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AFI defines an "American screen legend" as "an actor or a team of actors with a significant screen presence in American feature-length films (films of 40 minutes or more) whose screen debut occurred in or before 1950, or whose screen debut occurred after 1950 but whose death has marked a completed body of work."
The 8th Golden Globe Awards also honored the best films of 1950. That year's Golden Globes also marked the first time that the Best Actor and Actress categories were split into Musical or Comedy or Drama. However, Best Picture remained a single category until the 9th Golden Globe Awards, when it too was split into two categories.
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.
October 23 – Al Jolson, 64, Lithuanian-born American actor, singer, entertainer, The Jazz Singer, Rhapsody in Blue, The Singing Fool; October 29 – Maurice Costello, 73, American actor, Du Barry Was a Lady, Tin Pan Alley; December 4 – James Kevin McGuinness, 56, Irish-American producer and screenwriter, Madame X, Rio Grande
1950: Armored Car Robbery: Richard Fleischer: Charles McGraw, Adele Jergens, William Talman: United States [1] The Asphalt Jungle: John Huston: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, James Whitmore: United States [2] The Blue Lamp: Basil Dearden: Jack Warner, Jimmy Hanley, Dirk Bogarde: United Kingdom [3] The File on Thelma Jordon: Robert Siodmak
The 23rd Academy Awards were held on March 29, 1951, honoring the films of 1950. All About Eve received a record 14 nominations, besting the previous record of 13 set by Gone with the Wind in 1939.
A list of Western films released from 1950 to 1954. Title Director Cast Country Subgenre/Notes 1950: Across the Badlands: Fred F. Sears: Charles Starrett, Smiley ...
Title Director Cast Country Subgenre/Notes 1955: The Americano: William Castle: Glenn Ford, Frank Lovejoy, Cesar Romero, Ursula Thiess: United States: Traditional Western Apache Ambush