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1943
July 2022
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The 16th Academy Awards were held on March 2, 1944, to honor the films of 1943. This was the first Oscar ceremony held at a large public venue, Grauman's Chinese Theatre, and the first ceremony without a banquet as part of the festivities.History of the Oscars Presentation https://www.oscars.org/sites/oscars/files/88aa_presentation_history.pdf May 3, 2023 Oscars.org The ceremony was broadcast locally on KFWB, and internationally by CBS Radio via shortwave. Jack Benny hosted the event, which lasted one hour and 42 minutes.http://cinemasight.com/awards-history/16th-academy-awards-1943/16th-academy-awards-1943-the-ceremony/ 16th Academy Awards (1943): The Ceremony April 22, 2018 Revised March 14, 2023 This was the first ceremony to welcome admissions from the general public.Wallechinsky David Wallace Irving 1975 The People's Almanac https://archive.org/details/peoplesalmanac00wall/page/836/mode/2up Garden City, New York Doubleday & Company, Inc. 836 0-385-04060-1
For the first time, winners for Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress were awarded full-size statuettes, instead of smaller-sized awards mounted on a plaque.https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180305-strange-tales-of-the-vanished-oscars Strange tales of the vanished Oscars March 6, 2018 This was the last year until 2009 to have 10 nominations for Best Picture; The Ox-Bow Incident is, 2025 y, the last film to be nominated solely in that category.
For Whom the Bell Tolls was the third film to receive nominations in all four acting categories. This was the first year in which each acting category had at least one nominee from a color film.
The Tom and Jerry cartoon series won its first Oscar this year for The Yankee Doodle Mouse; it would go on to win another six Oscars, including three in a row over the next three years, from a total of 13 nominations.
Winners and nominees
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Awards
Nominees were announced on February 6, 1944. Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1944 The 16th Academy Awards (1944) Nominees and Winners October 13, 2013 Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) https://web.archive.org/web/20131014001522/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/16th-winners.html October 14, 2013 live
#F9EFAA Outstanding Motion Picture
Casablanca – Hal B. Wallis for Warner Bros. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Sam Wood for Paramount
Heaven Can Wait – Ernst Lubitsch for 20th Century Fox
The Human Comedy – Clarence Brown for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
In Which We Serve – Noël Coward for Two Cities Films
Madame Curie – Sidney Franklin for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
The More the Merrier – George Stevens for Columbia
The Ox-Bow Incident – Lamar Trotti for 20th Century Fox
The Song of Bernadette – William Perlberg for 20th Century Fox
Watch on the Rhine – Hal B. Wallis for Warner Bros.
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#F9EFAA Best Directing
Michael Curtiz – Casablanca
Ernst Lubitsch – Heaven Can Wait
Clarence Brown – The Human Comedy
George Stevens – The More the Merrier
Henry King – The Song of Bernadette#F9EFAA Best Actor
Paul Lukas – Watch on the Rhine as Kurt Muller
Humphrey Bogart – Casablanca as Rick Blaine
Gary Cooper – For Whom the Bell Tolls as Robert Jordan
Walter Pidgeon – Madame Curie as Pierre Curie
Mickey Rooney – The Human Comedy as Homer Macauley#F9EFAA Best Actress
Jennifer Jones – The Song of Bernadette as Bernadette Soubirous
Jean Arthur – The More the Merrier as Constance Milligan
Ingrid Bergman – For Whom the Bell Tolls as María
Joan Fontaine – The Constant Nymph as Tessa Sanger
Greer Garson – Madame Curie as Marie Curie#F9EFAA Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Charles Coburn – The More the Merrier as Benjamin Dingle
Charles Bickford – The Song of Bernadette as Abbé Dominique Peyramale
J. Carrol Naish – Sahara as Giuseppe
Claude Rains – Casablanca as Captain Louis Renault
Akim Tamiroff – For Whom the Bell Tolls as Pablo#F9EFAA Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Katina Paxinou – For Whom the Bell Tolls as Pilar
Gladys Cooper – The Song of Bernadette as Marie Therese Vauzou
Paulette Goddard – So Proudly We Hail! as Lt. Joan O'Doul
Anne Revere – The Song of Bernadette as Louise Casterot Soubirous
