Date: March 30, 1955
Best Picture
- On the Waterfront
Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Marlon Brando for On the Waterfront
Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Grace Kelly for The Country Girl
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- Edmond O’Brien for The Barefoot Contessa
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- Eva Marie Saint for On the Waterfront
Best Director
- Elia Kazan for On the Waterfront
Best Screenplay
- George Seaton for The Country Girl
Best Motion Picture Story
- Philip Yordan for Broken Lance
Best Story and Screenplay
- Budd Schulberg for On the Waterfront
Best Cinematography, Colour
- Milton R. Krasner for Three Coins in the Fountain
Best Cinematography, Black-and-White
- Boris Kaufman for On the Waterfront
Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White
- Richard Day for On the Waterfront
Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Colour
- John Meehan & Emile Kuri for 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Best Costume Design, Black-and-White
- Edith Head for Sabrina
Best Costume Design, Colour
- Mitsuzô Wada for Gate of Hell
Best Sound, Recording
- Leslie I. Carey for The Glenn Miller Story
Best Film Editing
- Gene Milford for On the Waterfront
Best Special Effects
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Best Original Song
- Jule Styne & Sammy Cahn for “Three Coins in the Fountain” from Three Coins in the Fountain
Best Scoring of a Musical Picture
- Adolph Deutsch & Saul Chaplin for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
- Dimitri Tiomkin for The High and the Mighty
Best Short Subject, Two-Reel
- Denis Sanders & Terry Sanders for A Time Out of War
Best Short Subject, One-Reel
- Robert Youngson for The Mechanical Age
Best Short Subject, Cartoons
- Stephen Bosustow for When Magoo Flew
Best Documentary, Short Subjects
- Thursday’s Children
Best Documentary, Features
- Walt Disney for The Vanishing Prairie
Honorary Award
- (Bausch & Lomb Optical Co.)
- Kemp Niver
- Greta Garbo
- Danny Kaye
- Jon Whiteley for The Little Kidnappers
- Vincent Winter for The Little Kidnappers
- Gate of Hell
