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Sidney Lumet • Starring: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Klugman
Based-on-Television • Based-on-Theatre • Courtroom Drama
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Stanley Kubrick • Starring: Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou
Anti-War Film • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama
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Ingmar Bergman • Starring: Victor Sjostrom, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Psychological Drama
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Ingmar Bergman • Starring: Max von Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot
Drama • Fantasy • Foreign Language Film
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Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Minoru Chiaki
Action Thriller • Action • Based-on-Shakespeare
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Alexander Mackendrick • Starring: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison
Drama • Film Noir • Media Satire
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Billy Wilder • Starring: Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Courtroom Drama • Crime Drama
8
David Lean • Starring: William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Ensemble Film
9
Elia Kazan • Starring: Andy Griffith, Anthony Franciosa, Patricia Neal
Drama • Media Satire • Satire
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Federico Fellini • Starring: Giulietta Masina, François Perier, Franca Marzi
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Italian Neorealism
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Mikhail Kalatozov • Starring: Tatyana Samojlova, Aleksey Batalov, Aleksandr Shvorin
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Melodrama
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Jacques Tourneur • Starring: Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis
Folk Horror • Gothic Film • Horror
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Delmer Daves • Starring: Van Heflin, Felicia Farr, Leora Dana
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Outlaw • Thriller
14
Leo McCarey • Starring: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Charles Watts
Comedy Drama • Drama • Melodrama
15
Jack Arnold • Starring: Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, April Kent
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Horror • Psychological Horror
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Stanley Donen • Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Kay Thompson
Comedy • Musical • Musical Comedy
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Chuck Jones • Starring: Mel Blanc
Animation • Cartoon • Comedy
18
Terence Fisher • Starring: Christopher Lee, Hazel Court, Peter Cushing
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Costume Horror • Drama
19
John Sturges • Starring: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming
Traditional Western • Western
20
Walter Lang • Starring: Dina Merrill, Joan Blondell, Katharine Hepburn
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Romance
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Billy Wilder • Starring: Maurice Chevalier, John McGiver, Gary Cooper
Comedy • Romance • Romantic Comedy
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Yasujirô Ozu • Starring: Ineko Arima, Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu
Drama • Family Drama • Foreign Language Film
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Andrzej Wajda • Starring: Teresa Izewska, Tadeusz Janczar, Wienczyslaw Glinski
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Polish Film School
24
Robert Stevenson • Starring: Dorothy McGuire, Fess Parker, Kevin Corcoran
Animal Picture • Coming-of-Age • Drama
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Budd Boetticher • Starring: Randolph Scott, Richard Boone, Maureen O'Sullivan
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Period Film • Western
26
Billy Wilder • Starring: James Stewart, Murray Hamilton, Patricia Smith
Adventure • Biopic • Drama
27
Nathan Juran • Starring: William Hopper, Joan Taylor, Frank Puglia
Horror • Monster Film • Sci-Fi Horror
28
Dick Powell • Starring: Robert Mitchum, Curd Jürgens, David Hedison
Combat Films • Drama • War
29
Samuel Fuller • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger
Western
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Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Kyoko Kagawa
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Ensemble Film
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John Huston • Starring: Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum
Drama • Odd Couple Film • Romance
32
Richard Thorpe • Starring: Elvis Presley, Judy Tyler, Mickey Shaughnessy
Drama • Musical Drama • Musical
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Frank Tashlin • Starring: Tony Randall, Jayne Mansfield, Betsy Drake
Comedy • Romance • Satire
34
Luchino Visconti • Starring: Jean Marais, Marcello Mastroianni, Maria Zanoli
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Anthony Mann • Starring: Neville Brand, Henry Fonda, Betsy Palmer
Drama • Traditional Western • Western
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Nunnally Johnson • Starring: Joanne Woodward, David Wayne, Lee J. Cob
Drama • Mystery • Psychological Drama
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George Sidney • Starring: Kim Novak, Frank Sinatra, Barbara Nichols
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy Drama • Drama
38
Charles Chaplin • Starring: Charles Chaplin, Maxine Audley, Jerry Desmonde
Comedy • Comedy of Manners • Satire
39
Mark Robson • Starring: Lee Philips, Lloyd Nolan, Diane Varsi
Coming-of-Age • Drama • Ensemble Film
40
Douglas Sirk • Starring: Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone
Adventure • Adventure Drama • Drama
41
Guru Dutt • Starring: Mala Sinha, Guru Dutt, Waheeda Rehman
Bollywood • Drama • Foreign Language Film
42
John Ford • Starring: John Wayne, Dan Dailey, Maureen O'Hara
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biography • Biopic
43
Laurence Olivier • Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Laurence Olivier, Richard Wattis
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Michelangelo Antonioni • Starring: Steve Cochran, Alida Valli, Gabriella Pallotta
45
Friz Freleng
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Val Guest • Starring: Brain Donlevy, John Longden, Sid James
Based-on-Television • Horror • Sci-Fi Horror
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Vincente Minnelli • Starring: Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Gray
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Henry Koster • Starring: June Allyson, David Niven, Jessie Royce Landis
Comedy • Comedy of Manners • Sophisticated Comedy
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Chuck Jones
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Anthony Mann • Starring: Vic Morrow, Nehemiah Persoff, Robert Keith
Combat Films • War • War Drama
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