The year 1950 in film involved some significant events.

Contents Events Top grossing films (U.S.) Awards Films released in 1950 Serials Short film series Births Deaths

Events

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

Top grossing films (U.S.)

(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)
source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1950.shtml

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

• Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion
• All About Eve
• Annie Get Your Gun
• The Asphalt Jungle
• At War with the Army
• The Blue Lamp
• Battleground
• Bitter Rice (U.S. release)
• The Black Rose
• Born Yesterday
• Bright Leaf
• Broken Arrow
• Café Paradis
• Caged
• Captain Carey, U.S.A., war drama starring Alan Ladd
• Cheaper by the Dozen
• Cinderella
• Cyrano de Bergerac
• Dark City
• Destination Moon
• Fancy Pants
• Father of the Bride
• The Flame and the Arrow
• The Furies
• Gun Crazy (aka Deadly is the Female)
• The Gunfighter
• The Happiest Days of Your Life
• Harvey
• In a Lonely Place
• Justice is Done
• Kim
• King Solomon's Mines
• A Lady Without Passport
• Last Holiday
• Louisa (film), starring Ronald Reagan
• The Magnificent Yankee
• The Men
• The Miniver Story
• Mister 880
• Mystery Street
• My Friend Irma Goes West
• No Way Out
• Orphée
• Rashomon
• Rio Grande
• Sands of Iwo Jima
• Side Street
• Seven Days to Noon
• Stage Fright
• Stromboli
• Summer Stock
• Sunset Boulevard
• Tension
• The Third Man (U.S. release)
• Three Little Words
• Treasure Island
• Trio
• Twelve O'Clock High
• The West Point Story
• When Willie Comes Marching Home
• Where Danger Lives
• Where the Sidewalk Ends
• Winchester '73

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
• 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 16 - Debbie Allen, actress, dancer, choreographer
• January 24 - Daniel Auteuil, actor
• February 18 - Cybill Shepherd,actress
• March 16 - Kate Nelligan, actress
• March 18 - Brad Dourif, actor
• March 30 - Robbie Coltrane, actor
• April 4 - Christine Lahti, actress
• April 29 - Phillip Noyce, director
• May 12 - Gabriel Byrne, actor
• September 28 - John Sayles, director, screenwriter
• October 31 - John Candy, comedian and actor
• December 12 - Rajnikanth, actor

Deaths

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

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