<Tr> <Td> Best Cinematography--Black and White </Td> <Td> John F. Seitz </Td> <Td> Lost to Joseph LaShelle for Laura </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture </Td> <Td> Miklós Rózsa </Td> <Td> Lost to Max Steiner for Since You Went Away </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Best Sound, Recording </Td> <Td> Loren Ryder </Td> <Td> Lost to Edmund H. Hansen for Wilson </Td> </Tr> <P> Wilder went to the awards ceremony expecting to win even though the studio had been backing their other big hit of the year, Leo McCarey's Going My Way, and studio employees were expected to vote for the studio favorite . As the awards show wore on and Double Indemnity lost in category after category, it became evident that there would be a Going My Way sweep . McCarey beamed as his picture won award after award and when he was named Best Director, Wilder could no longer take it . When McCarey got up to make his way to the stage to accept the award for best picture, Wilder, sitting on the aisle, stuck out his foot and tripped him . "Mr. McCarey...stumbled perceptibly," he gleefully recalled . After the ceremony while he and his wife Judith were waiting for his limousine to arrive, he yelled out so loudly that everybody could hear him, "What the hell does the Academy Award mean, for God's sake? After all--Luise Rainer won it two times . Luise Rainer!" </P>

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