Academy Award for Best Picture Collection (1927-Present Day) Part VI-1950s (AVI). butchT

THESE FILMS HAVE TAKEN MANY YEARS TO COMPILE AND COME FROM MANY DIFFERENT SOURCES. SOME ARE VERY RARE AND THE QUALITY WILL VARY. PLEASE ENJOY, COMMENT AND SEED.

All About Eve (1950)



Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz


Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck


Written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz


Starring Bette Davis


Anne Baxter


George Sanders


Celeste Holm


Music by Alfred Newman


Cinematography Milton R. Krasner


Editing by Barbara McLean


Distributed by 20th Century Fox


Release date(s)


October 13, 1950


Running time 138 minutes


Country United States


Language English


Box office $2.9 million

An American in Paris (1951)



Directed by Vincente Minnelli


Produced by Arthur Freed


Written by Alan Jay Lerner


Starring Gene Kelly


Leslie Caron


Oscar Levant


Georges Guétary


Nina Foch


Music by George Gershwin (music)


Ira Gershwin (lyrics)


Saul Chaplin


(uncredited)


Cinematography Alfred Gilks


John Alton (ballet)


Editing by Adrienne Fazan


Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer


Release date(s)


November 11, 1951


Running time 113 minutes


Country United States


Language English


Budget $2,723,903


Box office $4,500,000[1]


$8,005,000 (worldwide theatrical rentals)

The Greatest Show On Earth (1952)



Directed by Cecil B. DeMille


Produced by Cecil B. DeMille


Written by Fredric M. Frank


Theodore St. John


Frank Cavett


Barré Lyndon


Narrated by Cecil B. DeMille


Starring Betty Hutton


Cornel Wilde


Charlton Heston


James Stewart


Dorothy Lamour


Gloria Grahame


Music by Victor Young


Cinematography George Barnes


Editing by Anne Bauchens


Distributed by Paramount Pictures


Release date(s) January 10, 1952


Running time 152 minutes


Country United States


Language English


Box office $12 million

From Here to Eternity (1953)



Directed by Fred Zinnemann


Produced by Buddy Adler


Written by James Jones (novel)


Daniel Taradash


Starring Burt Lancaster


Montgomery Clift


Deborah Kerr


Donna Reed


Frank Sinatra


Ernest Borgnine


Philip Ober


Jack Warden


Music by George Duning


Cinematography Burnett Guffey


Editing by William A. Lyon


Distributed by Columbia Pictures


Release date(s)


August 5, 1953


Running time 118 minutes


Country United States


Language English


Budget $1,650,000


Box office $30,500,000

On the Waterfront (1954)



Directed by Elia Kazan


Produced by Sam Spiegel


Written by Budd Schulberg


Starring Marlon Brando


Karl Malden


Lee J. Cobb


Rod Steiger


Pat Henning


Eva Marie Saint


Music by Leonard Bernstein


Cinematography Boris Kaufman, ASC


Editing by Gene Milford


Distributed by Columbia Pictures


Release date(s) July 28, 1954


Running time 108 minutes


Country United States


Language English


Budget $910,000 (est.)


Box office $9,600,000