16th Academy Awards

16th Academy Awards
Date	March 2, 1944
Site	Grauman’s Chinese Theater, Hollywood, California, USA
Host	Jack Benny
Nominees and winners
Best Picture	Casablanca
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The 16th Academy Awards, in 1944, was the first Oscar ceremony held at a large public venue, Grauman’s Chinese Theater. Free passes were given out to men and women in uniform. The more theatrical approach makes it a forerunner of the contemporary Oscar telecast.

For the first time, supporting actors and actresses took home full-size statuettes, instead of smaller-sized awards mounted on a plaque.

Major awards

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

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