1950s
- 1950 The Snake Pit af Anatole Litvak
- 1951 Sunset Boulevard by Billy Wilder
- 1952 All About Eve by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- 1953 High Noon af Fred Zinnemann
- 1954 Julius Caesar by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- 1955 On the Waterfront by Elia Kazan
- 1956 Marty by Delbert Mann
- 1957 - no award
- 1958 East of Eden by Elia Kazan
- 1959 The Defiant Ones by Stanley Kramer
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