10 лучших фильмов каждого года из 1950-х по версии Jeffrey M. Anderson (Combustible Celluloid):

1959
1. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
2. Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
3. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
4. Good Morning (Yasujiro Ozu)
5. Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher)
6. The Tiger of Eschnapur/The Indian Tomb (Fritz Lang)
7. The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut)
8. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder)
9. Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk)
10. The Crimson Kimono (Samuel Fuller)

Runners up: Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger), A Bucket of Blood (Roger Corman), Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu), The Hound of the Baskervilles (Terence Fisher), Jazz on a Summer's Day (Aram Avakian, Bert Stern), Nazarin (Luis Bunuel), Plan 9 from Outer Space (Edward D. Wood, Jr.), Shadows (John Cassavetes), The Tingler (William Castle), Westbound (Budd Boetticher), The World of Apu (Satyajit Ray)

1958
1. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
2. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
3. Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati)
4. The Lineup (Don Siegel)
5. Ashes and Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda)
6. Man of the West (Anthony Mann)
7. The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa)
8. The Last Hurrah (John Ford)
9. Some Came Running (Vincente Minnelli)
10. Giants and Toys (Yasuzo Masumura)

Runners up: Murder by Contract (Irving Lerner), Equinox Flower (Yasujiro Ozu), Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle), Horror of Dracula (Terence Fisher), Buchanan Rides Alone (Budd Boetticher)

1957
1. Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)
2. The Tarnished Angels (Douglas Sirk)
3. Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)
4. Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick)
5. Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini)
6. Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa)
7. Night of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur)
8. A King in New York (Charles Chaplin)
9. Forty Guns (Samuel Fuller)
10. The Tall T (Budd Boetticher)

Runners up: An Affair to Remember (Leo McCarey), Decision at Sundown (Budd Boetticher), Funny Face (Stanley Donen), The Halliday Brand (Joseph H. Lewis), Jet Pilot (Josef von Sternberg), Nightfall (Jacques Tourneur), Tokyo Twilight (Yasujiro Ozu), 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet), What's Opera, Doc? (Chuck Jones), The Wide Blue Road (Gillo Pontecorvo), Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin), Witness for the Prosecution (Billy Wilder)

1956
1. The Searchers (John Ford)
2. Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray)
3. A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
4. The Killing (Stanley Kubrick)
5. Seven Men from Now (Budd Boetticher)
6. Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk)
7. While the City Sleeps (Fritz Lang)
8. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel)
9. The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock)
10. The Girl Can't Help It (Frank Tashlin)

Runners up: Aparajito (Satyajit Ray), Bob le Flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville), Early Spring (Yasujiro Ozu), Giant (George Stevens), The Mystery of Picasso (Henri-Georges Clouzot), The Red Balloon (Albert Lamorisse), Slightly Scarlet (Allan Dwan), The Ten Commandments (Cecil B. DeMille)

1955
1. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
2. Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
3. Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)
4. The Trouble with Harry (Alfred Hitchcock)
5. The Man from Laramie (Anthony Mann)
6. Mr. Arkadin (Orson Welles)
7. All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)
8. Land of the Pharaohs (Howard Hawks)
9. The Naked Dawn (Edgar G. Ulmer)
10. Bad Day at Black Rock (John Sturges)

Runners up: Il Bidone (Federico Fellini), Diabolique (Henri-Georges Clouzot), East of Eden (Elia Kazan), Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich), The Ladykillers (Alexander Mackendrick), Lola Montes (Max Ophuls), Moonfleet (Fritz Lang), Night and Fog (Alain Resnais), One Froggy Evening (Chuck Jones), Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray), The Phenix City Story (Phil Karlson), Rififi (Jules Dassin), Smiles of a Summer Night (Ingmar Bergman), Wichita (Jacques Tourneur)

1954
1. Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray)
2. The Far Country (Anthony Mann)
3. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
4. Voyage to Italy (Roberto Rossellini)
5. Senso (Luchino Visconti)
6. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
7. La Strada (Federico Fellini)
8. Beat the Devil (John Huston)
9. Crime Wave (Andre de Toth)
10. Vera Cruz (Robert Aldrich)

Runners up: The Barefoot Contessa (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), Godzilla (Ishiro Honda), Human Desire (Fritz Lang), It Should Happen to You (George Cukor), Private Hell 36 (Don Siegel), Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi), A Story from Chikamatsu (Kenji Mizoguchi), Touchez Pas au Grisbi (Jacques Becker)

1953
1. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu)
2. The Naked Spur (Anthony Mann)
3. Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller)
4. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks)
5. The Earrings of Madame de... (Max Ophuls)
6. The Big Heat (Fritz Lang)
7. Mr. Hulot's Holiday (Jacques Tati)
8. Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
9. The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli)
10. Roman Holiday (William Wyler)

Runners up: Anatahan (Josef von Sternberg), The Blue Gardenia (Fritz Lang), Duck Amuck (Chuck Jones), House of Wax (Andre de Toth), Little Fugitive (Ray Ashley, Morris Engel), Mogambo (John Ford), Niagara (Henry Hathaway), 99 River Street (Phil Karlson), The Sun Shines Bright (John Ford), The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot)

1952
1. Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)
2. Park Row (Samuel Fuller)
3. Othello (Orson Welles)
4. The Quiet Man (John Ford)
5. Limelight (Charles Chaplin)
6. Rancho Notorious (Fritz Lang)
7. Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa)
8. Le Plaisir (Max Ophuls)
9. Bend of the River (Anthony Mann)
10. Monkey Business (Howard Hawks)

Runners up: The Big Sky (Howard Hawks), The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli), Casque d'or (Jacques Becker), Clash by Night (Fritz Lang), Feed the Kitty (Chuck Jones), Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952), The Golden Coach (Jean Renoir), The Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi), Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica), The White Sheik (Federico Fellini)

1951
1. Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson)
2. The Steel Helmet (Samuel Fuller)
3. Early Summer (Yasujiro Ozu)
4. An American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli)
5. Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock)
6. The River (Jean Renoir)
7. The Thing from Another World (Christian Nyby, Howard Hawks)
8. The Tales of Hoffmann (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)
9. On Dangerous Ground (Nicholas Ray)
10. The Lavender Hill Mob (Charles Crichton)

Runners up: Captain Horatio Hornblower (Raoul Walsh), A Christmas Carol (Brian Desmond-Hurst), Man in the Saddle (Andre de Toth), The Man in the White Suit (Alexander Mackendrick), Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (Albert Lewin), The Prowler (Joseph Losey)

1950
1. In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray)
2. Winchester '73 (Anthony Mann)
3. Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis)
4. Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa)
5. Los Olvidados (Luis Bunuel)
6. La Ronde (Max Ophuls)
7. Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder)
8. Wagon Master (John Ford)
9. Story of a Love Affair (Michelangelo Antonioni)
10. All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

Runners up: The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston), Un Chant d'amour (Jean Genet), Devil's Doorway (Anthony Mann), D.O.A. (Rudolph Maté), The Furies (Anthony Mann), The Gunfighter (Henry King), House by the River (Fritz Lang), Rabbit of Seville (Chuck Jones), Rio Grande (John Ford), Variety Lights (Federico Fellini, Alberto Lattuada)