The 17th Academy Awards (1944): Nominees and Winners

NOMINATIONS		AWARDS
10 10 9 7 7 5 5 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 3	Going My Way Wilson Since You Went Away Double Indemnity Gaslight Cover Girl Laura Kismet Meet Me in St. Louis None but the Lonely Heart The Adventures of Mark Twain Brazil Casanova Brown Hollywood Canteen Lady in the Dark Lifeboat	7 5 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1	Going My Way Wilson Gaslight Cover Girl The Fighting Lady I Won't Play Laura Mouse Trouble None but the Lonely Heart Since You Went Away Thirty Seconds over Tokyo Who's Who in Animal Land With the Marines at Tarawa
NOMINATION/WIN TALLY LEGEND Best Picture winner Best Picture nominee Nominations are listed for all films receiving 3 or more

PICTURE (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

DIRECTING

• Double Indemnity - Billy Wilder
• Going My Way - Leo McCarey
• Laura - Otto Preminger
• Lifeboat - Alfred Hitchcock
• Wilson - Henry King

ACTOR

• Charles Boyer - Gaslight
• Bing Crosby - Going My Way
• Barry Fitzgerald - Going My Way
• Cary Grant - None but the Lonely Heart
• Alexander Knox - Wilson

ACTRESS

• Ingrid Bergman - Gaslight
• Claudette Colbert - Since You Went Away
• Bette Davis - Mr. Skeffington
• Greer Garson - Mrs. Parkington
• Barbara Stanwyck - Double Indemnity

SUPPORTING ACTOR (Actor in a Supporting Role)

• Hume Cronyn - The Seventh Cross
• Barry Fitzgerald - Going My Way
• Claude Rains - Mr. Skeffington
• Clifton Webb - Laura
• Monty Woolley - Since You Went Away

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Actress in a Supporting Role)

• Ethel Barrymore - None but the Lonely Heart
• Angela Lansbury - Gaslight
• Aline MacMahon - Dragon Seed
• Agnes Moorehead - Mrs. Parkington
• Jennifer Jones - Since You Went Away

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

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. Finkelhoffe

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

SONG

• "I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night" - Higher and Higher - Music by Jimmy McHugh; Lyrics by Harold Adamson
• "I'll Walk Alone" - Follow the Boys - Music by Jule Styne; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
• "I'm Making Believe" - Sweet and Lowdown - Music by James V. Monaco; Lyrics by Mack Gordon
• "Long Ago and Far Away" - Cover Girl - Music by Jerome Kern; Lyrics by Ira Gershwin
• "Now I Know" - Up in Arms - Music by Harold Arlen; Lyrics by Ted Koehler
• "Remember Me to Carolina" - Minstrel Man - Music by Harry Revel; Lyrics by Paul Webster
• "Rio de Janeiro" - Brazil - Music by Ary Barroso; Lyrics by Ned Washington
• "Silver Shadows and Golden Dreams" - Lady, Let's Dance - Music by Lew Pollack; Lyrics by Charles Newman
• "Sweet Dreams Sweetheart" - Hollywood Canteen - Music by M. K. Jerome; Lyrics by Ted Koehler
• "Swinging on a Star" - Going My Way - Music by James Van Heusen; Lyrics by Johnny Burke
• "Too Much in Love" - Song of the Open Road - Music by Walter Kent; Lyrics by Kim Gannon
• "The Trolley Song" - Meet Me in St. Louis - Music, Lyrics by Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin

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

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

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

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 Mat, 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

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
• Step Lively - Art Direction: Albert S. D'Agostino, Carroll Clark; Interior Decoration: Darrell Silvera, Claude Carpenter
• Song of the Open Road [1]

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

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

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

SHORT SUBJECT (Cartoon)

• And To Think I Saw It on Mulberry Street - George Pal
• Dog, Cat and Canary - Screen Gems
• Fish Fry - Walter Lantz
• How To Play Football - Walt Disney
• Mouse Trouble - Frederick C. Quimby
• My Boy Johnny - Paul Terry
• Swooner Crooner - Warner Bros.

SHORT SUBJECT (One-Reel)

• Blue Grass Gentlemen - Edmund Reek
• Jammin' the Blues - Gordon Hollingshead
• Movie Pests - Pete Smith
• Screen Snapshots' 50th Anniversary of Motion Pictures - Ralph Staub
• Who's Who in Animal Land - Jerry Fairbanks

SHORT SUBJECT (Two-Reel)

• Bombalera - Louis Harris
• I Won't Play - Gordon Hollingshead
• Main Street Today - Jerry Bresler, Herbert Moulton

SPECIAL AWARDS

• To Bob Hope for his many services to the Academy.
• To Margaret O'Brien, outstanding child actress of 1944.

IRVING G. THALBERG MEMORIAL AWARD

• Darryl F. Zanuck

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE II (Plaque)

• 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 AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE III (Certificate)

• To LINWOOD DUNN, CECIL LOVE and ACME TOOL AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY for the design and construction of the Acme-Dunn Optical Printer. [Laboratory]
• 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 GORDON JENNINGS for the design and construction of the Paramount nodal point tripod. [Photography]
• To BERNARD B. BROWN and JOHN P. LIVADARY for the design and engineering of a separate soloist and chorus recording room. [Sound]
• To GROVER LAUBE and the 20TH CENTURY-FOX STUDIO CAMERA DEPARTMENT for the development of a continuous loop projection device. [Sound]
• To RADIO CORPORATION OF AMERICA and the RKO RADIO STUDIO SOUND DEPARTMENT for the design and construction of the RKO reverberation chamber. [Sound]
• To WESTERN ELECTRIC COMPANY for the design and construction of the 1126A Limiting Amplifier for variable density sound recording. [Sound]
• To PAUL LERPAE for the design and construction of the Paramount traveling matte projection and photographing device. [Special Photographic]
• To DANIEL J. BLOOMBERG and the REPUBLIC STUDIO SOUND DEPARTMENT for the design and development of a multi-interlock selector switch. [Stage Operations]
• To RUSSELL BROWN, RAY HINSDALE and JOSEPH E. ROBBINS for the development and production use of the Paramount floating hydraulic boat rocker. [Stage Operations]

ACADEMY NOTES

1. This is not an official nomination. Nomination withdrawn by production company.