best films 1951

Ace in the hole  (Usa/Austria)  Billy Wilder
Awaara  (India)  Raj Kapoor
Diary of a country priest  (France) Robert Bresson
Early summer  (Japan) Yasijuro Ozu
Fixed bayonets  (Usa)  Sam Fuller
On dangerous ground  (Usa)  Nicholas Ray
Steel helmet  (Usa) Sam Fuller
Strangers on a train  (Usa/Britain) Alfred Hitchcock
The kaiser's lackey  (Germany)  Wolfgang Staudte
The lavender hill mob  (Britain)  Charles Crichton
The man in the white suit  (Britain)  Alexander Mckendrick
The river  (India/France)  Jean Renoir


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  Diary of a Country Priest
Best Director:  Billy Wilder
Best Performer:  Ward Bond

Achievement Award: Sam Fuller

best films 1950

All about eve  (Usa)  Joseph Mankiewicz
Gun crazy (Usa) Joseph Lewis
Harvey  (Usa/Germany)  Henry Koster
La ronde  (France/Germany)  Max Ophuls
Los olvidados  (Mexico/Spain) Luis Bunuel
In a lonely place  (Usa)  Nicholas Ray
Stars in my crown  (Usa/France) Jacques Tourneur
Sunset boulevard  (Usa/Austria) Billy Wilder
The flowers of st francis  (Italy)  Roberto Rosselini
White heat (Usa) |Raoul Walsh



The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  In a lonely place
Best Director:  Roberto Rosselini
Best Performer:  Karl Malden

Achievement Award:  Billy Wilder


Hall of Fame

Victor Sjostrom 28

Georges Melies 26

Albert Capellani 24

Yevgeni Bauer 21

Yasujiro Ozu 20

Howard Hawks 20
Alfred Hitchcock 19

Sergei Eisenstein 18
Jean Renoir 17

Kenji Mizoguchi 17 

Dw Griffiths 16

Michael Powell 15

Josef Sternberg 15

Carl Dreyer 15
Roberto Rosselini 14
Jean Epstein 14

Ernst Lubitsch 13

Alexander Dovshenko 13

Orson Welles 13

John Ford 13

Max Ophuls 13

FW Murnau 13

Fritz Lang 13
Maurtitz Stiller 12
Charles Chaplin 12

Ferdinand Zecca 11
King Vidor  9
Maurice Tourneur 9
Ladislas Starevich 9
Edwin Porter 8

Erich Stronheim 8

Leo Mccarey 8
Raoul Walsh 7
Vsevelod Pudovkin 7
GW Pabst 7
Frank Borzage 7
James Whale 7

Michel Carne 7
Jacques Tourneur 7
Marcus Pagnol 7
Louis Feuillade7
John Stahl 7

Lucien Nonguet

Giovanni Pastrone

Francesco Bertlini

Leonce Perret

Robert Weine

Andre Antoine

Hiroshi Shimizu

Nicholas Ray

Mario Caserini

Gustavo Serena

Harold Lloyd

Sadao Yamanaka

Mikio Naruse

Michael Curtiz

Mitchell Liesen

Preston Sturges

George Cukor

cineometer 1950: Usa 158, Fra 65, Rus 29, Jap 26, Ger 26, Bri 17, Swe 15, Ita 13, Chi 6, Den 5, Ind 3, Mex 3,

best films 1949

Andaz  (India)  Mehboob Khan
Beyond the forest  (Usa)  King Vidor
Crows and sparrows  (China)  Zheng Junli
I was a male war bride  (Usa) Howard Hawks
Kind hearts and coronets  (Britain)  Robert Hamer
Late spring  (Japan)  Yasujiro Ozu
Mahal  (India) Kamal Amrohi
Rendezvous in july  (France)  Jacques Becker
The reckless moment  (Usa/Germany)  Max Ophuls
The third man  (Britain)  Carol Reed


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  Late Spring
Best Director: Max Ophuls
Best Performer:  Millard Mitchell

Achievement Award:  Jacques Becker

best films 1947 - 1948

1947

Antoine and antoinette  (France)  Jacques Becker
Black narcissus  (Britain)  Michael Powell
Daisy kenyon  (Usa/ Austria)  Otto Preminger
Monsieur verdoux  (Usa/Britain)  Charlie Chaplin 

Out of the past (Usa/France) Jacques Tourneur
Panique  (France)  Julien Duvivier
Phoenix  (Japan) Keisuke Kinoshita
Record of a tenement gentleman  (Japan)  Yasujiro Ozu
The loves of sumako the actress  (Japan)  Kenji Mizoguchi
The unsuspected  (Usa/Hungary)  Michael Curtiz

1948

Bicycle thieves  (Italy)  Vittoria de Sica 

Children of the beehive (Japan) Hiroshi Shimizu

Fort apache (Usa) John Ford
Germany year zero  (Italy)  Roberto Rosselini
Inspiration  (Czechoslovakia)  Karel Zeman
La terra trema  (Italy) Luchino Visconte
Letter from an unknown woman  (Usa/Germany)  Max Ophuls
Spring in a small town  (China)  Fei Mu
The red shoes  (Britain)  Michael Powell
They live by night  (Usa)  Nicholas Ray


The Golden Gongs

Best Pictures:  Monsieur Verdoux, Spring in a small town
Best Director:  Michael Powell, Max Ophuls
Best Performer:  Richard Widmark

Achievement Award: Michael Curtiz, Luchino Visconte

best films 1945 - 1946

1945

Children of paradise  (France)  Marcel Carne
Detour  (Usa/Austria) Edgar Ulmer
I know where i'm going  (Britain) Michael Powell

Leave her to heaven (Usa/Azerbijan) John Stahl
Les dames du bois des boulogne  (France)  Robert Bresson
Mildred Pierce  (Usa/Hungary)  Michael Curtis
Rome open city  (Italy)  Roberto Rosselini
Scarlet street  (Usa/Germany)  Fritz Lang
The killers  (Usa/Germany)  Robert Siodmak
They were expendable  (Usa) John Ford

1946

A matter of life and death  (Britain)  Michael Powell

Beauty and the beast  (France)  Jean Cocteau
Canyon passage  (Usa/France)  Jacques Tourneur
Cluny Brown  (Usa/Germany)  Ernst Lubitsch
Gilda  (Usa/Hungary) Charles Vidor
My darling clementine  (Usa)  John Ford
Notorious  (Usa/Britain)  Alfred Hitchcock
Paisan  (Italy)  Roberto Rosselini
The best years of our lives  (Usa)  William Wyler
Utamaro and his five women  (Japan)  Kenji Mizoguchi



The Golden Gongs

Best Pictures: Open City, A matter of life and death
Best Directors:  Marcel Carne, Roberto Rossellini
Best Performer:  Anna Magnani

Achievement Award:  John Stahl, WIlliam Wyler

best films 1944

At land (Usa/Ukraine) Maya Dern

A canterbury tale  (Britain)  Michael Powell
Curse of the cat people  (Usa)  Robert Wise
Double indemnity  (Usa/Austria)  Billy Wilder
Ivan the terrible  (Russia)  Sergei Eisenstein
Laura  (Usa/Austria)  Otto Preminger
Lifeboat  (Usa/Britain)  Alfred Hitchcock
Maria candelaria  (Mexico)  Emilio Fernandez
The miracle of morgan's creek  (Usa) Preston Sturges
To have and have not  (Usa)  Howard Hawks


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Ivan the Terrible
Best Director: Howard Hawks
Best Performer: Walter Brennan

Achievement Award: Emilio Fernandez