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The 16th Academy Awards were held on March 2, 1944, to honor the films of 1943. 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 on KFWB, and internationally by CBS Radio via shortwave.
The 17th Academy Awards were held on March 15, 1945 at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, honoring the films of 1944. This was the first time the complete awards ceremony was broadcast nationally, on the Blue Network (later ABC Radio). Bob Hope hosted the 70-minute broadcast, which included film clips that required explanation for the radio audience.
Going My Way was the highest-grossing picture of 1944, and was nominated for ten Academy Awards, winning seven, including Best Picture. [3] Its success helped to make movie exhibitors choose Crosby as the biggest box-office draw of the year, [4] [5] a record he would hold for the remainder of the 1940s.
Gaslight is a 1944 American psychological thriller film directed by George Cukor, and starring Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten and Angela Lansbury in her film debut. Adapted by John Van Druten, Walter Reisch, and John L. Balderston from Patrick Hamilton 's play Gas Light (1938), it follows a young woman whose husband slowly ...
Films with the most awards: Ben-Hur (1959), Titanic (1997), and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) each earned 11 Academy Awards. Films with the most nominations: All About Eve (1950), Titanic (1997), and La La Land (2016) each earned 14 Academy Award nominations. Film with the highest clean sweep: The Lord of the Rings: The ...
Most awards or nominations. Most awards won by a single film: 11. Three films have won 11 Academy Awards: Ben-Hur (1959): nominated in 12 of the 15 possible categories. Titanic (1997): nominated in 14 of the 17 possible categories. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003): nominated in 11 of the 17 possible categories.
1944 Academy Awards may refer to: 16th Academy Awards, the Academy Awards ceremony that took place in 1944. 17th Academy Awards, the 1945 ceremony honoring the best in film for 1944. Category: Set index articles.
[2] [3] It was nominated for the 1944 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. The film title Wing and a Prayer was borrowed from a number one hit song in 1943, "Comin' In on a Wing and a Prayer". In a bit of studio self-promotion, the carrier crew watches another 20th Century Fox picture, Tin Pan Alley (1940), during the film. [4]