Alternate Oscars: 1944

* = winner

BEST PICTURE:

Arsenic and Old Lace

Double Indemnity*

Meet Me in St. Louis

Murder, My Sweet

To Have and Have Not

BEST DIRECTOR:

Frank Capra, Arsenic and Old Lace

Howard Hawks, To Have and Have Not

Alfred Hitchcock, Lifeboat

Vincente Minnelli, Meet Me in St. Louis

Billy Wilder, Double Indemnity*

BEST ACTOR:

Humphrey Bogart, To Have and Have Not

Charles Boyer, Gaslight

Cary Grant, Arsenic and Old Lace*

Fred MacMurray, Double Indemnity

Dick Powell, Murder, My Sweet

BEST ACTRESS:

Lauren Bacall, To Have and Have Not

Tallulah Bankhead, Lifeboat

Ingrid Bergman, Gaslight*

Judy Garland, Meet Me in St. Louis

Barbara Stanwyck, Double Indemnity

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:

Donald Crisp, National Velvet

William Demarest, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek

Barry Fitzgerald, Going My Way

Peter Lorre, Arsenic and Old Lace

Edward G. Robinson, Double Indemnity*

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

Ethel Barrymore, None But the Lonely Heart

Josephine Hull, Arsenic and Old Lace

Jennifer Jones, Since You Went Away

Margaret O'Brien, Meet Me in St. Louis

Anne Revere, National Velvet*

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:

Arsenic and Old Lace

Double Indemnity*

Meet Me in St. Louis

Murder, My Sweet

To Have and Have Not

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:

A Canterbury Tale

Going My Way

Hail the Conquering Hero

Lifeboat

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek*

BEST ART DIRECTION:

Cover Girl

Gaslight

Henry V

Meet Me in St. Louis*

National Velvet

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

Double Indemnity*

Laura

Meet Me in St. Louis

National Velvet

The Uninvited

BEST COSTUME DESIGN:

Cover Girl

Gaslight

Henry V

Meet Me in St. Louis*

Wilson

BEST FILM EDITING:

Arsenic and Old Lace

Double Indemnity

Laura*

Meet Me in St. Louis

Murder, My Sweet

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:

Double Indemnity*

Laura

National Velvet

Since You Went Away

The Woman in the Window

BEST ORIGINAL SONG:

"The Boy Next Door" from Meet Me in St. Louis

"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" from Meet Me in St. Louis*

"How Little We Know" from To Have and Have Not

"Swinging on a Star" from Going My Way

"The Trolley Song" from Meet Me in St. Louis

BEST MAKEUP:

Arsenic and Old Lace

Henry V

Meet Me in St. Louis

Mr. Skeffington*

Wilson

BEST SOUND:

Double Indemnity

Lifeboat*

Meet Me in St. Louis

Passage to Marseille

To Have and Have Not

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:

The Curse of the Cat People

Henry V

Lifeboat

Passage to Marseille

The Uninvited*

BEST STUNTS:

Arsenic and Old Lace

Henry V

National Velvet*

Passage to Marseille

To Have and Have Not

BEST CASTING:

Arsenic and Old Lace*

Double Indemnity

Lifeboat

Meet Me in St. Louis

To Have and Have Not

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM: (incomplete lineup)

A Canterbury Tale*

Henry V