Editing Casablanca (film) (section)

=== Awards and honors ===
Because of its November 1942 release, the [[New York Film Critics]] decided to include the film in its 1942 award season for best picture. ''Casablanca'' lost to ''[[In Which We Serve]]''.<ref name="Francisco 192" /> However, the [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] stated that since the film went into national release at the beginning of 1943, it would be included in that year's nominations.<ref>{{Harvnb|Francisco|1980|p=195}}</ref> ''Casablanca'' was nominated for eight Academy Awards, and won three.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Award
! Category
! Nominee
! Result
|-
| rowspan="8"| [[16th Academy Awards|Academy Awards]]
| [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Outstanding Motion Picture]]
| [[Warner Bros.]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| [[Michael Curtiz]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
| [[Humphrey Bogart]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]]
| [[Claude Rains]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Best Screenplay]]
| [[Julius J. Epstein]], [[Philip G. Epstein]] and [[Howard Koch (screenwriter)|Howard Koch]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Cinematography|Best Cinematography – Black-and-White]]
| [[Arthur Edeson]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Film Editing|Best Film Editing]]
| [[Owen Marks]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Original Score|Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture]]
| [[Max Steiner]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[National Board of Review Awards 1943|National Board of Review Awards]]
| colspan="2"| [[National Board of Review: Top Ten Films|Top Ten Films]]
| {{draw|6th place}}
|-
| [[National Board of Review Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| Michael Curtiz <small>(also for ''[[This Is the Army]]'')</small>
| {{won}}
|-
| [[National Film Preservation Board]]
| colspan="2"| [[National Film Registry]]
| {{won|Inducted}}
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[1942 New York Film Critics Circle Awards|New York Film Critics Circle Awards]]
| [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| Michael Curtiz
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
| Humphrey Bogart
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[35th Saturn Awards|Saturn Awards]]
| [[Saturn Award for Best DVD Classic Film Release|Best DVD Classic Film Release]]
| ''Casablanca: Ultimate Collector's Edition''
| {{nom}}
|}

As Bogart stepped out of his car at the awards ceremony, "the crowd surged forward, almost engulfing him and his wife, [[Mayo Methot]]. It took 12 police officers to rescue the two, and a red-faced, startled, yet smiling Bogart heard a chorus of cries of 'good luck' and 'here's looking at you, kid' as he was rushed into the theater".<ref name="Ronald Haver">{{Cite web |last=Haver |first=Ronald |author-link=Ronald Haver |title=''Casablanca'': The Unexpected Classic |url=https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/791 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090629120246/http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/791 |archive-date=June 29, 2009 |access-date=January 8, 2010 |publisher=The Criterion Collection Online Cinematheque}}</ref>

When the award for Best Picture was announced, producer [[Hal B. Wallis]] got up to accept, but studio head [[Jack L. Warner]] rushed up to the stage "with a broad, flashing smile and a look of great self-satisfaction", Wallis later recalled.
<blockquote>
I couldn't believe it was happening. ''Casablanca'' had been my creation; Jack had absolutely nothing to do with it. As the audience gasped, I tried to get out of the row of seats and into the aisle, but the entire Warner family sat blocking me. I had no alternative but to sit down again, humiliated and furious&nbsp;... Almost forty years later, I still haven't recovered from the shock.<ref name="Ronald Haver" />
</blockquote>
This incident led Wallis to leave Warner Bros. in April.<ref>{{Harvnb|Harmetz|1992|pp=321–324}}</ref>

In 1989, the film was one of the first 25 films selected for preservation in the United States [[National Film Registry]] as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Molotsky |first=Irvin |date=September 20, 1989 |title=25 Films Chosen for the National Registry |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/20/movies/25-films-chosen-for-the-national-registry.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303222420/http://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/20/movies/25-films-chosen-for-the-national-registry.html |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |access-date=April 1, 2017 |work=The New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Complete National Film Registry Listing |url=https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/ |access-date=2020-05-28 |website=Library of Congress}}</ref> In 2005, it was named one of the 100 greatest films of the last 80 years by ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine (the selected films were not ranked).<ref name="time.com">{{Cite magazine |last=Corliss |first=Richard |date=June 2, 2005 |title=That Old Feeling: Secrets of the All-Time 100 |url=https://time.com/time/columnist/corliss/article/0,9565,1068026,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100811185345/http://www.time.com/time/columnist/corliss/article/0,9565,1068026,00.html |archive-date=August 11, 2010 |access-date=July 7, 2018 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]}}</ref> ''[[Bright Lights Film Journal]]'' stated in 2007, "It is one of those rare films from Hollywood's Golden Age which has managed to transcend its era to entertain generations of moviegoers&nbsp;... ''Casablanca'' provides twenty-first-century Americans with an oasis of hope in a desert of arbitrary cruelty and senseless violence."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tunc |first=Tanfer Emin |date=February 1, 2007 |title=''Casablanca'': The Romance of Propaganda |url=https://brightlightsfilm.com/casablanca-romance-propaganda/#identifier_12_14962 |access-date=December 18, 2020}}</ref>

The film also ranked at number 28 on ''[[Empire (film magazine)|Empire]]''{{'}}s list of the 100 Greatest Movies of All Time, which said, "Love, honour, thrills, wisecracks and a hit tune are among the attractions, which also include a perfect supporting cast of villains, sneaks, thieves, refugees and bar staff. But it's Bogart and Bergman's show, entering immortality as screen lovers reunited only to part. The irrefutible [''sic''] proof that great movies are accidents."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Braund |first=Simon |display-authors=etal |title=Empire's 100 Greatest Movies Of All Time |url=https://www.empireonline.com/500/51.asp |access-date=November 16, 2013 |website=Empire}}</ref>

Screenwriting teacher [[Robert McKee]] maintains that the script is "the greatest screenplay of all time".<ref name="Harmetz 1992 88–89,92,95" /> In 2006, the [[Writers Guild of America, West]] agreed, voting it the best ever in its list of the 101 greatest screenplays.<ref>{{Cite web |title=101 Greatest Screenplays |url=https://www.wga.org/subpage_newsevents.aspx?id=1807 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060813151310/http://www.wga.org/subpage_newsevents.aspx?id=1807 |archive-date=August 13, 2006 |access-date=August 3, 2007 |publisher=Writers Guild of America, West}}</ref>

The film has been selected by the [[American Film Institute]] for many of their lists of important American films:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Category
! Rank
|-
|1998
|[[AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies]]
|2
|-
|2001
|[[AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills]]
|37
|-
|2002
|[[AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions]]
|1
|-
|2003
|[[AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains]]
|4: Rick Blaine (hero)
|-
|2004
|[[AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs]]
|2: "[[As Time Goes By (song)|As Time Goes By]]"
|-
|2005
|[[AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes]]
|5: "Here's looking at you, kid."<br />20: "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."<br />28: "Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By'."<br />32: "Round up the usual suspects."<br />43: "We'll always have Paris."<br />67: "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."<br />These six lines are the most of any film (''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind]]'' and ''[[The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'' tied for second with three apiece). Also nominated for the list was, "Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world."<ref>{{Cite web |title=AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes – List of the 400 nominated movie quotes |url=https://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/quotes400.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628043426/http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/quotes400.pdf |archive-date=June 28, 2011 |access-date=September 17, 2014 |publisher=American Film Institute}}</ref>
|-
|2006
|[[AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers]]
|32
|-
|2007
|[[AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)]]
|3
|}