1950
alphabetically
All About Eve (Joseph L Mankiewicz)
The Big Lift (George Seaton)
Born Yesterday (George Cukor)
Caged (John Cromwell)
Cinderella (multiple)
Gun Crazy (Joseph H Lewis)
Harvey (Henry Koster)
Rashômon (Akira Kurosawa)
Summer Stock (Charles Walters)
Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder)
1951
alphabetically
An American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli)
Detective Story (William Wyler)
The Mating Season (Mitchell Leisen)
A Place in the Sun (George Stevens)
Showboat (George Sidney)
Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock)
A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan)
1952
alphabetically
The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli)
Come Back Little Sheba (Daniel Mann)
Forbidden Games (Rene Clement)
Hans Christian Anderson (Charles Vidor)
High Noon (Fred Zinnemann)
Moulin Rouge (John Huston)
The Quiet Man (John Ford)
Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen)
Sudden Fear (David Miller)
With a Song in My Heart (Walter Lang)
1953
alphabetically
Calamity Jane (David Butler)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks)
From Here to Eternity (Fred Zinneman)
How to Marry a Millionaire (Jean Negulesco)
I Vitelloni (Federico Fellini)
Indiscretions of an American Housewife (Vittorio deSica)
Kiss Me Kate (George Sidney)
Niagara (Henry Hathaway)
Peter Pan (multiple)
The Robe (Henry Koster)
Roman Holiday (William Wyler)
1954
alphabetically
Executive Suite (Robert Wise)
It Should Happen To You (George Cukor)
Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray)
Magnificen Obsession (Douglas Sirk)
On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan)
Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
Sabrina (Billy Wilder)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Stanley Donen)
A Star is Born (George Cukor)
La Strada (Federico Fellini)
Honorable Mention: Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa), Brigadoon (Vincente Minnelli)
1955
alpabetically
All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)
The Court Jester (Norman Panama & Melvyn Frank)
Diabolique (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
East of Eden (Elia Kazan)
The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
Picnic (Joshua Logan)
Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)
The Rose Tattoo (Daniel Mann)
Summertime (David Lean)
To Catch a Theif (Alfred Hitchcock)
1956
alphabetically
Bus Stop (Joshua Logan)
Giant (George Stevens)
The King and I (Walter Lang)
Somebody Up There Likes Me (Robert Wise)
The Ten Commandments (Cecil B DeMille)
Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk)
1957
alphabetically
12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet)
The Cranes are Flying (Mikhail Kalatozov)
A Face in the Crowd (Elia Kazan)
Funny Face (Stanley Donen)
Les Girls (George Cukor)
Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini)
The Pajama Game (Stanley Donen & George Abbott)
Peyton Place (Mark Robson)
The Three Faces of Eve (Nunnally Johnson)
Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa)
1958
alphabetically
Auntie Mame (Morton Dacosta)
Bell Book and Candle (Richard Quine)
The Blob (Irvin S Yeaworth Jr)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Richard Brooks)
The Defiant Ones (Stanley Kramer)
The Fly (Kurt Neumann)
I Want to Live! (Robert Wise)
Marjorie Morningstar (Irving Rapper)
South Pacific (Joshua Logan)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
1959
alphabetically
The 400 Blows (François Truffaut)
Ballad of a Soldier (Grigori Chukhrai)
Ben-Hur (William Wyler)
Black Orpheus (Marcel Camus)
Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais)
Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk)
North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
Sleeping Beauty (multiple)
Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder)
Suddenly Last Summer (Joseph L Mankiewicz)
Honorable Mention: Tarzan's Greatest Adventure (John Guillermin), Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger), Pillow Talk (Michael Gordon)