Category List – Best Motion Picture

* Bold records denote winners

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Total Records Found: 223, showing 100 per page
Award YearAward CategoryTitleAuthor's NamePublisher/ProducerNotes
1955 Best Motion Picture Rear Window John Michael Hayes Paramount
1954 Best Motion Picture The Big Heat Sidney Boehm, William P. McGivern Columbia Comment: Boehm is the screenwriter, McGivern is the author of the novel
1953 Best Motion Picture Five Fingers Otto Lang, Michael G. Wilson Twentieth Century Fox Comment: Lang is the producer
1952 Best Motion Picture Detective Story Sidney Kingsley, Robert Wyler, Philip Yordan Paramount Comment: Kingsley wrote the stage play on which the screen version was based, Wyler and Yordan were the screenwriters
1952 Best Motion Picture The Man with a Cloak John Dickson Carr MGM Comment: based on the novel by Carr
1952 Best Motion Picture The People Against O'Hara Eleazar Lipsky MGM Comment: based on the novel by Lipsky
1951 Best Motion Picture Mr. 880 St. Clair McKelway Twentieth Century Fox Comment: Winner of a special award as the author of the novel
1951 Best Motion Picture The Asphalt Jungle Ben Maddow MGM
1951 Best Motion Picture Stage Fright Whitfield Cook Warner Bros. Comment: based on the novel Man Running by Selwyn Jepson
1951 Best Motion Picture The Man on the Eiffel Tower Harry Brown A&T Comment: based on the novel A Battle of Nerves by Georges Simnon
1950 Best Motion Picture The Window Mel Dinelli, Cornell Woolrich RKO Comment: Woolrich wrote the novel FIRE ESCAPE, on which the movie was based
1950 Best Motion Picture Chicago Deadline Warren Duff, Tiffany Thayer Paramount
1950 Best Motion Picture Criss Cross Daniel Fuchs U-I Comment: based on the novel by Don Tracy
1950 Best Motion Picture The Scene of the Crime Charles Schnee MGM Comment: based on the story by John Bartlow Martin
1950 Best Motion Picture White Heat Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts Warner Bros. Comment: based on the story by Virginia Kellogg
1949 Best Motion Picture Call Northside 777 Jerome Cady, Jay Dratler, Henry Hathaway, Leonard Hoffman, Otto Lang, Quentin Reynolds Twentieth Century Fox Comment: Screenwriters: Reynolds, Hoffman, Dratler, Cady. Posthumous award for Cady. Hathaway was director. Lang produced
1949 Best Motion Picture Rope Arthur Laurents Transatlantic Comment: based on the play by Patrick Hamilton
1949 Best Motion Picture Sorry, Wrong Number Lucille Fletcher Paramount Comment: From her play
1949 Best Motion Picture The Big Clock Jonathan Latimer Paramount Comment: based on the novel by Kenneth Fearing
1948 Best Motion Picture Crossfire John Paxton RKO Comment: based on the novel The Brick Fox-Hole by Richard Brooks/Dore Schary, producer/Adrian Scott, associate producer/Edward Dmytryk, director
1947 Best Motion Picture The Killers Anthony Veiller Hellinger-Universal Comment: Mark Hellinger, producer; Robert Siodmak, director
1946 Best Motion Picture Murder, My Sweet John Paxton RKO Comment: screenplay: Raymond Chandler/author of Farewell, My Lovely on which the movie was based. Directed by Edward Dymtryk
1946 Best Motion Picture The House on 92nd St. Charles G. Booth, Barre Lyndon, John Monks, Jr. Twentieth Century Fox Comment: Honorary Scroll