Editing On the Waterfront (section)

===Awards and nominations===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|-
! Award
! Category
! Nominee(s)
! Result
! Ref.
|-
| rowspan="12"| [[27th Academy Awards|Academy Awards]]
| [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Motion Picture]]
| [[Sam Spiegel]]
| {{won}}
| align="center" rowspan="12"| <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1955 |title=The 27th Academy Awards (1955) Nominees and Winners |access-date=August 20, 2011 |publisher=Oscars.org ([[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]])}}</ref> <br /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/36311/On-the-Waterfront/awards |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090429083620/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/36311/On-the-Waterfront/awards |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 29, 2009 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=2009 |title=On the Waterfront |access-date=December 21, 2008}}</ref>
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| [[Elia Kazan]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
| [[Marlon Brando]]
| {{won}}
|-
| rowspan="3"| [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]]
| [[Lee J. Cobb]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Karl Malden]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Rod Steiger]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]]
| [[Eva Marie Saint]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay|Best Story and Screenplay]]
| [[Budd Schulberg]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Production Design|Best Art Direction – Black-and-White]]
| [[Richard Day (art director)|Richard Day]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Cinematography|Best Cinematography – Black-and-White]]
| [[Boris Kaufman]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Film Editing|Best Film Editing]]
| [[Gene Milford]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Original Score|Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture]]
| [[Leonard Bernstein]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[Bambi Award]]s
| colspan="2"| Best Film – International
| {{won}}
| align="center" rowspan="2"| 
|-
| Best Actor – International
| Marlon Brando
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Bodil Awards]]
| colspan="2"| [[Bodil Award for Best American Film|Best American Film]]
| {{won}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |title=1955 |website=Bodilprisen |date=October 19, 2015 |url=http://www.bodilprisen.dk/aar-for-aar/1955-2/ |language=Danish |access-date=June 29, 2021}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="3"| [[8th British Academy Film Awards|British Academy Film Awards]]
| colspan="2"| [[BAFTA Award for Best Film|Best Film from any Source]]
| {{nom}}
| align="center" rowspan="3"| <ref>{{cite web |url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1955/film |title=BAFTA Awards: Film in 1955 |website=[[BAFTA]] |year=1955 |access-date=September 16, 2016 |ref={{harvid|BAFTA|1955}}}}</ref>
|-
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role|Best Foreign Actor]]
| Marlon Brando
| {{won}}
|-
| [[BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles|Most Promising Newcomer to Film]]
| Eva Marie Saint
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[7th Directors Guild of America Awards|Directors Guild of America Awards]]
| [[Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film|Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures]]
| Elia Kazan
| {{won}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dga.org/Awards/History/1950s/1954.aspx?value=1954 |title=7th DGA Awards |website=[[Directors Guild of America Awards]] |access-date=July 5, 2021}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="4"| [[12th Golden Globe Awards|Golden Globe Awards]]
| colspan="2"| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama|Best Motion Picture – Drama]]
| {{won}}
| align="center" rowspan="4"| <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/film/waterfront |title=On the Waterfront – Golden Globes |website=[[HFPA]] |access-date=July 5, 2021 |ref={{harvid|HFPA|1955}}}}</ref>
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama|Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama]]
| Marlon Brando
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Director|Best Director – Motion Picture]]
| Elia Kazan
| {{won}}
|-
| Best Cinematography – Black and White
| Boris Kaufman
| {{won}}
|-
| [[International Film Music Critics Association|International Film Music Critics Association Awards]]
| [[International Film Music Critics Association Award for Best New Archival Release of an Existing Score – Re-Release or Re-Recording|Best Archival Release of an Existing Score – <br /> Re-Release or Re-Recording]]
| Leonard Bernstein, Douglass Fake, <br /> Frank K. DeWald, and Joe Sikoryak
| {{won}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web|url=http://filmmusiccritics.org/awards-archive/ifmca-awards-2014/ |title=2014 IFMCA Awards |author=[[International Film Music Critics Association|IFMCA]] |date= 2015 | website= IFMCA |accessdate= May 1, 2020}}</ref>
|-
| [[Nastro d'Argento]]
| Best Foreign Film
| Elia Kazan
| {{won}}
| align="center"| 
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[National Board of Review Awards 1954|National Board of Review Awards]]
| colspan="2"| [[National Board of Review: Top Ten Films|Top Ten Films]]
| {{won}}
| align="center" rowspan="2"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://nationalboardofreview.org/award-years/1954/ |title=1954 Award Winners |website=[[National Board of Review]] |access-date=July 5, 2021}}</ref>
|-
| colspan="2"| [[National Board of Review Award for Best Film|Best Film]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[National Film Preservation Board]]
| colspan="2"| [[National Film Registry]]
| {{won|Inducted}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/ |title=Complete National Film Registry Listing |website=[[Library of Congress]] |access-date=December 16, 2015}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="4"| [[1954 New York Film Critics Circle Awards|New York Film Critics Circle Awards]]
| colspan="2"| [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film|Best Film]]
| {{won}}
| align="center" rowspan="4"| <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nyfcc.com/awards/?awardyear=1954 |title=1954 New York Film Critics Circle Awards |website=[[New York Film Critics Circle]] |access-date=July 5, 2021}}</ref>
|-
| [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| Elia Kazan
| {{won}}
|-
| [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
| Marlon Brando
| {{won}}
|-
| [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]]
| Eva Marie Saint
| {{nom}}
|-
| Online Film & Television Association Awards
| colspan="2"| Hall of Fame – Motion Picture
| {{won|Inducted}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oftaawards.com/film-hall-of-fame/film-hall-of-fame-productions/ |title=Film Hall of Fame Inductees: Productions |website=Online Film & Television Association |access-date=August 15, 2021}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="4"| [[15th Venice International Film Festival|Venice International Film Festival]]
| [[Golden Lion]]
| rowspan="4"| Elia Kazan
| {{nom}}
| align="center" rowspan="4"| 
|-
| [[Silver Lion]]
| {{won}}
|-
| OCIC Award
| {{won}}
|-
| Pasinetti Award
| {{won}}
|-
| [[7th Writers Guild of America Awards|Writers Guild of America Awards]]
| [[Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Drama|Best Written American Drama]]
| Budd Schulberg
| {{won}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wga.org/awards/awardssub.aspx?id=1551 |title=Awards Winners |work=wga.org |publisher=Writers Guild of America |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121205095022/http://www.wga.org/awards/awardssub.aspx?id=1551 |archive-date=December 5, 2012 |access-date=June 6, 2010}}</ref>
|}

In 1989, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the [[Library of Congress]], and selected for preservation in the United States [[National Film Registry]].

In 1995, it made it on the [[Vatican's list of films|Vatican's list of 45 important films]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archive.usccb.org/movies/vaticanfilms.shtml |title=Vatican Best Films List |publisher=USCCB |access-date=March 7, 2010 |archive-date=April 18, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070418125227/http://www.usccb.org/movies/vaticanfilms.shtml |url-status=dead }}</ref>

'''American Film Institute recognition'''
* [[AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies]] – #8
* [[AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains]]:
** Terry Malloy – #23 Hero
* [[AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes]]:
** "You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody instead of a bum, which is what I am." – #3
* [[AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores]] – #22
* [[AFI's 100 Years... 100 Cheers]] – #36
* [[AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)]] – #19