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

Genevieve from the **United Kingdom ** La mujer de las camelias from **Argentina ** No Way Back from **West Germany ** Twenty-Four Eyes from Japan

Henrietta Award (World Film Favorites)

** Gregory Peck ** and ** Audrey Hepburn **

Special Achievement Award

**Walt Disney ** for artistic merit in The Living Desert

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

Cecil B. DeMille Award

Jean Hersholt

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

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

Honor Awards

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