The nominees were ...
- Casablanca
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Heaven Can Wait
- The Human Comedy
- In Which We Serve
- Madame Curie
- The More the Merrier
- The Ox-Bow Incident
- The Song of Bernadette
- Watch on the Rhine
- Air Force
- Casablanca
- Five Graves to Cairo
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Heaven Can Wait
- In Which We Serve
- The More the Merrier
- The Ox-Bow Incident
- Sahara
- Shadow of a Doubt
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The definitive Hollywood movie, glossy high-level entertainment. A gaggle of writers and re-writers, working from an unproduced play called Everybody Comes to Rick's, turned out probably the most quoted screenplay of all time. (Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard Koch got the credit, and the Oscars.) Most of the legends about the movie are phony: It was never intended to be a routine studio potboiler, and Ronald Reagan was never really considered for the part of Rick. Hal B. Wallis was the foremost Warner Bros. producer, and it's unlikely he would have attached his name to a low-level project. Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman were always the first choices for the leads. Michael Curtiz, a supremely competent studio director, got the job, which also won him an Oscar, after William Wyler turned it down. And it needed a studio director, not an auteur, to produce this beautifully machine-tooled movie.
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