Awards and Honors
Academy Awards
On the Waterfront was nominated for twelve Academy Awards, and won eight of them.
| Award | Result | Winner |
|---|---|---|
| Best Motion Picture | Won | Columbia Pictures (Sam Spiegel, Producer) |
| Best Director | Won | Elia Kazan |
| Best Actor | Won | Marlon Brando |
| Best Story and Screenplay | Won | Budd Schulberg |
| Best Supporting Actor | Nominated | Lee J. Cobb Winner was Edmond O'Brien – The Barefoot Contessa |
| Best Supporting Actor | Nominated | Karl Malden Winner was Edmond O'Brien – The Barefoot Contessa |
| Best Supporting Actor | Nominated | Rod Steiger Winner was Edmond O'Brien – The Barefoot Contessa |
| Best Supporting Actress | Won | Eva Marie Saint |
| Best Art Direction-Set Decoration Black-and-White | Won | Richard Day |
| Best Cinematography (Black-and-White) | Won | Boris Kaufman |
| Best Film Editing | Won | Gene Milford |
| Best Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture | Nominated | Leonard Bernstein Winner was Dimitri Tiomkin – The High and the Mighty |
After Marlon Brando won the Academy Award for Best Actor, it was stolen and did not turn up until much later when a London auction house contacted the actor and informed him of its whereabouts. Before that he had been using it to help hold his front door open.
American Film Institute recognition
- AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies – #8
- AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains:
- Terry Malloy – #23 Hero
- Johnny Friendly – Nominated Villain
- AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes:
- "You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody instead of a bum, which is what I am." – #3
- AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores – #22
- AFI's 100 Years... 100 Cheers – #36
- AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) – #19
- AFI's 10 Top 10 – Nominated Gangster film
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