Lucile Watson – Watch on the Rhine as Fanny Farrelly#F9EFAA Best Writing (Original Motion Picture Story)
The Human Comedy – William Saroyan
Action in the North Atlantic – Guy Gilpatric
Destination Tokyo – Steve Fisher
The More the Merrier – Robert Russell and Frank Ross
Shadow of a Doubt – Gordon McDonell#F9EFAA Best Writing (Original Screenplay)
Princess O'Rourke – Norman Krasna
Air Force – Dudley Nichols
In Which We Serve – Noël Coward
The North Star – Lillian Hellman
So Proudly We Hail! – Allan Scott#F9EFAA Best Writing (Screenplay)
Casablanca – Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard E. Koch, based on Everybody Comes to Rick's by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison
Holy Matrimony – Nunnally Johnson, based on Buried Alive by Arnold Bennett
The More the Merrier – Richard Flournoy, Lewis R. Foster, Frank Ross, and Robert Russell, based on a story by Frank Ross and Robert Russell
The Song of Bernadette – George Seaton, based on the novel by Franz Werfel
Watch on the Rhine – Dashiell Hammett, based on the play by Lillian Hellman#F9EFAA Best Documentary (Feature)
Desert Victory – British Ministry of Information
Baptism of Fire – United States Army
The Battle of Russia – United States Department of War, Special Service Division
Report from the Aleutians – United States Army Pictorial Service
War Department Report – United States Office of Strategic Services, Field Photographic Bureau#F9EFAA Best Documentary (Short Subject)
December 7th – John Ford and United States Navy
Children of Mars – RKO Radio
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#F9EFAA Best Short Subject (One-Reel)
Amphibious Fighters – Grantland Rice
Cavalcade of Dance – Gordon Hollingshead
Champions Carry On – Edmund Reek
Hollywood in Uniform – Ralph Staub
Seeing Hands – Pete Smith#F9EFAA 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#F9EFAA Best Short Subject (Cartoon)
The Yankee Doodle Mouse – Fred Quimby
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#F9EFAA Best Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)
The Song of Bernadette – Alfred Newman
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday – Hans J. Salter and Frank Skinner
Casablanca – Max Steiner
Commandos Strike at Dawn – Louis Gruenberg and Morris Stoloff
The Fallen Sparrow – C. Bakaleinikoff and Roy Webb
For Whom the Bell Tolls – Victor Young
Hangmen Also Die! – Hanns Eisler
Hi Diddle Diddle – Philip 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
Victory Through Air Power – Edward H. Plumb, Paul J. Smith, and Oliver Wallace#F9EFAA Best Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture)
This Is the Army – Ray Heindorf
Coney Island – Alfred Newman
Hit Parade of 1943 – Walter Scharf
Phantom of the Opera – Edward Ward
Saludos Amigos – Edward H. Plumb, Paul J. Smith, and Charles Wolcott
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
Thousands Cheer – Herbert Stothart#F9EFAA Best Music (Song)
"You'll Never Know" from Hello, Frisco, Hello – Music by Harry Warren; Lyrics by Mack Gordon
"A Change of Heart" from Hit Parade of 1943 – Music by Jule Styne; Lyrics by Harold Adamson
"Happiness is a Thing Called Joe" from Cabin in the Sky – Music by Harold Arlen; Lyrics by E. Y. Harburg
"My Shining Hour" from The Sky's the Limit – Music by Harold Arlen; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
"Saludos Amigos" from Saludos Amigos – Music by Charles Wolcott; Lyrics by Ned Washington
"Say a Pray'r for the Boys Over There" from Hers to Hold – Music by Jimmy McHugh; Lyrics by Herb Magidson
"That Old Black Magic" from Star Spangled Rhythm – Music by Harold Arlen; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
"They're Either Too Young or Too Old" from Thank Your Lucky Stars – Music by Arthur Schwartz; Lyrics by Frank Loesser
"We Mustn't Say Goodbye" from Stage Door Canteen – Music by James V. Monaco; Lyrics by Al Dubin
"You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" from Something to Shout About – Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter#F9EFAA Best Sound Recording
This Land Is Mine – Stephen Dunn
Hangmen Also Die! – Jack Whitney
In Old Oklahoma – Daniel J. Bloomberg
Madame Curie – Douglas Shearer
The North Star – Thomas T. Moulton
Phantom of the Opera – Bernard B. Brown
Riding High – Loren L. Ryder
Sahara – John P. Livadary
Saludos Amigos – C. O. Slyfield
So This Is Washington – J. L. Fields
The Song of Bernadette – E. H. Hansen
This Is the Army – Nathan Levinson#F9EFAA Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)
The Song of Bernadette – Art Direction: James Basevi and William S. Darling; Interior Decoration: Thomas Little
