Awards presented March 2, 1944
The nominees were ...
(Cartoon)
- The Dizzy Acrobat, Walter Lantz, producer
- The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, George Pal, producer
- Greetings, Bait! Leon Schlesinger, producer
- Imagination, Dave Fleischer, producer
- Reason and Emotion, Walt Disney, producer
- Yankee Doodle Mouse, Frederick Quimby, producer
- Amphibious Fighters, Grantland Rice, producer
- Cavalcade of Dance With Veloz and Yolanda, Gordon Hollingshead, producer
- Champions Carry On, Edmund Reek, producer
- Hollywood in Uniform, Ralph Staub, producer
- Seeing Hands, Pete Smith, producer
(Two-Reel)
- Heavenly Music, Jerry Bresler and Sam Coslow, producers
- Letter to a Hero, Frederic Ullman Jr., producer
- Mardi Gras, Walter MacEwen, producer
- Women at War, Gordon Hollingshead, producer
And the Oscar went to ...
(Cartoon)
Yankee Doodle Mouse, Frederick Quimby, producer.
Itchy and Scratchy ... uh, Tom and Jerry wage their usual war, but this time the mayhem is accompanied by patriotic tunes and the weapons are imitations of the real weapons being used in World War II, e.g., a cheese grater becomes a tank for Jerry, and eggs are labeled "hen-grenades."
(One-Reel)
Amphibious Fighters, Grantland Rice, producer.
Information about this short film is scarce. It seems to have been part of a series of shorts, some of them under the rubric "Sportslight," produced by Rice, a well-known sportswriter, starting in 1921 and lasting, off and on, through 1948. The title seems to refer to combat vehicles and personnel in World War II, but I can't say for sure.
(Two-Reel)
Heavenly Music, Jerry Bresler and Sam Coslow, producers.
A bandleader (Fred Brady) arrives in heaven and has to prove to Beethoven, Brahms, Wagner, Liszt, and the like that his music will stand the test of time. Sweetly vapid program-filler. The songs are by producer Coslow, whose songwriting credits also include "My Old Flame" and "Cocktails for Two," which are probably best-known in their Spike Jones parody versions. Bresler was an orchestra conductor and became nightclub producer in the 1950s for such performers as Robert Goulet, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormé, and Kate Smith. He also produced such feature films as The Vikings, Major Dundee, and the 1967 Casino Royale.
A bandleader (Fred Brady) arrives in heaven and has to prove to Beethoven, Brahms, Wagner, Liszt, and the like that his music will stand the test of time. Sweetly vapid program-filler. The songs are by producer Coslow, whose songwriting credits also include "My Old Flame" and "Cocktails for Two," which are probably best-known in their Spike Jones parody versions. Bresler was an orchestra conductor and became nightclub producer in the 1950s for such performers as Robert Goulet, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormé, and Kate Smith. He also produced such feature films as The Vikings, Major Dundee, and the 1967 Casino Royale.
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