Academy Award Best Picture Nominations and Winners – The Best Films between 1950 and 1969

In this article, we list all of those movies made between 1950 and 1969 that were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. We have also highlighted the winning movie of each year.

How many Academy Award winners have you seen? Let us know in the comments below.


23rd Academy Awards

Best Films of 1950

Nominated Movies

All About Eve
Born Yesterday
Father of the Bride
King Solomon’s Mines
Sunset Blvd

Best Picture Winner

All About Eve


24th Academy Awards

Best Films of 1951

Nominated Movies

An American in Paris
Decision Before Dawn
A Place in the Sun
Quo Vadis
A Streetcar Named Desire

Best Picture Winner

An American in Paris


25th Academy Awards

Best Films of 1952

Nominated Movies

The Greatest Show on Earth
High Noon
Ivanhoe
Moulin Rouge
The Quiet Man

Best Picture Winner

The Greatest Show on Earth


26th Academy Awards

Best Films of 1953

Nominated Movies

From Here to Eternity
Julius Caesar
The Robe
Roman Holiday
Shane

Best Picture Winner

From Here to Eternity


27th Academy Awards

Best Films of 1954

Nominated Movies

The Caine Mutiny
The Country Girl
On The Waterfront
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Three Coins in the Fountain

Best Picture Winner

On the Waterfront


28th Academy Awards

Best Films of 1955

Nominated Movies

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Marty
Mister Roberts
Picnic
The Rose Tattoo

Best Picture Winner

Marty


29th Academy Awards

Best Films of 1956

Nominated Movies

Around the World in 80 Days
Friendly Persuasion
Giant
The King and I
The Ten Commandments

Best Picture Winner

Around the World in 80 Days


30th Academy Awards

Best Films of 1957

Nominated Movies

12 Angry Men
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Peyton Place
Sayonara
Witness for the Prosecution

Best Picture Winner

The Bridge on the River Kwai


31st Academy Awards

Best Films of 1958

Nominated Movies

Auntie Mame
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Defiant Ones
Gigi
Separate Tables

Best Picture Winner

Gigi


32nd Academy Awards

Best Films of 1959

Nominated Movies

Anatomy of a Murder
Ben-Hur
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Nun’s Story
Room at the Top

Best Picture Winner

Ben-Hur


33rd Academy Awards

Best Films of 1960

Nominated Movies

The Alamo
The Apartment
Elmer Gantry
Sons and Lovers
The Sundowners

Best Picture Winner

The Apartment


34th Academy Awards

Best Films of 1961

Nominated Movies

Fanny
The Guns of Navarone
The Hustler
Judgement at Nuremberg
West Side Story

Best Picture Winner

West Side Story


35th Academy Awards

Best Films of 1962

Nominated Movies

Lawrence of Arabia
The Longest Day
The Music Man
Mutiny on the Bounty
To Kill a Mockingbird

Best Picture Winner

Lawrence of Arabia


36th Academy Awards

Best Films of 1963

Nominated Movies

America America
Cleopatra
How the West Was Won
Lilies of the Field
Tom Jones

Best Picture Winner

Tom Jones


37th Academy Awards

Best Films of 1964

Nominated Movies

Becket
Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Mary Poppins
My Fair Lady
Zorba the Greek

Best Picture Winner

My Fair Lady


38th Academy Awards

Best Films of 1965

Nominated Movies

Darling
Doctor Zhivago
Ship of Fools
The Sound of Music
A Thousand Clowns

Best Picture Winner

The Sound of Music


39th Academy Awards

Best Films of 1966

Nominated Movies

Alfie
A Man for All Seasons
The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming
The Sand Pebbles
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Best Picture Winner

A Man for All Seasons


40th Academy Awards

Best Films of 1967

Nominated Movies

Bonnie and Clyde
Doctor Dolittle
The Graduate
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
In the Heat of the Night

Best Picture Winner

In the Heat of the Night


41st Academy Awards

Best Films of 1968

Nominated Movies

Funny Girl
The Lion in Winter
Oliver!
Rachel, Rachel
Romeo and Juliet

Best Picture Winner

Oliver!


42nd Academy Awards

Best Films of 1969

Nominated Movies

Anne of the Thousand Days
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Hello, Dolly!
Midnight Cowboy
Z

Best Picture Winner

Midnight Cowboy


How many Best Picture winners have you seen? Let us know in the comments below.

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