Oscar Rewrite: 1944

 

Best Picture: Going My Way       Double Indemnity

Best Director: Leo McCarey (Going My Way) Vincente Minneli (Meet Me in St. Louis)

Best Actor: Bing Crosby (Going My Way)

Best Actress: Ingrid Bergman (Gaslight) Lauren Bacall (To Have and Have Not)

Best Supporting Actor: Barry Fitzgergald (Going My Way) Edward G. Robinson (Double Indemnity)

Best Supporting Actress: Ethel Barrymore (None But the Lonely Heart) Gene Tierney (Laura)

Best Original Screenplay: Wilson    The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek

Best Adapted Screenplay: Going My Way   Murder, My Sweet

Jason Fraley

Hailed by The Washington Post for “his savantlike ability to name every Best Picture winner in history," Jason Fraley began at WTOP as Morning Drive Writer in 2008, film critic in 2011 and Entertainment Editor in 2014, providing daily arts coverage on-air and online.

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