best films 1959

Anatomy of a murder  (Usa/Austria)  Otto Preminger
Floating weeds  (Japan)  Yasujiro Ozu
Imitation of life  (Usa/Germany)  Douglas Sirk
Kaagaz ke phool  (India) Guru Dutt
Nazarin  (Mexico/Spain)  Luis Bunuel
North by northwest  (Usa/Britain)  Alfred Hitchcock
Pickpocket  (France) Robert Bresson
Rio bravo  (Usa)  Howard Hawks
The 400 blows  (France)  Francois Truffaut
The world of apu  (India)  Satyajit Ray


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: North by northwest
Best Director:  Luis Bunuel

Achievement Award:  Otto Preminger

best films 1958

Ashes and diamonds  (Poland)  Andrsej Wajda
Big deal on madonna street (Italy) Mario Monicelli
Cairo station  (Egypt)  Youssef Chahine

Cranes are flying (Russia) Mikhael Kalatzov
Madhumati  (India)  Bimal Roy
Mon oncle  (France)  Jacques Tati
Rally round the flag boys  (Usa)  Leo Mccarey
Some came running  (Usa)  Vincente Minnelli
The music room  (India)  Satyajit Ray
Vertigo  (Usa/Britain)  Alfred Hitchcock


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  Vertigo
Best Director: Vincente Minnelli
Best Performer:  Burt Ives 

Achievement Award:  Jacques Tati

best films 1957

An affair to remember (Usa) Leo Mccarey
Forty guns  (Usa)  Sam Fuller
Le notti bianche  (Italy)  Luchino Visconti
Nights of cabiria  (Italy) Frederic Fellini
Pyassa  (India)  Guru Dutt
The sweet smell of success  (Usa/Britain)  Alexander Mackendrick
Throne of blood  (Japan)  Akira Kuroswawa
Wild strawberries  (Sweden)  Ingmar Bergman
Will success spoil rock hunter  (Usa)  Frank Tashlin
Witness for the prosecution  (Usa/Austria)  Billy Wilder



The Golden Gongs 

Best Picture: Le notti bianche
Best Director:  Frederic Fellini
Best Performer:  Marcello Mastroianni

Achievement Award: Akira Kurosawa

best films 1956

A man escaped  (France)  Robert Bresson
Bigger than life  (Usa)  Nicholas Ray
Crazy fruit  (Japan)  Ko nakahira
Early spring  (Japan)  Yasujiro Ozu
Flowing  (Japan)  Mikio Naruse
The girl cant help it  (Usa)  Frank Tashlin
The killing  (Usa)  Stanley Kubrick
The red balloon (France)  Albert Lamorisse

The searchers  (Usa)  John Ford

Written on the wind  (Usa/Germany)  Douglas Sirk


The Golden Gongs 

Best Film:  A man escaped
Best Director: Nicholas Ray
Best Performer: Elisha Cook jr

Achievement Award: Frank Tashlin