Date: March 25, 1954
Best Picture
Best Actor in a Leading Role
- William Holden for Stalag 17
Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Audrey Hepburn for Roman Holiday
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- Frank Sinatra for From Here to Eternity
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- Donna Reed for From Here to Eternity
Best Director
- Fred Zinnemann for From Here to Eternity
Best Screenplay
- Daniel Taradash for From Here to Eternity
Best Motion Picture Story
- Dalton Trumbo for Roman Holiday
- The screen credit and award were originally credited to Ian McLellan Hunter, as Dalton Trumbo was blacklisted at the time. The Academy changed its records in December 1992 to credit Mr. Trumbo.
Best Story and Screenplay
- Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch, & Richard L. Breen for Titanic
Best Cinematography, Colour
- Loyal Griggs for Shane
Best Cinematography, Black-and-White
- Burnett Guffey for From Here to Eternity
Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White
- Cedric Gibbons, Edward C. Carfagno, Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt for Julius Caesar
Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Colour
- Lyle R. Wheeler, George W. Davis, Walter M. Scott, & Paul S. Fox for The Robe
Best Costume Design, Black-and-White
- Edith Head for Roman Holiday
Best Costume Design, Colour
- Charles Le Maire & Emile Santiago for The Robe
Best Sound, Recording
- John P. Livadary for From Here to Eternity
Best Film Editing
- William A. Lyon for From Here to Eternity
Best Special Effects
- The War of the Worlds
Best Original Song
- Sammy Fain & Paul Francis Webster for “Secret Love” from Calamity Jane
Best Scoring of a Musical Picture
- Alfred Newman for Call Me Madam
Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
- Bronislau Kaper for Lili
Best Short Subject, Two-Reel
- Walt Disney for Bear Country
Best Short Subject, One-Reel
- Johnny Green for Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor
Best Short Subject, Cartoons
- Walt Disney for Toot Whistle Plunk and Boom
Best Documentary, Short Subjects
- Walt Disney for The Alaskan Eskimo
Best Documentary, Features
- Walt Disney for The Living Desert
Honorary Award
- Pete Smith
- (20th Century-Fox Film Corp.)
- Joseph I. Breen
- (Bell and Howell Co.)