The Complete Oscar Quest: 27th Academy Awards (1954)

1954

Best Picture

  • The Caine Mutiny
  • The Country Girl
  • On the Waterfront
  • Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
  • Three Coins in the Fountain

Best Director

  • Alfred Hitchcock, Rear Window
  • Elia Kazan, On the Waterfront
  • George Seaton, The Country Girl
  • William Wellman, The High and the Mighty
  • Billy Wilder, Sabrina

Best Actor

  • Humphrey Bogart, The Caine Mutiny
  • Marlon Brando, On the Waterfront
  • Bing Crosby, The Country Girl
  • James Mason, A Star Is Born
  • Dan O’Herlihy, Robinson Crusoe

Best Actress

  • Dorothy Dandridge, Carmen Jones
  • Judy Garland, A Star Is Born
  • Audrey Hepburn, Sabrina
  • Grace Kelly, The Country Girl
  • Jane Wyman, Magnificent Obsession

Best Supporting Actor

  • Lee J. Cobb, On the Waterfront
  • Karl Malden, On the Waterfront
  • Edmond O’Brien, The Barefoot Contessa
  • Rod Steiger, On the Waterfront
  • Tom Tully, The Caine Mutiny

Best Supporting Actress

  • Nina Foch, Executive Suite
  • Katy Jurado, Broken Lance
  • Eva Marie Saint, On the Waterfront
  • Jan Sterling, The High and the Mighty
  • Claire Trevor, The High and the Mighty

Best Original Screenplay

  • The Barefoot Contessa
  • Genevieve
  • The Glenn Miller Story
  • Knock on Wood
  • On the Waterfront

Best Adapted Screenplay

  • The Caine Mutiny
  • The Country Girl
  • Rear Window
  • Sabrina
  • Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Best Story

  • Broken Lance
  • Bread, Love and Dreams
  • Forbidden Games
  • Night People
  • There’s No Business Like Show Business

Best Editing

  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
  • The Caine Mutiny
  • The High and the Mighty
  • On the Waterfront
  • Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Best Cinematography, Black and White

  • The Country Girl
  • Executive Suite
  • On the Waterfront
  • Rogue Cop
  • Sabrina

Best Cinematography, Color

  • The Egyptian
  • Rear Window
  • Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
  • The Silver Chalice
  • Three Coins in the Fountain

Best Dramatic or Comedy Score

  • The Caine Mutiny
  • Genevieve
  • The High and the Mighty
  • On the Waterfront
  • The Silver Chalice

Best Musical Score

  • Carmen Jones
  • The Glenn Miller Story
  • Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
  • A Star Is Born
  • There’s No Business Like Show Business

Best Original Song

  • “Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep,” from White Christmas
  • “The High and the Mighty,” from The High and the Mighty
  • “Hold My Hand,” from Susan Slept Here
  • “The Man That Got Away,” from A Star Is Born
  • “Three Coins in the Fountain,” from Three Coins in the Fountain

Best Art Direction, Black and White

  • The Country Girl
  • Executive Suite
  • On the Waterfront
  • Le Plaisir
  • Sabrina

Best Art Direction, Color

  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
  • Brigadoon
  • Desiree
  • Red Garters
  • A Star Is Born

Best Costume Design, Black and White

  • The Earrings of Madame de…
  • Executive Suite
  • It Should Happen to You
  • Indiscretion of an American Wife
  • Sabrina

Best Costume Design, Color

  • Brigadoon
  • Desiree
  • The Gate of Hell
  • A Star Is Born
  • There’s No Business Like Show Business

Best Visual Effects

  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
  • Hell and High Water
  • Them!

Best Sound Recording

  • Brigadoon
  • The Caine Mutiny
  • The Glenn Miller Story
  • Rear Window
  • Susan Slept Here

Best Documentary

  • The Stratford Adventure
  • The Vanishing Prairie

Best Documentary Short

  • Jet Carrier
  • Rembrandt: A Self-Portrait
  • Thursday’s Children

Best Live-Action Short, One-Reel

  • The First Piano Quartette
  • The Strauss Fantasy
  • This Mechanical Age

Best Live-Action Short, Two-Reel

  • Beauty and the Bull
  • Jet Carrier
  • Slam
  • A Time Out of War

Best Animated Short

  • Crazy Mixed Up Pup
  • Pigs Is Pigs
  • Sandy Claws
  • Touché, Pussy Cat!
  • When Magoo Flew

Total List of Films Nominated:

  1. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
  2. The Barefoot Contessa
  3. Bread, Love and Dreams
  4. Brigadoon
  5. Broken Lance
  6. The Caine Mutiny
  7. Carmen Jones
  8. The Country Girl
  9. Desiree
  10. The Earrings of Madame de…
  11. The Egyptian
  12. Executive Suite
  13. Forbidden Games
  14. The Gate of Hell
  15. Genevieve
  16. The Glenn Miller Story
  17. Hell and High Water
  18. The High and the Mighty
  19. It Should Happen to You
  20. Indiscretion of an American Wife
  21. Knock on Wood
  22. Magnificent Obsession
  23. Night People
  24. On the Waterfront
  25. Le Plaisir
  26. Rear Window
  27. Red Garters
  28. Robinson Crusoe
  29. Rogue Cop
  30. Sabrina
  31. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
  32. The Silver Chalice
  33. A Star Is Born
  34. Susan Slept Here
  35. Them!
  36. There’s No Business Like Show Business
  37. Three Coins in the Fountain
  38. White Christmas

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