Date: March 2, 1944

Best Picture

• Casablanca

Best Actor in a Leading Role

• Paul Lukas for Watch on the Rhine

Best Actress in a Leading Role

• Jennifer Jones for The Song of Bernadette

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Charles Coburn for The More the Merrier

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Katina Paxinou for For Whom the Bell Tolls

Best Director

• Michael Curtiz for Casablanca

Best Original Screenplay

• Norman Krasna for Princess O’Rourke

Best Original Story

• William Saroyan for The Human Comedy

Best Screenplay

• Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, & Howard Koch for Casablanca

Best Cinematography, Colour

• Hal Mohr & W. Howard Greene for Phantom of the Opera

Best Cinematography, Black-and-White

• Arthur C. Miller for The Song of Bernadette

Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White

• James Basevi, William S. Darling, & Thomas Little for The Song of Bernadette

Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Colour

• Alexander Golitzen, John B. Goodman, Russell A. Gausman, Ira Webb for Phantom of the Opera

Best Sound, Recording

• Stephen Dunn for This Land Is Mine

Best Film Editing

• George Amy for Air Force

Best Special Effects

• Fred Sersen, Roger Heman Sr. for Crash Dive

Best Original Song

• Harry Warren and Mack Gordon for “You’ll Never Know” from Hello Frisco, Hello

Best Original Scoring of a Musical Picture

• Ray Heindorf for This Is the Army

Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture

• Alfred Newman for The Song of Bernadette

Best Short Subject, Two-Reel

• Jerry Bresler & Sam Coslow for Heavenly Music

Best Short Subject, One-Reel

• Grantland Rice for Amphibious Fighters

Best Short Subject, Cartoons

• Fred Quimby for The Yankee Doodle Mouse

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

• December 7th

Best Documentary, Features

• Desert Victory

Honorary Award

• George Pal