16th Academy Awards

{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Outstanding Motion Picture}}

• Casablanca – Hal B. Wallis for Warner Bros.{{double dagger}}
• For Whom the Bell Tolls – Sam Wood for Paramount
• Heaven Can Wait – Ernst Lubitsch for 20th Century Fox
• The Human Comedy – Clarence Brown for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• In Which We Serve – Noël Coward for Two Cities Films
• Madame Curie – Sidney Franklin for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• The More the Merrier – George Stevens for Columbia
• The Ox-Bow Incident – Lamar Trotti for 20th Century Fox
• The Song of Bernadette – William Perlberg for 20th Century Fox
• Watch on the Rhine – Hal B. Wallis for Warner Bros.

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{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Best Directing}}

• Michael Curtiz – Casablanca{{double dagger}}
• Ernst Lubitsch – Heaven Can Wait
• Clarence Brown – The Human Comedy
• George Stevens – The More the Merrier
• Henry King – The Song of Bernadette

{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Best Actor}}

• Paul Lukas – Watch on the Rhine as Kurt Muller{{double dagger}}
• Humphrey Bogart – Casablanca as Rick Blaine
• Gary Cooper – For Whom the Bell Tolls as Robert Jordan
• Walter Pidgeon – Madame Curie as Pierre Curie
• Mickey Rooney – The Human Comedy as Homer Macauley

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{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Best Actress}}

• Jennifer Jones – The Song of Bernadette as Bernadette Soubirous{{double dagger}}
• Jean Arthur – The More the Merrier as Constance Milligan
• Ingrid Bergman – For Whom the Bell Tolls as María
• Joan Fontaine – The Constant Nymph as Tessa Sanger
• Greer Garson – Madame Curie as Marie Curie

{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Best Actor in a Supporting Role}}

• Charles Coburn – The More the Merrier as Benjamin Dingle{{double dagger}}
• Charles Bickford – The Song of Bernadette as Abbé Dominique Peyramale
• J. Carrol Naish – Sahara as Giuseppe
• Claude Rains – Casablanca as Captain Louis Renault
• Akim Tamiroff – For Whom the Bell Tolls as Pablo

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{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Best Actress in a Supporting Role}}

• Katina Paxinou – For Whom the Bell Tolls as Pilar{{double dagger}}
• Gladys Cooper – The Song of Bernadette as Marie Therese Vauzou
• Paulette Goddard – So Proudly We Hail! as Lt. Joan O'Doul
• Anne Revere – The Song of Bernadette as Louise Casterot Soubirous
• Lucile Watson – Watch on the Rhine as Fanny Farrelly

{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Best Writing (Original Screenplay)}}

• Princess O'Rourke – Norman Krasna{{double dagger}}
• Air Force – Dudley Nichols
• In Which We Serve – Noël Coward
• The North Star – Lillian Hellman
• So Proudly We Hail! – Allan Scott

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{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Best Writing (Screenplay)}}

• Casablanca – Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard E. Koch, based on Everybody Comes to Rick's by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison{{double dagger}}
• Holy Matrimony – Nunnally Johnson, based on Buried Alive by Arnold Bennett
• The More the Merrier – Richard Flournoy, Lewis R. Foster, Frank Ross, and Robert Russell, based on a story by Frank Ross and Robert Russell
• The Song of Bernadette – George Seaton, based on the novel by Franz Werfel
• Watch on the Rhine – Dashiell Hammett, based on the play by Lillian Hellman

{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Best Writing (Original Motion Picture Story)}}

• The Human Comedy – William Saroyan{{double dagger}}
• Action in the North Atlantic – Guy Gilpatric
• Destination Tokyo – Steve Fisher
• The More the Merrier – Robert Russell and Frank Ross
• Shadow of a Doubt – Thornton Wilder

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{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Best Documentary (Feature)}}

• Desert Victory – British Ministry of Information{{double dagger}}
• Baptism of Fire – United States Army
• The Battle of Russia – United States Department of War, Special Service Division
• Report from the Aleutians – United States Army Pictorial Service
• War Department Report – United States Office of Strategic Services, Field Photographic Bureau

{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Best Documentary (Short Subject)}}

