1949

1. The Third Man 2. Late Spring 3. White Heat 4. Kind Hearts and Coronets 5. The Heiress 6. Jour de Fête 7. Stray Dog 8. The Small Back Room 9. The Fountainhead 10. Battleground

11. Le Silence de la Mer 12. The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad 13. The Set-Up 14. Whisky Galore! 15. Blood of the Beasts 16. The Reckless Moment 17. Act of Violence 18. On the Town 19. Thieves’ Highway 20. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

1. Carol Reed, The Third Man 2. Akira Kurosawa, Stray Dog 3. Raoul Walsh, White Heat 4. Yasujiro Ozu, Late Spring 5. Robert Wise, The Set-Up

6. William Wyler,  The Heiress 7. Emeric Pressburger & Michael Powell, The Small Back Room 8. William A. Wellman, Battleground 9. Robert Hamer, Kind Hearts and Coronets 10. Fred Zinnemann, Act of Violence

1. Chishû Ryû, Late Spring 2. James Cagney, White Heat 3. David Farrar, The Small Back Room 4. Kirk Douglas, Champion 5. Toshiro Mifune, Stray Dog

6. Toshiro Mifune, The Quiet Duel 7. Joseph Cotten, The Third Man 8. Robert Ryan, The Set-Up 9. Dennis Price, Kind Hearts and Coronets 10. Van Heflin, Act of Violence

1. Setsuko Hara, Late Spring 2. Olivia de Havilland, The Heiress 3. Viviane Romance, Maya 4. Patricia Neal, The Fountainhead 5. Eva Henning, Thirst

6. Virginia Mayo, Colorado Territory 7. Ginger Rogers, The Barkleys of Broadway 8. Linda Darnell, A Letter to Three Wives 9. Edith Evans, The Last Days of Dolwyn 10. Doris Svelund, Prison

1. Alec Guinness, Kind Hearts and Coronets 2. Orson Welles, The Third Man 3. Ralph Richardson, The Heiress 4. Claude Rains,  The Passionate Friends 5. Jose Ferrer, Whirlpool

6. Trevor Howard, The Third Man 7. James Whitmore,  Battleground 8. Juano Hernandez, Intruder in the Dust 9. Edmond O'Brien,  White Heat 10. Raymond Massey,  The Fountainhead

1. Mercedes McCambridge, All The King's Men 2. Judy Holliday, Adam's Rib 3. Margaret Wycherly, White Heat 4. Kathleen Byron The Small Back Room 5. Joan Greenwood, Kind Hearts and Coronets

6. Miriam Hopkins The Heiress 7. Thelma Ritter, A Letter to Three Wives 8. Ethel Waters, Pinky 9. Noriko Sengoku, The Quiet Duel 10. Valentina Cortese, Thieves' Highway

1. Robert Krasker, The Third Man 2. Otello Martelli, Bitter Rice 3. Douglas Slocombe, Kind Hearts and Coronets 4. Winton C. Hoch, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon 5. André Thomas, Maya

6. Paul Vogel, Battleground 7. Yûharu Atsuta, Late Spring 8. Leo Tover, The Heiress 9. Leon Shamroy,  Prince of Foxes 10. Robert Burks, The Fountainhead

1953

1. The Earrings of Madame de... 2. Tokyo Story 3. The Wages of Fear 4. Ugetsu 5. The Big Heat 6. Pickup on South Street 7. Therese Raquin 8. Stalag 17 9. The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T 10. Sawdust and Tinsel

11. Il Vitelloni 12. El 13. A Geisha 14. From Here to Eternity 15. The Naked Spur 16. Roman Holiday 17. Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday 18. Rue de l'Estrapade 19. Angel Face 20. Peter Pan

1. Max Ophüls, The Earrings of Madame de... 2. Yasujiro Ozu, Tokyo Story 3. Henri-Georges Clouzot, The Wages of Fear 4. Kenji Mizoguchi, Ugetsu 5. Fred Zinnemann, From Here to Eternity

6. Fritz Lang, The Big Heat 7. Billy Wilder, Stalag 17 8. Samuel Fuller, Pickup on South Street 9. Federico Fellini, Il Vitelloni 10. Ingmar Bergman, Sawdust and Tinsel

1. Trevor Howard, The Heart of the Matter 2. Glenn Ford, The Big Heat 3. Charles Boyer, The Earrings of Madame de... 4. Montgomery Clift, From Here to Eternity 5. William Holden, Stalag 17

6. James Mason, Julius Caeser 7. James Stewart, The Naked Spur 8. Masauki Mori, Ugetsu 9. Arturo de Cordova, El 10. Vittorio Gassman, The Glass Wall

1. Anne Vernon, Rue de l'Estrapade 2. Barbara Stanwyck, All I Desire 3. Michiyo Kogure, A Geisha 4. Simone Signoret, Therese Raquin 5. Danielle Darrieux, The Earrings of Madame de...

6. Ava Gardner, Mogambo 7. Ida Lupino, The Bigamist 8. Hideko Takamine, Wild Geese 9. Audrey Hepburn, Roman Holiday 10. Jean Simmons, Angel Face

1. Robert Ryan, The Naked Spur 2. Hans Conried, The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T 3. Alberto Sordi, Il Vitelloni 4. John Gielgud, Julius Caeser 5. Marlon Brando, Julius Caeser

6. Anders Ek, Sawdust and Tinsel 7. Roland Leseffre, Therese Raquin 8. Ernest Borgnine, From Here to Eternity 9. Jay Robinson, The Robe 10. Lee Marvin, The Wild One

1. Thelma Ritter, Pick Up on South Street 2. Hildergarde Knef, The Man Between 3. Gloria Grahame, The Big Heat 4. Setsuko Hara, Tokyo Story 5. Sylvie, Therese Raquin

6. Ann Sothern, The Blue Gardenia 7. Kinuyo Tanaka, Ugetsu 8. Carolyn Jones, The House of Wax 9. Celia Johnson, The Captain’s Paradise 10. Deborah Kerr, From Here to Eternity

1. Kazuo Miyagawa, Ugetsu 2. Christian Matras, The Earrings of Madame de... 3. Armand Thirard, The Wages of Fear 4. Kôhei Sugiyama, Gate of Hell 5. Yûharu Atsuta, Tokyo Story

6. Joseph MacDonald, Niagara 7. Loyal Griggs, Shane 8. Hilding Bladh & Sven Nykvist, Sawdust and Tinsel 9. Robert Burks, I Confess 10. Burnett Guffey, From Here to Eternity