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.

Winners

Best Motion Picture - Drama On the Waterfront directed by Elia Kazan

Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical Carmen Jones directed by Otto Preminger

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama Marlon Brando - On the Waterfront

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama Grace Kelly - The Country Girl

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical James Mason - A Star Is Born

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical Judy Garland - A Star Is Born

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture Edmond O'Brien - The Barefoot Contessa

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture Jan Sterling - The High and the Mighty

Best Director - Motion Picture Elia Kazan - On the Waterfront

Best Screenplay - Motion Picture Ernest Lehman - Sabrina

Best Foreign Language Film

Henrietta Award (World Film Favorites) Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn

Cinematography - Color Brigadoon photographed by Joseph Ruttenberg

Cinematography - Black and White On the Waterfront photographed by Boris Kaufman

Promoting International Understanding Broken Lance - directed by Edward Dmytryk"Best Film Promoting International Understanding (Previous Award Given)" 1954

Cecil B. DeMille Award Jean Hersholt

New Star of the Year Actor (Three way tie)

New Star of the Year Actress (Three way tie)

Honor Awards

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