12th Golden Globe Awards

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 actor in a motion picture - Musical or Comedy

James Mason - A Star Is Born

Best performance by an actress in a motion picture - Musical or Comedy

Judy Garland - A Star Is Born

Best performance by an actress in a motion picture - Drama

Grace Kelly - The Country Girl

Best performance by an actress in a supporting role in a motion picture

Jan Sterling - The High and the Mighty

Best performance by an actor in a supporting role in a motion picture

Edmund O'Brien - The Barefoot Contessa

Best Director - Motion Picture

Elia Kazan - On The Waterfront

Best Screenplay - Motion Picture

Sabrina - Ernest Lehman

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

Audrey Hepburn

Special Achievement Award

Walt Disney for artistic merit in The Living Desert

Cecil B. DeMille Award

Jean Hersholt

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

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 Award

John Ford Special "Pioneer" award in the motion picture industry

Honor Award

Herbert Kalmus Special "Pioneer" award for color on the screen

Honor Award

Dimitri Tiomkin or creative musical contribution to Motion Picture