27th Academy Awards
Held in 1955 · 17 categories
Best Picture
- Winner On the Waterfront
- Nominee Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
- Nominee The Caine Mutiny
- Nominee The Country Girl
- Nominee Three Coins in the Fountain
Best Actor
- Winner On the Waterfront · Marlon Brando
- Nominee A Star Is Born · James Mason
- Nominee Robinson Crusoe · Dan O'Herlihy
- Nominee The Caine Mutiny · Humphrey Bogart
- Nominee The Country Girl · Bing Crosby
Best Actress
- Winner The Country Girl · Grace Kelly
- Nominee A Star Is Born · Judy Garland
- Nominee Carmen Jones · Dorothy Dandridge
- Nominee Magnificent Obsession · Jane Wyman
- Nominee Sabrina · Audrey Hepburn
Best Supporting Actor
- Winner The Barefoot Contessa · Edmond O'Brien
- Nominee On the Waterfront · Rod Steiger
- Nominee On the Waterfront · Lee J. Cobb
- Nominee On the Waterfront · Karl Malden
- Nominee The Caine Mutiny · Tom Tully
Best Supporting Actress
- Winner On the Waterfront · Eva Marie Saint
- Nominee Broken Lance · Katy Jurado
- Nominee Executive Suite · Nina Foch
- Nominee The High and the Mighty · Claire Trevor
- Nominee The High and the Mighty · Jan Sterling
Best Director
- Winner On the Waterfront · Elia Kazan
- Nominee Rear Window · Alfred Hitchcock
- Nominee Sabrina · Billy Wilder
- Nominee The Country Girl · George Seaton
- Nominee The High and the Mighty · William A. Wellman
Best Original Screenplay
- Winner On the Waterfront · Budd Schulberg
- Nominee Genevieve · William Rose
- Nominee Knock on Wood · Melvin Frank, Norman Panama
- Nominee The Barefoot Contessa · Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Nominee The Glenn Miller Story · Oscar Brodney, Valentine Davies
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Winner The Country Girl · George Seaton
- Nominee Rear Window · John Michael Hayes
- Nominee Sabrina · Billy Wilder, Ernest Lehman, Samuel A. Taylor
- Nominee Seven Brides for Seven Brothers · Albert Hackett, Dorothy Kingsley, Frances Goodrich
- Nominee The Caine Mutiny · Stanley Roberts
Best Documentary Feature
- Winner The Vanishing Prairie · Walt Disney
- Nominee The Stratford Adventure · Guy Glover
Best Original Score
- Winner Seven Brides for Seven Brothers · Adolph Deutsch, Saul Chaplin
- Winner The High and the Mighty · Dimitri Tiomkin
- Nominee A Star Is Born · Ray Heindorf
- Nominee Carmen Jones · Herschel Burke Gilbert
- Nominee Genevieve · Larry Adler
- Nominee On the Waterfront · Leonard Bernstein
- Nominee The Caine Mutiny · Max Steiner
- Nominee The Glenn Miller Story · Henry Mancini
- Nominee The Silver Chalice · Franz Waxman
- Nominee There's No Business Like Show Business · Alfred Newman, Lionel Newman
Best Original Song
- Winner Three Coins in the Fountain from Three Coins in the Fountain · Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn
- Nominee Count Your Blessings (Instead of Sheep) from White Christmas · Irving Berlin
- Nominee Hold My Hand from Susan Slept Here · Jack Lawrence, Richard Myers
- Nominee The High and the Mighty from The High and the Mighty · Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington
- Nominee The Man That Got Away from A Star Is Born · Harold Arlen, Ira Gershwin
Best Cinematography
- Winner On the Waterfront · Boris Kaufman
- Winner Three Coins in the Fountain · Milton Krasner
- Nominee Rear Window · Robert Burks
- Nominee Rogue Cop · John F. Seitz
- Nominee Sabrina · Charles Lang
- Nominee Seven Brides for Seven Brothers · George J. Folsey
- Nominee The Country Girl · John F. Warren
- Nominee The Egyptian · Leon Shamroy
- Nominee The Silver Chalice · William V. Skall
Best Film Editing
- Winner On the Waterfront · Gene Milford
- Nominee 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea · Elmo Williams
- Nominee Seven Brides for Seven Brothers · Ralph E. Winters
- Nominee The Caine Mutiny · Henry Batista, William Lyon
- Nominee The High and the Mighty · Ralph Dawson
Best Production Design
- Winner 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea · Emile Kuri, John Meehan
- Winner On the Waterfront · Richard Day
- Nominee A Star Is Born · Gene Allen, George Hopkins, Irene Sharaff, Malcolm C. Bert
- Nominee Brigadoon · Cedric Gibbons, E. Preston Ames, Edward Carfagno, Edwin B. Willis, Emile Kuri, F. Keogh Gleason
- Nominee Désirée · Leland Fuller, Lyle R. Wheeler, Paul S. Fox, Walter M. Scott
- Nominee Le Plaisir · Max Ophüls
- Nominee Red Garters · Grace Gregory, Hal Pereira, Ray Moyer, Roland Anderson, Samuel M. Comer, Walter H. Tyler
Best Costume Design
- Winner Gate of Hell · Sanzo Wada
- Winner Sabrina · Edith Head
- Nominee A Star Is Born · Irene Sharaff, Jean Louis, Mary Ann Nyberg
- Nominee Brigadoon · Irene Sharaff
- Nominee Executive Suite · Helen Rose
- Nominee Indiscretion of an American Wife · Christian Dior
- Nominee The Earrings of Madame de... · Georges Annenkov, Rosine Delamare
- Nominee There's No Business Like Show Business · Charles LeMaire, Miles White, René Hubert, Travilla
Best Sound
- Winner The Glenn Miller Story · Leslie I. Carey
- Nominee Brigadoon · Wesley C. Miller
- Nominee Rear Window · Loren L. Ryder
- Nominee Susan Slept Here · John O. Aalberg
- Nominee The Caine Mutiny · John P. Livadary
Best Visual Effects
- Winner 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
- Nominee Hell and High Water
- Nominee Them!