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The 27th Academy Awards
| 1955
RKO Pantages Theatre
Wednesday, March 30, 1955
Honoring movies released in 1954
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Highlights
Special Effects
20,000 Leagues under the Sea
Walt Disney
Honorary Award
Danny Kaye
Directing
On the Waterfront
Elia Kazan, accepted by Marlon Brando
Memorable Moments
Marlon Brando
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Best Actor winner for On the Waterfront, with host Bob Hope
Eva Marie Saint
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Supporting Actress winner for On the Waterfront
Masaichi Nagata
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Accepting an Honorary Award for Foreign Language Film to Japan for Gate of Hell
WINNERS & NOMINEES
Actor
Winner
Marlon Brando
On the Waterfront
Nominees
Humphrey Bogart
The Caine Mutiny
Nominees
Bing Crosby
The Country Girl
Nominees
James Mason
A Star Is Born
Nominees
Dan O'Herlihy
Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Actor in a Supporting Role
Winner
Edmond O'Brien
The Barefoot Contessa
Nominees
Lee J. Cobb
On the Waterfront
Nominees
Karl Malden
On the Waterfront
Nominees
Rod Steiger
On the Waterfront
Nominees
Tom Tully
The Caine Mutiny
Actress
Winner
Grace Kelly
The Country Girl
Nominees
Dorothy Dandridge
Carmen Jones
Nominees
Judy Garland
A Star Is Born
Nominees
Audrey Hepburn
Sabrina
Nominees
Jane Wyman
Magnificent Obsession
Actress in a Supporting Role
Winner
Eva Marie Saint
On the Waterfront
Nominees
Nina Foch
Executive Suite
Nominees
Katy Jurado
Broken Lance
Nominees
Jan Sterling
The High and the Mighty
Nominees
Claire Trevor
The High and the Mighty
Art Direction (Black-and-White)
Winner
On the Waterfront
Richard Day
Nominees
The Country Girl
Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Grace Gregory
Nominees
Executive Suite
Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Emile Kuri
Nominees
Le Plaisir
Max Ophuls
Nominees
Sabrina
Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Walter Tyler; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Ray Moyer
Art Direction (Color)
Winner
20,000 Leagues under the Sea
Art Direction: John Meehan; Set Decoration: Emile Kuri
Nominees
Brigadoon
Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Preston Ames; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Keogh Gleason
Nominees
Desiree
Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox
Nominees
Red Garters
Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Ray Moyer
Nominees
A Star Is Born
Art Direction: Malcolm Bert, Gene Allen, Irene Sharaff; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins
Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Winner
On the Waterfront
Boris Kaufman
Nominees
The Country Girl
John F. Warren
Nominees
Executive Suite
George Folsey
Nominees
Rogue Cop
John Seitz
Nominees
Sabrina
Charles Lang, Jr.
Cinematography (Color)
Winner
Three Coins in the Fountain
Milton Krasner
Nominees
The Egyptian
Leon Shamroy
Nominees
Rear Window
Robert Burks
Nominees
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
George Folsey
Nominees
The Silver Chalice
William V. Skall
Costume Design (Black-and-White)
Winner
Sabrina
Edith Head
Nominees
The Earrings of Madame de...
Georges Annenkov, Rosine Delamare
Nominees
Executive Suite
Helen Rose
Nominees
Indiscretion of an American Wife
Christian Dior
Nominees
It Should Happen to You
Jean Louis
Costume Design (Color)
Winner
Gate of Hell
Sanzo Wada
Nominees
Brigadoon
Irene Sharaff
Nominees
Desiree
Desiree
Nominees
A Star Is Born
Jean Louis, Mary Ann Nyberg, Irene Sharaff
Nominees
There's No Business Like Show Business
Charles LeMaire, Travilla, Miles White
Directing
Winner
On the Waterfront
Elia Kazan
Nominees
The Country Girl
George Seaton
Nominees
