10th Golden Globe Awards explained

The 10th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1952 films, were held on February 26, 1953, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.

Winners and Nominees

Best Motion Picture – Drama

The Greatest Show on Earth

• Come Back, Little Sheba
• The Happy Time
• High Noon
• The Thief

Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical

With a Song in My Heart

• Hans Christian Andersen
• I'll See You in My Dreams
• Singin' in the Rain
• Stars and Stripes Forever

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Gary Cooper – High Noon

• Charles Boyer – The Happy Time
• Ray Milland – The Thief

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama

Shirley Booth – Come Back, Little Sheba

• Joan Crawford – Sudden Fear
• Olivia de Havilland – My Cousin Rachel

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical

Donald O'Connor – Singin' in the Rain

• Danny Kaye – Hans Christian Andersen
• Clifton Webb – Stars and Stripes Forever

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical

Susan Hayward – With a Song in My Heart

• Katharine Hepburn – Pat and Mike
• Ginger Rogers – Monkey Business

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

Millard Mitchell – My Six Convicts

• Kurt Kasznar – The Happy Time
• Gilbert Roland – The Bad and the Beautiful

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

Katy Jurado – High Noon

• Mildred Dunnock – Viva Zapata!
• Gloria Grahame – The Bad and the Beautiful

Best Direction – Motion Picture

Cecil B. DeMille – The Greatest Show on Earth

• Richard Fleischer – The Happy Time
• John Ford – The Quiet Man

Best Screenplay – Motion Picture

5 Fingers – Michael Wilson

• High Noon – Carl Foreman
• The Thief – Clarence Greene and Russell Rouse

Best Music, Original Score – Motion Picture

High Noon – Dimitri Tiomkin

• Ivanhoe – Miklós Rózsa
• The Quiet Man – Victor Young

Cinematography – Black and White

High Noon

• The Four Poster
• The Thief

Cinematography – Color

The Greatest Show on Earth – George Barnes; J. Peverell Marley

Promoting International Understanding

Anything Can Happen

• Ivanhoe

Special Achievement Award

Francis Kee Teller

Henrietta Award (World Film Favorites)

Susan Hayward and John Wayne

Cecil B. DeMille Award

Walt Disney

• Stanley Kramer
• Adolph Zukor

New Star of the Year Actor

My Cousin Rachel – Richard Burton

• Pat and Mike – Aldo Ray
• Star and Stripes Forever – Robert Wagner

New Star of the Year Actress

Moulin Rouge – Colette Marchand

• The Thief – Rita Gam
• High Noon – Katy Jurado

Juvenile Performance

The Member of the Wedding – Brandon deWilde

• Navajo – Francis Kee Teller
• My Pal Gus – George Winslow