Film Data for 1950

                                     

The Film Daily's "Film Tops" of 1950

The Actor of the Year- William Holden

The Actress of the Year- Gloria Swanson

The Producer of the Year- Stanley Kramer

The Director of the Year- Joseph L. Mankiewicz

The Writer of the Year- Joseph L. Mankiewicz

The Cinematographer of the Year- Robert Krasker

The Drama of the Year- Sunset Boulevard

The Musical of the Year- Annie Get Your Gun

The Short Subject of the Year- Beaver Valley

The Advertising Campaign of the Year- Sunset Boulevard


The National Board of Review (voting results announced on December 20, 1950. Source: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards)

The Top Ten Pictures (in order of preference)
1) Sunset Boulevard
2) All About Eve
3) The Asphalt Jungle
4) The Men
5) Edge of Doom
6) Twelve O'Clock High
7) Panic in the Streets
8) Cyrano de Bergerac
9) No Way Out
10) Stage Fright

Best Director
John Huston for The Asphalt Jungle

Best Actor
Alec Guinness in Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949- British)

Best Actress
Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard

Best Foreign Films (in order of preference)
The Titan- The Story of Michelangelo (Italy)
Tight Little Island (U.K.)
The Third Man (U.K.)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (U.K.)
Paris, 1900 (France)

The New York Film Critics Awards (Winners were announced on December 27,1950. Awards were presented on January 28, 1951. Source: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards and Donald Lyons, "The Lights of New York," Film Comment, March-April, 1993)

Best Picture
All About Eve (11 votes on ballot I)
Runner-up: Sunset Boulevard (3 votes)
3rd Place: The Asphalt Jungle (1 vote)
                  The Devil's Doorway (1 vote)

Best Director
Joseph Mankiewicz for All About Eve (11 votes on ballot IV)
Runner-up: John Huston for The Asphalt Jungle (3 votes)
3rd Place: Billy Wilder for Sunset Boulevard (2 votes)

On ballot I, Mankiewicz and Wilder both received 5 votes, Huston received 3 votes, and Elia Kazan (Panic in the Streets), Carol Reed (The Third Man-1949) and John Sturges (Right Cross) each received 1 vote.

Best Actor
Gregory Peck in Twelve O'Clock High (1949)(9 votes ballot VI)
Runner-up: Jose Ferrer in Cyrano de Bergerac (6 votes)
3rd Place: Alec Guinness in Kind Hearts and Coronets (1 vote)

On the ballot I, Peck and Ferrer both received 6 votes and Guinness received 4 votes.

Best Actress
Bette Davis in All About Eve (10 votes on ballot VI)
Runner-up: Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday (6 votes)

On ballot I, Davis and Holliday both received 7 votes, and Gloria Swanson (Sunset Boulevard) received 2 votes. On the ballot II Holliday led with 8 votes to Davis' 7, with Swanson receiving 1 vote. With only 1 vote, Swanson dropped out for ballot III.

Best Foreign Film
The Ways of Love (1948- France/Italy)

The British Academy Awards (Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg).

Best Film:

All About Eve

Best British Film:

The Blue Lamp

United Nations Award:

Intruder in the Dust (1949)

Best Documentary:

The Undefeated

Best Specialized Film:

The True Face of Japan

The Golden Globe Awards (Nominations announced on February 9, 1951. Awards presented on February 28, 1951. Source: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards) (Winners listed in bold print)

Best Picture
All About Eve
Born Yesterday
Cyrano de Bergerac
Harvey
Sunset Boulevard

Best Picture Promoting International Understanding
The Big Life
Broken Arrow
The Next Voice You Hear

Best Director
George Cukor for Born Yesterday
John Huston for The Asphalt Jungle
Joseph L. Mankiewicz for All About Eve
Billy Wilder for Sunset Boulevard

Best Actor, Drama
Louis Calhern in The Magnificent Yankee
Jose Ferrer in Cyrano de Bergerac
James Stewart in Harvey

Best Actress, Drama
Bette Davis in All About Eve
Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday
Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard

Best Actor, Comedy or Musical
Fred Astaire in Three Little Words
Dan Dailey in When Willie Comes Marching Home
Harold Lloyd in Mad Wednesday

Best Actress, Comedy or Musical
Spring Byington in Louisa
Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday
Betty Hutton in Annie Get Your Gun

Best Supporting Actor
Edmund Gwenn in Mister 880
George Sanders in All About Eve
Erich von Stroheim in Sunset Boulevard
                                                    

