12th Golden Globe Awards

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12th Golden Globe Awards
DateFebruary 24, 1955
Highlights
Best Picture On The Waterfront
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The 12th Golden Globe Awards , honoring the best in film for 1954, were held on February 24, 1955, in the Cocoanut Grove at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. [1]

Contents

Winners

Best Motion Picture - Drama

On the Waterfront directed by Elia Kazan [2]

Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical

Carmen Jones directed by Otto Preminger [3]

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama

Marlon Brando - On the Waterfront [4]

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama

Grace Kelly - The Country Girl [5]

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

James Mason - A Star Is Born [6]

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

Judy Garland - A Star Is Born [6]

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

Edmond O'Brien - The Barefoot Contessa [7]

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

Jan Sterling - The High and the Mighty [8]

Best Director - Motion Picture

Elia Kazan - On the Waterfront [9]

Best Screenplay - Motion Picture

Ernest Lehman - Sabrina [10]

Best Foreign Language Film

Henrietta Award (World Film Favorites)

Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn [3]

Special Achievement Award

Walt Disney for artistic merit in The Living Desert [12]

Cinematography - Color

Brigadoon photographed by Joseph Ruttenberg [13]

Cinematography - Black and White

On the Waterfront photographed by Boris Kaufman [14]

Promoting International Understanding

Broken Lance - directed by Edward Dmytryk [15]

Cecil B. DeMille Award

Jean Hersholt [16]

New Star of the Year Actor

(Three way tie)

New Star of the Year Actress

(Three way tie)

Honor Awards

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