Best Films – 1944

John Hodiak, Tallulah Bankhead in Lifeboat
FILM
I Bambini ci guardano / The Children Are Watching Us
d: Vittorio De Sica; scr: Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica, Cesare Giulio Viola, Adolfo Franci, Margherita Maglione, Gherardo Gherardi
Crime by Night
d: William Clemens; scr: Joel Malone, Richard Weil
Dragon Seed
d: Harold S. Bucquet, Jack Conway; scr: Jane Murfin, Marguerite Roberts
Laura
d: Otto Preminger; scr: Jay Dratter, Samuel Hoffenstein, Betty Reinhardt
Lifeboat
d: Alfred Hitchcock; scr: Jo Swerling
Mr. Skeffington
d: Vincent Sherman; scr: Julius J. Epstein, Phillip G. Epstein
This Happy Breed
d: David Lean; scr: Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean, Ronald Neame
The Uninvited
d: Lewis Allen; scr: Dodie Smith

Jennifer Jones, Robert Walker, Joseph Cotten in Since You Went Away
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Arsenic and Old Lace
d: Frank Capra; scr: Julius J. Epstein, Phillip G. Epstein
Home in Indiana
d: Henry Hathaway; scr: Winston Miller
Jane Eyre
d: Robert Stevenson; scr: John Houseman, Aldous Huxley, Robert Stevenson
María Candelaria / Portrait of Maria
d: Emilio Fernández; scr: Emilio Fernández, Mauricio Magdaleno
Meet Me in St. Louis
d: Vincente Minnelli; scr: Irving Brecher, Fred F. Finklehoffe
Phantom Lady
d: Robert Siodmak; scr: Bernard C. Schoenfeld
Since You Went Away
d: John Cromwell; scr: David O. Selznick
Something for the Boys
d: Lewis Seiler; scr: Robert Ellis, Frank Gabrielson, Helen Logan
The Suspect
d: Robert Siodmak; scr: Arthur T. Horman, Bertram Millhauser

Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, Rise Stevens in Going My Way
ACTOR
Gary Cooper
The Story of Dr. Wassel
Jerome Cowan
Crime by Night
Laird Cregar
The Lodger
Barry Fitzgerald
Going My Way
Edward G. Robinson
Double Indemnity

Bette Davis, Claude Rains in Mr. Skeffington
ACTRESS
Tallulah Bankhead
Lifeboat
Vivian Blaine
Something for the Boys
Claudette Colbert
Since You Went Away
Jeanne Crain
Home in Indiana
Bette Davis
Mr. Skeffington
Joan Fontaine
Jane Eyre
Judy Garland
Meet Me in St. Louis
Katharine Hepburn
Dragon Seed
Celia Johnson
This Happy Breed
Gene Tierney
Laura
SUPPORTING ACTOR
John Alexander
Arsenic and Old Lace
Leon Ames
Meet Me in St. Louis
Pedro Armendáriz
María Candelaria
Henry Daniell
The Suspect
Miguel Inclán
María Candelaria
Peter Lorre
Arsenic and Old Lace
Raymond Massey
Arsenic and Old Lace
Claude Rains
Mr. Skeffington
Walter Slezak
Lifeboat
Leonard Strong
The Keys of the Kingdom
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Faye Emerson
Crime by Night
Josephine Hull
Arsenic and Old Lace
Rosalind Ivan
The Suspect
Priscilla Lane
Arsenic and Old Lace
Angela Lansbury
Gaslight
Alison Leggart
This Happy Breed
Marjorie Main
Meet Me in St. Louis
Carmen Miranda
Something for the Boys
Claire Trevor
Murder My Sweet
Dame May Whitty
Gaslight
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Lucien Ballard
The Lodger
George Barnes
None But the Lonely Heart
George Barnes
Jane Eyre
Stanley Cortez, Lee Garmes
Since You Went Away
Gabriel Figueroa
María Candelaria
George J. Folsey
Meet Me in St. Louis
George J. Folsey
The White Cliffs of Dover
Ernest Haller
Mr. Skeffington
Joseph LaShelle
Laura
Joseph Ruttenberg
Mrs. Parkington

Gene Tierney in Laura
MUSIC
Francisco Dominguez
María Candelaria
David Raksin
Laura
Renzo Rossellini
I Bambini ci guardano
Victor Young
The Uninvited
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