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Awards for 1954

Oscar

Best Picture

WINNER

From Here to Eternity: Buddy Adler

NOMINEES

Julius Caesar: John Houseman
The Robe: Frank Ross
Roman Holiday: William Wyler
Shane: George Stevens

Best Actor in a Leading Role

WINNER

Stalag 17: William Holden

NOMINEES

Julius Caesar: Marlon Brando
The Robe: Richard Burton
From Here to Eternity: Montgomery Clift
From Here to Eternity: Burt Lancaster

Best Actress in a Leading Role

WINNER

Roman Holiday: Audrey Hepburn

NOMINEES

Lili: Leslie Caron
Mogambo: Ava Gardner
From Here to Eternity: Deborah Kerr
The Moon Is Blue: Maggie McNamara

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

WINNER

From Here to Eternity: Frank Sinatra

NOMINEES

Roman Holiday: Eddie Albert
Shane: Brandon De Wilde
Shane: Jack Palance
Stalag 17: Robert Strauss

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

WINNER

From Here to Eternity: Donna Reed

NOMINEES

Mogambo: Grace Kelly
Hondo: Geraldine Page
Torch Song: Marjorie Rambeau
Pickup on South Street: Thelma Ritter

Best Director

WINNER

From Here to Eternity: Fred Zinnemann

NOMINEES

Shane: George Stevens
Lili: Charles Walters
Stalag 17: Billy Wilder
Roman Holiday: William Wyler

Best Writing, Screenplay

WINNER

From Here to Eternity: Daniel Taradash

NOMINEES

The Cruel Sea: Eric Ambler
Lili: Helen Deutsch
Roman Holiday: Ian McLellan Hunter, John Dighton
Shane: A.B. Guthrie Jr.

Best Writing, Motion Picture Story

WINNER

Roman Holiday: Dalton Trumbo
The screen credit and award were originally credited to Ian McLellan Hunter who fronted for Dalton Trumbo. In December 1992 the Academy decided to change the records and to credit Mr. Trumbo with the achievement. Ian McLellan Hunter was removed from the Motion Picture Story category and the Oscar was posthumously presented to Trumbo's widow on May 10th, 1993.

NOMINEES

Above and Beyond: Beirne Lay Jr.
The Captain's Paradise: Alec Coppel
Hondo: Louis L'Amour
Although the film had originally been nominated the producer and the nominee questioned its inclusion into the Motion Picture Story category since the film is based on the short story "The Gift of Cochise" published in Collier's magazine in July 1952, a fact not represented in the film's credits. The nomination was withdrawn and only four films were included on the final ballot.
Little Fugitive: Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin

Best Writing, Story and Screenplay

WINNER

Titanic: Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch, Richard L. Breen

NOMINEES

The Band Wagon: Betty Comden, Adolph Green
The Desert Rats: Richard Murphy
The Naked Spur: Sam Rolfe, Harold Jack Bloom
Take the High Ground!: Millard Kaufman

Best Cinematography, Color

WINNER

Shane: Loyal Griggs

NOMINEES

All the Brothers Were Valiant: George J. Folsey
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef: Edward Cronjager
Lili: Robert H. Planck
The Robe: Leon Shamroy

Best Cinematography, Black-and-White

WINNER

From Here to Eternity: Burnett Guffey

NOMINEES

The Four Poster: Hal Mohr
Julius Caesar: Joseph Ruttenberg
Martin Luther: Joseph C. Brun
Roman Holiday: Franz Planer, Henri Alekan

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White

WINNER

Julius Caesar: Cedric Gibbons, Edward C. Carfagno, Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt

NOMINEES

Martin Luther: Fritz Maurischat, Paul Markwitz
The President's Lady: Lyle R. Wheeler, Leland Fuller, Paul S. Fox
Roman Holiday: Hal Pereira, Walter H. Tyler
Titanic: Lyle R. Wheeler, Maurice Ransford, Stuart A. Reiss

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color

WINNER

The Robe: Lyle R. Wheeler, George W. Davis, Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox

NOMINEES

Knights of the Round Table: Alfred Junge, Hans Peters, John Jarvis
Lili: Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis, Arthur Krams
The Story of Three Loves: Cedric Gibbons, E. Preston Ames, Edward C. Carfagno, Gabriel Scognamillo, Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason, Arthur Krams, Jack D. Moore
Young Bess: Cedric Gibbons, Urie McCleary, Edwin B. Willis, Jack D. Moore

Best Costume Design, Black-and-White

WINNER

Roman Holiday: Edith Head

NOMINEES

The Actress: Walter Plunkett
Dream Wife: Helen Rose, Herschel McCoy
From Here to Eternity: Jean Louis
The President's Lady: Charles Le Maire, Renié

