First annual Audience Awards in Hollywood, California in 1955

Title card: "Film Favorites: the People's Choice" superimposed over long shot of stage / inscription on bottom of Audie statue: "The 1955 Audience Awards" / group of four Audie statuettes stand on table, reflect light / WS ceremony attendees seated at tables with flower centerpieces and candelabras / MS film executive Jack L. Warner gestures as he speaks with others seated at his table / WS banquet room as attendees applaud / MS Walt Disney hands Warner the award for best picture of the year for "Mister Roberts" and the two shake hands as Ralph W. Russell looks on / Russell looks on as Warner speaks while holding the Audie / WS from side front of room as spectators at tables applaud / MS Rosalind Russell presents Audie to Tab Hunter as most promising new personality; the two kiss, Russell smiles, and Hunter shakes hands with Harry Mandell / WS attendees applaud / MS Wayne Hanson presents award for most promising new personality to Peggy Lee / attendees applaud / MS William Holden presents the best actress award to Jennifer Jones as Bob O'Donnell looks on / two-shot Gig Young holds a cigarette in his mouth as he and Elizabeth Montgomery applaud / MS Grace Kelly hands the Audie for best actor to Natalie Wood, who accepts it on behalf of the late James Dean / WS banquet room as attendees applaud / WS banquet room