12th Golden Globe Awards

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]

12th Golden Globe Awards
Date	February 24, 1955
Highlights
Best Picture	On The Waterfront
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Signs for the Golden Globe Awards

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

• Genevieve from the United Kingdom
• La mujer de las camelias from Argentina
• No Way Back from West Germany
• Twenty-Four Eyes from Japan^[11]

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)

• Carmen Jones - Joe Adams
• Four Guns to the Border - George Nader
• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers - Jeff Richards^[3]

New Star of the Year Actress

(Three way tie)

• The Trouble with Harry - Shirley MacLaine
• Phffft! - Kim Novak
• The High and the Mighty - Karen Sharpe^[3]

Honor Awards

• John Ford - Special "Pioneer" award in the motion picture industry^[3]
• Herbert Kalmus - Special "Pioneer" award for color on the screen^[3]
• Dimitri Tiomkin - for creative musical contribution to Motion Picture^[3]