27th Annual Academy Awards Nominations (1955)

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  • Date of Ceremony: Wednesday, March 30, 1955
  • For films released in: 1954
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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
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