16th Academy Awards
16th Academy Awards | |
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Date | March 2, 1944 |
Site | Grauman's Chinese Theatre Hollywood, Los Angeles, California |
Hosted by | Jack Benny |
Highlights | |
Best Picture | Casablanca |
Most awards | The Song of Bernadette(4) |
Most nominations | The Song of Bernadette(12) |
The16th Academy Awardswere held on March 2, 1944, to honor the films of1943.This was the first Oscar ceremony held at a large public venue,Grauman's Chinese Theatre,and the first ceremony without a banquet as part of the festivities.[1][2]The ceremony was broadcast locally onKFWB,and internationally byCBS Radioviashortwave.Jack Bennyhosted the event, which lasted one hour and 42 minutes.[3]This was the first ceremony to welcome admissions from the general public.[1]
For the first time, winners forBest Supporting ActorandBest Supporting Actresswere awarded full-size statuettes, instead of smaller-sized awards mounted on a plaque.[4]This was the last year until2009to have 10 nominations for Best Picture;The Ox-Bow Incidentis, as of 2023[update],the last film to be nominated solely in that category.
For Whom the Bell Tollswas the third film to receivenominations in all four acting categories.This was the first year in which each acting category had at least one nominee from a color film.
TheTom and Jerrycartoon series won its first Oscar this year forThe Yankee Doodle Mouse;it would go on to win another six Oscars, including three in a row over the next three years, from a total of 13 nominations.
Winners and nominees
[edit]Awards
[edit]Nominees were announced on February 6, 1944. Winners are listed first and highlighted inboldface.[5]
Academy Honorary Award
[edit]- George Pal"for the development of novel methods and techniques in the production of short subjects known asPuppetoons".
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
[edit]Presenters and performers
[edit]Presenters
[edit]- Donald Crisp(Presenter: Best Supporting Actor)
- Howard Estabrook(Presenter: Documentary Awards)
- Sidney Franklin(Presenter: Outstanding Motion Picture)
- Y. Frank Freeman(Presenter: Best Film Editing, Best Sound Recording, Best Special Effects and the Scientific & Technical Awards)
- Greer Garson(Presenter: Best Actress)
- James Hilton(Presenter: Writing Awards)
- Carole Landis(Presenter: Best Art Direction)
- George Murphy(Presenter: Best Actor)
- Rosalind Russell(Presenter: Best Cinematography)
- Mark Sandrich(Presenter: Best Director)
- Dinah Shore(Presenter: Music Awards)
- Walter Wanger(Presenter: Short Subject Awards and the Honorary Award)
- Teresa Wright(Presenter: Best Supporting Actress)
- Darryl F. Zanuck(Presenter: Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award)
Performers
[edit]- Edgar Bergen&Charlie McCarthy
- Ray Bolger
- Susanna Foster
- Mitzi Gerber
- Lena Horne
- Betty Hutton
- Kay Kyser& His Band
- Red Skelton
Multiple nominations and awards
[edit]Awards | Film |
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4 | The Song of Bernadette |
3 | Casablanca |
2 | Phantom of the Opera |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ab Wallechinsky, David; Wallace, Irving (1975).The People's Almanac.Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc. p. 836.ISBN0-385-04060-1.
- ^"History of the Oscars Presentation"(PDF).Oscars.org.RetrievedMay 3,2023.
- ^"16th Academy Awards (1943): The Ceremony"(Revised ed.). April 22, 2018.RetrievedMarch 14,2023.
- ^"Strange tales of the vanished Oscars".
- ^"The 16th Academy Awards (1944) Nominees and Winners".Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences).Archivedfrom the original on October 14, 2013.RetrievedOctober 13,2013.