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[edit] Events
[edit] Top grossing films
- North America
- Going My Way, starring Bing Crosby
- Meet Me in St. Louis, starring Judy Garland
- Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
- Hollywood Canteen
- A Guy Named Joe
- The White Cliffs of Dover
[edit] Awards
Academy Awards:
- Best Picture: Going My Way - Paramount
- Best Director: Leo McCarey - Going My Way
- Best Actor: Bing Crosby - Going My Way
- Best Actress: Ingrid Bergman - Gaslight
- Best Supporting Actor: Barry Fitzgerald - Going My Way
- Best Supporting Actress: Ethel Barrymore - None but the Lonely Heart
Golden Globe Awards:
- Best Picture: Going My Way
- Best Director: Leo McCarey, Going My Way
- Best Actor: Alexander Knox - Wilson
- Best Actress: Ingrid Bergman - Gaslight
[edit] Films released in 1944
- Between Two Worlds
- A Canterbury Tale, written and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
- Cry of the Werewolf
- Double Indemnity, starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson
- The Fighting Seabees
- Gaslight, the Hollywood remake, with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer
- Going My Way
- Henry V, directed by and starring Laurence Olivier
- Hollywood Canteen - (film only mentioned in article)
- House of Frankenstein
- In Society, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- Ivan the Terrible, by director Sergei Eisenstein
- The Keys of the Kingdom, starring Gregory Peck, Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price, and Roddy McDowall
- Lady, Let's Dance, ice skating musical starring Belita and comedy ice team Frick & Frack
- Laura
- Lost in a Harem, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- Meet Me in St. Louis
- National Velvet
- None but the Lonely Heart
- The Return of the Vampire
- Since You Went Away
- Thirty Seconds over Tokyo
- The Way Ahead, directed by Carol Reed
- The White Cliffs of Dover
- Wilson, biographical film about President Woodrow Wilson, starring Charles Coburn
[edit] Serials
[edit] Short film series
[edit] Animated short film series
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths