27th Academy Awards (1955)
Highlights of 27th Academy Awards ceremony
The 27th Academy Awards honored the best films of 1954.
The award ceremony was held on 30th March 1955.
On the Waterfront won the Best Picture award.
Marlon Brando won the Best Actor award for his role in On the Waterfront.
Grace Kelly won the Best Actess award for her role in Grace Kelly.
Elia Kazan won the Best Director award for On the Waterfront.
- WINNER
Best Picture
On the Waterfront
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
The Caine Mutiny
The Country Girl
Three Coins in the Fountain
Best Director
On the Waterfront
- Elia Kazan
Rear Window
- Alfred Hitchcock
Sabrina
- Billy Wilder
The Country Girl
- George Seaton
The High and the Mighty
- William A. Wellman
Best Actor in a Leading Role
On the Waterfront
- Marlon Brando
A Star Is Born
- James Mason
Robinson Crusoe
- Dan O'Herlihy
The Caine Mutiny
- Humphrey Bogart
The Country Girl
- Bing Crosby
Best Actress in a Leading Role
The Country Girl
- Grace Kelly
A Star Is Born
- Judy Garland
Carmen Jones
- Dorothy Dandridge
Magnificent Obsession
- Jane Wyman
Sabrina
- Audrey Hepburn
Best Supporting Actor
The Barefoot Contessa
- Edmond O'Brien
On the Waterfront
- Lee J. Cobb
On the Waterfront
- Karl Malden
On the Waterfront
- Rod Steiger
The Caine Mutiny
- Tom Tully
Best Supporting Actress
On the Waterfront
- Eva Marie Saint
Broken Lance
- Katy Jurado
Executive Suite
- Nina Foch
The High and the Mighty
- Jan Sterling
The High and the Mighty
- Claire Trevor
Academy Honorary Award
Greta Garbo
for "Her unforgettable screen performances"
Danny Kaye
for "His unique talents, his service to the Academy, the motion picture industry, and the American people"
Best Film Editing
On the Waterfront
- Gene Milford
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
- Elmo Williams
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
- Ralph E Winters
The Caine Mutiny
- Henry Batista, William A Lyon
The High and the Mighty
- Ralph Dawson
Best Cinematography, Color
Three Coins in the Fountain
Rear Window
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
The Egyptian
The Silver Chalice
Best Cinematography, Black & White
On the Waterfront
Executive Suite
Rogue Cop
Sabrina
The Country Girl
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
- John Meehan, Emile Kuri
A Star Is Born
- Malcolm C Bert, George James Hopkins
Brigadoon
- E Preston Ames, Cedric Gibbons, F Keogh Gleason, Edwin B Willis
Desiree
- Lyle R Wheeler, Leland Fuller, Walter M Scott, Paul S Fox
Red Garters
- Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson, Sam Comer, Ray Moyer
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black & White
On the Waterfront
Executive Suite
Sabrina
The Country Girl
Le plaisir
Best Costume Design, Color
Jigokumon
A Star Is Born
Brigadoon
Desiree
There's No Business Like Show Business
Best Costume Design, Black & White
Sabrina
Executive Suite
It Should Happen to You
The Earrings of Madame de...
Terminal Station
Best Writing, Motion Picture Story
Broken Lance
- Philip Yordan
Night People
- Jed Harris, Tom Reed
There's No Business Like Show Business
- Lamar Trotti
Forbidden Games
- Francois Boyer
Bread, Love and Dreams
- Ettore Maria Margadonna
Best Sound, Recording
The Glenn Miller Story
Rear Window
Brigadoon
Susan Slept Here
The Caine Mutiny
Best Effects, Special Effects
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Hell and High Water
Them!
Best Writing, Screenplay
The Country Girl
- George Seaton
Rear Window
- John Michael Hayes
Sabrina
- Billy Wilder, Samuel A. Taylor, Ernest Lehman
The Caine Mutiny
- Stanley Roberts
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
- Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, Dorothy Kingsley
Best Writing, Story and Screenplay
On the Waterfront
- Budd Schulberg
Genevieve
- William Rose
Knock on Wood
- Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
The Barefoot Contessa
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
The Glenn Miller Story
- Valentine Davies, Oscar Brodney