10 лучших фильмов каждого года из 1950-х по версии Ed Gonzalez (Slant Magazine):

1950:
1. In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray)
2. Stromboli (Roberto Rossellini)
3. Los Olvidados (Luis Buñuel)
4. Side Street (Anthony Mann)
5. Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa)
6. Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder)
7. Night and the City (Jules Dassin)
8. Winchester ’73 (Anthony Mann)
9. Where the Sidewalk Ends (Otto Preminger)
10. La Ronde (Max Ophüls)

Honorable Mention: Panic in the Streets (Elia Kazan), House by the River (Fritz Lang), Try and Get Me! (The Sound and the Fury) (Cy Endfield), Orpheus (Jean Cocteau), Outrage (Ida Lupino), The Flowers of St. Francis (Roberto Rossellini), Caged (John Cromwell), The Damned Don’t Cry (Vincent Sherman), The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston), All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

Blind Spots: Scandal (Akira Kurosawa), The Breaking Point (Michael Curtiz), So Long at the Fair (Antony Darnborough and Terence Fisher), Last Holiday (Henry Koss), No Man Of Her Own (Mitchell Leisen), The Munekata Sisters (Yasujirô Ozu), The Gunfighter (Henry King)

1951:
1. The Steel Helmet (Samuel Fuller)
2. Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder)
3. The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise)
4. Miracle in Milan (Vittorio De Sica)
5. The Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson)
6. The Tall Target (Anthony Mann)
7. Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock)
8. The Lavender Hill Mob (Charles Crichton)
9. A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan)
10. A Place in the Sun (George Stevens)

Honorable Mention: Summer Interlude (Ingmar Bergman), The River (Jean Renoir), The Man in the White Suit (Alexander Mackendrick), Susana (Luis Buñuel), Fixed Bayonets! (Samuel Fuller), Alice in Wonderland (Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson & Hamilton Luske), Hard, Fast and Beautiful (Ida Lupino), Circle of Danger (Jacques Tourneur), He Ran All the Way (John Berry)

Blind Spots: The Prowler (Joseph Losey), Detective Story (William Wyler), His Kind of Woman (John Farrow), The Red Badge of Courage (John Huston), Royal Wedding (Stanley Donen)

1952:
1. The Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
2. Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica)
3. On Dangerous Ground (Nicholas Ray)
4. Le Plaisir (Max Ophüls)
5. The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice (Orson Welles)
6. Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen)
7. Limelight (Charlie Chaplin)
8. The Lusty Men (Nicholas Ray)
9. The Marrying Kind (George Cukor)
10. Casque d’Or (Jacques Becker)

Honorable Mention: Mexican Bus Ride (Luis Buñuel), Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa), The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli), Waiting Women (Ingmar Bergman), Okasan (Mikio Naurse), The Narrow Margin (Richard Fleischer), Forbidden Games (Rene Clement), Sudden Fear (David Miller), The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (Yasujirô Ozu), Monkey Business (Howard Hawks), and A Woman Without Love (Luis Buñuel)

Blind Spots: The White Reindeer (Erik Blomberg), The Little World of Don Camillo (Julien Duvivier), The Card (Ronald Neame), Outcast of the Islands (Carol Reed), Pat and Mike (George Cukor), Scandal Sheet (Phil Karlson), 5 Fingers (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), Europa ’51 (Roberto Rossellini), Fanfan la Tulipe (Christian-Jaque), The Overcoat (Alberto Lattuada), Ruby Gentry (King Vidor)

1953:
1. Él (Luis Buñuel)
2. Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
3. I Confess (Alred Hitchcock)
4. The Big Heat (Fritz Lang)
5. Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller)
6. Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (Jacques Tati)
7. Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
8. Tokyo Story (Yasujirô Ozu)
9. It Came from Outer Space (Jack Arnold)
10. The Bigamist (Ida Lupino)

Honorable Mention: The Moon is Blue (Otto Preminger, Madame de… (Max Ophüls), The Brute (Luis Buñuel), The Hitch-Hiker (Ida Lupino), The Naked Spur (Anthony Mann), The Glass Web (Jack Arnold), The Blue Gardenia (Fritz Lang), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks), A Geisha (Kenji Mizoguchi), Summer with Monika (Ingmar Bergman)

Blind Spots: The Cruel Sea (Charles Frend), I Vitelloni (Federico Fellini), The Actress (George Cukor), Genevieve (Henry Cornelius), Kiss Me Kate (George Sidney), Beat the Devil (John Huston), Invaders from Mars (William Cameron Menzies), Take Me to Town (Douglas Sirk), All I Desire (Douglas Sirk), Little Fugitive (Ray Ashley, Morris Engel & Ruth Orkin)

