The 27th Academy Awards (1954): Nominees and Winners

NOMINATIONS		AWARDS
12 7 7 6 6 6 5 4 4 3 3 3 3 3	On the Waterfront The Caine Mutiny The Country Girl The High and the Mighty Sabrina A Star Is Born Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Executive Suite Rear Window 20,000 Leagues under the Sea Brigadoon The Glenn Miller Story There's No Business Like Show Business Three Coins in the Fountain	8 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1	On the Waterfront 20,000 Leagues under the Sea The Country Girl Three Coins in the Fountain The Barefoot Contessa Broken Lance Gate of Hell The Glenn Miller Story The High and the Mighty Sabrina Seven Brides for Seven Brothers This Mechanical Age Thursday's Children A Time Out of War The Vanishing Prairie When Magoo Flew
NOMINATION/WIN TALLY LEGEND Best Picture winner Best Picture nominee Nominations are listed for all films receiving 3 or more

PICTURE (Best Motion Picture)

• The Caine Mutiny - Stanley Kramer
• The Country Girl - William Perlberg
• On the Waterfront - Sam Spiegel
• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers - Jack Cummings
• Three Coins in the Fountain - Sol C. Siegel

DIRECTING

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

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 - Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

ACTRESS

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

SUPPORTING ACTOR (Actor in a Supporting Role)

• 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

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Actress in a Supporting Role)

• 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

SCREENPLAY

• The Caine Mutiny - Stanley Roberts
• The Country Girl - George Seaton
• Rear Window - John Michael Hayes
• Sabrina - Billy Wilder, Samuel Taylor, Ernest Lehman
• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers - Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, Dorothy Kingsley

STORY AND SCREENPLAY

• The Barefoot Contessa - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
• Genevieve - William Rose
• The Glenn Miller Story - Valentine Davies, Oscar Brodney
• Knock on Wood - Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
• On the Waterfront - Budd Schulberg

MOTION PICTURE STORY

• Bread, Love and Dreams - Ettore Margadonna
• Broken Lance - Philip Yordan
• Forbidden Games - Franois Boyer
• Night People - Jed Harris, Tom Reed
• There's No Business Like Show Business - Lamar Trotti

SONG

• "Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep" - White Christmas - Music, Lyrics by Irving Berlin
• "The High and the Mighty" - The High and the Mighty - Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyrics by Ned Washington
• "Hold My Hand" - Susan Slept Here - Music, Lyrics by Jack Lawrence, Richard Myers
• "The Man That Got Away" - A Star Is Born - Music by Harold Arlen; Lyrics by Ira Gershwin
• "Three Coins in the Fountain" - Three Coins in the Fountain - Music by Jule Styne; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn

MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)

• The Caine Mutiny - Max Steiner
• Genevieve - Larry Adler [1]
• The High and the Mighty - Dimitri Tiomkin
• On the Waterfront - Leonard Bernstein
• The Silver Chalice - Franz Waxman

SCORING OF A MUSICAL PICTURE

• Carmen Jones - Herschel Burke Gilbert
• The Glenn Miller Story - Joseph Gershenson, Henry Mancini
• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers - Adolph Deutsch, Saul Chaplin
• A Star Is Born - Ray Heindorf
• There's No Business Like Show Business - Alfred Newman, Lionel Newman

FILM EDITING

• The Caine Mutiny - William A. Lyon, Henry Batista
• The High and the Mighty - Ralph Dawson
• On the Waterfront - Gene Milford
• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers - Ralph E. Winters
• 20,000 Leagues under the Sea - Elmo Williams

CINEMATOGRAPHY (Black-and-White)

• The Country Girl - John F. Warren
• Executive Suite - George Folsey
• On the Waterfront - Boris Kaufman
• Rogue Cop - John Seitz
• Sabrina - Charles Lang Jr.

CINEMATOGRAPHY (Color)

• The Egyptian - Leon Shamroy
• Rear Window - Robert Burks
• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers - George Folsey
• The Silver Chalice - William V. Skall
• Three Coins in the Fountain - Milton Krasner

ART DIRECTION (Black-and-White)

• The Country Girl - Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Grace Gregory
• Executive Suite - Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Emile Kuri
• On the Waterfront - Richard Day
• Le Plaisir - Max Ophuls
• Sabrina - Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Walter Tyler; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Ray Moyer

ART DIRECTION (Color)

• Brigadoon - Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Preston Ames; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Keogh Gleason
• Desiree - Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox
• Red Garters - Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Ray Moyer
• A Star Is Born - Art Direction: Malcolm Bert, Gene Allen, Irene Sharaff; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins
• 20,000 Leagues under the Sea - Art Direction: John Meehan; Set Decoration: Emile Kuri

