Academy Awards 1955 Nominations

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Best Motion Picture	Best Director
Best Actor	Best Actress
Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Best Story and Screenplay	Best Motion Picture Story
Best Screenplay	Best Documentary Feature
Best Documentary Short	Best Live Action Short Subject (One-reel)
Best Live Action Short Subject (Two-reel)	Best Short Subject (Cartoon)
Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture	Best Scoring of a Musical Picture
Best Song	Best Sound Recording
Best Art Direction (Color)	Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)
Best Cinematography (Color)	Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Best Costume Design (Color)	Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)
Best Film Editing	Best Special Effects

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Best Motion Picture

• On the Waterfront
• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
• The Caine Mutiny
• The Country Girl
• Three Coins in the Fountain

Best Director

• On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan)
• Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
• Sabrina (Billy Wilder)
• The Country Girl (George Seaton)
• The High and the Mighty (William A. Wellman)

Best Actor

• A Star Is Born (James Mason)
• On the Waterfront (Marlon Brando)
• Robinson Crusoe (Dan O'Herlihy)
• The Caine Mutiny (Humphrey Bogart)
• The Country Girl (Bing Crosby)

Best Actress

• A Star Is Born (Judy Garland)
• Carmen Jones (Dorothy Dandridge)
• Magnificent Obsession (Jane Wyman)
• Sabrina (Audrey Hepburn)
• The Country Girl (Grace Kelly)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• On the Waterfront (Lee J. Cobb)
• On the Waterfront (Karl Malden)
• On the Waterfront (Rod Steiger)
• The Barefoot Contessa (Edmond O'Brien)
• The Caine Mutiny (Tom Tully)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Broken Lance (Katy Jurado)
• Executive Suite (Nina Foch)
• On the Waterfront (Eva Marie Saint)
• The High and the Mighty (Jan Sterling)
• The High and the Mighty (Claire Trevor)

Best Story and Screenplay

• Genevieve
• Knock on Wood
• On the Waterfront
• The Barefoot Contessa
• The Glenn Miller Story

Best Motion Picture Story

• Bread, Love and Dreams
• Broken Lance
• Forbidden Games
• Night People
• There's No Business Like Show Business

Best Screenplay

• Rear Window
• Sabrina
• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
• The Caine Mutiny
• The Country Girl

Best Documentary Feature

• The Stratford Adventure
• The Vanishing Prairie

Best Documentary Short

• Jet Carrier
• Rembrandt: A Self-Portrait
• Thursday's Children

Best Live Action Short Subject (One-reel)

• Strauss Fantasy
• The First Piano Quartette
• This Mechanical Age

Best Live Action Short Subject (Two-reel)

• A Time Out of War
• Beauty and the Bull
• Jet Carrier
• Siam

Best Short Subject (Cartoon)

• Crazy Mixed Up Pup
• Pigs Is Pigs
• Sandy Claws
• Touché, Pussy Cat!
• When Magoo Flew

Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture

• Genevieve
• On the Waterfront
• The Caine Mutiny
• The High and the Mighty
• The Silver Chalice

Best Scoring of a Musical Picture

• A Star Is Born
• Carmen Jones
• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
• The Glenn Miller Story
• There's No Business Like Show Business

Best Song

• A Star Is Born ("The Man that Got Away")
• Susan Slept Here ("Hold My Hand")
• The High and the Mighty ("The High and the Mighty")
• Three Coins in the Fountain ("Three Coins in the Fountain")
• White Christmas ("Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep")

Best Sound Recording

• Brigadoon
• Rear Window
• Susan Slept Here
• The Caine Mutiny
• The Glenn Miller Story

Best Art Direction (Color)

• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
• A Star Is Born
• Brigadoon
• Désirée
• Red Garters

Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)

• Executive Suite
• Le plaisir
• On the Waterfront
• Sabrina
• The Country Girl

Best Cinematography (Color)

• Rear Window
• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
• The Egyptian
• The Silver Chalice
• Three Coins in the Fountain

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• Executive Suite
• On the Waterfront
• Rogue Cop
• Sabrina
• The Country Girl

Best Costume Design (Color)

• A Star Is Born
• Brigadoon
• Désirée
• Gate of Hell
• There's No Business Like Show Business

Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)

• Executive Suite
• Indiscretion of an American Wife
• It Should Happen to You
• Sabrina
• The Earrings of Madame De...

Best Film Editing

• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
• On the Waterfront
• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
• The Caine Mutiny
• The High and the Mighty

Best Special Effects

• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
• Hell and High Water
• Them!