Best Picture Winners of the 1950s

All About Eve is a 1950 drama film, written and directed by Joseph L Mankiewicz, based on the short story 'The Wisdom of Eve', by Mary Orr. ***

An American in Paris is a symphonic composition by American composer George Gershwin, composed in 1928 ***

The Greatest Show on Earth is an Academy Award-winning 1952 drama film set in the Ringling Bros. ***

From Here to Eternity is a 1953 movie based on the novel by James Jones in which characters work through ordinary bouts of intimidation and infidelity on a military base in the days preceding the attack on Pearl Harbor ***

On the Waterfront is an Oscar-winning American 1954 film about mob violence and corruption among longshoremen, and it has become a standard of its kind ***

Marty, is a low budget romance film directed by Delbert Mann, based on a teleplay by Paddy Chayefsky ***

Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in 1873 ***

The Bridge on the River Kwai is an Academy Award-winning 1957 World War II war film based on the novel Le Pont de la Rivi?re Kwa? by French writer Pierre Boulle ***

Gigi is a 1945 novel by the French writer Colette about a wealthy cultured man of fashion who discovers he is in love with a young Parisian girl being groomed for a career as a grande cocotte and eventually marries her ***

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a sword-and-sandal historical fiction epic originally depicted in the 1880 book by American general and author Lew Wallace ***