The High and the Mighty
William Wellman
Nominees
Rear Window
Alfred Hitchcock
Nominees
Sabrina
Billy Wilder
Documentary (Feature)
Winner
The Vanishing Prairie
Walt Disney, Producer
Nominees
The Stratford Adventure
Guy Glover, Producer
Documentary (Short Subject)
Winner
Thursday's Children
World Wide Pictures and Morse Films
Nominees
Jet Carrier
Otto Lang, Producer
Nominees
Rembrandt: A Self-Portrait
Morrie Roizman, Producer
Film Editing
Winner
On the Waterfront
Gene Milford
Nominees
The Caine Mutiny
William A. Lyon, Henry Batista
Nominees
The High and the Mighty
Ralph Dawson
Nominees
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Ralph E. Winters
Nominees
20,000 Leagues under the Sea
Elmo Williams
Honorary Award
Winner
The Little Kidnappers
Special Award
Honorary Foreign Language Film Award
Winner
Gate of Hell
Special Award
Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)
Winner
The High and the Mighty
Dimitri Tiomkin
Nominees
The Caine Mutiny
Max Steiner
Nominees
Genevieve
Larry Adler
Nominees
On the Waterfront
Leonard Bernstein
Nominees
The Silver Chalice
Franz Waxman
Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture)
Winner
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Adolph Deutsch, Saul Chaplin
Nominees
Carmen Jones
Herschel Burke Gilbert
Nominees
The Glenn Miller Story
Joseph Gershenson, Henry Mancini
Nominees
A Star Is Born
Ray Heindorf
Nominees
There's No Business Like Show Business
Alfred Newman, Lionel Newman
Music (Song)
Winner
Three Coins in the Fountain
Three Coins In The Fountain in "Three Coins in the Fountain" Music by Jule Styne; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
Nominees
White Christmas
Count Your Blessings Instead Of Sheep in "White Christmas" Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin
Nominees
The High and the Mighty
The High And The Mighty in "The High and the Mighty" Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyrics by Ned Washington
Nominees
Susan Slept Here
Hold My Hand in "Susan Slept Here" Music and Lyrics by Jack Lawrence and Richard Myers
Nominees
A Star Is Born
The Man That Got Away in "A Star Is Born" Music by Harold Arlen; Lyrics by Ira Gershwin
Best Motion Picture
Winner
On the Waterfront
Sam Spiegel, Producer
Nominees
The Caine Mutiny
Stanley Kramer, Producer
Nominees
The Country Girl
William Perlberg, Producer
Nominees
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Jack Cummings, Producer
Nominees
Three Coins in the Fountain
Sol C. Siegel, Producer
Short Subject (Cartoon)
Winner
When Magoo Flew
Stephen Bosustow, Producer
Nominees
Crazy Mixed Up Pup
Walter Lantz, Producer
Nominees
Pigs Is Pigs
Walt Disney, Producer
Nominees
Sandy Claws
Edward Selzer, Producer
Nominees
Touché, Pussy Cat
Fred Quimby, Producer
Short Subject (One-reel)
Winner
This Mechanical Age
Robert Youngson, Producer
Nominees
The First Piano Quartette
Otto Lang, Producer
Nominees
The Strauss Fantasy
Johnny Green, Producer
Short Subject (Two-reel)
Winner
A Time Out of War
Denis Sanders and Terry Sanders, Producers
Nominees
Beauty and the Bull
Cedric Francis, Producer
Nominees
Jet Carrier
Otto Lang, Producer
Nominees
Siam
Walt Disney, Producer
Sound Recording
Winner
The Glenn Miller Story
Universal-International Studio Sound Department, Leslie I. Carey, Sound Director
Nominees
Brigadoon
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Wesley C. Miller, Sound Director
Nominees
The Caine Mutiny
Columbia Studio Sound Department, John P. Livadary, Sound Director
Nominees
Rear Window
Paramount Studio Sound Department, Loren L. Ryder, Sound Director
Nominees
Susan Slept Here
RKO Radio Studio Sound Department, John O. Aalberg, Sound Director
Special Effects
Winner
20,000 Leagues under the Sea
Walt Disney Studios
Nominees
Hell and High Water
20th Century-Fox Studio
Nominees
Them!
