The 1954 Academy Awards were presented March 30, 1955 at the RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, Calif and the NBC Century Theatre, New York, N.Y.
| Best Motion Picture | The Caine Mutiny, Stanley Kramer, producer (Columbia) |
| The Country Girl, William Perlberg, producer (Paramount) |
| On the Waterfront, Sam Spiegel, producer (Columbia) |
| Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Jack Cummings, producer (MGM) |
| Three Coins in the Fountain, Sol C. Siegel, producer (Twentieth Century-Fox) |
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 On the Waterfront Archive Photos |
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| 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, Adventures of 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 |
| 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 |
| Actress in a Supporting Role | Nina Foch, Executive Suite |
| Katy Jurado, Broken Lance |
| Eva Maria Saint, On the Waterfront |
| Jan Sterling, The High and the Mighty |
| Claire Trevor, The High and the Mighty |
| Directing | Alfred Hitchcock, Rear Window |
| Elia Kazan, On the Waterfront |
| George Seaton, The Country Girl |
| William Wellman, The High and the Mighty |
| Billy Wilder, Sabrina |
| Writing | | Motion Picture Story | François Boyer, Forbidden Games | | Jed Harris and Tom Reed, Night People | | Ettore Margadonna, Bread, Love and Dreams | | Lamar Trotti, There's No Business Like Show Business | | Philip Yordan, Broken Lance | | Screenplay | Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich and Dorothy Kingsley, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers | | John Michael Hayes, Rear Window | | Stanley Roberts, The Caine Mutiny | | George Seaton, The Country Girl | | Billy Wilder, Samuel Taylor and Ernest Lehman, Sabrina | | Story and Screenplay | Valentine Davies and Oscar Brodney, The Glenn Miller Story | | Joseph L. Mankiewicz, The Barefoot Contessa | | Norman Panama and Melvin Frank, Knock on Wood | | William Rose, Genevieve | | Budd Schulberg, On the Waterfront |
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| Cinematography | | Black-and-White | George Folsey, Executive Suite | | Boris Kaufman, On the Waterfront | | Charles Lang, Jr., Sabrina | | John Seitz, Rogue Cop | | John F. Warren, The Country Girl | | Color | Robert Burks, Rear Window | | George Folsey, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers | | Milton Krasner, Three Coins in the Fountain | | Leon Shamroy, The Egyptian | | William V. Skall, The Silver Chalice |
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| Art Direction | | Black-and-White | Richard Day, art direction and set decoration, On the Waterfront | | Cedric Gibbons and Edward Carfagno, art direction; Edwin B. Willis and Emile Kuri, set decoration, Executive Suite | | Max Ophuls, art direction and set decoration, Le Plaisir | | Hal Pereira and Roland Anderson, art direction; Sam Comer and Grace Gregory, set decoration, The Country Girl | | Hal Pereira and Walter Tyler, art direction; Sam Comer and Ray Moyer, set decoration, Sabrina | | Color | Malcolm Bert, Gene Allen and Irene Sharaff, art direction; George James Hopkins, set decoration, A Star Is Born | | Cedric Gibbons and Preston Ames, art direction; Edwin B. Willis and Keogh Gleason, set decoration, Brigadoon | | John Meehan, art direction; Emile Kuri, set decoration, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | | Hal Pereira and Roland Anderson, art direction; Sam Comer and Ray Moyer, set decoration, Red Garters | | Lyle Wheeler and Leland Fuller, art direction; Walter M. Scott and Paul S. Fox, set decoration, Desirée |
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| Sound Recording | Columbia Studio Sound Dept., The Caine Mutiny |
| MGM Studio Sound Dept., Brigadoon |
| Paramount Studio Sound Dept., Rear Window |
| RKO Radio Studio Sound Dept., Susan Slept Here |
| Universal-International Studio Sound Dept., The Glenn Miller Story |