Best Supporting Actress

Judy Holliday in Adam's Rib (1949)
Josephine Hull in Harvey
Thelma Ritter in All About Eve

Most Promising Newcomer
Gene Nelson in Tea for Two
Mala Powers
Debbie Reynolds

Best Screenplay
Joseph L. Mankiewicz for All About Eve
John Huston and Ben Maddow for The Asphalt Jungle
Charles Brackett, D.M. Marshman, Jr. and Billy Wilder for Sunset Boulevard

Best Cinematography, Black and White
Frank Planer for Cyrano de Bergerac

Best Cinematography, Color
Robert Surtees for King Solomon's Mines

Best Original Score
Franz Waxman for Sunset Boulevard

World Film Favorites
Gregory Peck
Jane Wyman

The Academy Awards (Nominations announced on February 12, 1951. Awards presented on March 29, 1951. Sources: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards and Mason Wiley and Damien Bona's Inside Oscar)

Best Picture
All About Eve, 20th Century-Fox. Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck.
Born Yesterday, Columbia. Produced by S. Sylvan Simon.
Father of the Bride, MGM. Produced by Pandro S. Berman.
King Solomon's Mines, MGM. Produced by Sam Zimbalist.
Sunset Boulevard, Paramount. Produced by Charles Brackett.

Best Director
George Cukor for Born Yesterday (Columbia).
John Huston for The Asphalt Jungle (MGM).
Joseph L. Mankiewicz for All About Eve (20th Century-Fox). 
 Carol Reed for The Third Man (Selznick-London Films, SRO (British).
Billy Wilder for Sunset Boulevard (Paramount).

Best Actor
Louis Calhern in The Magnificent Yankee (MGM). 
Jose Ferrer in Cyrano de Bergerac (Kramer, UA).
William Holden in Sunset Boulevard (Paramount).
James Stewart in Harvey (U-I).

Spencer Tracy in Father of the Bride (MGM).

Best Actress

Anne Baxter in All About Eve (20th Century-Fox). 
Bette Davis in All About Eve (20th Century-Fox). 
Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday (Columbia).
Eleanor Parker in Caged (Warner Bros.).
Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard (Paramount).

Best Supporting Actor
Jeff Chandler in Broken Arrow (20th Century-Fox). 
 Edmund Gwenn in Mister 880 (20th Century-Fox). 
 Sam Jaffe in The Asphalt Jungle (MGM).
George Sanders in All About Eve (20th Century-Fox). 
 Erich von Stroheim in Sunset Boulevard (Paramount).

                                              
Best Supporting Actress
Hope Emerson in Caged (Warner Bros.).
Celeste Holm in All About Eve (20th Century-Fox). 
Josephine Hull in Harvey (U-I).
Nancy Olson in Sunset Boulevard (Paramount).
Thelma Ritter in All About Eve (20th Century-Fox). 

Best Motion Picture Story

Bitter Rice, Lux Films (1949- Italian). Giuseppe De Santis and Carlo Lizzani.
The Gunfighter, 20th Century-Fox. William Bowers and Andre de Toth.
Mystery Street, MGM. Leonard Spigelgass.
Panic in the Streets, 20th Century-Fox. Edna Anhalt and Edward Anhalt .
When Willie Comes Marching Home, 20th Century-Fox. Sy Gomberg. 

Best Screenplay
All About Eve, 20th Century-Fox. Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
The Asphalt Jungle, MGM. Ben Maddow and John Huston.
Born Yesterday, Columbia. Albert Mannheimer. 
Broken Arrow, 20th Century-Fox. Michael Blankfort (Albert Maltz).
Father of the Bride, MGM. Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett.

Best Story and Screenplay
Adam's Rib (1949), MGM. Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin.
Caged, Warner Bros. Virginia Kellogg and Bernard C. Schoenfeld.

The Men, UA. Carl Foreman.
No Way Out, 20th Century-Fox. Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Lesser Samuels.
Sunset Boulevard, Paramount. Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, and D.M. Marshman, Jr.

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
All About Eve, 20th Century-Fox. Milton Krasner,
The Asphalt Jungle, MGM. Harold Rosson.
The Furies, Wallis, Paramount. Victor Milner.

Sunset Boulevard, Paramount. John F. Seitz.
The Third Man (1949), Selznick-London Films, SRO (British). Robert Krasker.

