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Oscars 1950: Winners and Nominees of the 22nd Academy Awards

Public list by WPS with 61 movies or TV shows/series

These movies have won or been nominated for the Oscars 1950 on 03/23/1950.

The 22nd Academy Awards was held on March 23, 1950, at the RKO Pantages Theatre and awarded Oscars for the best in films in 1949. This was the final year in which all five Best Picture nominees were in black and white, and the first year in which every film nominated for Best Picture won multiple Oscars. ()

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Bicycle Thieves(1948)

1h 29min | Drama
4.2/5 (with 808 votes)

A working man's livelihood is threatened when someone steals his bicycle.

Directed by Vittorio De Sica - With Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Gino Saltamerenda, Elena Altieri, Carlo Jachino, ...
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A Letter to Three Wives(1949)

1h 43min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 43 votes)

Lora May Hollingsway, who grew up next to the wrong side of the tracks, married her boss who thinks she is just a gold digger. Rita Phipps makes as much money writing radio scripts at night as her school teacher husband does. Deborah Bishop looked great in a Navy uniform in WWII but fears she'll never be dressed just right for the Country Club set. These three wives are boarding a boat filled with children going on a picnic when a messenger on a bicycle hands them a letter addressed to all three from Addie who has just left town with one of their husbands. They won't know which one until that night.

Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz - With Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Kirk Douglas, Paul Douglas, Jeffrey Lynn, ...
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Sands of Iwo Jima(1950)

NR
| 1h 40min | Action, Drama, History, War
3.2/5 (with 42 votes)

The relationship between Sergeant Stryker and a group of rebellious recruits is made difficult by the Sergeant's tough training tactics. At Tarawa, the leathernecks have a chance to see Stryker in action, and begin to appreciate him.

Directed by Allan Dwan - With John Wayne, John Agar, Forrest Tucker, Adele Mara, James Brown, Arthur Franz, ...
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The Heiress(1949)

NR
| 1h 55min | Drama, History, Romance / Love
3.9/5 (with 73 votes)

Dull and plain Catherine lives with her emotionally distant father, Dr. Sloper, in 1840s New York. Her days are empty -- filled with little more than needlepoint. Enter handsome Morris Townsend, a dashing social climber with his eye on the spinster's heart and substantial inheritance.

Directed by William Wyler - With Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson, Miriam Hopkins, Mona Freeman, Vanessa Brown, ...

All the King's Men(1949)

NR
| 1h 49min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 71 votes)

All The King's Men is the story of the rise of politician Willie Stark from a rural county seat to the governor's mansion.

Directed by Robert Rossen - With Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Joanne Dru, John Derek, Mercedes McCambridge, Shepperd Strudwick, ...
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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon(1949)

NR
| 1h 43min | Western
3.5/5 (with 109 votes)

After Custer and the 7th Cavalry are wiped out by Indians, everyone expects the worst. Capt. Nathan Brittles is ordered out on patrol but he's also required to take along Abby Allshard, wife of the Fort's commanding officer, and her niece, the pretty Olivia Dandridge, who are being evacuated for their own safety. Brittles is only a few days away from retirement and Olivia has caught the eye of two of the young officers in the Company, Lt. Flint Cohill and 2nd Lt. Ross Pennell. She's taken to wearing a yellow ribbon in her hair, a sign that she has a beau in the Cavalry, but refuses to say for whom she is wearing it.

Directed by John Ford - With John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar, Victor McLaglen, Ben Johnson, Harry Carey, ...
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White Heat(1949)

NR
| 1h 54min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.9/5 (with 135 votes)

A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.

Directed by Raoul Walsh - With James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien, Margaret Wycherly, Steve Cochran, John Archer, ...
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Paisan(1946)

2h 5min | History, Drama, War
3.8/5 (with 93 votes)

Six vignettes follow the Allied invasion from July 1943 to winter 1944, from Sicily north to Venice.

Directed by Roberto Rossellini - With Maria Michi, Renzo Avanzo, Gianfranco Corsini, William Tubbs, Giulietta Masina

On the Town(1949)

NR
| 1h 38min | Comedy, Music, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 78 votes)

Three sailors - Gabey, Chip and Ozzie - let loose on a 24-hour pass in New York and the Big Apple will never be the same! Gabey falls head over heels for "Miss Turnstiles of the Month" (he thinks she's a high society deb when she's really a 'cooch dancer at Coney Island); innocent Chip gets highjacked (literally) by a lady cab driver; and Ozzie becomes the object of interest of a gorgeous anthropologist who thinks he's the perfect example of a "prehistoric man". Wonderful music and terrific shots of New York at its best.

