1944

Best Picture

Double Indemnity
-Gaslight
-Between Two Worlds
-Murder, My Sweet
-The Seventh Cross

Best Director

"Do I laugh now, or wait 'til it gets funny?"
Billy Wilder for Double Indemnity
-George Cukor for Gaslight
-Fred Zinnemann for The Seventh Cross
-Edward Dymtryk for Murder, My Sweet
-Frank Capra for Arsenic & Old Lace

Best Actor

"It's just like the first time I came here, isn't it? We were talking about automobile insurance, only you were thinking about murder. And I was thinking about that anklet."
Fred MacMurray as Walter Neff in Double Indemnity
-Laurence Olivier as King Henry V of England in Henry V
-John Garfield as Tom Prior in Between Two Worlds
-Charles Boyer as Gregory Anton in Gaslight
-Bing Crosby as Father Chuck O'Malley in Going My Way

Best Actress

"Suppose I let you off with a warning this time."
Barbara Stanwyck as Phyllis Dietrichson in Double Indemnity
-Betty Hutton as Trudy Kockenlocker in The Miracle on Morgan's Creek
-Ingrid Bergman as Paula Alquist in Gaslight
-Claudette Colbert as Mrs. Anne Hilton in Since You Went Away
-Bette Davis as Fanny Trellis in Mr. Skeffington

Best Supporting Actor

"I picked you for the job, not because I think you're so darn smart, but because I thought you were a shade less dumb than the rest of the outfit. Guess I was wrong. You're not smarter, Walter... you're just a little taller."
Edward G. Robinson as Barton Keyes in Double Indemnity
-Joseph Cotton as Brian Cameron in Gaslight
-Peter Lorre as Dr. Herman Einstein in Arsenic & Old Lace
-Sydney Greenstreet as Rev. Tim Thompson in Between Two Worlds
-Claude Rains as Job Skeffington in Mr. Skeffington

Best Supporting Actress

"Oh no, sir, not with me. I can take care of myself - when I want to."
Angela Lansbury as Nancy Oliver in Gaslight
-Claire Trevor as Mrs. Helen Grayle in Murder, My Sweet
-Ella Raines as Libby in Hail the Conquering Hero
-Ethel Barrymore as Ma Mott in None but the Lonely Heart
-Priscilla Lane as Elaine Harper in Arsenic & Old Lace

Best Screenplay

"I think you're swell - so long as I'm not your husband."
Double Indemnity
-Gaslight
-Murder My Sweet
-Hail the Conquering Hero
-Arsenic & Old Lace
-The Miracle on Morgan's Creek