Best Cinematography (Color)

Annie Get Your Gun, MGM. Charles Rosher.
Broken Arrow, 20th Century-Fox. Ernest Palmer.
The Flame and the Arrow, Norma-F.R., Warner Bros. Ernest Haller.
King Solomon's Mines, MGM. Robert Surtees.

Samson and Delilah, DeMille, Paramount. George Barnes.

Best Art Direction-Set Direction (Black-and-White)
All About Eve, 20th Century-Fox. Lyle Wheeler and George Davis, Thomas Little and Walter M. Scott
The Red Danube, MGM. Cedric Gibbons and Hans Peters; Edwin B. Willis and Hugh Hunt.
Sunset Boulevard, Paramount. Hans Dreier and John Meehan; Sam Comer and Ray Moyer.

Best Art Direction-Set Direction (Color)

Annie Get Your Gun, MGM. Cedric Gibbons and Paul Groesse; Edwin B. Willis and Richard A. Pefferle.
Destination Moon, Pal, Eagle-Lion. Ernst Fegte; George Sawley.
Samson and Delilah (1949), DeMille, Paramount. Hans Dreier and Walter Tyler; Sam Comer and Ray Moyer.

Best Sound Recording
All About Eve, 20th Century Fox. 20th Century-Fox Sound Department.
Cinderella, Disney, RKO Radio. Disney Sound Department.
Louisa, U-I. Universal-International Sound Department.
Our Very Own, Goldwyn, RKO Radio. Goldwyn Sound Department.
Trio, Rank-Sydney Box, Paramount (British).

Best Song
"Be My Love" (The Toast of New Orleans, MGM); Music by Nicholas Brodszky. Lyrics by Sammy Cahn.
"Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" (Cinderella, Disney, RKO Radio); Music and Lyrics by Mack David, Al Hoffman and Jerry Livingston.
"Mona Lisa" (Captain Carey, USA, Paramount); Music and Lyrics by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston.
"Mule Train" (Singing Guns, Republic); Music and Lyrics by Fred Glickman, Hy Heath and Johnny Lange.
"Wilhelmina" (Wabash Avenue, 20th Century-Fox); Music by Josef Myrow. Lyrics by Mack Gordon.

Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
All About Eve, 20th Century-Fox. Alfred Newman.
The Flame and the Arrow, Norma-F.R., Warner Bros. Max Steiner.

No Sad Songs for Me, Columbia. George Duning.
Samson and Delilah, DeMille, Paramount. Victor Young.
Sunset Boulevard, Paramount. Franz Waxman
                                    

Best Scoring of a Musical Picture

Annie Get Your Gun, MGM. Adolph Deutsch and Roger Edens.

Cinderella, Disney, RKO Radio. Oliver Wallace and Paul J. Smith.
I'll Get By, 20th Century-Fox. Lionel Newman.
Three Little Words, MGM. Andre Previn.
The West Point Story, Warner Bros. Ray Heindorf.

Best Film Editing
All About Eve, 20th Century-Fox. Barbara McLean
Annie Get Your Gun, MGM. James E. Newcom.
King Solomon's Mines, MGM. Ralph E. Winters and Conrad A. Nervig.
Sunset Boulevard, Paramount. Arthur Schmidt and Doane Harrison.
The Third Man (1949), Selznick-London Films, SRO (British). Oswald Hafenrichter.

Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)

All About Eve, 20th Century-Fox. Edith Head and Charles LeMaire.
Born Yesterday, Columbia. Jean Louis.
The Magnificent Yankee, MGM. Walter Plunkett.

                 
Best Costume Design (Color)
The Black Rose, 20th Century-Fox. Michael Whittaker.
Samson and Delilah (1949), DeMille, Paramount. Edith Head, Dorothy Jeakins, Elois Jenssen, Gile Steele and Gwen Wakeling.
That Forsyte Woman, MGM. Walter Plunkett and Valles.

Best Special Effects

Destination Moon, Pal. Eagle-Lion.
Samson and Delilah, DeMille. Paramount.

Best Short Subject Cartoon
Gerald McBoing-Boing, UPA, Columbia (Jolly Frolics Series), Stephen Bosustow, executive producer.
Jerry's Cousin, MGM (Tom & Jerry), Fred Quimby, producer.
Trouble Indemnity, UPA, Columbia (Mr. Magoo Series), Stephen Bosustow, executive producer.