Warner Bros. Studio
Writing (Motion Picture Story)
Winner
Broken Lance
Philip Yordan
Nominees
Bread, Love and Dreams
Ettore Margadonna
Nominees
Forbidden Games
François Boyer
Nominees
Night People
Jed Harris, Tom Reed
Nominees
There's No Business Like Show Business
Lamar Trotti
Writing (Screenplay)
Winner
The Country Girl
George Seaton
Nominees
The Caine Mutiny
Stanley Roberts
Nominees
Rear Window
John Michael Hayes
Nominees
Sabrina
Billy Wilder, Samuel Taylor, Ernest Lehman
Nominees
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, Dorothy Kingsley
Writing (Story and Screenplay)
Winner
On the Waterfront
Budd Schulberg
Nominees
The Barefoot Contessa
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Nominees
Genevieve
William Rose
Nominees
The Glenn Miller Story
Valentine Davies, Oscar Brodney
Nominees
Knock on Wood
Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
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20,000 Leagues under the Sea
3 NOMINATIONS,
2 WINS
- * Art Direction (Color) - Art Direction: John Meehan; Set Decoration: Emile Kuri
- * Special Effects - Walt Disney Studios
- Film Editing - Elmo Williams
A
Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
1 NOMINATION
- Actor - Dan O'Herlihy
B
The Barefoot Contessa
2 NOMINATIONS,
1 WIN
- * Actor in a Supporting Role - Edmond O'Brien
- Writing (Story and Screenplay) - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Beauty and the Bull
1 NOMINATION
- Short Subject (Two-reel) - Cedric Francis, Producer
Bread, Love and Dreams
1 NOMINATION
- Writing (Motion Picture Story) - Ettore Margadonna
Brigadoon
3 NOMINATIONS
- Art Direction (Color) - Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Preston Ames; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Keogh Gleason
- Costume Design (Color) - Irene Sharaff
- Sound Recording - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Wesley C. Miller, Sound Director
Broken Lance
2 NOMINATIONS,
1 WIN
- * Writing (Motion Picture Story) - Philip Yordan
- Actress in a Supporting Role - Katy Jurado
C
The Caine Mutiny
7 NOMINATIONS
- Actor - Humphrey Bogart
- Actor in a Supporting Role - Tom Tully
- Film Editing - William A. Lyon, Henry Batista
- Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) - Max Steiner
- Best Motion Picture - Stanley Kramer, Producer
- Sound Recording - Columbia Studio Sound Department, John P. Livadary, Sound Director
- Writing (Screenplay) - Stanley Roberts
Carmen Jones
2 NOMINATIONS
- Actress - Dorothy Dandridge
- Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture) - Herschel Burke Gilbert
The Country Girl
7 NOMINATIONS,
2 WINS
- * Actress - Grace Kelly
- * Writing (Screenplay) - George Seaton
- Actor - Bing Crosby
- Art Direction (Black-and-White) - Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Grace Gregory
- Cinematography (Black-and-White) - John F. Warren
- Directing - George Seaton
- Best Motion Picture - William Perlberg, Producer
Crazy Mixed Up Pup
1 NOMINATION
- Short Subject (Cartoon) - Walter Lantz, Producer
D
Desiree
2 NOMINATIONS
- Art Direction (Color) - Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox
- Costume Design (Color) - Desiree
E
The Earrings of Madame de...
1 NOMINATION
- Costume Design (Black-and-White) - Georges Annenkov, Rosine Delamare
The Egyptian
1 NOMINATION
- Cinematography (Color) - Leon Shamroy
Executive Suite
4 NOMINATIONS
- Actress in a Supporting Role - Nina Foch
- Art Direction (Black-and-White) - Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Emile Kuri
- Cinematography (Black-and-White) - George Folsey
- Costume Design (Black-and-White) - Helen Rose
F
The First Piano Quartette
1 NOMINATION
- Short Subject (One-reel) - Otto Lang, Producer
Forbidden Games
1 NOMINATION
- Writing (Motion Picture Story) - François Boyer
G
Gate of Hell
2 WINS,
2 NOMINATIONS
- * Costume Design (Color) - Sanzo Wada
- * Honorary Foreign Language Film Award - Special Award
Genevieve
2 NOMINATIONS
- Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) - Larry Adler
- Writing (Story and Screenplay) - William Rose
The Glenn Miller Story
3 NOMINATIONS,
1 WIN
- * Sound Recording - Universal-International Studio Sound Department, Leslie I. Carey, Sound Director
- Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture) - Joseph Gershenson, Henry Mancini
- Writing (Story and Screenplay) - Valentine Davies, Oscar Brodney
H
Hell and High Water
1 NOMINATION
- Special Effects - 20th Century-Fox Studio
The High and the Mighty
5 NOMINATIONS,
1 WIN
- * Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) - Dimitri Tiomkin
- Actress in a Supporting Role - Jan Sterling, Claire Trevor
- Directing - William Wellman
- Film Editing - Ralph Dawson
- Music (Song) - The High And The Mighty in "The High and the Mighty" Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyrics by Ned Washington
I
Indiscretion of an American Wife
1 NOMINATION
- Costume Design (Black-and-White) - Christian Dior
It Should Happen to You
1 NOMINATION
- Costume Design (Black-and-White) - Jean Louis
J
Jet Carrier
2 NOMINATIONS
- Documentary (Short Subject) - Otto Lang, Producer
- Short Subject (Two-reel) - Otto Lang, Producer
K
Knock on Wood
1 NOMINATION
- Writing (Story and Screenplay) - Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
L
Le Plaisir
1 NOMINATION
- Art Direction (Black-and-White) - Max Ophuls
The Little Kidnappers
1 WIN,
1 NOMINATION
- * Honorary Award - Special Award
M
Magnificent Obsession
1 NOMINATION
- Actress - Jane Wyman
N
Night People
1 NOMINATION
- Writing (Motion Picture Story) - Jed Harris, Tom Reed
P
Pigs Is Pigs
1 NOMINATION
- Short Subject (Cartoon) - Walt Disney, Producer
R
Rear Window
4 NOMINATIONS
- Cinematography (Color) - Robert Burks
- Directing - Alfred Hitchcock
- Sound Recording - Paramount Studio Sound Department, Loren L. Ryder, Sound Director
- Writing (Screenplay) - John Michael Hayes
Red Garters
1 NOMINATION
- Art Direction (Color) - Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Ray Moyer
Rembrandt: A Self-Portrait
1 NOMINATION
- Documentary (Short Subject) - Morrie Roizman, Producer
Rogue Cop
1 NOMINATION
- Cinematography (Black-and-White) - John Seitz
S
Sabrina
6 NOMINATIONS,
1 WIN
- * Costume Design (Black-and-White) - Edith Head
- Actress - Audrey Hepburn
- Art Direction (Black-and-White) - Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Walter Tyler; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Ray Moyer
- Cinematography (Black-and-White) - Charles Lang, Jr.
