Awards
Academy Awards:
- Best Picture: The Greatest Show on Earth - DeMille, Paramount
- Best Director: John Ford - The Quiet Man
- Best Actor: Gary Cooper - High Noon
- Best Actress: Shirley Booth - Come Back, Little Sheba
- Best Supporting Actor: Anthony Quinn - Viva Zapata!
- Best Supporting Actress: Gloria Grahame - The Bad and the Beautiful
Golden Globe Awards:
- Drama:
- Best Picture: The Greatest Show on Earth
- Best Actor: Gary Cooper – High Noon
- Best Actress: Shirley Booth – Come Back, Little Sheba
- Musical or comedy:
- Best Picture: With a Song in My Heart
- Best Actor: Donald O'Connor – Singin' in the Rain
- Best Actress: Susan Hayward – With a Song in My Heart
- Supporting Role:
- Best Supporting Actor: Millard Mitchell – My Six Convicts
- Best Supporting Actress: Katy Jurado – High Noon
- Other
- Best Director: Cecil B. DeMille – The Greatest Show on Earth
Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival):
- The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice, directed by Orson Welles, United States
- Two Cents Worth of Hope (Due soldi di speranza), directed by Renato Castellani, Italy
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
- Forbidden Games (Jeux interdits), directed by René Clément, France
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
- Hon dansade en sommar (One Summer of Happiness), directed by Arne Mattsson, Sweden
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