16th Academy Awards (1944)
Highlights of 16th Academy Awards ceremony
The 16th Academy Awards honored the best films of 1943.
The award ceremony was held on 2nd March 1944.
- WINNER
Best Picture
Casablanca
The Song of Bernadette
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Watch on the Rhine
The More the Merrier
The Ox-Bow Incident
Heaven Can Wait
In Which We Serve
Madame Curie
The Human Comedy
Best Director
Casablanca
- Michael Curtiz
The More the Merrier
- George Stevens
Heaven Can Wait
- Ernst Lubitsch
The Song of Bernadette
- Henry King
The Human Comedy
- Clarence Brown
Best Original Screenplay
Princess O'Rourke
- Norman Krasna
In Which We Serve
- Noel Coward
The North Star
- Lillian Hellman
Air Force
- Dudley Nichols
So Proudly We Hail!
- Allan Scott
Best Adapted Screenplay
Casablanca
- Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch
Watch on the Rhine
- Lillian Hellman, Dashiell Hammett
Holy Matrimony
- Nunnally Johnson
The More the Merrier
- Richard Flournoy, Lewis R. Foster, Frank Ross, Robert Russell
The Song of Bernadette
- George Seaton
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Watch on the Rhine
- Paul Lukas
Casablanca
- Humphrey Bogart
For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Gary Cooper
Madame Curie
- Walter Pidgeon
The Human Comedy
- Mickey Rooney
Best Actress in a Leading Role
The Song of Bernadette
- Jennifer Jones
For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Ingrid Bergman
The More the Merrier
- Jean Arthur
The Constant Nymph
- Joan Fontaine
Madame Curie
- Greer Garson
Best Supporting Actor
The More The Merrier
- Charles Coburn
For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Akim Tamiroff
Casablanca
- Claude Rains
The Song of Bernadette
- Charles Bickford
Sahara
- J. Carrol Naish
Best Supporting Actress
For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Katina Paxinou
Watch on the Rhine
- Lucile Watson
So Proudly We Hail!
- Paulette Goddard
The Song of Bernadette
- Gladys Cooper
The Song of Bernadette
- Anne Revere
Best Writing, Motion Picture Story
The Human Comedy
- William Saroyan
Shadow of a Doubt
- Thornton Wilder
The More the Merrier
- Robert Russell, Frank Ross
Destination Tokyo
- Steve Fisher
Action in the North Atlantic
- Guy Gilpatric