Best Films – 1950

Simone Signoret, Gérard Philipe in La Ronde

FILM

All About Eve
d, scr: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Annie Get Your Gun
d: George Sidney; scr: Sidney Sheldon

Caged
d: John Cromwell; scr: Virginia Kellogg, Bernard Schoenfeld

Harvey
d: Henry Koster; scr: Mary C. Chase, Oscar Brodney

King Solomon’s Mines
d: Compton Bennett, Andrew Marton; scr: Helen Deutsch

Madeleine
d: David Lean; scr: Stanley Haynes, Nicholas Phipps

The Magnificent Yankee
d: John Sturges; scr: Emmet Lavery

Panic in the Streets
d: Elia Kazan; scr: Richard Murphy, Edward Anhalt, Edna Anhalt

La Ronde / Roundabout
d: Max Ophüls; scr: Jacques Natanson, Max Ophüls

So Long at the Fair
d: Antony Darnborough, Terence Fisher; scr: Hugh Mills, Anthony Thorne

Sunset Blvd.
d: Billy Wilder; scr: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D.M. Marshman, Jr.

Jean Marais in Orpheus

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The Furies
d: Anthony Mann; scr: Charles Schnee

Orphée / Orpheus
d, scr: Jean Cocteau

Stage Fright
d: Alfred Hitchcock; scr: Alma Reville, Whitfield Cook

Summer Stock
d: Charles Walters; scr: George Wells, Sy Gomberg

Walk Softly, Stranger
d: Robert Stevenson; scr: Frank Fenton

William Holden, Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday

ACTOR

Louis Calhern
The Magnificent Yankee

Cary Grant
Crisis

William Holden
Born Yesterday

James Stewart
Harvey

Richard Widmark
Panic in the Streets

Anne Baxter, Gary Merrill, Celeste Holm, George Sanders, Marilyn Monroe, Bette Davis, Hugh Marlowe in All About Eve

ACTRESS

Jeanne Crain
Cheaper by the Dozen

Joan Crawford
The Damned Don’t Cry

Joan Crawford
Harriet Craig

Bette Davis
All About Eve

Judy Garland
Summer Stock

Betty Hutton
Annie Get Your Gun

Eleanor Parker
Caged

Jean Simmons
So Long at the Fair

Barbara Stanwyck
The Furies

Gloria Swanson
Sunset Blvd.

Erich von Stroheim, Gloria Swanson in Sunset Blvd.

SUPPORTING ACTOR

Andre Morell
Madeleine

Zero Mostel
Panic in the Streets

Jack Palance
Panic in the Streets

George Sanders
All About Eve

Alastair Sim
Stage Fright

Erich von Stroheim
Sunset Blvd.

Anton Walbrook
La Ronde

Ian Wolfe
The Magnificent Yankee

Machiko Kyo in Rashomon

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Barbara Bel Geddes
Panic in the Streets

María Casarès
Orpheus

Danielle Darrieux
La Ronde

Hope Emerson
Caged

Ann Harding
The Magnificent Yankee

Signe Hasso
Crisis

Victoria Horne
Harvey

Josephine Hull
Harvey

Machiko Kyo
Rashomon

Elsa Lanchester
Mystery Street

Jan Sterling
Mystery Street

Jeanne Crain (2nd from left), Clifton Webb (right) in Cheaper by the Dozen

CINEMATOGRAPHY

John Alton
Mystery Street

Charles B. Lang
September Affair

Joseph P. MacDonald
Panic in the Streets

Christian Matras
La Ronde

Victor Milner
The Furies

John F. Seitz
Sunset Blvd.

Leon Shamroy
Cheaper by the Dozen

Leon Shamroy
Two Flags West

Göran Strindberg
Miss Julie

Robert Surtees
King Solomon’s Mines

Gérard Philipe in La Ronde

MUSIC

Frederick Hollander
Walk Softly, Stranger

Alfred Newman
All About Eve

Oscar Straus
La Ronde

Franz Waxman
Sunset Blvd.

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One Response to “Best Films – 1950”

1. Danny on October 11th, 2009

   Any “Best Of” list that includes both “HARRIET CRAIG” and ‘THE DAMNED DON’T CRY” in the Best Actress category is all right with me!

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