1954:
1. Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray)
2. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. Voyage to Italy (Roberto Rossellini)
4. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
5. Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi)
6. Wuthering Heights (Luis Buñuel)
7. Magnificent Obsession (Douglas Sirk)
8. Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (Luis Buñuel)
9. Black Tuesday (Hugo Fregonese)
10. Crime Wave (Andre de Toth)

Honorable Mention: On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan), Carmen Jones (Otto Preminger), Sound of the Mountain (Mikio Naruse), La Strada (Federico Fellini), The Barefoot Contessa (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), Dial M For Murder (Alfred Hitchcock), Them! (Gordon Douglas), Godzilla (Ishirô Honda), Senso (Luchino Visconti), Illusion Travels by Streetcar (Luis Buñuel)

Blind Spots: Late Chrysanthemums (Mikio Naruse), The Tale of the Crucified Lovers (Kenji Mizoguchi), The Woman in the Rumor (Kenji Mizoguchi), Riot in Cell Block 11 (Don Siegel), Apache (Robert Aldrich), It Should Happen to You (George Cukor), Sleeping Tiger (Joseph Losey), Private Hell 36 (Don Siegel), Taza, Son of Cochise (Douglas Sirk), Susan Slept Here (Frank Tashlin), Suddenly (Lewis Allen), An Inspector Calls (Guy Hamilton), Rogue Cop (Roy Rowland), Vera Cruz (Robert Aldrich), Salt of the Earth (Herbert J. Biberman)

1955:
1. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
2. The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (Luis Buñuel)
3. All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)
4. Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)
5. Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
6. Smiles of a Summer Night (Ingmar Bergman)
7. Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
8. Floating Clouds (Mikio Naruse)
9. Les Diaboliques (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
10. Mr. Arkadin (Orson Welles)

Honorable Mention: The Man with the Golden Arm (Otto Preminger), Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray), The Big Combo (Joseph H. Lewis), Lola Montès (Max Ophüls), Rififi (Jules Dassin), Bob le Fambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville), Summertime (David Lean), The Phenix City Story (Phil Carlson), Dreams (Ingmar Bergman), and House of Bamboo (Samuel Fuller)

Blind Spots: Captain Lightfoot (Douglas Sirk), Le Amiche (Michelangelo Antonioni), Les Grandes Manoeuvres (Rene Clair), The Indian Fighter (Andre de Toth), Murder is My Beat (Edgar G. Ulmer), Tales of the Taira Clan (Kenji Mizoguchi), Man Without a Star (King Vidor), Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin), Oklahoma! (Fred Zinnemann), We’re No Angels (Michael Curtiz), My Sister Eileen (Richard Quine), Stella (Michael Cacoyannis), It’s Always Fair Weather (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly), The African Lion (James Algar), Marcelino Pan y Vino (Ladislao Vajda), The Bridges at Toko-Ri (Mark Robson), To Hell and Back (Jesse Hibbs), Richard III (Laurence Olivier), The Long Gray Line (John Ford), Run for Cover (Nicholas Ray)

1956:
1. A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
2. Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray)
3. The Searchers (John Ford)
4. The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock)
5. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel)
6. While the City Sleeps (Fritz Lang)
7. Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk)
8. The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa)
9. La Pointe Courte (Agnès Varda)
10. Autumn Leaves (Robert Aldrich)

Honorable Mention: Street of Shame (Kenji Mizoguchi), The Killer Is Loose (Budd Boetticher), The Killing (Stanley Kubrick), Seven Men from Now (Budd Boetticher), The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (Nunnally Johnson), Death in the Garden (Luis Buñuel), The Girl Can’t Help It (Frank Tashlin), Calle Mayor (Juan Antonio Bardem), Slightly Scarlet (Allan Dwan), Baby Doll (Elia Kazan)

Blind Spots: There’s Always Tomorrow (Douglas Sirk), War and Peace (King Vidor), Bhowani Junction (George Cukor), Intimate Stranger (Joseph Losey), Tea and Sympathy (Vincente Minnelli), Hollywood or Bust (Frank Tashlin), Great Day in the Morning (Jacques Tourneur), Le Monde du Silence (Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Louis Malle), Patterns (Fielder Cook), Crazed Fruit (Ko Nakahari), Pursuit of the Graf Spree (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger), Carnival in Moscow (Eldar Ryazanov), Early Spring (Yasujirô Ozu), The Mystery of Picasso (Henri-Georges Clouzot), Deadlier Than the Male (Julien Duvivier), Four Bags Full (Claude Autant-Lara), Friendly Persuasion (William Wyler), Attack (Robert Aldrich)

1957:
1. Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini)
2. The Cranes are Flying (Mikheil Kalatozishvili)
3. Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa)
4. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin)
5. Aparajito (Satyajit Ray)
6. Funny Face (Stanley Donen)
7. Il Grido (Michelangelo Antonioni)
8. Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)
9. Curse of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur)
10. Kanal (Andrzej Wajda)

