1954 (27th Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1954 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.

Best Motion Picture

On the Waterfront, Horizon-American Corporation; Columbia. Sam Spiegel, Producer.

Best Actor

Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront, Horizon-American Corporation; Columbia.

Best Actress

Grace Kelly in The Country Girl, Perlberg-Seaton Production; Paramount.

Actor in a Supporting Role

Edmond O’Brien in The Barefoot Contessa, Figaro, Inc.; United Artists. (Italy, USA)

Actress in a Supporting Role

Eva Marie Saint in On the Waterfront, Horizon-American Corporation; Columbia.

Directing

On the Waterfront, Horizon-American Corporation; Columbia. Elia Kazan.

Art Direction-Set Decoration

(Black-and-White)

On the Waterfront, Horizon-American Corporation; Columbia. Richard Day.

(Color)

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista. Art direction by John Meehan; set decoration by Emile Kuri.

Cinematography

(Black-and-White)

On the Waterfront, Horizon-American Corporation; Columbia. Boris Kaufman.

(Color)

Three Coins in the Fountain, 20th Century-Fox. Milton Krasner.

Costume Design

(Black-and-White)

Sabrina, Paramount. Edith Head.

(Color)

Gate of Hell, Daiei Production; Edward Harrison. (Japan) Sanzo Wada.

Documentary

(Feature)

The Vanishing Prairie, Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista. [True Life Adventures Series] Walt Disney, Producer.

(Short Subject)

Thursday’s Children, World Wide Pictures and Morse Films; British Information Services. (UK)

Film Editing

On the Waterfront, Horizon-American Corporation; Columbia. Gene Milford.

Music

(Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)

The High and the Mighty, Wayne-Fellows Productions; Warner Bros. Dimitri Tiomkin.

(Scoring of a Musical Picture)

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Adolph Deutsch and Saul Chaplin.

(Song)

Three Coins in the Fountain from Three Coins in the Fountain, 20th Century-Fox. Music by Jule Styne; lyrics by Sammy Cahn.

Short Subjects

(Cartoons)

When Magoo Flew, UPA (United Productions of America); Columbia. [Mister Magoo Series] Stephen Bosustow, Producer.

(One-reel)

This Mechanical Age, Warner Bros. [Warner Variety Series] Robert Youngson, Producer.

(Two-reel)

A Time out of War, Carnival Productions. Denis Sanders and Terry Sanders, Producers.

Sound Recording

The Glenn Miller Story, Universal-International. Universal-International Studio Sound Department, Leslie I. Carey, Sound Director.

Special Effects

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista.

Writing

(Motion Picture Story)

Broken Lance, 20th Century-Fox. Philip Yordan.

(Screenplay)

The Country Girl, Perlberg-Seaton Production; Paramount. George Seaton.

(Story and Screenplay)

On the Waterfront, Horizon-American Corporation; Columbia. Budd Schulberg.

Honorary Award

To the Bausch & Lomb Optical Company for their contributions to the advancement of the motion picture industry. [ [Statuette]]

To Kemp R. Niver for the development of the Renovare Process, which has made possible the restoration of the Library of Congress Paper Film Collection. [ [Statuette]]

To Greta Garbo for her unforgettable film performances. [ [Statuette]]

To Danny Kaye for his unique talents, his service to the Academy, the motion picture industry, and to the American people. [ [Statuette]]

(Foreign Language Film)

To Gate of Hell, Daiei Production; Edward Harrison. (Japan) Best Foreign Language Film first released in the United States during 1954. [ [Statuette]]

(Juvenile)

To Jon Whiteley for his outstanding juvenile performance in The Little Kidnappers. [ [Miniature Statuette]]

To Vincent Winter for his outstanding juvenile performance in The Little Kidnappers. [ [Miniature Statuette]]

Scientific or Technical Award

(Class I)

To Paramount Pictures, Inc., Loren L. Ryder, John R. Bishop, and all the members of the technical and engineering staff for developing a method of producing and exhibiting motion pictures known as VistaVision.

(Class III)

To David S. Horsley and the Universal-International Studio Special Photographic Department for a portable remote control device for process projectors.

To Karl Freund and Frank Crandell of Photo Research Corporation for the design and development of a direct reading brightness meter.

To Wesley C. Miller, J. W. Stafford, K. M. Frierson and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department for an electronic sound printing comparison device.

To John P. Livadary, Lloyd Russell and the Columbia Studio Sound Department for an improved limiting amplifier as applied to sound level comparison devices.

To Roland Miller and Max Goeppinger of Magnascope Corporation for the design and development of a cathode ray magnetic sound track viewer.

To Carlos Rivas, G. M. Sprague and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department for the design of a magnetic sound editing machine.

To Fred Wilson of the Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department for the design of a variable multiple-band equalizer.

To P. C. Young of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Projection Department for the practical application of a variable focal length attachment to motion picture projector lenses.

To Fred Knoth and Orien Ernest of the Universal-International Studio Technical Department for the development of a hand portable, electric, dry oil-fog machine.