Date: March 2, 1944
Best Picture
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