| Music | | Song | “Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep,” White Christmas, Irving Berlin, music and lyrics | | “The High and the Mighty,” The High and the Mighty, Dimitri Tiomkin, music; Ned Washington, lyrics | | “Hold My Hand,” Susan Slept Here, Jack Lawrence and Richard Myers, music and lyrics | | “The Man That Got Away,” A Star Is Born, Harold Arlen, music; Ira Gershwin, lyrics | | “Three Coins in the Fountain,” Three Coins in the Fountain, Jule Styne, music; Sammy Cahn, lyrics | | Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture | Larry Adler, Genevieve | | Leonard Bernstein, On the Waterfront | | Max Steiner, The Caine Mutiny | | Dimitri Tiomkin, The High and the Mighty | | Franz Waxman, The Silver Chalice | | Scoring of a Musical Picture | Adolph Deutsch and Saul Chaplin, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers | | Joseph Gershenson and Henry Mancini, The Glenn Miller Story | | Herschel Burke Gilbert, Carmen Jones | | Ray Heindorf, A Star Is Born | | Alfred Newman and Lionel Newman, There's No Business Like Show Business |
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| Film Editing | Ralph Dawson, The High and the Mighty |
| William A. Lyon and Henry Batista, The Caine Mutiny |
| Gene Milford, On the Waterfront |
| Elmo Williams, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea |
| Ralph E. Winters, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers |
| Costume Design | | Black-and-White | Georges Annenkov and Rosine Delamare, The Earrings of Madame De… | | Christian Dior, Indiscretion of an American Wife | | Edith Head, Sabrina | | Jean Louis, It Should Happen to You | | Helen Rose, Executive Suite | | Color | Charles LeMaire and Rene Hubert, Desirée | | Charles LeMaire, Travilla and Miles White, There's No Business Like Show Business | | Jean Louis, Mary Ann Nyberg and Irene Sharaff, A Star Is Born | | Irene Sharaff, Brigadoon | | Sanzo Wada, Gate of Hell |
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| Special Effects | Hell and High Water (Twentieth Century-Fox) |
| Them! (Warner Bros.) |
| 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista) |
| Short Subjects | | Cartoon | Crazy Mixed Up Pup (Walter Lantz Productions; Universal-International) | | Pigs Is Pigs (Walt Disney Productions; RKO Radio) | | Sandy Claws (Looney Tunes Series) (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.; Warner Bros.) | | Touché, Pussy Cat (Tom and Jerry Series) (Frederick Quimby, producer; MGM) | | When Magoo Flew (Mr. Magoo Series) (United Productions of America; Columbia) | | One-Reel | The First Piano Quartette (Music Series) (Otto Lang, producer; Twentieth Century-Fox) | | The Strauss Fantasy (Musical Gems Series) (Johnny Green, producer; MGM) | | This Mechanical Age (Warner Variety Series) (Robert Youngson, producer; Warner Bros.) | | Two-Reel | Beauty and the Bull (Technicolor Specials Series) (Cedric Francis, producer; Warner Bros.) | | Jet Carrier (Otto Lang, producer; Twentieth Century-Fox) | | Siam (People and Places Series) (Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista) | | A Time Out of War (Denis Sanders and Terry Sanders, producers; Carnival Productions) |
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| Documentary | | Short Subject | Jet Carrier (Otto Lang, producer; Twentieth Century-Fox) | | Rembrandt: A Self-Portrait (Morrie Roizman Production; Distributors Corporation of America) | | Thursday's Children (World Wide Pictures and Morse Films; British Information Services) | | Feature | The Stratford Adventure (National Film Board of Canada; Continental Distributing, Inc.) | | The Vanishing Prairie (True-Life Adventure Series) (Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista) |
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| Honorary Awards | To Bausch and Lomb Optical Company for their contributions to the advancement of the motion picture industry |
| 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 Greta Garbo for her unforgettable screen performances |
| To Danny Kaye for his unique talents and his service to the Academy, the motion picture industry and the American people |
| To Jon Whiteley for his outstanding juvenile performance in The Little Kidnappers |
| To Vincent Winter for his outstanding performance in The Little Kidnappers |
| To Gate of Hell (Japan) best foreign language film first released in the United States during 1954 |
