The Academy Awards (The Oscars) Season 16 Episode 1 The 16th Annual Academy Awards

Paramount's Going My Way won big this year at the Academy Awards ceremony taking home seven awards including Best Lead Actor for Bing Crosby, Best Motion Picture of the year, the Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Barry Fitzgerald, and Best Director for Leo McCarey. MGM's Gaslight didn't do all that bad picking up the Best Lead Actress award for Ingrid Bergman and Best Art Direction for a Black-and-White film production. On the Special Awards front, Margaret O'Brien received an award for outstanding child actress of 1944, and Bob Hope received another award for for his many services to the Academy (a life membership in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Darryl F. Zanuck also received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award for his contributions to the motion picture industry.