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16th Academy Awards
March 2, 1944
Hollywood, California, USA
Jack Benny


The 16th Academy Awards 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.

Awards

Best Picture : Casablanca

Best Director : Michael Curtiz, Casablanca

Best Actor : Paul Lukas, Watch on the Rhine

Best Supporting Actor : Charles Coburn, The More the Merrier

Best Actress : Jennifer Jones, Song of Bernadette

Best Supporting Actress : Katina Paxinou, For Whom the Bell Tolls

Best Original Screenplay : Norman Krasna, ''Princess O’Roarke

Best Original Story : William Saroyan, The Human Comedy

Best Screenplay : Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard Koch, Casablanca

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Academy Awards
Academy Award of Merit:
Current Awards		 Best Picture • Best Leading Actor • Best Leading Actress • Best Supporting Actor • Best Supporting Actress • Best Animated Feature • Best Art Direction • Best Cinematography • Best Costume Design • Best Director • Best Documentary Feature • Best Documentary Short Subject • Best Film Editing • Best Foreign Language Film • Best Makeup • Best Original Score • Best Original Song • Best Animated Short Film • Best Live Action Short Film • Best Sound Mixing • Best Sound Editing • Best Visual Effects • Best Adapted Screenplay • Best Original Screenplay
Academy Award of Merit:
Retired Awards		Best Assistant Director • Best Dance Direction • Best Director of a Comedy Picture • Best Short Film - Live Action - 2 Reels • Best Short Film - Novelty • Best Original Story • Best Title Writing • Best Unique and Artistic Quality of Production
Special Awards:
Current Awards		Academy Honorary Award • Academy Special Achievement Award • Academy Award, Scientific or Technical • The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award • The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award • Gordon E. Sawyer Award
Special Awards:
Retired Awards		Academy Juvenile Award
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Hollywood is a district in Los Angeles, California, situated west-northwest of Downtown Los Angeles. Due to its fame and cultural identity as the historical center of movie studios and movie stars, the word "Hollywood" is often used as a metonym for the Cinema of the United States.
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Jack Benny

1942 portrait photograph of Jack Benny.
Birth name Benjamin Kubelsky
Born January 14 1894(1894--)
Chicago, Illinois
Died November 26 1974 (aged 80)
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Academy Award

Awarded for Excellence in cinematic achievements
Presented by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Country United States
First awarded May 16, 1929 to honor achievements of 1927/1928
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Casablanca is an Oscar-winning 1942 romance film set in the Vichy-controlled Moroccan city of Casablanca.
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Michael Curtiz

Birth name Manó Kertész Kaminer
Born November 24 1886(1886--)
Budapest, Austria-Hungary (now Hungary)
Died March 10 1962 (aged 77)
Hollywood, California, U.S.
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Casablanca is an Oscar-winning 1942 romance film set in the Vichy-controlled Moroccan city of Casablanca.
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Paul Lukas

from the trailer for
The Casino Murder Case (1935).
Birth name Pál Lukács
Born May 26 1895(1895--)
Budapest, Hungary
Died
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Watch on the Rhine is a 1943 film that was adapted by Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman from Hellman's play. It was directed by Hal Mohr (uncredited) and Herman Shumlin.
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Charles Coburn

Birth name Charles Douville Coburn
Born June 19 1877
Savannah, Georgia, U.S.
Died July 30 1961 (aged 84)
Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, New York, U.S.
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The More the Merrier is a 1943 comedy film made by Columbia Pictures which makes fun of the World War II time housing shortage, especially in Washington, D.C.. It stars Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn, Stanley Clements and Richard Gaines.
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Jennifer Jones

Jennifer Jones as a Eurasian doctor in Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955).

Born March 2 1919 (1919--) (age 88)
Tulsa, Oklahoma


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The Song of Bernadette can refer to:
  • The Song of Bernadette (novel), a novel by Franz Werfel.
  • The Song of Bernadette (film), a screen adaptation of the book.
  • "Song of Bernadette", a song from Jennifer Warnes' album ''Famous Blue Raincoat.

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Katina Paxinou

Publicity photo
Birth name Ekaterini Konstantopoulou
Born November 17 1900(1900--)
Piraeus, Greece
Died January 22 1973 (aged 74)
Athens, Greece


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Norman Krasna

Krasna in later life

Born (November 7 1909
 United States
Died November 1 1984

Awards
Academy Awards
Won:Best Original Screenplay (Princess O'Rourke, 1943) Nominated

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William Saroyan

William Saroyan, 1940
Born: August 31, 1908
Fresno, California
Died: May 18, 1981
Fresno, California
Occupation: novelist, playwright, short story writer,
Nationality: Armenian-American
Writing period: 1934-1980
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The Human Comedy

First edition cover
Author William Saroyan
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Harcourt
Publication date 1 February 1943
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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
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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 Rick's
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Howard Koch is the name of:
  • Howard Koch (1902-1995), American screenwriter
  • Howard W. Koch (1916-2001), American film and TV director, producer
  • Howard W. "Hawk" Koch, Jr. (b. 1945), American film producer

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Casablanca is an Oscar-winning 1942 romance film set in the Vichy-controlled Moroccan city of Casablanca.
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Academy Award

Awarded for Excellence in cinematic achievements
Presented by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Country United States
First awarded May 16, 1929 to honor achievements of 1927/1928
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Academy Award of Merit for Best Sound Editing is an Academy Award granted yearly to a film exhibiting the finest or most aesthetic sound editing or sound design. The award is usually received by the Supervising Sound Editors of the film, perhaps accompanied by the Sound Designers.
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In the first year of this award it referred to no specific film.
  • 1933 winners
  • Charles Barton (Paramount)
  • Rick James (Universal)

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The Academy Awards for Best Dance Direction (1935-1937 only)
  • 1935 Dave Gould - Broadway Melody of 1936 ("I've Got a Feeling You're Fooling") and Folies Bergere ("Straw Hat")

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The Academy Award for Best Director is one of the awards given to directors working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Nominations are made by Academy members in the Directing branch, while the winners are chosen by the Academy
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This is a list of short films that have received an Oscar or a nomination for best live action short film that consists of 2 reels.

1930s

  • 1936 The Public Pays - MGM
  • Double or Nothing

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