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
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