Directed by Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen - With Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Ann Miller, Betty Garrett, Jules Munshin, Vera-Ellen, ...
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Mighty Joe Young(1949)

NR
| 1h 34min | Adventure, Fantasy, Drama, Action, Science Fiction
3.3/5 (with 33 votes)

A young woman, Jill Young, grew up on her father's ranch in Africa, raising a large gorilla named Joe from an infant. Years later, she brings him to Hollywood to become a star.

Directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack - With Terry Moore, Ben Johnson, Robert Armstrong, Frank McHugh, Douglas Fowley, Nestor Paiva, ...
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Pinky(1949)

1h 42min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 13 votes)

Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. In addition, Pinky has fallen in love with a young white doctor, Dr. Thomas Adams, who knows nothing about her black heritage.

Directed by Elia Kazan, John Ford - With Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters, Nina Mae McKinney, William Lundigan, Basil Ruysdael, ...
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Champion(1949)

1h 39min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 29 votes)

An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.

Directed by Mark Robson - With Kirk Douglas, Marilyn Maxwell, Arthur Kennedy, Ruth Roman, Paul Stewart, Lola Albright, ...
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Twelve O'Clock High(1949)

2h 12min | War, Action, Drama
3.5/5 (with 41 votes)

In the early days of daylight bombing raids over Germany, General Frank Savage must take command of a 'hard luck' bomber group. Much of the story deals with his struggle to whip his group into a disciplined fighting unit in spite of heavy losses, and withering attacks by German fighters over their targets.

Directed by Henry King - With Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe, Gary Merrill, Millard Mitchell, Dean Jagger, Paul Stewart, ...
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Little Women(1949)

NR
| 2h 1min | Drama, Kids & Family, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 79 votes)

Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord Mass in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the civil war, the sisters: Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother - a very outspoken women for her time. The story is of how the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world.

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy - With Elizabeth Taylor, June Allyson, Janet Leigh, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Peter Lawford, ...
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The Fallen Idol(1948)

1h 36min | Drama, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 48 votes)

Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, idolizes Baines, his father's butler, a kind of hero in the eyes of the child, whose perception changes when he accidentally discovers the secret that Baines keeps and witnesses the consequences that adults' lies can cause.

Directed by Carol Reed - With Ralph Richardson, Michèle Morgan, Jack Hawkins, James Hayter, Bernard Lee, Bobby Henrey, ...
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Battleground(1949)

1h 58min | Action, Adventure, Drama, War
3.4/5 (with 30 votes)

The film concentrates on the camaraderie and the divisions between the troops as they ready for the big offensive. Told in a taut narrative, the men of the 101st, led by Van Johnson, wait out the winter in the Ardennes forest to confront the German army in what would be the last major offensive of World War II. The men are demoralized and trapped, with no hope of support from the Allies.

Directed by William A. Wellman - With Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalbán, George Murphy, James Whitmore, Don Taylor, ...
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So Dear to My Heart(1948)

1h 19min | Drama, Kids & Family, Animation
3.4/5 (with 16 votes)

The tale of Jeremiah Kincaid and his quest to raise his 'champion' lamb, Danny. Jeremiah's dream of showing Danny at the Pike County Fair must overcome the obstinate objections of his loving, yet strict, grandmother Granny. Jeremiah's confidant, Uncle Hiram, is the boy's steady ally.

Directed by Harold D. Schuster, Hamilton Luske - With Bobby Driscoll, Luana Patten, Beulah Bondi, Burl Ives, Harry Carey, Matt Willis, ...
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For Scent-imental Reasons(1949)

NR
| 7min | Animation
3.5/5 (with 21 votes)

Pepé Le Pew invades a Parisian perfumery, where he sniffs the various scents. The shopkeeper runs in horror and recruits a female cat to run the skunk out of the shop. She tosses the cat inside, and a bottle of dye falls over, accidentally painting a white stripe down the cat's back. Pepé gives chase...

Directed by Chuck Jones

Toy Tinkers(1949)

NR
| 7min | Animation
3.4/5 (with 15 votes)

When Donald Duck chops a Christmas tree, the inquisitive chipmunks Chip and Dale follow and see him decorate it with nuts and sweets. So they sneak in his home, determined to 'harvest' it all, using the toys for the Duck nephews, as if Christmas came early for them, so to say. Donald puts up an equally 'playful' yet grim defense, so it all rapidly escalates into a bitter miniature two-to-one-giant war over the Christmas-treats.

