The Best of the Nighthawk Awards: The 1940′s

the dancing mushrooms in Fantasia - the best animated film of the 1940's

Well, before I go into 1949, I’ll cover the decade as a whole.  Bear in mind the decade awards cover films by their original release date, so you might find films that haven’t shown up in individual years yet.

1940  -  1949

Total Films I’ve Seen:  617

Films That Make the Top 5 in a Category:  42

Best Film Not to Make the Top 5 in any Category:  The Best Years of Our Lives

Film of the Decade:  Children of Paradise

Worst Film of the Decade:  King of the Zombies

Worst Best Picture Nominee of the Decade:  All This and Heaven Too

Worst Film of the Decade Made by a Top 100 Director:  Under Capricorn

 

The History of the Academy Awards: Best Picture – 1944

Oscar winners Barry Fitzgerald and Bing Crosby in Best Picture winner Going My Way (1944)

The 17th Academy Awards, for the film year 1944.  The nominations were announced on February 3, 1945 and the awards were held on March 15, 1945.

Best Picture:  Going My Way

• Double Indemnity
• Gaslight
• Since You Went Away
• Wilson

Most Surprising Omission:  Laura

Best Eligible Film Not Nominated:  The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek

Rank (out of 82) Among Best Picture Years:  #60

 

The Year in Film: 1944

My Top 10:

The ultimate femme fatale: Barbara Stanwyck in Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity (1944)

1. Double Indemnity
2. Gaslight
3. The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
4. Hail the Conquering Hero
5. Arsenic and Old Lace
6. Ministry of Fear
7. Laura
8. The Princess and the Pirate
9. Kismet
10. The Seventh Cross