• December 7th – John Ford and United States Navy{{double dagger}}
• Children of Mars – RKO Radio
• Plan for Destruction – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Swedes in America – United States Office of War Information, Overseas Motion Picture Bureau
• To the People of the United States – Walter Wanger
• Tomorrow We Fly – United States Navy Bureau of Aeronautics
• Youth in Crisis – The March of Time

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{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Best Short Subject (One-Reel)}}

• Amphibious Fighters – Grantland Rice{{double dagger}}
• Cavalcade of Dance – Gordon Hollingshead
• Champions Carry On – Edmund Reek
• Hollywood in Uniform – Ralph Staub
• Seeing Hands – Pete Smith

{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Best Short Subject (Two-Reel)}}

• Heavenly Music – Jerry Bresler and Sam Coslow{{double dagger}}
• Letter to a Hero – Frederic Ullman Jr.
• Mardi Gras – Walter MacEwen
• Women at War – Gordon Hollingshead

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{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Best Short Subject (Cartoon)}}

• The Yankee Doodle Mouse – Fred Quimby{{double dagger}}
• The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins – George Pal
• The Dizzy Acrobat – Walter Lantz
• Greetings, Bait! – Leon Schlesinger
• Imagination – Dave Fleischer
• Reason and Emotion – Walt Disney

{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Best Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)}}

• The Song of Bernadette – Alfred Newman{{double dagger}}
• The Amazing Mrs. Holliday – Hans J. Salter and Frank Skinner
• Casablanca – Max Steiner
• Commandos Strike at Dawn – Louis Gruenberg and Morris Stoloff
• The Fallen Sparrow – C. Bakaleinikoff and Roy Webb
• For Whom the Bell Tolls – Victor Young
• Hangmen Also Die! – Hanns Eisler
• Hi Diddle Diddle – Philip Boutelje
• In Old Oklahoma – Walter Scharf
• Johnny Come Lately – Leigh Harline
• The Kansan – Gerard Carbonara
• Lady of Burlesque – Arthur Lange
• Madame Curie – Herbert Stothart
• The Moon and Sixpence – Dimitri Tiomkin
• The North Star – Aaron Copland
• Victory Through Air Power – Edward H. Plumb, Paul J. Smith, and Oliver Wallace

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{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Best Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture)}}

• This Is the Army – Ray Heindorf{{double dagger}}
• Coney Island – Alfred Newman
• Hit Parade of 1943 – Walter Scharf
• Phantom of the Opera – Edward Ward
• Saludos Amigos – Edward H. Plumb, Paul J. Smith, and Charles Wolcott
• The Sky's the Limit – Leigh Harline
• Something to Shout About – Morris Stoloff
• Stage Door Canteen – Frederic E. Rich
• Star Spangled Rhythm – Robert Emmett Dolan
• Thousands Cheer – Herbert Stothart

{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Best Music (Song)}}

• "You'll Never Know" from Hello, Frisco, Hello – Music by Harry Warren; Lyrics by Mack Gordon{{double dagger}}
• "A Change of Heart" from Hit Parade of 1943 – Music by Jule Styne; Lyrics by Harold Adamson
• "Happiness is a Thing Called Joe" from Cabin in the Sky – Music by Harold Arlen; Lyrics by E. Y. Harburg
• "My Shining Hour" from The Sky's the Limit – Music by Harold Arlen; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
• "Saludos Amigos" from Saludos Amigos – Music by Charles Wolcott; Lyrics by Ned Washington
• "Say a Pray'r for the Boys Over There" from Hers to Hold – Music by Jimmy McHugh; Lyrics by Herb Magidson
• "That Old Black Magic" from Star Spangled Rhythm – Music by Harold Arlen; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
• "They're Either Too Young or Too Old" from Thank Your Lucky Stars – Music by Arthur Schwartz; Lyrics by Frank Loesser
• "We Mustn't Say Goodbye" from Stage Door Canteen – Music by James V. Monaco; Lyrics by Al Dubin
• "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" from Something to Shout About – Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter

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{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Best Sound Recording}}

