1954 Alternate Oscars

Best Picture of 1954

The Caine Mutiny

Gojira a.k.a. Godzilla

✔ On The Waterfront

Rear Window

Sabrina

Sansho The Baliff

Seven Brides For Seven Brothers

★ Seven Samurai

A Star Is Born

ƒ La Strada

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Best Actor of 1954

Humphrey Bogart (The Caine Mutiny)

★ ✔ Marlon Brando (On The Waterfront)

Bing Crosby (The Country Girl)

James Mason (A Star Is Bornand 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea)

James Stewart (Rear Window, The Far Country and The Glenn Miller Story)

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Best Actress of 1954

Dorothy Dandridge (Carmen Jones)

★ Judy Garland (A Star Is Born)

Audrey Hepburn (Sabrina)

✔ Grace Kelly (The Country Girl, Rear Window and Dial 'M' For Murder)

Giulietta Masina (La Strada)

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Best Director of 1954

Federico Fellini (La Strada)

Alfred Hitchcock (Rear Window and Dial 'M' For Murder)

✔ Elia Kazan (On the Waterfront)

★ Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai)

Kenji Mizoguchi (Sansho the Bailiff)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1954

Lee J. Cobb, Karl Malden and Rod Steiger (On the Waterfront)

José Ferrer (The Caine Mutiny)

★ Toshirô Mifune (Seven Samurai)

✔ Edmond O'Brien (The Barefoot Contessa)

John Williams (Dial 'M' for Murder and Sabrina)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1954

Brenda de Banzie (Hobson's Choice)

Glenda Farrell (Susan Slept Here)

Mercedes McCambridge (Johnny Guitar)

★ Thelma Ritter (Rear Window)

✔ Eva Marie Saint (On the Waterfront)

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Special Award

Budd Schulberg (On The Waterfront) (original screenplay)

John Michael Hayes, from the short story by Cornell Woolrich (Rear Window) (adapted screenplay)

Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai) (film editing)

"The Man That Got Away" (A Star Is Born) music by Harold Arlen; lyrics by Ira Gershwin (song)

Gene de Paul & Johnny Mercer (original songs); Adolph Deutsch (musical director); Saul Chaplin (music supervisor) (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers) (song score)

John Meehan and Emile Kuri (20,000 Leagues Under The Sea) (art direction / set decoration)

Walt Disney Studios (20,000 Leagues Under The Sea) (special effects)

Godzilla (Gojira a.k.a. Godzilla) (worst tourist)

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My choices are noted with a ★. A tie is indicated with a ✪. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. Best foreign-language picture winners are noted with an ƒ. A historical winner who won in a different category is noted with a ✱.

1953 Alternate Oscars

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Best Picture of 1953

The Big Heat

The Earrings Of Madame de ...

✔ From Here To Eternity

Monsieur Hulot's Holiday

Roman Holiday

Shane

Stalag 17

★ Tokyo Story

Ugetsu

The Wages Of Fear

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Best Actor of 1953

★ Montgomery Clift (From Here To Eternity)

Glenn Ford (The Big Heat)

✔ William Holden (Stalag 17)

Burt Lancaster (From Here To Eternity)

Gregory Peck (Roman Holiday)

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Best Actress of 1953

✔ Audrey Hepburn (Roman Holiday)

Deborah Kerr (From Here To Eternity)

Marilyn Monroe (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes)

★ Jane Russell (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes)

Olga Zubarry (El Vampiro Negro)

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Best Director of 1953

Henri-Georges Clouzot (The Wages of Fear)

Max Ophüls (The Earrings of Madame de...)

★ Yasujirô Ozu (Tokyo Story)

George Stevens (Shane)

✔ Fred Zinnemann (From Here To Eternity)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1953

Eddie Albert (Roman Holiday)

Charles Coburn (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes)

Jack Palance (Shane)

★ ✔ Frank Sinatra (From Here To Eternity)

Robert Strauss (Stalag 17)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1953

Jean Arthur (Shane)

★ Gloria Grahame (The Big Heat)

Setsuko Hara (Tokyo Story)

✔ Donna Reed (From Here To Eternity)

Thelma Ritter (Pickup On South Street)

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Special Award

Dalton Trumbo, Ian McLellan Hunter and John Dighton, from a story by Dalton Trumbo (Roman Holiday) (original screenplay)

Daniel Taradash, from the novel by James Jones (From Here To Eternity) (adapted screenplay)

Gordon Jennings (The War of the Worlds) (special effects)

Loren L. Ryder (The War of the Worlds) (sound)

"That's Entertainment" (The Band Wagon) music and lyrics by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz (original song)

"Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) (best song and dance)

Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr (From Here To Eternity) (sandiest roll in the hay)

Duck Amuck (short subject-cartoon)

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My choices are noted with a ★. A tie is indicated with a ✪. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. Best foreign-language picture winners are noted with an ƒ. A historical winner who won in a different category is noted with a ✱.