1950 — Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

1. Sunset Boulevard (dir: Billy Wilder)

2. In A Lonely Place (dir: Nicholas Ray)

3. The Third Man (dir: Carol Reed; US release date)

4. Stromboli (dir: Roberto Rossellini)

5. All About Eve (dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

6. The Furies (dir: Anthony Mann)

7. Gun Crazy (dir: Joseph H. Lewis)

8. Night and the City (dir: Jules Dassin)

9. Panic in the Streets (dir: Elia Kazan)

10. The Asphalt Jungle (dir: John Huston)

Honorable Mention (in alphabetical order): All the King’s Men (dir: Robert Rossen; US Release Date), Born Yesterday (dir: George Cukor), Broken Arrow (dir: Delmer Daves), Cinderella (dir: Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi), Kind Hearts and Coronets (dir: Charles Crichton; US release date), Orphée (dir: Jean Cocteau), Wagon Master (dir: John Ford), Where the Sidewalk Ends (dir: Otto Preminger), and Winchester '73 (dir: Anthony Mann)

Best Picture: Sunset Boulevard
Director: Billy Wilder Producer: Charles Brackett
US Distributor: Paramount Pictures

Best Director:
Billy Wilder, Sunset Boulevard
2. Nicholas Ray, In a Lonely Place
3. Carol Reed, The Third Man
4. Roberto Rossellini, Stromboli
5. Anthony Mann, The Furies AND Winchester '73

Best Actor:
Humphrey Bogart, In a Lonely Place
2. Alec Guinness, Kind Hearts and Coronets
3. Richard Widmark, Night and the City AND Panic in the Streets AND No Way Out
4. John Dall, Gun Crazy
5. Ben Johnson, Wagon Master

Best Actress:
Gloria Swanson, Sunset Boulevard
2. Bette Davis, All About Eve
3. Peggy Cummins, Gun Crazy
4. Barbara Stanwyck, The Furies
5. Judy Holliday, Born Yesterday

Best Supporting Actor:
Orson Welles, The Third Man
2. Erich von Stroheim, Sunset Boulevard
3. Jack Palance, Panic in the Streets
4. Sam Jaffe, The Asphalt Jungle
5. Walter Huston, The Furies

Best Supporting Actress:
Mercedes McCambridge, All the King’s Men
2. Thelma Ritter, All About Eve
3. Celeste Holm, All About Eve
4. Hope Emerson, Caged
5. Jan Sterling, Caged

Best Original Screenplay:
All About Eve — Joseph L. Mankiewicz
2. Sunset Boulevard — Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, and D.M. Marshman, Jr.
3. Stromboli — Roberto Rossellini, Sergio Amidei, Gian Paolo Callegari, Art Cohn, Felix Morlion, and Renzo Cesana
4. Orphée — Jean Cocteau
5. Winchester ‘73 — Robert L. Richards, Borden Chase, and Stuart N. Lake

Best Adapted Screenplay:
The Asphalt Jungle — John Huston and Ben Maddow
2. In a Lonely Place — Andrew Solt, Edmund H. North and Dorothy Hughes
3. Night and the City — Jo Eisinger
4. The Third Man — Graham Greene
5. Gun Crazy — Dalton Trumbo and MacKinlay Kantor

Best Cinematography: 
Orphée — Nicholas Hayer
2. The Third Man — Robert Krasker
3. Stromboli — Otello Martelli
4. Night and City — Max Greene
5. Sunset Boulevard — John Seitz

Best Film Editing:
Sunset Boulevard — Arthur Schmidt
2. Panic in the Streets — Harmon Jones
3. Night and the City — Nick De Maggio and Sidney Stone
4. The Third Man — Oswald Hafenrichter
5. In a Lonely Place — Viola Lawrence

Best Original Score:
The Third Man — Anton Karas
2. Sunset Boulevard — Franz Waxman
3. The Furies — Franz Waxman
4. The Asphalt Jungle — Miklos Rozsa
5. All About Eve — Alfred Newman

Best Production Design:
Sunset Boulevard — Hans Dreier and John Meehan
2. Destination Moon — Ernst Fegte and George Sawley
3. The Furies — Henry Burnstead, Hans Dreier, Sam Comer and Bertram Granger
4. All the King’s Men — Sturges Carne and Louis Diage
5. Wagon Master — James Basevi and Joe Kish

Best Costume Design: 
The Furies — Edith Head
2. Annie Get Your Gun — Walter Plunkett and Helen Rose
3. Cheaper by the Dozen — Edward Stevenson
4. The Toast of New Orleans — Walter Plunkett and Helen Rose
5. Buccaneer’s Girl — Yvonne Wood

Best Ensemble Cast:
All About Eve

Orson Welles’ Best First Feature:
Michelangelo Antonioni, Story of a Love Affair

Best Ensemble Cast: 
All About Eve (dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz; in alphabetical order): Barbara Bates, Anne Baxter (pictured), Bette Davis (pictured), Hugh Marlowe, Gary Merrill, Celeste Holm, Marilyn Monroe (pictured), Gregory Ratoff, George Sanders and Thelma Ritter

Orson Welles' Best First Feature Award:
Michelangelo Antonioni, Story of a Love Affair

RECAP

W I N S :

Sunset Boulevard — 5,
All About Eve — 2, The Third Man — 2, All the King’s Men — 1, The Asphalt Jungle — 1, The Furies — 1, In a Lonely Place — 1, Orphée — 1, Story of a Love Affair — 1

M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S:

Sunset Boulevard — 8,
All About Eve — 7, The Furies — 7, The Third Man — 7, The Asphalt Jungle — 5, In a Lonely Place — 5, Night and the City — 5, Gun Crazy – 4, Panic in the Streets — 4, Stromboli — 4, All the King’s Men — 2, Caged — 2, Orphée — 2, Wagon Master — 2, Winchester ‘73 — 2

the year-end project:
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Best of the Decade:
2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s