• This Land Is Mine – Stephen Dunn{{double dagger}}
• Hangmen Also Die! – Jack Whitney
• In Old Oklahoma – Daniel J. Bloomberg
• Madame Curie – Douglas Shearer
• The North Star – Thomas T. Moulton
• Phantom of the Opera – Bernard B. Brown
• Riding High – Loren L. Ryder
• Sahara – John P. Livadary
• Saludos Amigos – C. O. Slyfield
• So This Is Washington – J. L. Fields
• The Song of Bernadette – E. H. Hansen
• This Is the Army – Nathan Levinson

{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)}}

• The Song of Bernadette – Art Direction: James Basevi and William S. Darling; Interior Decoration: Thomas Little{{double dagger}}
• Five Graves to Cairo – Art Direction: Hans Dreier and Ernst Fegté; Interior Decoration: Bertram Granger
• Flight for Freedom – Art Direction: Albert S. D'Agostino and Carroll Clark; Interior Decoration: Darrell Silvera and Harley Miller
• Madame Curie – Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons and Paul Groesse; Interior Decoration: Edwin B. Willis and Hugh Hunt
• Mission to Moscow – Art Direction: Carl Jules Weyl; Interior Decoration: George James Hopkins
• The North Star – Art Direction: Perry Ferguson; Interior Decoration: Howard Bristol

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{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Best Art Direction (Color)}}

• Phantom of the Opera – Art Direction: Alexander Golitzen and John B. Goodman; Interior Decoration: Russell A. Gausman and Ira S. Webb{{double dagger}}
• For Whom the Bell Tolls – Art Direction: Hans Dreier and Haldane Douglas; Interior Decoration: Bertram Granger
• The Gang's All Here – Art Direction: James Basevi and Joseph C. Wright; Interior Decoration: Thomas Little
• This Is the Army – Art Direction: John Hughes and Lt. John Koenig; Interior Decoration: George James Hopkins
• Thousands Cheer – Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons and Daniel B. Cathcart; Interior Decoration: Edwin B. Willis and Jacques Mersereau

{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)}}

• The Song of Bernadette – Arthur C. Miller{{double dagger}}
• Air Force – James Wong Howe, Elmer Dyer and Charles A. Marshall
• Casablanca – Arthur Edeson
• Corvette K-225 – Tony Gaudio
• Five Graves to Cairo – John F. Seitz
• The Human Comedy – Harry Stradling
• Madame Curie – Joseph Ruttenberg
• The North Star – James Wong Howe
• Sahara – Rudolph Maté
• So Proudly We Hail! – Charles Lang

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{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Best Cinematography (Color)}}

• Phantom of the Opera – Hal Mohr and W. Howard Greene{{double dagger}}
• For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ray Rennahan
• Heaven Can Wait – Edward Cronjager
• Hello, Frisco, Hello – Charles G. Clarke and Allen Davey
• Lassie Come Home – Leonard Smith
• Thousands Cheer – George J. Folsey

{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Best Film Editing}}

• Air Force – George Amy{{double dagger}}
• Casablanca – Owen Marks
• Five Graves to Cairo – Doane Harrison
• For Whom the Bell Tolls – Sherman Todd and John F. Link Sr.
• The Song of Bernadette – Barbara McLean

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{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Best Special Effects}}

• Crash Dive – Photographic Effects: Fred Sersen; Sound Effects: Roger Heman{{double dagger}}
• Air Force – Photographic Effects: Hans F. Koenekamp and Rex Wimpy; Sound Effects: Nathan Levinson
• Bombardier – Photographic Effects: Vernon L. Walker; Sound Effects James G. Stewart and Roy Granville
• The North Star – Photographic Effects: Clarence Slifer and Ray Binger; Sound Effects: Thomas T. Moulton
• So Proudly We Hail! – Photographic Effects: Farciot Edouart and Gordon Jennings; Sound Effects: George Dutton
• Stand By for Action – Photographic Effects: A. Arnold Gillespie and Donald Jahraus; Sound Effects: Michael Steinore

|+ Films with multiple nominations

| The Song of Bernadette

| For Whom the Bell Tolls

| Casablanca

| Madame Curie

| The More the Merrier

| The Human Comedy

| Air Force

| Five Graves to Cairo

| Hangmen Also Die!

|+ Films with multiple awards

| The Song of Bernadette

| Casablanca

| Phantom of the Opera