Directed by Jack Hannah

The Stratton Story(1949)

1h 46min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 10 votes)

Star major league pitcher Monty Stratton loses a leg in a hunting accident, but becomes determined to leave the game on his own terms.

Directed by Sam Wood - With James Stewart, June Allyson, Frank Morgan, Agnes Moorehead, Bill Williams, Bruce Cowling, ...
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The Barkleys of Broadway(1949)

1h 49min | Comedy, Music, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 15 votes)

Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful musical-comedy team, known for their stormy but passionate relationship. Dinah feels overshadowed by Josh and limited by the lighthearted musical roles he directs her in. So she decides to stretch her skills by taking a role in a serious drama, directed by another man.

Directed by Charles Walters - With Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Oscar Levant, Billie Burke, Betty Blythe, William Tannen, ...
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Come to the Stable(1949)

NR
| 1h 34min | Comedy, Drama
3.4/5 (with 6 votes)

Two nuns arrive unannounced in the small New England town of Bethlehem, where they recruit various townspeople to help them build a children's hospital.

Directed by Henry Koster - With Loretta Young, Celeste Holm, Hugh Marlowe, Elsa Lanchester, Thomas Gomez, Mike Mazurki, ...
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The Window(1949)

1h 13min | Thriller, Crime, Drama
3.4/5 (with 14 votes)

An imaginative boy who frequently makes things up witnesses a murder, but can't get his parents or the police to believe him. The only people taking him seriously are the killers - who live upstairs, know that he saw what they did, and are out to permanently silence him.

Directed by Ted Tetzlaff - With Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart, Ruth Roman, Bobby Driscoll, James Nolan, ...
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Passport to Pimlico(1949)

1h 24min | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 24 votes)

When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part of Burgundy, France and thus foreign territory. The British government attempts to regain control by setting up border controls and cutting off services to the area.

Directed by Henry Cornelius - With Stanley Holloway, Margaret Rutherford, Barbara Murray, Raymond Huntley, Sydney Tafler, Hermione Baddeley, ...

Hatch Up Your Troubles(1949)

NR
| 8min | Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family
3.4/5 (with 14 votes)

A baby woodpecker mistakes Jerry for his mother. The mouse rejects the newly hatched bird but soon finds himself protecting it against his feline nemesis, Tom.

Directed by William Hanna, Joseph Barbera

Canary Row(1950)

NR
| 7min | Animation
3.1/5 (with 10 votes)

Sylvester Cat spots Tweety Bird in a San Francisco apartment and tries to gain access but cannot make it past Granny or the cat-hating desk clerk.

Directed by Friz Freleng

The Hasty Heart(1949)

1h 42min | Drama, Romance / Love, War
3.3/5 (with 5 votes)

It's 1945, Burma, the day the war is over! For many this means they've survived and will be going home. But not for everyone. A Scottish soldier, Corporal Lachlan "Lachie" MacLachlan is the victim of a wound to the lower back on this day. He's moved to a M.A.S.H. unit and undergoes surgery. As time goes by he begins to recover and watches, in dismay as soldiers pack up and head for home. The doctors have told him he needs to remain "for observation".

Directed by Vincent Sherman - With Richard Todd, Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal, Alfie Bass
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Prince of Foxes(1949)

1h 47min | Adventure, Drama, History
2.7/5 (with 7 votes)

In 1500, Duke Cesare Borgia hopes to marry his sister (widowed by poison) to the heir apparent of Ferrara, which impedes his conquest of central Italy. On this delicate mission he sends Andrea Orsini, his sister's lover and nearly as unscrupulous as himself. En route, Orsini meets Camilla Verano, wife of the count of Citta' del Monte (Borgia's next intended conquest); and sentiment threatens to turn him against his deadly master, whom no one betrays twice...

Directed by Henry King - With Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane, Marina Berti, Katina Paxinou, Eduardo Ciannelli, ...
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Adventures of Don Juan(1948)

NR
| 1h 50min | Action, Adventure, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 11 votes)

The adventures of the notorious Spanish Lothario Don Juan highlights Errol Flynn's swashbuckling and romantic antics.

Directed by Vincent Sherman - With Errol Flynn, Viveca Lindfors, Robert Douglas, Alan Hale, Ann Rutherford, Fortunio Bonanova, ...
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Beyond the Forest(1949)

1h 37min | Drama, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 16 votes)

Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man insists she get a divorce and marry him instead. Soon she demonstrates she is capable of rather deplorable acts -- including murder.

Directed by King Vidor - With Bette Davis, Joseph Cotten, David Brian, Ruth Roman, Dona Drake, Regis Toomey, ...
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