1959 Ben Hur (William Wyler) The Four Hundred Blows (Francois Truffaut / France) Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk) Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder) Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman / Sweden) 1958 The Defiant Ones (Stanley Kramer) The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman / Sweden) Touch of Evil (Orson Welles) Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock) 1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean / United Kingdom) Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer / Denmark) A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson / France) 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet) Witness for the Prosecution (Billy Wilder) 1956 Giant (George Stevens) La Strada (Federico Fellini / Italy) The Searchers (John Ford) The Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa / Japan) Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica / Italy) 1955 East of Eden (Elia Kazan) Mr. Hulot's Holiday (Jacques Tati / France) The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton) Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray) Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi / Japan) 1954 The Earrings of Madame de... (Max Ophuls / France) Forbidden Games (Rene Clement / France) Gate of Hell (Teinsuke Kimugasa / Japan) On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan) Le Plaisir (Max Ophuls / France) Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock) 1953 From Here to Enternity (Fred Zinnemann) Roman Holliday (William Wyler) Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu / Japan) 1952 The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli) High Noon (Fred Zinnemann) The Quiet Man (John Ford) Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa / Japan) Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly) 1951 The African Queen (John Huston) La Ronde (Max Ophuls / France) A Place in the Sun (George Stevens) A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan) 1950 All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz) The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston) Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder) The Third Man (Carol Reed / United Kingdom) Compare with awards from the 50's NBR NYFCC Golden Globes DGA WGA OSCARS