Academy Awards 1944 Nominations

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Outstanding Motion Picture	Best Director
Best Actor	Best Actress
Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Best Original Screenplay	Best Original Motion Picture Story
Best Screenplay	Best Documentary Feature
Best Documentary Short	Best Live Action Short Subject (One-reel)
Best Live Action Short Subject (Two-reel)	Best Short Subject (Cartoon)
Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture	Best Scoring of a Musical Picture
Best Song	Best Sound Recording
Best Art Direction (Color)	Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)
Best Cinematography (Color)	Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Best Film Editing	Best Special Effects

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Outstanding Motion Picture

• Casablanca
• For Whom the Bell Tolls
• Heaven Can Wait
• In Which We Serve
• Madame Curie
• The Human Comedy
• The More the Merrier
• The Ox-Bow Incident
• The Song of Bernadette
• Watch on the Rhine

Best Director

• 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)
• Madame Curie (Walter Pidgeon)
• The Human Comedy (Mickey Rooney)
• Watch on the Rhine (Paul Lukas)

Best Actress

• For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ingrid Bergman)
• Madame Curie (Greer Garson)
• The Constant Nymph (Joan Fontaine)
• 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)
• Sahara (J. Carrol Naish)
• The More the Merrier (Charles Coburn)
• 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 Original Screenplay

• Air Force
• In Which We Serve
• Princess O'Rourke
• So Proudly We Hail!
• The North Star

Best Original Motion Picture Story

• Action in the North Atlantic
• Destination Tokyo
• Shadow of a Doubt
• The Human Comedy
• The More the Merrier

Best Screenplay

• Casablanca
• Holy Matrimony
• The More the Merrier
• The Song of Bernadette
• Watch on the Rhine

Best Documentary Feature

• Baptism of Fire
• Desert Victory
• Report from the Aleutians
• The Battle of Russia
• War Department Report

Best Documentary Short

• Children of Mars
• December 7th
• Plan for Destruction
• Swedes in America
• To the People of the United States
• Tomorrow We Fly
• Youth in Crisis

Best Live Action Short Subject (One-reel)

• Amphibious Fighters
• Cavalcade of Dance
• Champions Carry on
• Screen Snapshots Series 23, No. 1: Hollywood in Uniform
• Seeing Hands

Best Live Action Short Subject (Two-reel)

• Heavenly Music
• Letter to a Hero
• Mardi Gras
• Women at War

Best Short Subject (Cartoon)

• Greetings Bait
• Imagination
• Reason and Emotion
• The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
• The Dizzy Acrobat
• The Yankee Doodle Mouse

Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture

• Casablanca
• Commandos Strike at Dawn
• For Whom the Bell Tolls
• Hangmen Also Die!
• Hi Diddle Diddle
• In Old Oklahoma
• Johnny Come Lately
• Lady of Burlesque
• Madame Curie
• The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
• The Fallen Sparrow
• The Kansan
• The Moon and Sixpence
• The North Star
• The Song of Bernadette
• Victory Through Air Power

Best Scoring of a Musical Picture

• Coney Island
• Hit Parade of 1943
• Phantom of the Opera
• Saludos Amigos
• Something to Shout About
• Stage Door Canteen
• Star Spangled Rhythm
• The Sky's the Limit
• This Is the Army
• Thousands Cheer

Best Song

• Cabin in the Sky ("Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe")
• Hello Frisco, Hello ("You'll Never Know")
• Hers to Hold ("Say a Prayer for the Boys Over There")
• Hit Parade of 1943 ("Change of Heart")
• Saludos Amigos ("Saludos Amigos")
• Something to Shout About ("You'd Be So Nice to Come Home to")
• Stage Door Canteen ("We Mustn't Say Good Bye")
• Star Spangled Rhythm ("That Old Black Magic")
• Thank Your Lucky Stars ("They're Either Too Young or Too Old")
• The Sky's the Limit ("My Shining Hour")

Best Sound Recording

• Hangmen Also Die!
• In Old Oklahoma
• Madame Curie
• Phantom of the Opera
• Riding High
• Sahara
• Saludos Amigos
• So This Is Washington
• The North Star
• The Song of Bernadette
• This Is the Army
• This Land Is Mine

Best Art Direction (Color)

• For Whom the Bell Tolls
• Phantom of the Opera
• The Gang's All Here
• This Is the Army
• Thousands Cheer

Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)

• Five Graves to Cairo
• Flight for Freedom
• Madame Curie
• Mission to Moscow
• The North Star
• The Song of Bernadette

Best Cinematography (Color)

• For Whom the Bell Tolls
• Heaven Can Wait
• Hello Frisco, Hello
• Lassie Come Home
• Phantom of the Opera
• Thousands Cheer

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• Air Force
• Casablanca
• Corvette K-225
• Five Graves to Cairo
• Madame Curie
• Sahara
• So Proudly We Hail!
• The Human Comedy
• The North Star
• The Song of Bernadette

Best Film Editing

• Air Force
• Casablanca
• Five Graves to Cairo
• For Whom the Bell Tolls
• The Song of Bernadette

Best Special Effects

• Air Force
• Bombardier
• Crash Dive
• So Proudly We Hail!
• Stand by for Action
• The North Star