Erskine picks 1944 ‘bests’
His top film is Going My Way
By Erskine Johnson
HOLLYWOOD – Maybe we‘ll hate ourselves the morning after the Academy Award shindig March 15, but here are Johnson’s predictions in the 1944 Oscar race.
Best picture of the year: Going My Way.
Best performance by an actress: Ingrid Bergman in Gaslight.
Best performance by an actor: Bing Crosby in Going My Way.
Best supporting actor: Barry Fitzgerald in Going My Way.
Best supporting actress: Ethel Barrymore in None But the Lonely Heart.
Best direction of the year: Leo McCarey for Going My Way.
Best written screenplay: Frank Butler and Frank Cavett for Going My Way.
Best original screenplay: Lamar Trotti for Wilson.
Best original song: “Swinging on a Star,” by Johnny Burke and James Van Heusen, from Going My Way.
Best original story: Going My Way, by Leo McCarey.
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