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1954 (MCMLIV) is the 954th year of the 2nd millennium, the 54th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1950s decade.
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Art and culture
- Studio One record label founded in Jamaica
- Ford Atmos concept car presented
- Comics Code Authority introduced
- Film Culture magazine launched
- "Une certaine tendance du cinéma français", an essay by French film critic François Truffaut,
- "The Homosexual Villain", an essay by American writer Norman Mailer
Literature
- Story of O by Pauline Réage
- Contempt by Alberto Moravia
- The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- I am Legend by Richard Matheson
Film
- Dial M for Murder, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Ray Milland, Grace Kelly
- Fear (La Paura), directed by Roberto Rossellini, starring Ingrid Bergman
- Godzilla (Gojira), directed by Ishirō Honda
- Human Desire, starring Gloria Grahame
- Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, directed by Kenneth Anger
- Johnny Guitar, directed by Nicholas Ray, starring Joan Crawford
- Rear Window, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart, Grace Kelly
- Senso, directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Alida Valli and Farley Granger
- Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai), directed by Akira Kurosawa
- La strada (The Road), directed by Federico Fellini, starring Anthony Quinn
Music
- "Le Déserteur" by Boris Vian
- "I Just Want to Make Love to You" by Willie Dixon
- "Cucurrucucú paloma"
Births
- Larry Levan (1954-1992)
- François Kevorkian (1954 - )
- Walter Gibbons (1954 - 1994)
- Linval Thompson (1954 - )
- Richard Kern (1954 - )
- Augustus Pablo (1954 - 1999)
- Cindy Sherman (1954 - )
- James Cameron (1954 - )
- Mike Kelley (1954 - 2012)
- Iain Banks (1954 - 2013)
- Bruce Sterling (1954 - )
- Alfredo de la Fé (1954 - )
- Hanif Kureishi (1954 - )
- Coen Brothers (1954 - )
- Ang Lee (1954 - )
- Alex Cox (1954 - )
Deaths
- Dziga Vertov (1896 - 1954)
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