# The Best Picture winners of the 1950s

The ten films released between 1950 and 1959 that won the Academy Award for Best Picture, from All About Eve to Ben-Hur.

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- Mar 23, 2026 · leitora_porto
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## Top 10

1. **The Greatest Show on Earth** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Cecil B. DeMille, 1952. Life in a big circus.
2. **From Here to Eternity** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Fred Zinnemann, 1953. Soldiers in Hawaii before Pearl Harbor and the kiss on the beach.
3. **Marty** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Delbert Mann, 1955. A lonely Bronx butcher; it also won the Palme d'Or.
4. **Around the World in 80 Days** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Michael Anderson, 1956. Phileas Fogg and dozens of cameos.
5. **The Bridge on the River Kwai** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — David Lean, 1957. British prisoners build a bridge for the Japanese.
6. **All About Eve** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950. Bette Davis and Anne Baxter backstage on Broadway; fourteen nominations.
7. **On the Waterfront** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Elia Kazan, 1954. Marlon Brando as a dockworker: 'I coulda been a contender'.
8. **Gigi** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Vincente Minnelli, 1958. Leslie Caron in Belle Époque Paris; nine Oscars.
9. **Ben-Hur** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — William Wyler, 1959. Charlton Heston and the chariot race; a record eleven Oscars.
10. **An American in Paris** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Vincente Minnelli, 1951. Gene Kelly and the 17-minute closing ballet.

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