Best One-Reel Short Subject
Blaze Busters, Warner Bros. (Vitaphone Novelities). Robert Youngson, producer.
Grandad of Races, Warner Bros. (Sports Parade). Gordon Hollingshead, producer.
Wrong Way Butch, MGM (Pete Smith Specialty). Pete Smith, producer.

Best Two-Reel Short Subject
Grandma Moses, Falcon Films, Inc., A.F. Films. Falcon Films, Inc., producer.

In Beaver Valley, Disney, RKO Radio (True-Life Adventures). Walt Disney, producer.
My Country 'Tis of Thee, Warner Bros. (Featurette Series). Gordon Hollingshead, producer.

Best Documentary Short Subject
The Fight: Science Against Cancer, National Film Board of Canada in cooperation with the Medical Film Institute of the Association of American Medical Colleges.
The Stairs, Film Documents, Inc.
Why Korea?, 20th Century-Fox Movietone. Edmund Reek, producer.

Best Documentary Feature
The Titan: Story of Michelangelo, Michelangelo Co., Classics Pictures, Inc. Robert Snyder, producer.
With These Hands, Promotional Films, Co., Inc. Jack Arnold and Lee Goodman, producers.

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Darryl F. Zanuck

Honorary Awards
George Murphy for his services in interpreting the film industry to the country at large (statuette).

Louis B. Mayer for distinguished service to the motion picture industry (statuette).

The Walls of Malapaga (Franco-Italian) voted by the Board of Governors as the most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States in 1950 (statuette).

Scientific or Technical

Class I (Statuette)

None.

Class II (Plaque)

James B. Gordon and the 20th Century-Fox Studio Camera Department for the design and development of a multiple image film viewer.

John Paul Livadary, Floyd Campbell, L.W. Russell and the Columbia Studio Sound Department for the development of a multitrack magnetic re-recording system.

Loren L. Ryder and the Paramount Studio Sound Department for the first studio-wide application of magnetic sound recording to motion picture production.

Class III (Citation)

None. 

Screen Directors Guild of America (Quarterly awards given, then a director of the year prize awarded on May 27, 1951 at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Source: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards and Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg).

1950/51 Quarterly Awards:

Billy Wilder, Sunset Boulevard

John Huston, The Asphalt Jungle

Joseph L. Mankiewicz, All About Eve

Vincent Minnelli, Father's Little Dividend (1951)

Annual Award:

Joseph L. Mankiewicz, All About Eve

Screen Writers Guild of America (Awards presented February 20, 1951 at the Ambassador Hotel. Source: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards). (Winners in bold print).

Best Written Drama

All About Eve, Joseph L. Mankiewicz

The Asphalt Jungle, Ben Maddow, John Huston, based on a novel by W.R. Burnett

The Men, Carl Foreman

Panic in the Streets, Richard Murphy, from a story by Edward and Edna Anhalt, adapted by Daniel Fuchs

Sunset Boulevard, Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D.M. Marshman, Jr.

Best Written Comedy

All About Eve, Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Adam's Rib (1949), Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin (screenplay also nominated in 1949)

Born Yesterday, Albert Mannheimer, based on the play by Garson Kanin

Father of the Bride, Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, based on the novel by Edward Streeter

The Jackpot, Phoebe and Henry Ephron, based on a New Yorker Magazine article by John McNulty

Best Written Musical

Annie Get Your Gun, Sidney Sheldon, based on the musical play by Herbert and Dorothy Fields with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin

My Blue Heaven, Lamar Trotti, Claude Binyon, S.K. Lauren

Summer Stock, George Wells, Sy Gomberg

Three Little Words, George Wells

The West Point Story, John Monks, Jr., Charles Hoffman, Irving Wallace

Best Screenplay Dealing Most Ably with Problems of the American Scene

The Asphalt Jungle, Ben Maddow, John Huston, based on a novel by W.R. Burnett

Broken Arrow, Michael Blankfort (Albert Maltz), based on Blood Brother, a novel by Elliott Arnold 

The Men, Carl Foreman

No Way Out, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Lesser Samuels

Panic in the Streets, Richard Murphy, from a story by Edward and Edna Anhalt, adapted by Daniel Fuchs

Best Written Western

Broken Arrow, Michael Blankfort, based on Blood Brother, a novel by Elliott Arnold (in 1991, the Guild acknowledged scribe Albert Maltz, posthumously, as the actual winner)

Devil's Doorway, Guy Trosper

The Gunfighter, William Bowers, William Sellers, Andre de Toth

Rio Grande, James Kevin McGuinness, based on the story "Mission with No Record" by James Warner Bellah

A Ticket to Tomahawk, Mary Loos, Richard Sale

Winchester .73, Robert L. Richards, Borden Chase, based on a story by Stuart L. Lake

Robert Meltzer Award

Carl Foreman, The Men

Cannes Film Festival (Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg).