Honorable Mention: La Notte Bianche (Luchino Visconti), The Pajama Game (George Abbott and Stanley Donen), Bitter Victory (Nicholas Ray), The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean), Forty Guns (Samuel Fuller), The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman), Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman), Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick), and The River’s Edge (Allan Dwan)

Blind Spots: The Tall T (Budd Boetticher), Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (John Sturges), Decision at Sundown (Budd Boetticher), Time Without Pity (Joseph Losey), The Devil Strikes at Night (Richard Siodmak), Desk Set (Walter Lang), Nine Lives (Arne Skouen), Edge of the City (Martin Ritt), Love in the Afternoon (Billy Wilder), Barnacle Bill (Charles Frend), The Incredible Shrinking Man (Jack Arnold), Les Girls (George Cukor), The Enemy Below (Dick Powell), Seven Waves Away (Richard Sale)

1958:
1. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchock)
2. The Tarnished Angels (Douglas Sirk)
3. The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa)
4. Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati)
5. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
6. Bonjour Tristesse (Otto Preminger)
7. The Music Room (Satyajit Ray)
8. Man of the West (Anthony Mann)
9. The Magician (Ingmar Bergman)
10. Fiend Without a Face (Arthur Crabtree)

Honorable Mention: Some Came Running (Vincente Minnelli), Ivan the Terrible II (Sergei Eisenstein), The Blob (Irvin S. Yeaworth), Ashes and Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda), Big Deal on Madonna Street (Mario Monicelli), The Fly (Kurt Neumann), The Horse’s Mouth (Ronald Neame), A Night to Remember (Roy Ward Baker), Giants and Toys (Masumura Yasuzô), Party Girl (Nicholas Ray)

Blind Spots: It Happened in Broad Daylight (Ladislao Vajda), Underworld Beauty (Seijun Suzuki), Modigliani of Montparnasse (Jacques Becker), The Left Handed Gun (Arthur Penn), The Young Lions (Edward Dmytryk), A Time to Love and a Time to Die (Douglas Sirk), Brink of Life (Ingmar Bergman), Le Beau Serge (Claude Chabrol), China Doll (Frank Borzage), Rally ‘Round the Flag, Boys! (Leo McCarey), The Gentleman and the Gypsy (Joseph Losey), Machine-Gun Kelly (Roger Corman), Terror in a Texas Town (Joseph H. Lewis), The Lineup (Don Siegel), Buchanan Rides Alone (Budd Boetticher), The Big Country (William Wyler), Saddle the Wind (Robert Parrish), Les Amants (Louis Malle), Enjo (Kon Ichikawa), Auntie Mame (Morton DaCosta), Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle), The Long, Hot Summer (Martin Ritt)

1959:
1. Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk)
2. Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
3. Nazarín (Luis Buñuel)
4. The 400 Blows (François Truffaut)
5. Hiroshima, Mon Amour (Alain Resnais)
6. Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger)
7. Fate of a Man (Sergei Bondarchuk)
8. Ballad of a Soldier (Grigori Chukhraj)
9. Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju)
10. Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher)

Honorable Mention: The Crimson Kimono (Samuel Fuller), The World of Apu (Satyajit Ray), Sleeping Beauty (Clyde Geronimi), Good Morning (Yasujirô Ozu), North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock), Picnic on the Grass (Jean Renoir), The Scapegoat (Robert Hamer), Floating Weeds (Yasujirô Ozu), Shadows (John Cassavetes), Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder)

Blind Spots: The Indian Tomb (Fritz Lang), Our Man in Havana (Carol Reed), Two Men in Manhattan (Jean-Pierre Melville), Verboten! (Samuel Fuller), Human Condition I (Masaki Kobayashi), Human Condition II (Masaki Kobayashi), Compulsion (Richard Fleischer), Les Cousins (Claude Chabrol), The Lady With the Dog (Iosif Kheifits), The Great War (Mario Monicelli), Fires on the Plain (Kon Ichikawa), The Bridge (Bernhard Wicki), Room at the Top (Jack Clayton), Porgy and Bess (Otto Preminger), Kapo (Gillo Pontecorvo), Tiger Bay (J. Lee Thompson), The Cow and I (Henri Verneuil), It’s All Right Jack (John Boulting), The League of Gentlemen (Basil Dearden), Look Back in Anger (Tony Richardson), The Mouse That Roared (Jack Arnold), On the Beach (Stanley Krammer), Odd Obsession (Kon Ichikawa), Day of the Outlaw (Andre de Toth), Blind Date (Joseph Losey), Samurai Saga (Hiroshi Inagaki)