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1950s[edit]

Year	Film	Nominees
1950	Sunset Boulevard	Billy Wilder
	All About Eve	Joseph L. Mankiewicz
	The Asphalt Jungle	John Huston
	Born Yesterday	George Cukor
1951	Death of a Salesman	László Benedek
	An American in Paris	Vincente Minnelli
	A Place in the Sun	George Stevens
1952	The Greatest Show on Earth	Cecil B. DeMille
	The Narrow Margin	Richard Fleischer
	The Quiet Man	John Ford
1953^[1]	From Here to Eternity	Fred Zinnemann
1954^[2]	On the Waterfront	Elia Kazan
1955^[3]	Picnic	Joshua Logan
1956	Baby Doll	Elia Kazan
	Around the World in Eighty Days	Michael Anderson
	Giant	George Stevens
	Lust for Life	Vincente Minnelli
	War and Peace	King Vidor
1957	The Bridge on the River Kwai	David Lean
	12 Angry Men	Sidney Lumet
	A Hatful of Rain	Fred Zinnemann
	Sayonara	Joshua Logan
	Witness for the Prosecution	Billy Wilder
1958	Gigi	Vincente Minnelli
	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	Richard Brooks
	The Defiant Ones	Stanley Kramer
	I Want to Live!	Robert Wise
	Separate Tables	Delbert Mann
1959	Ben-Hur	William Wyler
	Anatomy of a Murder	Otto Preminger
	The Diary of Anne Frank	George Stevens
	The Nun's Story	Fred Zinnemann
	On the Beach	Stanley Kramer
1959	Ben-Hur	William Wyler
	Anatomy of a Murder	Otto Preminger
	The Diary of Anne Frank	George Stevens
	The Nun's Story	Fred Zinnemann
	On the Beach	Stanley Kramer
1959	Ben-Hur	William Wyler
	Anatomy of a Murder	Otto Preminger
	The Diary of Anne Frank	George Stevens
	The Nun's Story	Fred Zinnemann
	On the Beach	Stanley Kramer

^ "HFPS Golden Globes 1953". Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Retrieved 2007-06-26. Nominations for 1953 are not available.
^ "HFPS Golden Globes 1954". Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Retrieved 2007-06-26. Nominations for 1954 are not available.
^ "HFPS Golden Globes 1955". Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Retrieved 2007-06-26. Nominations for 1955 are not available.