| Best Picture | Best Actor | Best Actress | Best Director | Best Foreign Film | |
| 1949 | "All the King's Men" | Broderick Crawford "All the King's Men" |
Olivia de Havilland "The Heiress" |
Joseph L Manckiewicz "A Letter to Three Wives" |
first awarded 1956 |
| 1950 | "All about Eve" | Jose Ferrer "Cyrano de Bergerac" |
Judy Holliday "Born Yesterday" |
Joseph L Manckiewicz "All about Eve" |
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| 1951 | "An American in Paris" | Humphrey Bogart "The African Queen" |
Vivien Leigh "A Streetcar Named Desire" |
George Stevens "A Place in the Sun" |
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| 1952 | "The Greatest Show on Earth" | Gary Cooper "High Noon" |
Shirley Booth "Come Back Little Sheeba" |
John Ford "The Quiet Man: |
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| 1953 | "From Here to Eternity": | William Holden "Stalag 17" |
Audrey Hepburn "Roman Holiday" |
Fred Zinnemann "From Here to Eternity" |
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| 1954 | "On the Waterfront" | Marlon Brando "On the Waterfront" |
Grace Kelly "The Country Girl" |
Elia Kazan "On the Waterfront" |
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| 1955 | "Marty" | Ernest Borgnine "Marty" |
Anna Magnani "The Rose Tattoo" |
Delbert Mann "Marty" |
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| 1956 | "Around the World in 80 Days" | Yul Brynner "The King & I" |
Ingrid Bergman "Anastasia" |
George Stevens "Giant" |
"La Strada" (Italy) |
| 1957 | "The Bridge on the River Kwai" | Alec Guinness "The Bridge on the River Kwai" |
Joanne Woodward "The Three Faces of Eve" |
David Lean "The Bridge on the River Kwai" |
"The Nights of Cabiria" (Italy) |
| 1958 | "Gigi" | David Niven "Separate Tables" |
Susan Haywood "I Want to Live" |
Vincente Minnelli "Gigi" |
"Mon Oncle" (France) |
| 1959 | "Ben-Hur" | Charlton Heston "Ben-Hur" |
Simne Signoret "Room at the Top" |
William Wyler "Ben-Hur" |
"Black Orpheus: (France & Brazil) |
| 1960 | "The Apartment" | Burt Lancaster "Elmer Gantry" |
Elizabeth Taylor: "Butterfield 8" |
Billy Wilder "The Apartment" |
"The Virgin Spring" (Sweden) |
| 1961 | "West Side Story" | Maximillian Schell "Judgement at Nuremburg" |
Sophia Loren "Two Women" |
Jerome Robbins &
Robert Wise "West Side Story" |
"Through a Glass Darkly" (Sweden) |
| 1962 | "Lawrence of Arabia" | Gregory Peck "To Kill a Mockingbird" |
Anne Bancroft "The Miracle Worker" |
David Lean "Lawrence of Arabia" |
"Sundays & Cybele" (France) |
| 1963 | "Tom Jones" | Sidney Portier "Lillies of the Field" |
Patricia Neal "Hud" |
Tony Richardson "Tom Jones" |
"8 1/2" (Italy) |
| 1964 | "My Fair Lady" | Rex Harrison "My Fair Lady" |
Julie Andrews "Mary Poppins" |
George Cukor "My Fair Lady" |
"Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow": (Italy) |
| 1965 | "The Sound of Music" | Lee Marvin "Cat Ballou" |
Julie Christie "Darling" |
Robert Wise "The Sound of Music" |
"The Shop on Main Street" (Czechoslovakia) |
| 1966 | "A Man for All Seasons" | Paul Schofield "A Man for All Seasons" |
Elizabeth Taylor "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe" |
Fred Zinnemann "A Man for All Seasons" |
"A Man & a Woman" (France) |
| 1967 | "In the Heat of the Night" | Rod Steiger "In the Heat of the Night" |
Katharine Hepburn "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" |
Mike Nichols "The Graduate" |
"Closely Watched Trains" (Czechoslovakia) |
| 1968 | "Oliver!" | Cliff Robertson "Charly" |
Katharine Hepburn "The Lion in Winter" |
Carol Reed "Oliver!" |
"War & Peace" (USSR) |
| 1969 | "Midnight Cowboy" | John Wayne "True Grit" |
Maggie Smith "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" |
John Schlesinger "Midnight Cowboy" |
"Z" (Algeria) |
| 1970 | "Patton" | George C Scott "Patton" |
Glenda Jackson "Women in Love" |
Franklin Schaffner "Patton" |
"Investigations of a Citizen above Suspicion" (Italy) |
| 1971 | "The French Connection" | Gene Hackman "The French Connection" |
Jane Fonda "Klute" |
William Friedkin "The French Connection" |
"The Garden of the Finzi-Continis" (Italy) |
| 1972 | "The Godfather" | Marlon Brando "The Godfather" |
Liza Minnelli "Cabaret" |
Bob Fosse "Cabaret" |
"The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" (France) |