No festival

Venice Film Festival (Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg).

Best Film, Lion of St. Mark:

Justice is Done (Andre Cayatte, France)

Best Direction:

Not awarded

Best Actor:

Sam Jaffe, The Asphalt Jungle

Best Actress:

Eleanor Parker, Caged

Best Scenario:

Jacques Natanson, Max Ophuls, La Ronde

Best Photography:

Martin Bodin, Bara en mor (1949)(Sweden)

Best Music:

Brian Easdale, Gone to Earth (England)

Best Scenography:

D'Eaubonne, La Ronde

Best Documentary:

Paul Haesaert, Visite a Picasso (Belgium)

International Prizes:

Elia Kazan, Panic in the Streets

Jean Delannoy, Dieu a Besoin des Hommes

Alessandro Biassetti, Prima Comunione

Special Jury Prize:

Walt Disney, Cinderella and Beaver Valley

Best Italian Film:

Domani e troppo tardi (Leonide Moguy)

                         

Time Magazine's "Ten Best" of 1950 (in chronological order)
Tight Little Island (1949)
The Titan
The Third Man (1949)
The Hasty Heart (1949)
Cinderella
The Men
Sunset Boulevard
The Breaking Point
All About Eve                                    

The New York Times' "Ten Best" of 1950 (in chronological order)

The Titan- The Story of Michelangelo
Twelve O'Clock High
Father of the Bride
The Asphalt Jungle
Destination Moon
The Men
Sunset Boulevard
Trio
All About Eve
Born Yesterday

The Top Box-Office Hits of 1950 (According to Variety, January 3, 1951. Includes actual and estimated domestic rentals to theaters in U.S. and Canada, not box-office takes, which would be higher. If the final first-run rental take for films gaining $4,000,000 or more in rentals varies from the total originally listed in 1951, I'm showing that figure after the 1951 total. Final first-run rentals data comes from Variety Weekly's January 13, 1954 "All-Time Top Film Grosses" list (only films taking $4,000,000 or more in rentals were mentioned on the "All-Time" list; unfortunately, I have no data for films with a final gross under $4,000,000 that may have ended up with a higher take than shown below). Occasionally a film will end up on the "All-Time" list with a lower rental box-office take than when the film originally appeared on the yearly list of top box-office films. This is due to the estimated rentals, which were sometimes revised to a lower amount for the All-Time list).

1) Samson and Delilah $11,000,000 (final first-run rentals of $9,000,000)
2) Battleground $4,550,000 (final first-run rentals of $4,700,000)
3) King Solomon's Mines $4,400,000 (final first-run rentals of $4,825,000)
4) Cheaper by the Dozen $4,325,000 (final first-run rentals of $4,425,000)
5) Annie Get Your Gun $4,200,000 (final first-run rentals of $4,650,000)
6) Cinderella $4,150,000 (final first-run rentals of $4,275,000)
    Father of the Bride $4,150,000
8) Sands of Iwo Jima $3,900,000
9) Broken Arrow $3,550,000
10) Twelve O'Clock High $3,225,000

11) All About Eve $2,900,000
      The Flame and the Arrow $2,900,000
      Francis $2,900,000
      On the Town $2,900,000
15) Adam's Rib $2,750,000
16) Three Little Words $2,700,000
17) The Black Rose $2,650,000
18) The Great Lover $2,625,000
19) The Duchess of Idaho $2,600,000
      Fancy Pants $2,600,000

21) Prince of Foxes $2,550,000
      Summer Stock $2,550,000
23) I'll Get By $2,450,000
24) All the King's Men (1949) $2,400,000
      My Friend Irma Goes West $2,400,000
      Let's Dance $2,400,000
      Tea for Two $2,400,000
28) Riding High $2,350,000
      Sunset Boulevard $2,350,000
30) The Heiress $2,300,000
31) An American Guerilla in the Philippines $2,275,000
      My Blue Heaven $2,275,000
33) The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady $2,250,000
      Rio Grande $2,250,000
     Winchester '73 $2,250,000
36) Key to the City $2,240,000