- Directing - Billy Wilder
- Writing (Screenplay) - Billy Wilder, Samuel Taylor, Ernest Lehman
Sandy Claws
1 NOMINATION
- Short Subject (Cartoon) - Edward Selzer, Producer
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
5 NOMINATIONS,
1 WIN
- * Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture) - Adolph Deutsch, Saul Chaplin
- Cinematography (Color) - George Folsey
- Film Editing - Ralph E. Winters
- Best Motion Picture - Jack Cummings, Producer
- Writing (Screenplay) - Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, Dorothy Kingsley
Siam
1 NOMINATION
- Short Subject (Two-reel) - Walt Disney, Producer
The Silver Chalice
2 NOMINATIONS
- Cinematography (Color) - William V. Skall
- Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) - Franz Waxman
A Star Is Born
6 NOMINATIONS
- Actor - James Mason
- Actress - Judy Garland
- Art Direction (Color) - Art Direction: Malcolm Bert, Gene Allen, Irene Sharaff; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins
- Costume Design (Color) - Jean Louis, Mary Ann Nyberg, Irene Sharaff
- Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture) - Ray Heindorf
- Music (Song) - The Man That Got Away in "A Star Is Born" Music by Harold Arlen; Lyrics by Ira Gershwin
The Stratford Adventure
1 NOMINATION
- Documentary (Feature) - Guy Glover, Producer
The Strauss Fantasy
1 NOMINATION
- Short Subject (One-reel) - Johnny Green, Producer
Susan Slept Here
2 NOMINATIONS
- Music (Song) - Hold My Hand in "Susan Slept Here" Music and Lyrics by Jack Lawrence and Richard Myers
- Sound Recording - RKO Radio Studio Sound Department, John O. Aalberg, Sound Director
T
Them!
1 NOMINATION
- Special Effects - Warner Bros. Studio
There's No Business Like Show Business
3 NOMINATIONS
- Costume Design (Color) - Charles LeMaire, Travilla, Miles White
- Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture) - Alfred Newman, Lionel Newman
- Writing (Motion Picture Story) - Lamar Trotti
This Mechanical Age
1 WIN,
1 NOMINATION
- * Short Subject (One-reel) - Robert Youngson, Producer
Three Coins in the Fountain
3 NOMINATIONS,
2 WINS
- * Cinematography (Color) - Milton Krasner
- * Music (Song) - Three Coins In The Fountain in "Three Coins in the Fountain" Music by Jule Styne; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
- Best Motion Picture - Sol C. Siegel, Producer
Thursday's Children
1 WIN,
1 NOMINATION
- * Documentary (Short Subject) - World Wide Pictures and Morse Films
A Time Out of War
1 WIN,
1 NOMINATION
- * Short Subject (Two-reel) - Denis Sanders and Terry Sanders, Producers
Touché, Pussy Cat
1 NOMINATION
- Short Subject (Cartoon) - Fred Quimby, Producer
V
The Vanishing Prairie
1 WIN,
1 NOMINATION
- * Documentary (Feature) - Walt Disney, Producer
W
On the Waterfront
10 NOMINATIONS,
8 WINS
- * Actor - Marlon Brando
- * Actress in a Supporting Role - Eva Marie Saint
- * Art Direction (Black-and-White) - Richard Day
- * Cinematography (Black-and-White) - Boris Kaufman
- * Directing - Elia Kazan
- * Film Editing - Gene Milford
- * Best Motion Picture - Sam Spiegel, Producer
- * Writing (Story and Screenplay) - Budd Schulberg
- Actor in a Supporting Role - Lee J. Cobb, Karl Malden, Rod Steiger
- Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) - Leonard Bernstein
When Magoo Flew
1 WIN,
1 NOMINATION
- * Short Subject (Cartoon) - Stephen Bosustow, Producer
White Christmas
1 NOMINATION
- Music (Song) - Count Your Blessings Instead Of Sheep in "White Christmas" Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin
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