Best Films - 1950
by Andre Soares
One of the cinema’s masterworks, Billy Wilder’s Gothic Sunset Boulevard takes a caustic look at the trappings of fame. Gloria Swanson came out of her big-screen retirement to create one of the most tragic and most memorable performances on record. The corrosive screenplay is credited to Wilder, longtime partner Charles Brackett, and D. M. Marshman, Jr. Hollywood wouldn’t be so mercilessly dissected until David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr., more than half a century later.
FILM
Sunset Boulevard
All About Eve
Caged
Harvey
King Solomon’s Mines
Madeleine
The Magnificent Yankee
Panic in the Streets
La Ronde / Roundabout
Summer Stock
ANIMATION
Cinderella
DIRECTOR
Billy Wilder (Sunset Boulevard)
Compton Bennett (King Solomon’s Mines)
John Cromwell (Caged)
Elia Kazan (Panic in the Streets)
Henry Koster (Harvey)
David Lean (Madeleine)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz (All About Eve)
Max Ophüls (La Ronde / Roundabout)
John Sturges (The Magnificent Yankee)
Charles Walters (Summer Stock)
ACTOR
James Stewart (Harvey)
Louis Calhern (The Magnificent Yankee)
Cary Grant (Crisis)
William Holden (Born Yesterday)
Richard Widmark (Panic in the Streets)
ACTRESS
Gloria Swanson (Sunset Boulevard)
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)
SUPPORTING ACTOR
George Sanders (All About Eve)
Andre Morell (Madeleine)
Zero Mostel (Panic in the Streets)
Jack Palance (Panic in the Streets)
Alastair Sim (Stage Fright)
Erich von Stroheim (Sunset Boulevard)
Anton Walbrook (La Ronde / Roundabout)
Ian Wolfe (The Magnificent Yankee)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Josephine Hull (Harvey)
Barbara Bel Geddes (Panic in the Streets)
Danielle Darrieux (La Ronde / Roundabout)
Hope Emerson (Caged)
Ann Harding (The Magnificent Yankee)
Signe Hasso (Crisis)
Victoria Horne (Harvey)
Machiko Kyo (Rashomon)
Elsa Lanchester (Mystery Street)
Jan Sterling (Mystery Street)
SCREENPLAY
Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder & D.M. Marshman, Jr. (Sunset Boulevard)
Mary C. Chase & Oscar Brodney (Harvey)
Stanley Haynes & Nicholas Phipps (Madeleine)
Virginia Kellogg & Bernard Schoenfeld (Caged)
Emmet Lavery (The Magnificent Yankee)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz (All About Eve)
Hugh Mills & Anthony Thorne (So Long at the Fair)
Richard Murphy, Edward Anhalt & Edna Anhalt (Panic in the Streets)
Jacques Natanson & Max Ophüls (La Ronde / Roundabout)
CINEMATOGRAPHY
John F. Seitz (Sunset Boulevard)
John Alton (Mystery Street)
Charles B. Lang (September Affair)
Joseph P. MacDonald (Panic in the Streets)
Christian Matras (La Ronde / Roundabout)
Victor Milner (The Furies)
Leon Shamroy (Cheaper by the Dozen)
Leon Shamroy (Two Flags West)
Göran Strindberg (Miss Julie)
Robert Surtees (King Solomon’s Mines)
ORIGINAL SCORE
Oscar Straus (La Ronde / Roundabout)
Frederick Hollander (Walk Softly, Stranger)
Alfred Newman (All About Eve)
Franz Waxman (Sunset Boulevard)
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