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26th Academy Awards
26th Annual Academy Awards at RKO Pantages Theater in Los Angeles, 1954.jpg
DateMarch 25, 1954
Site RKO Pantages Theatre
Hollywood, California
NBC Center Theatre
New York City, New York
Hosted by Donald O'Connor (Hollywood)
Fredric March (New York City)
Highlights
Best Picture From Here to Eternity
Most awardsFrom Here to Eternity (8)
Most nominationsFrom Here to Eternity (13)
TV in the United States
Network NBC

The 26th Academy Awards were held on March 25, 1954, simultaneously at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood (hosted by Donald O'Connor), and the NBC Center Theatre in New York City (hosted by Fredric March).

Contents

The second national telecast of the Awards show drew an estimated 43 million viewers. Shirley Booth, appearing in a play in Philadelphia, presented the Academy Award for Best Actor through a live broadcast cut-in, having privately received the winner's name over the telephone from O'Connor. Gary Cooper pre-recorded his presentation of the Academy Award for Best Actress while on location in Mexico shooting Garden of Evil , with O'Connor then announcing the winner's name live.

All the major winners in this year were black-and-white films. Fred Zinnemann's From Here to Eternity won eight awards from its thirteen nominations: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Academy Award for Best Director, Best Screenplay (Daniel Taradash), Best Cinematography, Black-and-White (Burnett Guffey), Best Sound Recording, and Best Film Editing. It was the third film to receive five acting nominations. Its eight awards matched the record set by Gone with the Wind in 1939. Walt Disney won four awards, a record to this day for most Oscars won by a single person in the same year (the record was tied by Bong Joon Ho at the 92nd Academy Awards [1] [lower-alpha 1] ).

William Holden's acceptance speech for Best Actor for Stalag 17 was simply "Thank You", making it one of the shortest speeches on record, forced by the TV broadcast's strict cutoff time. Holden, frustrated, later personally paid for advertisements in the Hollywood trade publications to thank everyone he had wanted to in his speech, remarked that he felt that either Burt Lancaster or Montgomery Clift should have won the Oscar for From Here to Eternity instead of him, and expounded backstage on a system he felt valued commercials over program content; [4] NBC had cut into commercials during the middle of other acceptance speeches, as well. [4]

Winners and nominees

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Fred Zinnemann; Best Director winner
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William Holden; Best Actor winner
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Audrey Hepburn; Best Actress winner
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Frank Sinatra; Best Supporting Actor winner
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Donna Reed; Best Supporting Actress winner
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Charles Brackett; Best Story and Screenplay co-winner
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Dalton Trumbo; Best Story winner
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Walt Disney; Best Animated Short Film, Best Documentary Feature, Best Documentary Short Subject and Best Live Action Short Subject, Two-Reel winner
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Cedric Gibbons; Best Art Direction, Black-and-White co-winner
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Charles LeMaire; Best Costume Design, Color winner

Awards

Nominees were announced on February 15, 1954. Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface. [5]

Best Motion Picture Best Director
Best Actor Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress
Best Screenplay Best Story and Screenplay
Best Story Best Documentary Feature
Best Documentary Short Subject Best Live Action Short Subject, One-Reel
Best Live Action Short Subject, Two-Reel Best Short Subject - Cartoons
Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture Best Scoring of a Musical Picture
Best Song Best Sound Recording
Best Art Direction, Black-and-White Best Art Direction, Color
Best Cinematography, Black-and-White Best Cinematography, Color
Best Costume Design, Black-and-White Best Costume Design, Color
Best Film Editing

Academy Honorary Awards

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Academy Award of Merit

Presenters and performers

Presenters

Name(s)Role
Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Wilding Presenters of the Documentary Awards
Jack Webb Presenter of the award for Best Sound Recording
Keefe Brasselle and Marilyn Erskine Presenters of the Short Subject Awards
Esther Williams Presenter of the award for Best Film Editing
Gene Tierney Presenter of the awards for Costume Design
Gower Champion
Marge Champion
Presenters of the award for Art Direction
Lex Barker and Lana Turner Presenters of the awards for Cinematography
Kirk Douglas Presenter of the Writing awards
Irene Dunne Presenter of the award for Best Director
Walter Brennan Presenter of the award for Best Supporting Actress
Mercedes McCambridge Presenter of the award for Best Supporting Actor
Arthur Freed Presenter of the Music awards
Gary Cooper Presenter of the award for Best Actress
Shirley Booth Presenter of the award for Best Actor
Cecil B. DeMille Presenter of the award for Best Motion Picture
Merle Oberon Presenter of the award for Best Special Effects
Charles Brackett Presenter of the Honorary Awards
Tyrone Power Presenter of the Scientific & Technical Awards
David O. Selznick Presenter of the Irving G. Thalberg Award

Performers

Name(s)Role
André Previn Conductor the Academy Awards orchestra
Mitzi Gaynor and Donald O'Connor Performers of "The Moon Is Blue" from The Moon Is Blue
Connie Russell Performer of "Sadie Thompson's Song (Blue Pacific Blues)" from Miss Sadie Thompson
Ann Blyth Performer of "Secret Love" from Calamity Jane
Dean Martin Performer of "That's Amore" from The Caddy

Multiple nominations and awards

Films with multiple nominations
NominationsFilm
13 From Here to Eternity
10 Roman Holiday
6 Lili
Shane
5 Julius Caesar
The Robe
3 The Band Wagon
Calamity Jane
The Moon Is Blue
Stalag 17
The War of the Worlds
2 Above and Beyond
Call Me Madam
Knights of the Round Table
Martin Luther
Mogambo
The President's Lady
Titanic
Young Bess
Films with multiple awards
AwardsFilm
8 From Here to Eternity
3 Roman Holiday
2 The Robe

See also

Notes

  1. Technically, the country of the film is recognized as winner of the Best International Feature award. [2] However, the award is accepted by the director on behalf of the country, and since 2014, the director's name is engraved on the statuette. [3]

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