The 27th Academy Awards honored the best films produced in 1954. The Best Picture winner, On the Waterfront, was produced by Sam Spiegel and directed by Elia Kazan. It had twelve nominations and eight wins, matching two other films, Gone with the Win... (more)d (1939) and From Here to Eternity (1953), even though those two each had thirteen nominations.

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