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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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!