1954 — Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

1. Rear Window (dir: Alfred Hitchcock)

2. The Wages of Fear (dir: Henri-Georges Cluozot; US Release Date)

3. On the Waterfront (dir: Elia Kazan)

4. Senso (dir: Luchiano Visconti)

5. Johnny Guitar (dir: Nicholas Ray)

6. The Crucified Lovers (dir: Kenji Mizoguchi)

7. The Earrings of Madame de... (dir: Max Ophuls; US Release Date)

8. Crime Wave (dir: Andre De Toth)

9. Dial M For Murder (dir: Alfred Hitchcock)

10. Carmen Jones (dir: Otto Preminger)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): Godzilla (dir: Ishiro Honda), Hobson’s Choice (dir: David Lean), An Inspector Calls (dir: Guy Hamilton) It Should Happen to You (dir: George Cukor), Magnificent Obsession (dir: Douglas Sirk), Salt of the Earth (dir: Herbert J. Biberman), A Star is Born (dir: George Cukor), and Suddenly (dir: Lewis Allen)

Best Picture: Rear Window
Director: Alfred Hitchcock Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
US Distributor: Paramount Pictures

Best Director:
Alfred Hitchcock, Rear Window AND Dial M for Murder
2. Henri-Georges Clouzot, The Wages of Fear
3. Elia Kazan, On the Waterfront
4. Luchiano Visconti, Senso
5. Nicholas Ray, Johnny Guitar

Best Actor:
Marlon Brando, On the Waterfront
2. Charles Laughton, Hobson’s Choice
3. Sterling Hayden, Crime Wave
4. James Stewart, Rear Window
5. Alastair Sim, An Inspector Calls

Best Actress:
Judy Holliday, It Should Happen to You
2. Judy Garland, A Star Is Born
3. Dorothy Dandridge, Carmen Jones
4. Jane Wyman, Magnificent Obsession
5. Joan Crawford, Johnny Guitar

Best Supporting Actor:
Lee J. Cobb, On the Waterfront
2. Karl Malden, On the Waterfront
3. Charles Vanel, The Wages of Fear
4. John Williams, Dial M For Murder
5. Rod Steiger, On the Waterfront

Best Supporting Actress:
Mercedes McCambridge, Johnny Guitar
2. Eva Marie Saint, On the Waterfront
3. Pearl Bailey, Carmen Jones
4. Thelma Ritter, Rear Window
5. Nina Foch, Executive Suite

Best Original Screenplay:
On the Waterfront — Budd Schulberg
2. It Should Happen to You — Garson Kanin
3. Salt of the Earth — Michael Wilson
4. The Far Country — Borden Chase
5. Suddenly — Richard Sale

Best Adapted Screenplay:
The Earrings of Madame de... — Max Ophüls, Marcel Achard, and Annette Wademant
2. The Crucified Lovers — Matsutaro Kawaguchi and Yoshikata Yoda
3. Crime Wave — Crane Wilbur, Bernard Gordon, and Richard Wormser
4. Johnny Guitar — Philip Yordan
5. Rear Window — John Michael Hayes

Best Cinematography:
Senso — G.R. Aldo and Robert Krasker
2. Rear Window — Robert Burks
3. On the Waterfront — Boris Kaufman
4. The Earrings of Madame de… — Christian Matras
5. Magnificent Obsession — Russell Metty

Best Film Editing: 
The Wages of Fear — Madeleine Gug, Etiennette Muse, and Henri Rust
2. Rear Window — George Tomasini
3. Dial M for Murder — Rudi Fehr
4. On the Waterfront — Gene Milford
5. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers — Ralph E. Winters

Best Original Score:
On the Waterfront — Leonard Bernstein
2. Rear Window — Franz Waxman
3. The High and the Mighty — Dimitri Tiompkin
4. Godzilla — Akira Ifukube
5. Wages of Fear — Georges Auric

Best Production Design:
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea — Harper Goff and Emile Kuri
2. Rear Window — Joseph MacMillan Johnson and Hal Pereira
3. The Earrings of Madame de... — Jeane d'Eaubonne
4. Senso — Ottavio Scotti and Gino Brosio
5. The Egyptian — Lyle Wheeler, George W. Davis, Paul S. Fox and Walter M. Scott

Best Costume Design:
Senso — Marcel Escoffier and Piero Tosi
2. Johnny Guitar — Sheila O’Brien
3. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers — Walter Plunkett and Charles Arrico
4. Carmen Jones — Mary Ann Nyberg
5. Desiree — Rene Hubert and Charles Le Maire

Best Visual Effects:
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Best Sound:
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Best Ensemble Cast:
Carmen Jones

Orson Welles’ Best First Feature:
Howard W. Koch and Edmond O’Brien, Shield for Murder

Best Ensemble Cast: 
Carmen Jones (dir: Otto Preminger; in alphabetical order): Joe Adams, Pearl Bailey, Harry Belafonte (pictured), Diahann Carroll, Dorothy Dandridge (pictured), Roy Glenn, Marvin Hayes, Marilyn Horne, LeVern Hutcherson, Olga James, Brock Peters, and Nick Stewart

Orson Welles' Best First Feature Award:
Howard W. Koch and Edmond O’Brien, Shield for Murder

RECAP

W I N S :

On the Waterfront — 4,
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea — 2, Rear Window — 2, Senso — 2, Carmen Jones — 1, Dial M for Murder — 1, The Earrings of Madame de… — 1, It Should Happen to You — 1, Johnny Guitar — 1, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers — 1, Shield for Murder — 1, The Wages of Fear — 1

M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S:

On the Waterfront — 11,
Rear Window — 9, Johnny Guitar — 6, Carmen Jones — 5, Senso – 5, Wages of Fear — 5, Dial M for Murder — 4, The Earrings of Madame de… — 4, Crime Wave — 3, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers — 3, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea — 2, The Crucified Lovers — 2, It Should Happen to You — 2

the year-end project:
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Best of the Decade:
2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s