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Best Picture: Double Indemnity
Best Director: Billy Wilder for Double Indemnity
Best Actor: Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity
Best Actress: Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity
Best Supporting Actor: Clifton Webb in Laura
Best Supporting Actress: Ethel Barrymore in None But the Lonely Heart
Best Original Screenplay: The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Best Adapted Screenplay: Double Indemnity
Best Score: Laura
Best Art Direction: Meet Me in St. Louis
Best Costume Design: Meet Me in St. Louis
Best Cinematography: Double Indemnity
Best Editing: Double Indemnity
Best Sound: Double Indemnity

PICTURE
Double Indemnity
Gaslight
*Lifeboat
Hail the Conquering Hero
Going My Way

DIRECTOR
Billy Wilder - Double Indemnity
Preston Sturges - Hail the Conquering Hero
*Alfred Hitchcock - Lifeboat
Leo McCarey - Going My Way
Vittorio De Sica - The Children Are Watching Us

ACTOR
Fred MacMurray - Double Indemnity
Bing Crosby – Going My Way
*Cary Grant – None But the Lonely Heart
Charles Boyer - Gaslight
Alf Kjellin - Torment

ACTRESS
*Barbara Stanwyck - Double Indemnity
Bette Davis – Mr. Skeffington
Greer Garson – Mrs. Parkington
Ingrid Bergman - Gaslight
Tallulah Bankhead - Lifeboat
Judy Garland - Meet Me In St. Louis

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Edward G. Robinson - Double Indemnity
Clifton Webb - Laura
Peter Lorre - Arsenic and Old Lace
*Barry Fitzegarld - Going My Way
Stig Jerrel - Torment

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Agnes Moorehead - Mrs. Parkington
Gladys Cooper - Mrs. Parkington
*Angela Lansbury – Gaslight
Ethel Barrymore - None But the Lonely Heart
Jennifer Jones - Since You Went Away

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Hail the Conquering Hero
*Lifeboat
Going My Way
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
Torment

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
*Double Indemnity
Meet Me In St. Louis
Gaslight
Laura
The Children Are Watching Us

BEST PICTURE
01. Double Indemnity (dir. Billy Wilder)
02. Henry V (dir. Laurence Olivier)
03. Hail the Conquering Hero (dir. Preston Sturges)
04. Laura (dir. Otto Preminger)
05. At Land (dir. Maya Deren)
06. Torment (dir. Alf Sjöberg)
07. Ivan the Terrible, Part I (dir. Sergei Eisenstein)
08. The Children Are Watching Us (dir. Vittorio De Sica)
09. The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (dir. Preston Sturges)
10. Lifeboat (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)

BEST DIRECTOR
01. Laurence Olivier, Henry V
02. Maya Deren, At Land
03. Billy Wilder, Double Indemnity
04. Preston Sturges, Hail the Conquering Hero
05. Otto Preminger, Laura

BEST ACTOR
01. Laurence Olivier, Henry V
02. Laird Cregar, The Lodger
03. Eddie Bracken, Hail the Conquering Hero
04. Gregory Peck, The Keys of the Kingdom
05. Charles Boyer, Gaslight

BEST ACTRESS
01. Barbara Stanwyck, Double Indemnity
02. Tallulah Bankhead, Lifeboat
03. Celia Johnson, This Happy Breed
04. Deanna Durbin, Christmas Holiday
05. Loretta Young, And Now Tomorrow

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
01. Clifton Webb, Laura
02. Stig Järrel, Torment
03. Henry Daniell, The Suspect
04. Dan Duryea, The Woman in the Window
05. Claude Rains, Mr. Skeffington

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
01. Gail Russell, The Uninvited
02. Alexis Smith, The Adventures of Mark Twain
03. Gail Patrick, Up in Mabel's Room
04. Ethel Barrymore, None but the Lonely Heart
05. Elizabeth Russell, Weird Woman

BEST SCREENPLAY
01. Hail the Conquering Hero (Preston Sturges)
02. Torment (Ingmar Bergman)
03. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, Raymond Chandler, based on the novel by James M. Cain)
04. Up in Mabel's Room (Tom Reed, Isabel Dawn, based on the play by Wilson Collison and Otto A. Harbach)
05. The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Preston Sturges)

BEST FILM EDITING
01. At Land (Maya Deren)
02. Ivan the Terrible, Part I (Sergei Eisenstein)
03. National Velvet (Robert Kern)
04. Henry V (Reginald Beck)
05. The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks (Sara Ontañón)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
01. At Land (Alexander Hammid, Hella Heyman)
02. Ivan the Terrible, Part I (Andrei Moskvin, Eduard Tisse)
03. Henry V (Robert Krasker)
04. Laura (Joseph LaShelle)
05. Gaslight (Joseph Ruttenberg)

