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Encyclopedia > 16th Academy Awards
16th Academy Awards
Date March 2, 1944
Site Grauman’s Chinese Theater, Hollywood, California, USA
Host Jack Benny

This 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. March 2 is the 61st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (62nd in leap years). ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar). ... ... For other uses, see California (disambiguation). ... Jack Benny (born Benjamin Kubelsky, February 14, 1894 – December 26, 1974), an American comedian, vaudeville performer, and radio, television, and film actor, was one of the biggest stars in classic American radio and was also a major television personality. ...


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


Awards

Best Picture : Casablanca Logo of Casablanca Casablanca from space Casablanca (Spanish for white house ; Standard Arabic: الدار البيضاء transliterated ; Moroccan Arabic: dar beïda; Berber: Taddart Tashemlalt) is a city in western Morocco, located on the Atlantic Ocean. ...


Best Director : Michael Curtiz, Casablanca Michael Curtiz (December 24, 1886 - April 10, 1962) was a Hungarian-American film director, whose best known films include The Adventures of Robin Hood, Casablanca, and White Christmas. ... Logo of Casablanca Casablanca from space Casablanca (Spanish for white house ; Standard Arabic: الدار البيضاء transliterated ; Moroccan Arabic: dar beïda; Berber: Taddart Tashemlalt) is a city in western Morocco, located on the Atlantic Ocean. ...


Best Actor : Paul Lukas, Watch on the Rhine Paul Lukas (May 26, 1887 - August 15, 1971) was a Hungarian actor. ... Watch on the Rhine is a 1943 film which tells the story of a man who, in attempting to return to the United States during World War II, is blackmailed by a Nazi sympathiser. ...


Best Supporting Actor : Charles Coburn, The More the Merrier Charles Douville Coburn (June 17, 1877 – August 30, 1961) was an American film and theater actor. ... The More the Merrier is a 1943 comedy film which makes fun of the World War II time housing shortage, especially in Washington, D.C.. A young woman sublets half of her tiny apartment to a middle aged man, who promptly sublets half of his half to a young man. ...


Best Actress : Jennifer Jones, Song of Bernadette Jennifer Jones Jennifer Jones (born March 2, 1919) is an Oscar-winning American actress. ...


Best Supporting Actress : Katina Paxinou, For Whom the Bell Tolls Katina Paxinou (17 December 1900 - 22 February 1973) was an Academy Award-winning Greek film and theatre actress. ... For Whom the Bell Tolls is a 1940 novel by Ernest Hemingway. ...


Best Original Screenplay : Norman Krasna, Princess O’Roarke Norman Krasna (born November 7, 1909–November 1, 1984) was an American screenwriter, playwright, and film director. ...


Best Original Story : William Saroyan, The Human Comedy William Saroyan (August 31, 1908 - May 18, 1981) was an Armenian-American author who wrote many plays and short stories about growing up impoverished as the son of Armenian immigrants. ... The Human Comedy is a book by William Saroyan. ...


Best Screenplay : Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard Koch, Casablanca Julius J. Epstein (born August 22, 1909, New York, New York; died December 30, 2000, Los Angeles, California) was an American screenwriter, who had a long career, most noted for the adaptation -— in partnership with his twin brother, Philip, and others —- of the unproduced play Everybody Comes to Ricks... Philip G. Epstein (August 22, 1909 - February 7, 1952) was an American screenwriter most known for his adaptation in partnership with his twin brother, Julius, and others of the unproduced play Everybody Comes to Ricks that became the screenplay for the Academy Award-winning film Casablanca (1942). ... Howard Koch (1902-1995) was an American screenwriter. ... Logo of Casablanca Casablanca from space Casablanca (Spanish for white house ; Standard Arabic: الدار البيضاء transliterated ; Moroccan Arabic: dar beïda; Berber: Taddart Tashemlalt) is a city in western Morocco, located on the Atlantic Ocean. ...


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