Year
|
Film
|
Nominees
|
1950 |
Sunset Boulevard |
Billy Wilder
|
All About Eve |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
|
The Asphalt Jungle |
John Huston
|
Born Yesterday |
George Cukor
|
1951 |
Death of a Salesman |
László Benedek
|
An American in Paris |
Vincente Minnelli
|
A Place in the Sun |
George Stevens
|
1952 |
The Greatest Show on Earth |
Cecil B. DeMille
|
The Narrow Margin |
Richard Fleischer
|
The Quiet Man |
John Ford
|
1953[1] |
From Here to Eternity |
Fred Zinnemann
|
1954[2] |
On the Waterfront |
Elia Kazan
|
1955[3] |
Picnic |
Joshua Logan
|
1956 |
Baby Doll |
Elia Kazan
|
Around the World in Eighty Days |
Michael Anderson
|
Giant |
George Stevens
|
Lust for Life |
Vincente Minnelli
|
War and Peace |
King Vidor
|
1957 |
The Bridge on the River Kwai |
David Lean
|
12 Angry Men |
Sidney Lumet
|
A Hatful of Rain |
Fred Zinnemann
|
Sayonara |
Joshua Logan
|
Witness for the Prosecution |
Billy Wilder
|
1958 |
Gigi |
Vincente Minnelli
|
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
Richard Brooks
|
The Defiant Ones |
Stanley Kramer
|
I Want to Live! |
Robert Wise
|
Separate Tables |
Delbert Mann
|
1959 |
Ben-Hur |
William Wyler
|
Anatomy of a Murder |
Otto Preminger
|
The Diary of Anne Frank |
George Stevens
|
The Nun's Story |
Fred Zinnemann
|
On the Beach |
Stanley Kramer
|
1959 |
Ben-Hur |
William Wyler
|
Anatomy of a Murder |
Otto Preminger
|
The Diary of Anne Frank |
George Stevens
|
The Nun's Story |
Fred Zinnemann
|
On the Beach |
Stanley Kramer
|
1959 |
Ben-Hur |
William Wyler
|
Anatomy of a Murder |
Otto Preminger
|
The Diary of Anne Frank |
George Stevens
|
The Nun's Story |
Fred Zinnemann
|
On the Beach |
Stanley Kramer
|