1944 (17th Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1944 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.

Best Motion Picture

Going My Way, Paramount.

Best Actor

Bing Crosby in Going My Way, Paramount.

Best Actress

Ingrid Bergman in Gaslight, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Actor in a Supporting Role

Barry Fitzgerald in Going My Way, Paramount.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Ethel Barrymore in None but the Lonely Heart, RKO Radio.

Directing

Going My Way, Paramount. Leo McCarey.

Art Direction-Interior Decoration

(Black-and-White)

Gaslight, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Art direction by Cedric Gibbons and William Ferrari; interior decoration by Edwin B. Willis and Paul Huldschinsky.

(Color)

Wilson, 20th Century-Fox. Art direction by Wiard Ihnen; interior decoration by Thomas Little.

Cinematography

(Black-and-White)

Laura, 20th Century-Fox. Joseph LaShelle.

(Color)

Wilson, 20th Century-Fox. Leon Shamroy.

Documentary

(Feature)

The Fighting Lady, United States Navy; 20th Century-Fox.

(Short Subject)

With the Marines at Tarawa, United States Marine Corps.

Film Editing

Wilson, 20th Century-Fox. Barbara McLean.

Music

(Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)

Since You Went Away, Selznick International Pictures; United Artists. Max Steiner.

(Scoring of a Musical Picture)

Cover Girl, Columbia. Morris Stoloff and Carmen Dragon.

(Song)

Swinging on a Star from Going My Way, Paramount. Music by James Van Heusen; lyrics by Johnny Burke.

Short Subjects

(Cartoons)

Mouse Trouble, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. [Tom & Jerry Series] Frederick C. Quimby, Producer.

(One-reel)

Who’s Who in Animal Land, Paramount. [Speaking of Animals Series] Jerry Fairbanks, Producer.

(Two-reel)

I Won’t Play, Warner Bros. [Featurette Series] Gordon Hollingshead, Producer.

Sound Recording

Wilson, 20th Century-Fox. 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, E. H. Hansen, Sound Director.

Special Effects

Thirty Seconds over Tokyo, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Photographic effects by A. Arnold Gillespie, Donald Jahraus and Warren Newcombe; sound effects by Douglas Shearer.

Writing

(Original Motion Picture Story)

Going My Way, Paramount. Leo McCarey.

(Original Screenplay)

Wilson, 20th Century-Fox. Lamar Trotti.

(Screenplay)

Going My Way, Paramount. Frank Butler and Frank Cavett.

Special Award

To Bob Hope for his many services to the Academy. [Life Membership]

(Juvenile)

To Margaret O’Brien, outstanding child actress of 1944. [Miniature Statuette]

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Darryl F. Zanuck

Scientific or Technical Award

(Class II)

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.

(Class III)

To Linwood Dunn, Cecil Love and Acme Tool and Manufacturing Company for the design and construction of the Acme-Dunn Optical Printer.

To Grover Laube and the 20th Century-Fox Studio Camera Department for the development of a continuous loop projection device.

To Western Electric Company for the design and construction of the 1126A Limiting Amplifier for variable density sound recording.

To Russell Brown, Ray Hinsdale and Joseph E. Robbins for the development and production use of the Paramount floating hydraulic boat rocker.

To Gordon Jennings for the design and construction of the Paramount nodal point tripod.

To Radio Corporation of America and the RKO Radio Studio Sound Department for the design and construction of the RKO reverberation chamber.

To Daniel J. Bloomberg and the Republic Studio Sound Department for the design and development of a multi-interlock selector switch.

To Bernard B. Brown and John P. Livadary for the design and engineering of a separate soloist and chorus recording room.

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.

To Paul Lerpae for the design and construction of the Paramount traveling matte projection and photographing device.