- Best Picture (1950): All About Eve (1950)
- Sunset Boulevard (1950)
- The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
- Born Yesterday (1950)
- Cinderella (1950)
- D.O.A. (1950)
- Father of the Bride (1950)
- The File on Thelma Jordan (1950)
- Gun Crazy (1950)
- The Gunfighter (1950)
- Harvey (1950)
- In a Lonely Place (1950)
- Orphee (1950)
- Panic in the Streets (1950)
- Rashomon (1950)
- Rio Grande (1950)
- Seven Days to Noon (1950)
- Winchester ’73 (1950)
- Best Picture (1951): An American in Paris (1951)
- Ace in the Hole (1951)
- The African Queen (1951)
- Alice in Wonderland (1951)
- The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
- Decision Before Dawn (1951)
- Diary of a Country Priest (1951)
- Othello (1951)
- Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)
- A Place in the Sun (1951)
- Scrooge (1951)
- Strangers on a Train (1951)
- The River (1951)
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
- La Poison (1951)
- The Thing (From Another World) (1951)
- Best Picture (1952): The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
- High Noon (1952)
- Angel Face (1952)
- The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
- The Big Sky (1952)
- Europa ’51 (1952)
- Forbidden Games (1952)
- The Golden Coach (1952)
- Casque d’Or (1952)
- Ikiru (1952)
- The Life of Oharu (1952)
- Le Plaisir (1952)
- Limelight (1952)
- The Quiet Man (1952)
- Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
- Umberto D (1952)
- Best Picture (1953): From Here to Eternity (1953)
- Shane (1953)
- Roman Holiday (1953)
- The Band Wagon (1953)
- Beat the Devil (1953)
- The Bigamist (1953)
- The Big Heat (1953)
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
- Él (1953)
- I Confess (1953)
- Julius Caesar (1953)
- Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (1953)
- The Naked Spur (1953)
- Niagara (1953)
- Pickup on South Street (1953)
- The Robe (1953)
- The Earrings of Madame de… (1953)
- Stalag 17 (1953)
- Summer with Monika (1953)
- Tokyo Story (1953)
- Ugetsu (1953)
- The War of the Worlds (1953)
- The Wild One (1953)
- Best Picture (1954): On the Waterfront (1954)
- The Caine Mutiny (1954)
- Rear Window (1954)
- Animal Farm (1954)
- The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
- Beat the Devil (1954)
- Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
- Dial M for Murder (1954)
- French Cancan (1954)
- Johnny Guitar (1954)
- Rififi (1954)
- Sabrina (1954)
- Salt of the Earth (1954)
- Senso (1954)
- Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
- Seven Samurai (1954)
- Silver Lode (1954)
- Touchez pas au grisbi (“Don’t Touch the Loot” 1954)
- A Star is Born (1954)
- La Strada (1954)
- Three Coins in the Fountain (1954)
- White Christmas (1954)
- Best Picture (1955): Marty (1955)
- To Catch A Thief (1955)
- All That Heaven Allows (1955)
- Artists and Models (1955)
- Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
- Blackboard Jungle (1955)
- Bob LeFlambeur (1955)
- The Court Jester (1955)
- The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
- Diabolique (1955)
- East of Eden (1955)
- Guys and Dolls (1955)
- Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
- Lady and the Tramp (1955)
- The Man from Laramie (1955)
- Mister Roberts (1955)
- The Night of the Hunter (1955)
- Oklahoma! (1955)
- Ordet (1955)
- The Phenix Story (1955)
- Picnic (1955)
- Rebel Without A Cause (1955)
- Richard III (1955)
- The Rose Tattoo (1955)
- The Seven Year Itch (1955)
- Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
- Summertime (1955)
- Trial (1955)
- Best Picture (1956): Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
- The Searchers (1956)
- Anastasia (1956)
- A Man Escaped (1956)
- Baby Doll (1956)
- Bigger Than Life (1956)
- Bus Stop (1956)
- Carousel (1956)
- Forbidden Planet (1956)
- Friendly Persuasion (1956)
- Giant (1956)
- High Society (1956)
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
- The Killing (1956)
- The King And I (1956)
- The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit (1956)
- The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
- Night and Fog (1956)
- Patterns (1956)
- The Ten Commandments (1956)
- Written on the Wind (1956)
- The Wrong Man (1956)
- Best Picture (1957): The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
- 12 Angry Men (1957)
- An Affair to Remember (1957)
- The Bachelor Party (1957)
- A Face in the Crowd (1957)
- Funny Face (1957)
- Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
- The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
- Jailhouse Rock (1957)
- Nights of Cabiria (1957)
- The Pajama Game (1957)
- Paths of Glory (1957)
- Peyton Place (1957)
- Sayonara (1957)
- The Seventh Seal (1957)
- The Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
- Throne of Blood (1957)
- Wild Strawberries (1957)
- Witness for Prosecution (1957)
- Best Picture (1958): Gigi (1958)
- Touch of Evil (1958)
- The Big Country (1958)
- The Old Man and the Sea (1958)
- Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
- Auntie Mame (1958)
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
- The Music Room (1958)
- The Defiant Ones (1958)
- Horror of Dracula (1958)
- I Want to Live! (1958)
- Ivan the Terrible, Parts I & II (1958)
- Man of the West (1958)
- Mon Oncle (1958)
- The Music Room (1958)
- The Ballad of Narayama (1958)
- Separate Tables (1958)
- South Pacific (1958)
- Vertigo (1958)
- Some Came Running (1958)
- Best Picture (1959): Ben-Hur (1959)
- Anatomy of Murder (1959)
- The Best of Everything (1959)
- Compulsion (1959)
- The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
- Floating Weeds (1959)
- The 400 Blows (1959)
- The Apu Trilogy (1959)
- Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
- Imitation of Life (1959)
- North by Northwest (1959)
- The Nun’s Story (1959)
- Les Quatre Cents Coups (1959)
- Pickpocket (1959)
- Pillow Talk (1959)
- Ride Lonesome (1959)
- Rio Bravo (1959)
- Room at the Top (1959)
- Shadows (1959)
- Sleeping Beauty (1959)
- Some Like It Hot (1959)
- Suddenly Last Summer (1959)
- The Young Philadelphians (1959)