• Best Picture: From Here to Eternity - Buddy Adler, producer
• Best Director: Fred Zinnemann for From Here to Eternity
• Best Actor: William Holden in Stalag 17
• Best Actress: Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday
• Best Supporting Actor: Frank Sinatra in From Here to Eternity
• Best Supporting Actress: Donna Reed in From Here to Eternity
• Best Story and Screenplay: Titanic by Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch and Richard L.Breen
• Best Motion Picture Story: Roman Holiday by Dalton Trumbo and Ian McLellan Hunter
• Best Screenplay: From Here to Eternity by Daniel Taradash
• Best Special Effects: The War of the Worlds

Walt Disney achieved a milestone in the 1954 awards ceremony - as the individual with the most Oscar wins in a single year. He won the award in four awards categories: Best Cartoon Short Subject: Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom (1953), Best Documentary Short Subject: The Alaskan Eskimo (1953), Best Documentary Feature: The Living Desert (1953), and Best Two-ReelShort Subject: Bear Country (1953).