Film Related Awards

Academy Awards

  • Cinematography, Victor Milner, Cleopatra, 1934
  • Film Editing, Anne Bauchens, North West Mounted Police, 1940
  • Special Effects, Photographic Effects by Gordon Jennings, Farciot Edouart, William L. Pereira; Sound Effects by Louis Mesenkop, Reap the Wild Wind, 1942
  • Art Direction (Color), Hans Dreier, Walter Tyler, Samson and Delilah, 1949
  • Costume Design (Color), Edith Head, Dorothy Jeakins, Elois Jenssen, Gile Steele, Gwen Wakeling, Samson and Delilah, 1949
  • Special Academy Award® to Cecil B. DeMille, “distinguished motion picture pioneer,” 1950
  • Academy Award® for Best Picture, The Greatest Show on Earth, 1952
  • Irving Thalberg Memorial Award® to Cecil B. DeMille, 1953

Other Film Related Awards

  • American Institute of Cinematography, May 21, 1937
  • American Weekly, the Annual Motion Picture Poll declared The Greatest Show on Earth to be “The Most Enjoyable Picture of the Year”
  • Boxoffice Magazine Blue Ribbon Award for North West Mounted Police
  • The Exhibitor Magazine, the Laurel Award, 1948, 1950-51, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1957
  • Federation of Motion Picture Councils, Inc.
  • Grand prix du cinéma français, 1951
  • Foreign Press Association of Hollywood , 1952, 1953
  • Golden Globes (Hollywood Foreign Correspondents Association)
    • Special Award (thereafter the Cecil B. DeMille Award), 1952
    • Best Director of 1952, The Greatest Show on Earth
    • Best Picture of 1952, The Greatest Show on Earth
  • David Wark Griffith Memorial Foundation, 1953
  • Independent Film Journal, the “Exhibitorating Award”
  • Independent Theatre Owners Association, the First Annual Citation to Mr. Cecil B. DeMille, pioneer producer-director-showman, for his production The Greatest Show on Earth, February 26, 1953
  • Motion Picture Pioneers present the Pioneer of the Year award to Cecil B. DeMille on the occasion of their 10th anniversary, November 16, 1949
  • Seventeen Magazine, an award to the Greatest Showman on Earth, Cecil B. DeMille, for The Greatest Show on Earth
  • Screen Directors Guild, the First Annual D.W. Griffith Award for Lifetime Achievement, 1953
  • Screen Producers Guild, the “Wreath of Honor” for C.B. DeMille’s historic contribution to the American motion picture, January 22, 1956
  • Society of Motion Picture Art Directors, 1949
  • Southern California Motion Picture Council Inc., the Certificate of Award for a picture of outstanding merit, The Greatest Show on Earth
  • Southern California Motion Picture Council Award to Cecil B. DeMille, the Greatest of All Showmen
  • Stanley Warner Theatres for “Grateful appreciation of Stanley Warner Theatres to Cecil B. DeMille for the record run of his production The Ten Commandments, from November 15, 1956 to October 6, 1957”