Five Graves to Cairo – Art Direction: Hans Dreier and Ernst Fegté; Interior Decoration: Bertram Granger
Flight for Freedom – Art Direction: Albert S. D'Agostino and Carroll Clark; Interior Decoration: Darrell Silvera and Harley Miller
Madame Curie – Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons and Paul Groesse; Interior Decoration: Edwin B. Willis and Hugh Hunt
Mission to Moscow – Art Direction: Carl Jules Weyl; Interior Decoration: George James Hopkins
The North Star – Art Direction: Perry Ferguson; Interior Decoration: Howard Bristol#F9EFAA Best Art Direction (Color)
Phantom of the Opera – Art Direction: Alexander Golitzen and John B. Goodman; Interior Decoration: Russell A. Gausman and Ira S. Webb
For Whom the Bell Tolls – Art Direction: Hans Dreier and Haldane Douglas; Interior Decoration: Bertram Granger
The Gang's All Here – Art Direction: James Basevi and Joseph C. Wright; Interior Decoration: Thomas Little
This Is the Army – Art Direction: John Hughes and Lt. John Koenig; Interior Decoration: George James Hopkins
Thousands Cheer – Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons and Daniel B. Cathcart; Interior Decoration: Edwin B. Willis and Jacques Mersereau#F9EFAA Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
The Song of Bernadette – Arthur C. Miller
Air Force – James Wong Howe, Elmer Dyer and Charles A. Marshall
Casablanca – Arthur Edeson
Corvette K-225 – Tony Gaudio
Five Graves to Cairo – John F. Seitz
The Human Comedy – Harry Stradling
Madame Curie – Joseph Ruttenberg
The North Star – James Wong Howe
Sahara – Rudolph Maté
So Proudly We Hail! – Charles Lang#F9EFAA Best Cinematography (Color)
Phantom of the Opera – Hal Mohr and W. Howard Greene
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
Thousands Cheer – George J. Folsey#F9EFAA 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 F. Link Sr.
The Song of Bernadette – Barbara McLean#F9EFAA Best Special Effects
Crash Dive – Photographic Effects: Fred Sersen; Sound Effects: Roger Heman
Air Force – Photographic Effects: Hans F. Koenekamp and Rex Wimpy; Sound Effects: Nathan Levinson
Bombardier – Photographic Effects: Vernon L. Walker; Sound Effects James G. Stewart and Roy Granville
The North Star – Photographic Effects: Clarence Slifer and Ray Binger; Sound Effects: Thomas T. Moulton
So Proudly We Hail! – Photographic Effects: Farciot Edouart and Gordon Jennings; Sound Effects: George Dutton
Stand By for Action – Photographic Effects: A. Arnold Gillespie and Donald Jahraus; Sound Effects: Michael Steinore
Special Award
To George Pal for the development of novel methods and techniques in the production of short subjects known as Puppetoons.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Hal B. Wallis
Presenters and performers
Presenters
Donald Crisp (Presenter: Best Supporting Actor)
Howard Estabrook (Presenter: Documentary Awards)
Sidney Franklin (Presenter: Outstanding Motion Picture)
Y. Frank Freeman (Presenter: Best Film Editing, Best Sound Recording, Best Special Effects and the Scientific & Technical Awards)
Greer Garson (Presenter: Best Actress)
James Hilton (Presenter: Writing Awards)
Carole Landis (Presenter: Best Art Direction)
George Murphy (Presenter: Best Actor)
Rosalind Russell (Presenter: Best Cinematography)
Mark Sandrich (Presenter: Best Director)
Dinah Shore (Presenter: Music Awards)
Walter Wanger (Presenter: Short Subject Awards and the Honorary Award)
Teresa Wright (Presenter: Best Supporting Actress)
Darryl F. Zanuck (Presenter: Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award)
Performers
Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy
Ray Bolger
Susanna Foster
Mitzi Gerber
Lena Horne
Betty Hutton
Kay Kyser & His Band
Red Skelton
Multiple nominations and awards
+ Films with multiple nominationsNominationsFilm 12 The Song of Bernadette 9 For Whom the Bell Tolls 8 Casablanca 7 Madame Curie 6 The More the Merrier The North Star 5 The Human Comedy 4 Air Force Phantom of the Opera So Proudly We Hail! Watch on the Rhine 3 Five Graves to Cairo Heaven Can Wait Sahara Saludos Amigos This Is the Army Thousands Cheer 2 Hangmen Also Die! Hello, Frisco, Hello Hit Parade of 1943 In Old Oklahoma In Which We Serve The Sky's the Limit Something to Shout About Stage Door Canteen Star Spangled Rhythm
+ Films with multiple awardsAwardsFilm 4 The Song of Bernadette 3 Casablanca 2 Phantom of the Opera
See also
1st Golden Globe Awards
1943 in film
References
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