BEST ART DIRECTION
01. Ivan the Terrible, Part I (Sergei Eisenstein)
02. The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks (Francisco Escriñá, Pierre Schild, Antonio Simont)
03. Meet Me in St. Louis (Lemuel Ayers, Cedric Gibbons, Jack Martin Smith)
04. Frenchman's Creek (Hans Dreier, Ernst Fegté)
05. Experiment Perilous (Albert S. D'Agostino, Jack Okey)

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
01. Ivan the Terrible, Part I (Leonid Naumov, Nadezhda Buzina)
02. The Princess and the Pirate (Mary Grant)
03. Cobra Woman (Vera West)
04. Henry V (Roger K. Furse)
05. Frenchman's Creek (Raoul Pene Du Bois, Mitchell Leisen)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
01. Ivan the Terrible, Part I (Sergei Prokofiev)
02. Laura (David Raksin)
03. The Uninvited (Victor Young)
04. Henry V (William Walton)
05. National Velvet (Herbert Stothart)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
01. Meet Me in St. Louis ("Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," music by Ralph Blane, lyrics by Hugh Martin, performed by Judy Garland)
02. Christmas Holday ("Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year," music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, performed by Deanna Durbin)
03. Cover Girl ("Long Ago (and Far Away)," music by Jerome Kern, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, performed by Gene Kelly and Rita Hayworth)
03. Up in Arms ("Now I Know," music by Harold Arlen, lyrics by Ted Koehler, performed by Dinah Shore)
04. Sweet and Low-Down ("I'm Making Believe," music by James V. Monaco, lyrics by Mack Gordon, performed by Lynn Bari)

BEST SOUND
01. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (Douglas Shearer)
02. The Fighting Sullivans (Harry M. Leonard, George Leverett)
03. Ivan the Terrible, Part I (Vladimir Bogdankevich, Boris Volsky)
04. Henry V (John Dennis, Desmond Dew)
05. Lifeboat (Bernard Freericks; Roger Heman, Sr.)

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
01. Ivan the Terrible, Part I (E. Chakon, Vasili Goryunov)
02. Mr. Skeffington (Perc Westmore, Margaret Donovan)
03. Mrs. Parkington (Jack Dawn, Sydney Guilaroff)
04. The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks (Antonio Florido)
05. Meet Me in St. Louis (Jack Dawn)

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
01. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (A. Arnold Gillespie, Donald Jahraus, Warren Newcombe)
02. Lifeboat (Edwin Hammeras, James Curtis Havens, Fred Sersen)
03. The Canterville Ghost (Irving G. Ries, Lester White)
04. The Uninvited (Farciot Eduoart, Gordon Jennings)
05. Since You Went Away (Jack Cosgrove, Clarence Slifer)

FINAL TALLY
8 nominations: Henry V (2 wins); Ivan the Terrible, Part I (4 wins)
5 nominations: Laura (1 win)
4 nominations: At Land (2 wins), Double Indemnity (2 wins), Hail the Conquering Hero (1 win), Lifeboat
3 nominations: Meet Me in St. Louis (1 win), Torment, The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks, The Uninvited (1 win)
2 nominations: Christmas Holiday, Frenchman's Creek, Gaslight, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Mr. Skeffington, National Velvet, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (2 wins), Up in Mabel's Room
1 nomination: The Adventures of Mark Twain, And Now Tomorrow, The Canterville Ghost, The Children Are Watching Us, Cobra Woman, Cover Girl, Experiment Perilous, The Fighting Sullivans, The Keys of the Kingdom, The Lodger, Mrs. Parkington, None but the Lonely Heart, The Princess and the Pirate, Since You Went Away, Sweet and Low-Down, This Happy Breed, Up in Arms, Weird Woman, The Woman in the Window

Best Film

1. Double Indemnity
2. Laura
3. Hail, The Conquering Home
4. Going My Way
5. Torment

Best Director

1. Billy Wilder, Double Indemnity
2. Otto Preminger, Laura
3. Preston Sturgess, Hail, The Conquering Hero
4. Leo McCarey, Going My Way
5. Alf Sjoberg, Torment

Best Actor

1. Bing Crosby, Going My Way
2. Charles Boyer, Gaslight
3. Fred MacMurray, Double Indemnity
4. Stig Jarrel, Torment
5. Eddie Bracken, Hail, The Conquering Hero

