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The year 1950 in film involved some significant events.

Events

• February 15 - Walt Disney Studios' animated film Cinderella debuts.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank	Title	Studio	Actors	Gross
1.	Cinderella*	Disney/RKO		$141,087,000
2.	King Solomon's Mines	MGM	Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger	$5,586,000
3.	Annie Get Your Gun	MGM	Betty Hutton	$4,919,000
4.	Sunset Boulevard	Paramount	Gloria Swanson and William Holden	$4,425,000
5.	Father of the Bride	MGM	Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett and Elizabeth Taylor	$4,115,000
6.	Wabash Avenue	20th Century Fox	Betty Grable	$4,054,000
7.	All About Eve	20th Century Fox	Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, Hugh Marlowe, and a brief appearance by Marilyn Monroe	$3,600,000
8.	Born Yesterday	Columbia	Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford and William Holden	$3,300,000
9.	At War with the Army	Paramount	Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis	$3,100,000
10.	My Blue Heaven	20th Century Fox	Betty Grable and Dan Dailey	$3,000,000

(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: All About Eve - 20th Century-Fox

Best Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz - All About Eve

Best Actor: José Ferrer - Cyrano de Bergerac

Best Actress: Judy Holliday - Born Yesterday

Best Supporting Actor: George Sanders - All About Eve

Best Supporting Actress: Josephine Hull - Harvey

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: Sunset Boulevard

Best Actor: José Ferrer - Cyrano de Bergerac

Best Actress: Gloria Swanson - Sunset Boulevard

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture: no award

Best Actor: Fred Astaire - Three Little Words

Best Actress: Judy Holliday - Born Yesterday

Other

Best Director: Billy Wilder - Sunset Boulevard

Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival): not held

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival)

Justice Is Done (Justice est faite), directed by André Cayatte, France

Films released in 1950

U.S.A. unless stated

A

• Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion
• All About Eve, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm and Marilyn Monroe -- winner of 6 Oscars.
• Ambush
• Annie Get Your Gun, starring Betty Hutton
• Armored Car Robbery
• The Asphalt Jungle, directed by John Huston, starring Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Sam Jaffe, Jean Hagen and Marilyn Monroe
• The Astonished Heart, starring Celia Johnson and Noel Coward - (U.K.)
• At War with the Army, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis

B

• The Bandit Queen, starring Barbara Britton and Phillip Reed
• The Baron of Arizona
• Beauty and the Devil (La Beauté du diable), directed by René Clair, starring Michel Simon - (France/Italy)
• The Big Lift, starring Montgomery Clift
• Bitter Rice (U.S. release)
• The Black Rose - (U.K./U.S.)
• The Blue Lamp, starring Jack Warner and Dirk Bogarde - (U.K.)
• Born to Be Bad, starring Joan Fontaine and Robert Ryan
• Born Yesterday, starring Broderick Crawford, Judy Holliday and William Holden
• The Breaking Point, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring John Garfield and Patricia Neal
• Bright Leaf, starring Gary Cooper, Lauren Bacall and Patricia Neal
• Broken Arrow, starring James Stewart

C

• Café Paradis - (Denmark)
• Caged, starring Eleanor Parker
• Captain Carey, U.S.A., war drama starring Alan Ladd
• Champagne for Caesar, starring Ronald Colman, Celeste Holm and Vincent Price
• Cheaper by the Dozen
• Cinderella, a Disney animated film
• Comanche Territory
• Cyrano de Bergerac, starring José Ferrer

D

• The Damned Don't Cry, starring Joan Crawford
• Dance Hall, directed by Charles Crichton, starring Diana Dors and Petula Clark - (U.K.)
• Dark City, starring Charlton Heston and Lizabeth Scott
• Destination Moon
• Devil's Doorway
• D.O.A., starring Edmond O'Brien

E-F

• Les Enfants Terribles, directed by Jean-Pierre Melville - (France)
• Escape at Dawn - (Japan)
• Fancy Pants, starring Bob Hope
• Father of the Bride, starring Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett and Elizabeth Taylor
• The File on Thelma Jordan, starring Barbara Stanwyck
• The Flame and the Arrow
• The Flowers of St. Francis (Francesco, giullare di Dio), directed by Roberto Rossellini - (Italy)
• The Furies, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Walter Huston

