12th Golden Globe Awards

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.

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