The year 1944 in film involved some significant events.

Events

• July 20 - Since You Went Away is released.
• September 6 - Double Indemnity is released.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

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

Films released in 1944

• The Adventures of Mark Twain
• Arsenic and Old Lace
• Between Two Worlds
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey
• Buffalo Bill
• A Canterbury Tale, written and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
• Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
• Casanova Brown, starring Gary Cooper
• Christmas Holiday, starring Gene Kelly
• The Climax
• Cover Girl
• Cry of the Werewolf
• Double Indemnity, starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson
• Dragon Seed
• The Fighting Seabees
• Frenchman's Creek
• Gaslight, the Hollywood remake, with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer
• The Eve of St. Mark
• Going My Way
• Hail the Conquering Hero
• Henry V, directed by and starring Laurence Olivier
• Hollywood Canteen
• Home in Indiana
• House of Frankenstein
• In Society, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• It Happened Tomorrow
• Ivan the Terrible, by director Sergei Eisenstein
• Jane Eyre (1944 film), directed by Robert Stevenson and starring Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine
• The Keys of the Kingdom, starring Gregory Peck, Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price, and Roddy McDowall
• Kismet, starring Ronald Colman and Marlene Dietrich
• Lady in the Dark
• Lady, Let's Dance, ice skating musical starring Belita and comedy ice team Frick and Frack
• Laura
• Lifeboat
• Lost in a Harem, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• Meet Me in St. Louis
• Meet the People
• Mr. Skeffington
• Mrs. Parkington
• The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
• The Mummy's Curse
• The Mummy's Ghost
• Murder, My Sweet
• National Velvet
• None but the Lonely Heart
• None Shall Escape
• North East Corner
• Passage to Marseille
• The Princess and the Pirate
• The Return of the Vampire
• The Seventh Cross
• The Spider Woman
• Since You Went Away
• The Sullivans
• Sunday Dinner for a Soldier
• Thirty Seconds over Tokyo
• The Uninvited
• The Way Ahead, directed by Carol Reed
• The White Cliffs of Dover
• Wilson, biographical film about President Woodrow Wilson, starring Charles Coburn
• The Woman in the Window

Serials

• Black Arrow
• Captain America, starring Dick Purcell
• The Desert Hawk, starring Gilbert Roland and Charles Middleton
• The Great Alaskan Mystery
• Haunted Harbor, starring Kane Richmond
• Mystery of the River Boat
• Raiders of Ghost City
• The Tiger Woman, starring Linda Stirling
• Zorro's Black Whip, starring Linda Stirling

Short film series

• Our Gang (1922-1944)
• The Three Stooges (1934-1959)

Animated short film series

• Mickey Mouse (1928-1953)
• Looney Tunes (1930-1969)
• Terrytoons (1930-1964)
• Merrie Melodies (1931-1969)
• Scrappy (1931-1941)
• Popeye (1933-1957)
• Color Rhapsodies (1934-1949)
• Donald Duck (1934-1956)
• Goofy (1939-1955)
• Andy Panda (1939-1949)
• Tom and Jerry (MGM) (1940-1958)
• Bugs Bunny (1940-1962)
• Woody Woodpecker (1941-1949)
• Swing Symphonies (1941-1945)
• The Fox and the Crow (1941-1950)
• Red Hot Riding Hood (1943-1949)
• Droopy (1943-1958)
• Screwball Squirrel (1944-1946)
• Sylvester the Cat (1944-1966)

Births

• January 6 - Bonnie Franklin, actress
• January 23 - Rutger Hauer, actor
• February 11 - Buddhadev Dasgupta, film director
• May 14 - George Lucas, film director and producer
• August 8 - Peter Weir, film director
• November 23 - Joe Eszterhas, screenwriter
• December 11 - Teri Garr, US actress

Deaths

• July 20 - Mildred Harris, actress
• December 13 - Lupe Vélez, actress
• December 15 - Glenn Miller, musician, actor

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