G-H

• The Glass Menagerie
• Gone to Earth, starring Jennifer Jones - (U.K.)
• Gun Crazy (aka Deadly is the Female), starring John Dall and Peggy Cummins
• The Gunfighter, starring Gregory Peck
• The Happiest Days of Your Life, starring Alastair Sim and Margaret Rutherford - (U.K.)
• Harriet Craig, starring Joan Crawford and Wendell Corey
• Harvey, starring James Stewart and Josephine Hull
• The Hollywood Ten, documentary by John Berry
• House by the River

I-J

• I'll Get By
• In a Lonely Place, directed by Nicholas Ray, starring Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame
• The Jackie Robinson Story
• Jogan, starring Dilip Kumar and Nargis - (India)
• Justice is Done (Justice est faite) - (France)

K-L

• Kim
• King Solomon's Mines, starring Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger
• Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
• A Lady Without Passport, starring Hedy Lamarr and John Hodiak
• Last Holiday, starring Alec Guinness - (U.K.)
• A Life of Her Own, starring Lana Turner
• The Life of Wu Xun - (China)
• Louisa

M

• The Magnificent Yankee, starring Louis Calhern
• The Men, starring Marlon Brando in his film debut, with Teresa Wright
• The Miniver Story, starring Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon and John Hodiak
• Mister 880
• The Mudlark, starring Irene Dunne and Alec Guinness - (U.K./U.S.)
• Mussorgsky - (U.S.S.R.)
• My Friend Irma Goes West, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
• Mystery Street, starring Ricardo Montalbán

N-O

• Night and the City, directed by Jules Dassin, starring Richard Widmark and Gene Tierney - (U.K.)
• No Man of Her Own, starring Barbara Stanwyck
• No Way Out, starring Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell and Sidney Poitier
• Once a Thief, starring Cesar Romero and Lon Chaney, Jr.
• One Way Street, starring James Mason
• Orphée, directed by Jean Cocteau, starring Jean Marais - (France)

P-Q

• Panic in the Streets, directed by Elia Kazan, starring Richard Widmark and Barbara Bel Geddes
• Path of Hope (Il Cammino della speranza), directed by Pietro Germi, starring Raf Vallone - (Italy)
• Perfect Strangers

R

• Radar Secret Service, starring John Howard (actor)
• Rashomon, directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune and Masayuki Mori - (Japan)
• Rio Grande, starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara
• Rocketship X-M, starring Lloyd Bridges and Noah Beery Jr.
• La Ronde (The Merry-Go-Round), directed by Max Ophuls, starring Simone Signoret and Anton Walbrook - (France)

S

• Scandal (Sukyandaru), directed by Akira Kurosawa - (Japan)
• Seven Days to Noon, directed by the Boulting Brothers - (U.K.)
• Side Street, starring Farley Granger and Cathy O'Donnell
• The Sleeping City, starring Richard Conte
• So Long at the Fair, starring Jean Simmons and Dirk Bogarde - (U.K.)
• The Sound of Fury
• Stage Fright, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding and Richard Todd - (U.K.)
• Stars in My Crown, starring Joel McCrea
• Stromboli, directed by Roberto Rossellini, starring Ingrid Bergman - (Italy/U.S.)
• Summer Stock, starring Judy Garland and Gene Kelly
• Sunset Boulevard, directed by Billy Wilder, starring William Holden and Gloria Swanson

T-V

• Tension, starring Audrey Totter
• The Third Man (U.S. release)
• Three Came Home
• Three Little Words
• The Titan: Story of Michelangelo, award winning documentary by Robert J. Flaherty
• To Joy, directed by Ingmar Bergman - (Sweden)
• To Please a Lady
• The Trap - (Czechoslovakia)
• Treasure Island, starring Robert Newton - (U.K./U.S.)
• Trio - (U.K.)
• El último caballo (The Last Horse) - (Spain)
• The Underworld Story, starring Dan Duryea
• Variety Lights (Luci del varietà), directed by Federico Fellini - (Italy)
• Vendetta, starring Faith Domergue. (Filmed in 1946 but not released until 1950 due to delays from Howard Hughes)