Best Costume Design, Color

WINNER

The Robe: Charles Le Maire, Emile Santiago

NOMINEES

The Band Wagon: Mary Ann Nyberg
Call Me Madam: Irene Sharaff
How to Marry a Millionaire: Charles Le Maire, Travilla
Young Bess: Walter Plunkett

Best Sound, Recording

WINNER

From Here to Eternity: John P. Livadary (Columbia SSD)

NOMINEES

Calamity Jane: William A. Mueller (Warner Bros. Sound Department)
Knights of the Round Table: A.W. Watkins (M-G-M Sound Department)
The Mississippi Gambler: Leslie I. Carey (Universal-International Sound Dept.)
The War of the Worlds: Loren L. Ryder (Paramount Sound Department)

Best Film Editing

WINNER

From Here to Eternity: William A. Lyon

NOMINEES

Crazylegs: Cotton Warburton
The Moon Is Blue: Otto Ludwig
Roman Holiday: Robert Swink
The War of the Worlds: Everett Douglas

Best Effects, Special Effects

WINNER

The War of the Worlds: (Paramount Studio)

Best Music, Original Song

WINNER

Calamity Jane: Sammy Fain (music), Paul Francis Webster (lyrics)
For the song "Secret Love".

NOMINEES

The Moon Is Blue: Herschel Burke Gilbert (music), Sylvia Fine (lyrics)
For the song "The Moon Is Blue".
Small Town Girl: Nicholas Brodszky (music), Leo Robin (lyrics)
For the song "My Flaming Heart".
Miss Sadie Thompson: Lester Lee (music), Ned Washington (lyrics)
For the song "Sadie Thompson's Song (Blue Pacific Blues)".
The Caddy: Harry Warren (music), Jack Brooks (lyrics)
For the song "That's Amore".

Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture

WINNER

Call Me Madam: Alfred Newman

NOMINEES

The Band Wagon: Adolph Deutsch
Calamity Jane: Ray Heindorf
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.: Friedrich Hollaender, Morris Stoloff
Kiss Me Kate: André Previn, Saul Chaplin

Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture

WINNER

Lili: Bronislau Kaper

NOMINEES

Above and Beyond: Hugo Friedhofer
From Here to Eternity: Morris Stoloff, George Duning
Julius Caesar: Miklós Rózsa
This Is Cinerama: Louis Forbes

Best Short Subject, Two-reel

WINNER

Bear Country: Walt Disney

NOMINEES

Ben and Me: Walt Disney
Return to Glennascaul: (Dublin Gate Theatre Prod.)
Vesuvius Express: Otto Lang
Winter Paradise: Cedric Francis

Best Short Subject, One-reel

WINNER

Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor: Johnny Green

NOMINEES

Christ Among the Primitives: Vincenzo Lucci-Chiarissi
Herring Hunt: (National Film Board of Canada)
Joy of Living: Boris Vermont
Wee Water Wonders: Jack Eaton

Best Short Subject, Cartoons

WINNER

Toot Whistle Plunk and Boom: Walt Disney

NOMINEES

Christopher Crumpet: Stephen Bosustow
From A to Z-Z-Z-Z: Edward Selzer
Rugged Bear: Walt Disney
The Tell-Tale Heart: Stephen Bosustow

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

WINNER

The Alaskan Eskimo: Walt Disney

NOMINEES

The Living City: John Barnes
Operation Blue Jay: (U.S. Army Signal Corps)
They Planted a Stone: James Carr
The Word: John Healy, John Adams

Best Documentary, Features

WINNER

The Living Desert: Walt Disney

NOMINEES

The Conquest of Everest: John Taylor, Leon Clore, Grahame Tharp
A Queen Is Crowned: Castleton Knight

Honorary Award

WINNERS

Pete Smith
For his witty and pungent observations on the American scene in his series of "Pete Smith Specialties".
(20th Century-Fox Film Corp.)
In recognition of their imagination, showmanship and foresight in introducing the revolutionary process known as CinemaScope.
Joseph I. Breen
For his conscientious, open-minded and dignified management of the Motion Picture Production Code.
(Bell and Howell Co.)
For their pioneering and basic achievements in the advancement of the motion picture industry.

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

WINNER

George Stevens

Academy Award of Merit

WINNERS

Henri Chretien, Earl Sponable, Sol Halperin (20th Century-Fox Studios), Lorin Grignon (20th Century-Fox Studios), Herbert Gragg (20th Century-Fox Studios), Carlton W. Faulkner (20th Century-Fox Studios)
For creating, developing and engineering the equipment, processes and techniques known as CinemaScope.
Fred Waller
For designing and developing the multiple photographic and projection systems which culminated in Cinerama.

Scientific and Engineering Award

WINNER

(Reeves Soundcraft Corp.)
For their development of a process of applying stripes of magnetic oxide to motion picture film

Technical Achievement Award

WINNER

(Westrex Corp.)
For the design and construction of a new film editing machine.

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