10th Golden Globe Awards

10th Golden Globe Awards
Date	February 26, 1953
Highlights
Best Picture	The Greatest Show on Earth
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The 10th Golden Globe Awards , honoring the best in film for 1952 films, were held on February 26, 1953, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. ^[1]

Winners and Nominees

Best Motion Picture – Drama

Source: ^[2]

The Greatest Show on Earth

• Come Back, Little Sheba
• The Happy Time
• High Noon
• The Thief

Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical

With a Song in My Heart

• Hans Christian Andersen
• I'll See You in My Dreams
• Singin' in the Rain
• Stars and Stripes Forever

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Gary Cooper – High Noon

• Charles Boyer – The Happy Time
• Ray Milland – The Thief

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama

Shirley Booth – Come Back, Little Sheba

• Joan Crawford – Sudden Fear
• Olivia de Havilland – My Cousin Rachel

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical

Donald O'Connor – Singin' in the Rain

• Danny Kaye – Hans Christian Andersen
• Clifton Webb – Stars and Stripes Forever

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical

Susan Hayward – With a Song in My Heart

• Katharine Hepburn – Pat and Mike
• Ginger Rogers – Monkey Business

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

Millard Mitchell – My Six Convicts

• Kurt Kasznar – The Happy Time
• Gilbert Roland – The Bad and the Beautiful

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

Katy Jurado – High Noon

• Mildred Dunnock – Viva Zapata!
• Gloria Grahame – The Bad and the Beautiful

Best Direction – Motion Picture

Cecil B. DeMille – The Greatest Show on Earth

• Richard Fleischer – The Happy Time
• John Ford – The Quiet Man

Best Screenplay – Motion Picture

5 Fingers – Michael Wilson

• High Noon – Carl Foreman
• The Thief – Clarence Greene

Best Music, Original Score – Motion Picture

High Noon – Dimitri Tiomkin

• Ivanhoe – Miklós Rózsa
• The Quiet Man – Victor Young

Cinematography – Black and White

High Noon

• The Four Poster
• The Thief

Cinematography – Color

The Greatest Show on Earth – George Barnes; J. Peverell Marley

Promoting International Understanding

Anything Can Happen

• Assignment: Paris
• Ivanhoe

Special Achievement Award

Francis Kee Teller

Henrietta Award (World Film Favorites)

Susan Hayward and John Wayne

Cecil B. DeMille Award

Walt Disney

• Stanley Kramer
• Adolph Zukor

New Star of the Year Actor

My Cousin Rachel – Richard Burton

• Pat and Mike – Aldo Ray
• Star and Stripes Forever – Robert Wagner

New Star of the Year Actress

Moulin Rouge – Colette Marchand

• The Thief – Rita Gam
• High Noon – Katy Jurado

Juvenile Performance

The Member of the Wedding – Brandon deWilde

• Navajo – Francis Kee Teller
• My Pal Gus – George Winslow

References

1. Villanueva, Armando (November 1, 2022). "1953: A Year for Song and Dance". Golden Globes. Retrieved August 4, 2025.
2. "Winners & Nominees". Golden Globes. Retrieved August 4, 2025.