnny Mercer [Lyrics by]
• Something to Shout About "You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To"
  Cole Porter [Music and Lyrics by]
• Stage Door Canteen "We Mustn't Say Goodbye"
  James Monaco [Music by] and Al Dubin [Lyrics by]
• Star Spangled Rhythm "That Old Black Magic"
  Harold Arlen [Music by] and Johnny Mercer [Lyrics by]
• Thank Your Lucky Stars "They're Either Too Young or Too Old"
  Arthur Schwartz [Music by] and Frank Loesser [Lyrics by]

Best Short Subject (Cartoon)

• The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
  George Pal
• The Dizzy Acrobat
  Walter Lantz
• Greetings Bait!
  Leon Schlesinger
• Imagination
  Dave Fleischer
• Reason and Emotion
  Walt Disney
• Yankee Doodle Mouse
  Frederick Quimby

Best Short Subject (One-reel)

• Amphibious Fighters
  Grantland Rice
• Cavalcade of Dance with Veloz and Yolanda
  Gordon Hollingshead
• Champions Carry On
  Edmund Reek
• Hollywood in Uniform
  Ralph Staub
• Seeing Hands
  Pete Smith

Best Short Subject (Two-reel)

• Heavenly Music
  Jerry Bresler and Sam Coslow
• Letter to a Hero
  Frederic Ullman Jr.
• Mardi Gras
  Walter MacEwen
• Women at War
  Gordon Hollingshead

Best Sound Recording

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

Best Special Effects

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

Best Writing (Original Screenplay)

• Air Force
  Dudley Nichols
• In Which We Serve
  Noel Coward
• The North Star
  Lillian Hellman
• Princess O'Rourke
  Norman Krasna
• So Proudly We Hail!
  Allan Scott

Best Writing (Screenplay)

• Casablanca
  Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch
• Holy Matrimony
  Nunnally Johnson
• The More the Merrier
  Robert Russell, Frank Ross, Richard Flournoy and Lewis R. Foster
• The Song of Bernadette
  George Seaton
• Watch on the Rhine
  Dashiell Hammett

Best Writing (Original Motion Picture Story)

• Action in the North Atlantic
  Guy Gilpatric
• Destination Tokyo
  Steve Fisher
• The Human Comedy
  William Saroyan
• The More the Merrier
  Robert Russell and Frank Ross
• Shadow of a Doubt
  Gordon McDonell