1944 Academy Awards – Directing Winner
![Casablanca Michael Curtiz](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/casablanca-michael-curtiz-image.jpg)
Casablanca
Michael Curtiz
A cynical American expatriate struggles to decide whether or not he should help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape French Morocco.
1944 Academy Awards – Directing Nominees
![Heaven Can Wait Ernst Lubitsch](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/heaven-can-wait-ernst-lubitsch-image.jpg)
Heaven Can Wait
Ernst Lubitsch
![The Human Comedy Clarence Brown](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-human-comedy-clarence-brown-image.jpg)
The Human Comedy
Clarence Brown
![The More the Merrier George Stevens](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-more-the-merrier-george-stevens-image.jpg)
The More the Merrier
George Stevens
![The Song of Bernadette Henry King](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-song-of-bernadette-henry-king-image.jpg)