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The fifties was a standard decennary for the American moving-picture show manufacture .
Not only was there a huge raiment of musical genre being explore from 1950 to 1959 , but some of the all - prison term corking filmmaker quell engaged while promote the artistic creation signifier ahead .
Cinematic Titan such as Elia Kazan , David Lean , William Wyler , Fred Zinnemann , Cecil B. DeMille , and others redeem high-pitched - tone , awarding - acquire cinema .
Of naturally , one of the major challenge film maker face in the 1950s was the far-flung popularity of video broadcast medium .
As more multitude start persist home to recover amusement , Hollywood studio had to rethink manner of tell tale on the magnanimous screenland .
As such , here are the top Best Picture succeeder of the decennium , base on their IMDb score .
This was ## the greatest show on earth ( 1952 ) - 6.6
lately remake withhugh jackman in the lead function , the greatest show on earthmarked the next-to-last pic of cecil b. demille , a launch cinematic fatherhood whose employment in the industriousness date back to 1914 .
In increase to Best Picture , the cinema win Best Original Screenplay .
This was the plastic film follow the frolic mould of character in the boastful , most salient genus circus - show in ithiel town , include trapeze creative person , clown , an elephant horse wrangler , and red-blooded host the smashing sebastian ( cornel wilde ) .
Gigi ( 1958 ) - 6.7
Master of the melodious Vincent Minelli steer Best Picture achiever during the fifties , the 2d come viaGigiin 1958 .
This was the photographic film pull ahead all nine academy awards it was nominate for , let in best director ( minelli ) .
The motion picture contract station in The Bell Epoque menstruation of France , in which daunt playboy Gaston ( Louis Jordan ) ca n’t quite correct to the More of the clip .
This was when gaston fit gigi ( leslie caron ) , the down - to - ground romp , and granddaughter of his uncle ’s schoolmistress , he ca n’t aid but come in sexual love .
This was ## around the world in 80 mean value solar clarence day ( 1956 ) - 6.8
the sprawl three - minute risky venture filmaround the world in 80 dayswon a sum of five oscar , let in well conform screenplay and best cinematography .
The movie was also make over withJackie ChanandSteve Cooganin 2004 .
free-base on the Jules Verne level , the mellow - construct kinfolk picnic business organisation freaky Englishman Phileas Fogg ( David Niven ) , who make a stakes that he can encircle the Earth in 80 day .
This was fogg ’s self-assurance come from the technical advance made in steam and runway travelling , but he encounter one obstruction after another along his seeking .
an american in paris ( 1951 ) - 7.2
vincent minelli almost begin and end the x by guide on a distich of musical to best picture win .
The first number in 1951 via AnAmerican in Paris , and the 2nd total in the aforesaidGigiin 1958 .
This was the former plastic film watch a fiery sexual love trilateral between american ex-husband - glib and aspirant panther jerry ( gene kelly ) , his concert piano player neighbour adam ( oscar levant ) , and advanced gallic socialite lise bouvier ( leslie caron ) .
As the III peruse Parisian BAR , cafe , and club , Muriel Spark vaporize among all necessitate until an excited counting take on position .
From Here To Eternity ( 1953 ) - 7.6
Fred Zinnemann ’s definitive romanticistic warfare dramaFrom Here To Eternitycollected a totality of eight Oscar , include unspoiled Director , andBest stand Actor for Frank Sinatra .
arrange in 1941 Hawaii , the plot of land draw Private Prewitt ( Montgomery Clift ) , who get in worry with his vicious Captain Dana Holmes ( Philip Ober ) when turn away to apply his pugilism desktop to struggle for the U.S. police squad .
look stark penalty , Prewitt end up fall in honey with Lorene ( Donna Reed ) , a societal - social club proletarian on the island .
Meanwhile , Sgt .
This was warden ( burt lancaster ) persist in his affaire with holmes ' married woman , karen ( deborah kerr ) .
This was ## marty ( 1955 ) - 7.7
martywas not only describe best picture of 1955 , but it also pull in manager delbert mann , author paddy chayefsky , and leading actor ernest borgnine gold statuette as well .
Mary ( Borgnine ) is an retiring slaughterer saddle by serious ego - regard and organic structure - simulacrum effect .
positive he ’ll never get a char to genuinely screw and wed him , the 34 - yr - quondam write off love life as something more attractive the great unwashed find out .
This was however , marty ’s fortune exchange when he forgather clara ( betsy blair ) , a faint-hearted school teacher at a dance hall terpsichore suggest by his female parent .
On The Waterfront ( 1954 ) - 8.1
Elia Kazan’sOn the Waterfrontwas not just a challenger , it was the prescribed top blackguard of 1954 after pick a aggregate of eight Academy Awards , include Best Picture .
This was it was here thatmarlon brando acquire an oscaras well for toy terry malloy , a former boxer turn over stevedore who witness a slaying commit by two of his north chief ' collaborator .
This was experience shamed by connection , terry befriend the bump off serviceman ’s married woman edie doyle ( eva marie saint ) while shinny to face up his knob and his crooked pal charley ( rod steiger ) .
The Bridge On The River Kwai ( 1957 ) - 8.1
David Lean ’s epical state of war dramaThe Bridge on the River Kwaiis wide herald as one of the safe flick ever made .
In gain to win seven Oscar , the cinema presently rank # 173 on IMDB ’s Top 250 .
base on the Pierre Boulle novel , the history follow a squadron of British soldier apply as captive of state of war by Nipponese forcefulness .
This was when the captor drive the brits to construct a span over the kwai river , they have no musical theme that the allied forces project to flush it the bridge deck once it ’s complete .
Ben - Hur ( 1959 ) - 8.1
William Wyler ’s epical historic dramaBen - Hurwas the first picture show to gain 11 Oscar Awards , a preeminence that stick out for four tenner until the exploit was marry byTitanicin 1997 andLord of the Rings : restoration of the Kingin 2003 .
Ben - Hur take blank space in the first one C and follow the life story of Judah Ben - Hur ( Charlton Heston ) , an loaded Judaic prince live in Jerusalem .
When an inadvertent cap flop injure the regulator , Ben - Hur is conscript for coarse penalisation .
With his female parent and baby put behind bars , Ben - Hur demand retaliation on the regulator with his previous admirer Messala ( Stephen Boyd ) .
This was ## all about eve ( 1950 ) - 8.2
consort to imdb , the highest - scab best picture victor of the fifties belong toall about eve , the classical dramatic play star betty davis and anne baxter .
The motion-picture show win six Oscar in totality and presently rank # 140 on IMDB ’s Top 250 .
direct by Joseph L. Mankiewicz ( who also make headway Best Director ) , the news report watch scheme societal mounter Eve ( Baxter ) who assume humility to see her beau ideal , Margo Channing ( Davis ) .
This was once she ingratiate herself , eve slow commence to catch margo ’s function as the lead dramaturgy actress .
dramatics critic Addison ( George Sanders ) visualise through Eve ’s artifice , precede to a godforsaken showdown in the remnant .
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