1950 in film
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Events
- February 15 - Walt Disney Studios' animated film Cinderella debuts.
Top grossing films
- North America
- Cinderella (Disney) (#6 in year of release)
- Samson and Delilah
- Battleground
- King Solomon's Mines
- Cheaper by the Dozen
- Annie Get Your Gun
- Father of the Bride
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
- Drama:
- Best Picture: Sunset Boulevard
- Best Actor: José Ferrer - Cyrano de Bergerac
- Best Actress: Gloria Swanson - Sunset Boulevard
- <u>Musical or Comedy:
- Best Picture: no award
- Best Actor: Fred Astaire - Three Little Words
- Best Actress: Judy Holliday - Born Yesterday
- <u>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, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- All About Eve, starring Bette Davis and George Sanders
- Annie Get Your Gun (film mentioned in article)
- The Asphalt Jungle
- At War With The Army
- The Blue Lamp, the film that introduced Jack Warner as "Dixon of Dock Green"
- Born Yesterday
- Bright Leaf
- Cheaper by the Dozen
- Cinderella
- Cyrano de Bergerac starring Jose Ferrer
- Destination Moon, screenplay partly by Robert A. Heinlein
- Fancy Pants
- Father of the Bride
- The Happiest Days of Your Life starring Alastair Sim
- Harvey starring James Stewart
- Justice is Done (Justice est faite)
- Kim, starring Errol Flynn and Dean Stockwell
- King Solomon's Mines
- Last Holiday starring Alec Guinness
- The Men, Marlon Brando's debut movie
- The Miniver Story
- My Friend Irma Goes West
- Orphée (aka Orpheus), directed by Jean Cocteau
- Rashomon (or Rashōmon), directed by Akira Kurosawa
- Rio Grande, directed by John Ford, starring John Wayne
- Seven Days to Noon
- Stromboli
- Sunset Boulevard
Short film series
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 20 - Veronica Cartwright, actress
- April 29 - Phillip Noyce, director
- May 12 - Gabriel Byrne, actor
- July 18 - Barbara Scott, actress
- September 28 - John Sayles, director, screenwriter
- October 31 - John Candy, comedian and actor
- December 12 - Rajnikant, 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
Categories
1950 | 1950 films | Years in film