W-Z

• Wabash Avenue, starring Betty Grable. (A remake of Betty Grable's own 1943 film Coney Island)
• Wagon Master
• The West Point Story
• When Willie Comes Marching Home
• Where Danger Lives, starring Robert Mitchum and Faith Domergue in her film debut.
• Where the Sidewalk Ends, starring Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney
• Winchester '73, starring James Stewart and Shelley Winters
• The Woman in Question, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Jean Kent and Dirk Bogarde (U.K.)
• Woman on the Run
• The Wooden Horse - (U.K.)
• The Young and the Damned (Los Olvidados), directed by Luis Buñuel - (Mexico)
• Young Man with a Horn, starring Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall and Doris Day
• Zhukovsky - (U.S.S.R.)

Serials

• Atom Man vs. Superman, starring Kirk Alyn, Noel Neill and Lyle Talbot
• Cody of the Pony Express
• Desperadoes of the West, starring Tom Keene
• Flying Disc Man from Mars, starring Walter Reed and Lois Collier
• Key to the City,starring Clark Gable and Loretta Young and James Gleason
• The Invisible Monster, starring Richard Webb and Aline Towne
• The Mystery of the Snakeskin Belt
• Pirates of the High Seas, starring Buster Crabbe

Short film series

• Mickey Mouse (1928–1952)
• Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
• Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
• Popeye (1933–1957)
• The Three Stooges (1934–1959)
• Donald Duck (1936–1956)
• Pluto (1937–1951)
• Goofy (1939–1953)
• Tom and Jerry (1940–1958)
• Bugs Bunny (1940–1962)
• The Fox and the Crow (1941-1950)
• Mighty Mouse (1942–1955)
• Chip and Dale (1943–1956)
• Yosemite Sam (1945–1963)

Births

• January 24 - Daniel Auteuil, French actor
• January 30 - Trinidad Silva, actor (died 1988)
• February 12 - Michael Ironside, Canadian actor
• February 18 - Cybill Shepherd, actress
  • John Hughes, director, producer and screenwriter (died 2009)
• February 22 - Julie Walters, English actress
• February 25 - Neil Jordan, Irish director
• March 11 - Jerry Zucker, director and producer
• March 13 - William H. Macy, actor
• March 16 - Kate Nelligan, Canadian actress
• March 18 - Brad Dourif, actor
• March 20 - William Hurt, actor
• March 26 - Martin Short, Canadian comedian and actor
• March 30 - Robbie Coltrane, Scottish actor
• April 4 - Christine Lahti, actress
• April 13 - Ron Perlman, actor
• April 16 - David Graf, actor (died 2001)
• April 29 - Phillip Noyce, Australian director
• May 12 - Gabriel Byrne, Irish actor
• June 8 - Kathy Baker, actress
• June 12 - Belinda Bauer, Australian actress
• June 24 - Nancy Allen, actress
• September 21 - Bill Murray, actor and comedian
• September 28 - John Sayles, director and screenwriter
• October 1 - Randy Quaid, actor
• October 17 - Howard Rollins, actor (died 1996)
• October 31 - John Candy, Canadian comedian and actor (died 1994)
• November 28 - Ed Harris, actor

Deaths

• January 3 - Emil Jannings, actor (born 1884)
• January 12 - John M. Stahl, film director and producer (born 1886)
• March 10 - Marguerite De La Motte, actress (born 1902)
• April 7 - Walter Huston, Academy Award winning actor (born 1883)
• October 23 - Al Jolson, actor, singer, entertainer (born 1886)
• October 28 - Maurice Costello, actor of stage & screen (born 1877)
• December 28 - William Garwood, actor (born 1884)

Film debuts

• Marlon Brando
• Charlton Heston
• Sophia Loren
• Sidney Poitier
• Debbie Reynolds
• Robert Wagner