Best Actress

1. Barbara Stanwyck, Double Indemnity
2. Gene Tierney, Laura
3. Tallulah Bankhead, Lifeboat
4. Ingrid Bergman, Gaslight
5. Bette Davis, Mr. Skeffington

Best Supporting Actor

1. Barry Fitzgerald, Going My Way
2. Clifton Webb, Laura
3. Freddie Steele for Hail, The Conquering Hero
4. Edward G Robinson, Double Indemnity
5. Claude Raines, Mr. Skeffington

Best Supporting Actress

1. Angela Lansbury, Gaslight
2. Mary Astor, Meet Me in St Louis
3. Googie Withers, On Approval
4. Josephine Hull, Arsenic and Old Lace
5. Jean Adair, Arsenic and Old Lace


Best Screenplay

1. Hail, The Conquering Hero
2. Going My Way
3. Torment
4. Lifeboat

Best Screenplay Adaptation

1. Double Indemnity
2. Laura
3. On Approval
4. Arsenic and Old Lace
5. Phantom Lady

Best Cinematography

1. Meet Me in St. Louis
2. Laura
3. Double Indemnity
4. Going My Way
5. Between Two Worlds

Best Editing

1. Double Indemnity
2. Laura
3. Arsenic and Old Lace
4. Lifeboat
5. Gaslight

Best Sound

1. Hail, The Conquering Hero
2. Meet Me in St. Louis
3. Going My Way
4. Lifeboat
5. Gaslight

Best Art Direction

1. Meet Me in St. Louis
2. Laura
3. Gaslight
4. Arsenic and Old Lace
5. Mr. Skeffington

Best Costume Design

1. Meet Me in St. Louis
2. Laura
3. Double Indemnity
4. Gaslight
5. Mademoiselle Fifi

Best Music

1. Meet Me in St. Louis
2. Double Indemnity
3. Laura
4. Mr. Skeffington
5. Gaslight

1944
Best Picture
Double Indemnity
Henry V
*Laura
Lifeboat
Meet Me in St. Louis

Best Actor
Humphrey Bogart, To Have and Have Not
Charles Boyer, Gaslight
Gene Kelly, Cover Girl
Fred MacMurray, Double Indemnity
*Laurence Olivier, Henry V

Best Actress
Tallulah Bankhead, Lifeboat
Joan Bennett, The Woman in the Window
Bette Davis, Mr. Skeffington
Judy Garland, Meet Me in St. Louis
*Barbara Stanwyck, Double Indemnity

Best Supporting Actor
Dan Duryea, The Woman in the Window
Claude Rains, Mr. Skeffington
Edward G. Robinson, Double Indemnity
*Clifton Webb, Laura
Monty Woolley, Since You Went Away

Best Supporting Actress
Eve Arden, Cover Girl
*Ethel Barrymore, None But the Lonely Heart
Jennifer Jones, Since You Went Away
Angela Lansbury, Gaslight
Dame May Whitty, Gaslight

Best Director
Alfred Hitchcock, Lifeboat
Fritz Lang, The Woman in the Window
Vincente Minnelli, Meet Me in St. Louis
*Otto Preminger, Laura
Billy Wilder, Double Indemnity

1944

Best Picture
Double Indemnity
Going My Way
The Keys of the Kingdom
Laura
*Meet Me in St. Louis

Best Actor
*Charles Boyer, Gaslight
Bing Crosby, Going My Way
Alexander Knox, Wilson
Fred MacMurray, Double Indemnity
Gregory Peck, The Keys of the Kingdom

Best Actress
Tallulah Bankhead, Lifeboat
Ingrid Bergman, Gaslight
Claudette Colbert, Since You Went Away
Irene Dunne, The White Cliffs of Dover
*Barbara Stanwyck, Double Indemnity

Best Supporting Actor
Barry Fitzgerald, Going My Way
Edward G. Robinson, Double Indemnity
Walter Slezak, Lifeboat
*Clifton Webb, Laura
Monty Woolley, Since You Went Away

Best Supporting Actress
*Ethel Barrymore, None but the Lonely Heart
Gladys Cooper, The White Cliffs of Dover
Jennifer Jones, Since You Went Away
Margaret O’Brien, Meet Me in St. Louis
Anne Revere, National Velvet

Best Director
Clarence Brown, National Velvet
Leo McCarey, Going My Way
*Vincente Minnelli, Meet Me in St. Louis
Otto Preminger, Laura
Billy Wilder, Double Indemnity