COSTUME DESIGN (Black-and-White)

• The Earrings of Madame de... - Georges Annenkov, Rosine Delamare
• Executive Suite - Helen Rose
• Indiscretion of an American Wife - Christian Dior
• It Should Happen to You - Jean Louis
• Sabrina - Edith Head

COSTUME DESIGN (Color)

• Brigadoon - Irene Sharaff
• Desiree - Charles LeMaire, Ren Hubert
• Gate of Hell - Sanzo Wada
• A Star Is Born - Jean Louis, Mary Ann Nyberg, Irene Sharaff
• There's No Business Like Show Business - Charles LeMaire, Travilla, Miles White

SOUND RECORDING

• Brigadoon - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Wesley C. Miller (Sound Director)
• The Caine Mutiny - Columbia Studio Sound Department, John P. Livadary (Sound Director)
• The Glenn Miller Story - Universal-International Studio Sound Department, Leslie I. Carey (Sound Director)
• Rear Window - Paramount Studio Sound Department, Loren L. Ryder (Sound Director)
• Susan Slept Here - RKO Radio Studio Sound Department, John O. Aalberg (Sound Director)

SPECIAL EFFECTS

• Hell and High Water - 20th Century-Fox Studio
• Them! - Warner Bros. Studio
• 20,000 Leagues under the Sea - Walt Disney Studios

HONORARY FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM AWARD

• To Gate of Hell - Best Foreign Language Film first released in the United States during 1954.

DOCUMENTARY (Feature)

• The Stratford Adventure - Guy Glover
• The Vanishing Prairie - Walt Disney

DOCUMENTARY (Short Subject)

• Jet Carrier - Otto Lang
• Rembrandt: A Self-Portrait - Morrie Roizman
• Thursday's Children - World Wide Pictures, Morse Films

SHORT SUBJECT (Cartoon)

• Crazy Mixed Up Pup - Walter Lantz
• Pigs Is Pigs - Walt Disney
• Sandy Claws - Edward Selzer
• Touch, Pussy Cat - Fred Quimby
• When Magoo Flew - Stephen Bosustow

SHORT SUBJECT (One-Reel)

• The First Piano Quartette - Otto Lang
• The Strauss Fantasy - Johnny Green
• This Mechanical Age - Robert Youngson

SHORT SUBJECT (Two-Reel)

• Beauty and the Bull - Cedric Francis
• Jet Carrier - Otto Lang
• Siam - Walt Disney
• A Time Out of War - Denis Sanders, Terry Sanders

HONORARY AWARDS

• To Bausch & Lomb Optical Company for their contributions to the advancement of the motion picture industry.
• To Danny Kaye for his unique talents, his service to the Academy, the motion picture industry, and the American people.
• To Greta Garbo for her unforgettable screen performances.
• To Jon Whiteley for his outstanding juvenile performance in The Little Kidnappers.
• 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.
• To Vincent Winter for his outstanding juvenile performance in The Little Kidnappers.

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE I (Academy Award of Merit)

• 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. [Systems]

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE III (Certificate)

• To KARL FREUND and FRANK CRANDELL of Photo Research Corporation for the design and development of a direct reading brightness meter. [Photography]
• 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. [Projection]
• To CARLOS RIVAS, G.M. SPRAGUE and the METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER STUDIO SOUND DEPARTMENT for the design of a magnetic sound editing machine. [Sound]
• To FRED WILSON of the Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department for the design of a variable multiple-band equalizer. [Sound]
• To JOHN P. LIVADARY, LLOYD RUSSELL and the COLUMBIA STUDIO SOUND DEPARTMENT for an improved limiting amplifier as applied to sound level comparison devices. [Sound]
• To ROLAND MILLER and MAX GOEPPINGER of Magnascope Corporation for the design and development of a cathode ray magnetic sound track viewer. [Sound]
• 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. [Sound]
• To DAVID S. HORSLEY and the UNIVERSAL-INTERNATIONAL STUDIO SPECIAL PHOTOGRAPHIC DEPARTMENT for a portable remote control device for process projectors. [Special Photographic]
• 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. [Stage Operations]

ACADEMY NOTES

1. Because of the political climate of the times, 'Genevieve''s arranger and orchestra conductor Muir Mathieson was credited as composer on American prints of this British-made film, and was thus credited with the nomination. In June of 1986, the Board of Governors had Academy records updated to give Larry Adler his proper credit, which Mr. Mathieson had never claimed. Mr. Mathieson's name was removed from the nomination and Mr. Adler's inserted.