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Fredric March won Best Actor, Drama, for Death of a Salesman, while Danny Kaye won Best Actor, Musical or Comedy, for On the Riviera. Jane Wyman won Best Actress, Drama, for her role in The Blue Veil, while June Allyson won Best Actress, Musical or Comedy, for Too Young to Kiss. 1951 also saw the film debut of Grace Kelly and Carroll Baker.
From 1930 until 2018, the NBR chose 74 films that would go on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture as Best Film. Twenty four of these times, the film selected was number one on the NBR's list for that year.
This is a list of films which placed number one at the weekly box office in the United States during 1951 per Variety's weekly National Boxoffice Survey. The results are based on a sample of 20–25 key cities and therefore, any box office amounts quoted may not be the total that the film grossed nationally in the week.
Seven Samurai (1954) topped the BBC poll of best foreign-language films as well as several Japanese polls.. Battleship Potemkin (1925) was ranked number 1 with 32 votes when the Festival Mondial du Film et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique asked 63 film professionals around the world, mostly directors, to vote for the best films of the half-century in 1951. [3]
Films on the list span a period of 80 years, starting with Sherlock Jr. (1924) directed by Buster Keaton, and finishing with Finding Nemo (2003) directed by Andrew Stanton. Of the 33 films in the list that were released before 1950, only 6 were produced outside Hollywood, and 13 of those 27 American films were directed by men born abroad: [4]
Films of the 1950s were of a wide variety. As a result of the introduction of television, the studios and companies sought to put audiences back in theaters. They used more techniques in presenting their films through widescreen and big-approach methods, such as Cinemascope, VistaVision, and Cinerama, as well as gimmicks like 3-D film.
The House in the Square (also titled I'll Never Forget You in the United States and Man of Two Worlds) is a 1951 science fiction fantasy film starring Tyrone Power and Ann Blyth. It was an early film for director Roy Ward Baker. Power plays Peter Standish, an American atomic scientist who is transported to the 18th century, where he falls in love.
Best Film: A Place in the Sun: An American in Paris: Best Director: László Benedek Death of a Salesman: George Stevens A Place in the Sun: Best Actor: Fredric March Death of a Salesman: Danny Kaye On the Riviera: Humphrey Bogart The African Queen: Best Actress: Jane Wyman The Blue Veil: June Allyson Too Young to Kiss: Vivien Leigh A Streetcar ...