37) Copper Canyon $2,200,000
      The Inspector General $2,200,000
      Pagan Love Song $2,200,000
40) The Kettles Go to Town $2,175,000
41) The Third Man $2,150,000
42) Montana $2,100,000
43) Our Very Own $2,050,000
     Wabash Avenue $2,050,000
45) Ambush $1,975,000
46) The Gunfighter $1,950,000
Oh, You Beautiful Doll $1,950,000
48) Breakthrough $1,900,000
      Malaya $1,900,000
     Three Came Home $1,900,000
     To Please a Lady $1,900,000

The Top Ten Box Office Stars of 1950 (according to Quigley Publishing's annual poll found in The Motion Picture Herald)
1) John Wayne
2) Bob Hope
3) Bing Crosby
4) Betty Grable
5) James Stewart
6) Abbott & Costello
7) Clifton Webb
8) Esther Williams
9) Spencer Tracy
10) Randolph Scott

The Next Fifteen:
11) Gary Cooper
12) Gregory Peck
13) Clark Gable
14) June Allyson
15) Betty Hutton
16) Burt Lancaster
17) Red Skelton
18) Van Johnson
19) Roy Rogers
20) Cary Grant
21) Dan Dailey
22) Barbara Stanwyck
23) Joel McCrea
24) Doris Day
25) Judy Garland

The Stars of Tomorrow (according to Quigley Publishing's poll of film exhibitors).
1) Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis

2) William Holden

3) Arlene Dahl

4) Ruth Roman

5) Vera-Ellen

6) John Lund

7) William Lundigan

8) Dean Jagger

9) Joanne Dru

10) James Whitmore

The Top Ten Western Stars of 1950 (according to Quigley Publishing's poll of film exhibitors).

1) Roy Rogers

2) Gene Autry

3) Gabby Hayes

4) Bill Elliot

5) William Boyd

6) Tim Holt

7) Charles Starrett

8) Johnny Mack Brown

9) Smiley Burnette

10) Dale Evans

Britain's Top Ten British Box-Office Stars of 1950 (according to Quigley Publishing's poll of Britain's film exhibitors)
1) Anna Neagle
2) Jean Simmons
3) Jack Warner
4) John Mills
5) Robert Newton
6) Michael Wilding
7) Richard Todd
8) Alastair Sim and Margaret Rutherford
9) Jean Kent
10) Trevor Howard

Britain's Top Ten International Box-Office Stars of 1950 (according to Quigley Publishing's poll of Britain's film exhibitors)
1) Bob Hope
2) Abbott & Costello
3) Anna Neagle
4) Jean Simmons
5) Jack Warner
6) John Mills
7) James Stewart
8) Alan Ladd
9) Larry Parks
10) Robert Newton

Harvard Lampoon's Movie Worst Awards (Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg).

Ten Worst Pictures:

1) Our Very Own

2) Samson of Delilah (1949)

3) Three Came Home

4) The Next Voice You Hear

5) An American Guerilla in the Philippines

6) Cheaper by the Dozen

7) Stromboli

8) The Flame and the Arrow

9) The Conspirators

10) The Duchess of Idaho

Worst Performances of the Year:

Clifton Webb, Cheaper by the Dozen

Elizabeth Taylor, The Conspirators

Worst Supporting Performances:

Cornel Wilde, Two Flags West

Celeste Holm, All About Eve

Most Depressing Discovery:

Faith Domergue

Least Likely to Succeed:

Cecile Aubrey

Worst Duo:

Esther Williams and Van Johnson alone, together, or in any combination

Most Objectionable Movie Children:

Dean Stockwell

Elizabeth Taylor

Most Objectionable Ingenue:

Elizabeth Taylor

Most Unnecessary Contribution to the American Way of Life:

Bing Crosby, in anything

Most Miscast:

Burt Lancaster, as a sturdy Lombard peasant in The Flame and the Arrow

Greatest Travesty of the Holy Year:

Samson and Delilah (1949)

Worst Comedy:

Fancy Pants

Dullest:

Never a Dull Moment

Happiest Event of the Year:

Shirley Temple's announced retirement

Arrested Development:

William "Hopalong" Boyd

Worst Scene:

Micheline Presle huskily singing an old French Christmas carol between clinches with Tyrone Power in An American Guerilla in the Philippines

Worst Insult to the American Fighting Man:

John Wayne

Worst Assistant Producer:

Robert Goelet, for Rapture

Worst Title:

Oh, You Beautiful Doll

The Roscoe Award:

Elizabeth Taylor for so gallantly persisting in her career despite a total inability to act