27th Annual Academy Awards Nominations (1955)
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- Date of Ceremony: Wednesday, March 30, 1955
- For films released in: 1954
Here is a complete list of nominations for the 27th Annual Academy Awards.
And the nominees are:
Best Motion Picture
- The Caine Mutiny
Stanley Kramer [Producer] - The Country Girl
William Perlberg [Producer] - On the Waterfront
Sam Spiegel [Producer] - Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Jack Cummings [Producer] - Three Coins in the Fountain
Sol C. Siegel [Producer]
Best 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
Best Actor
- Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Dan O'Herlihy - The Caine Mutiny
Humphrey Bogart - The Country Girl
Bing Crosby - On the Waterfront
Marlon Brando - A Star Is Born
James Mason
Best Actress
- Carmen Jones
Dorothy Dandridge - The Country Girl
Grace Kelly - Magnificent Obsession
Jane Wyman - Sabrina
Audrey Hepburn - A Star Is Born
Judy Garland
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- The Barefoot Contessa
Edmond O'Brien - The Caine Mutiny
Tom Tully - On the Waterfront
Lee J. Cobb - On the Waterfront
Karl Malden - On the Waterfront
Rod Steiger
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- Broken Lance
Katy Jurado - Executive Suite
Nina Foch - The High and the Mighty
Jan Sterling - The High and the Mighty
Claire Trevor - On the Waterfront
Eva Marie Saint
Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)
- The Country Girl
Hal Pereira [Art Direction], Roland Anderson [Art Direction], Sam Comer [Set Decoration] and Grace Gregory [Set Decoration] - Executive Suite
Cedric Gibbons [Art Direction], Edward Carfagno [Art Direction], Edwin B. Willis [Set Decoration] and Emile Kuri [Set Decoration] - Le Plaisir
Max Ophuls - On the Waterfront
Richard Day - Sabrina
Hal Pereira [Art Direction], Walter Tyler [Art Direction], Sam Comer [Set Decoration] and Ray Moyer [Set Decoration]
Best Art Direction (Color)
- 20,000 Leagues under the Sea
John Meehan [Art Direction] and Emile Kuri [Set Decoration] - Brigadoon
Cedric Gibbons [Art Direction], Preston Ames [Art Direction], Edwin B. Willis [Set Decoration] and Keogh Gleason [Set Decoration] - Desiree
Lyle Wheeler [Art Direction], Leland Fuller [Art Direction], Walter M. Scott [Set Decoration] and Paul S. Fox [Set Decoration] - Red Garters
Hal Pereira [Art Direction], Roland Anderson [Art Direction], Sam Comer [Set Decoration] and Ray Moyer [Set Decoration] - A Star Is Born
Malcolm Bert [Art Direction], Gene Allen [Art Direction], Irene Sharaff [Art Direction] and George James Hopkins [Set Decoration]
Best 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 B. Lang Jr.
Best 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
Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)
- The Earrings of Madame de...
Georges Annenkov and Rosine Delamare - Executive Suite
Helen Rose - Indiscretion of an American Wife
Christian Dior - It Should Happen to You
Jean Louis - Sabrina
Edith Head
Best Costume Design (Color)
- Brigadoon
Irene Sharaff - Desiree
Charles LeMaire and René Hubert - Gate of Hell
Sanzo Wada - A Star Is Born
Irene Sharaff, Jean Louis and Mary Ann Nyberg - There's No Business Like Show Business
Charles LeMaire, Travilla and Miles White
Best Documentary (Feature)
- The Stratford Adventure
Guy Glover - The Vanishing Prairie
Walt Disney
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
- Jet Carrier
Otto Lang - Rembrandt: A Self-Portrait
Morrie Roizman - Thursday's Children
World Wide Pictures and Morse Films
Best Film Editing
- 20,000 Leagues under the Sea
Elmo Williams - The Caine Mutiny
William A. Lyon and Henry Batista - The High and the Mighty
Ralph Dawson - On the Waterfront
Gene Milford - Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Ralph E. Winters
Best Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)
- The Caine Mutiny
Max Steiner - Genevieve
Larry Adler - The High and the Mighty
Dimitri Tiomkin - On the Waterfront
Leonard Bernstein - The Silver Chalice
Franz Waxman
Best Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture)
- Carmen Jones
Herschel Burke Gilbert - The Glenn Miller Story
Joseph Gershenson and Henry Mancini - Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Adolph Deutsch and Saul Chaplin - A Star Is Born
Ray Heindorf - There's No Business Like Show Business
Alfred Newman and Lionel Newman
Best Music (Song)
- The High and the Mighty "The High and the Mighty"
Dimitri Tiomkin [Music by] and Ned Washington [Lyrics by] - A Star Is Born "The Man That Got Away"
Harold Arlen [Music by] and Ira Gershwin [Lyrics by] - Susan Slept Here "Hold My Hand"
Jack Lawrence [Music and Lyrics by] and Richard Myers [Music and Lyrics by] - Three Coins in the Fountain "Three Coins in the Fountain"
Jule Styne [Music by] and Sammy Cahn [Lyrics by] - White Christmas "Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep"
Irving Berlin [Music and Lyrics by]
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)
- Crazy Mixed Up Pup
Walter Lantz - Pigs Is Pigs
Walt Disney - Sandy Claws
Edward Selzer - Touché, Pussy Cat
Fred Quimby - When Magoo Flew
Stephen Bosustow
Best Short Subject (One-reel)
- The First Piano Quartette
Otto Lang - The Strauss Fantasy
Johnny Green - This Mechanical Age
Robert Youngson
Best Short Subject (Two-reel)
- Beauty and the Bull
Cedric Francis - Jet Carrier
Otto Lang - Siam
Walt Disney - A Time Out of War
Denis Sanders and Terry Sanders
Best Sound Recording
- Brigadoon
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department and Wesley C. Miller [Sound Director] - The Caine Mutiny
Columbia Studio Sound Department and John P. Livadary [Sound Director] - The Glenn Miller Story
Universal-International Studio Sound Department and Leslie I. Carey [Sound Director] - Rear Window
Paramount Studio Sound Department and Loren L. Ryder [Sound Director] - Susan Slept Here
RKO Radio Studio Sound Department and John O. Aalberg [Sound Director]
Best Special Effects
- 20,000 Leagues under the Sea
Walt Disney Studios - Hell and High Water
20th Century-Fox Studio - Them!
Warner Bros. Studio
Best Writing (Screenplay)
- The Caine Mutiny
Stanley Roberts - The Country Girl
George Seaton - Rear Window
John Michael Hayes - Sabrina
Billy Wilder, Samuel Taylor and Ernest Lehman - Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich and Dorothy Kingsley
Best Writing (Story and Screenplay)
- The Barefoot Contessa
Joseph L. Mankiewicz - Genevieve
William Rose - The Glenn Miller Story
Valentine Davies and Oscar Brodney - Knock on Wood
Norman Panama and Melvin Frank - On the Waterfront
Budd Schulberg
Best Writing (Motion Picture Story)
- Bread, Love and Dreams
Ettore Margadonna - Broken Lance
Philip Yordan - Forbidden Games
François Boyer - Night People
Jed Harris and Tom Reed - There's No Business Like Show Business
Lamar Trotti