1949

1. Orpheus- Jean Cocteau
2. The Third Man- Carol Reed
3. Late Spring- Yasujiro Ozu
4. The Set-Up- Robert Wise
5. Kind Hearts and Coronets- Robert Hamer
6. On the Town- Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly
7. Stray Dog- Akira Kurosawa
8. Puce Moment- Kenneth Anger [short]
9. Gun Crazy- Joseph H. Lewis
10. White Heat- Raoul Walsh
11. Adam's Rib- George Cukor
12. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon- John Ford
13. The Blood of Beasts- Georges Franju [short]

Ripe for re-appraisal: Passport to Pimlico (Henry Cornelius)

Need to see: 12 O’Clock High (Henry King), Begone Dull Care (Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart), The Big Steal (Don Siegel), Caught (Max Ophuls), Criss Cross (Robert Siodmak), Follow Me Quietly (Richard Fleischer), The Fountainhead (King Vidor), The Heiress (William Wyler), Intruder in the Dust (Clarence Brown), I Shot Jesse James (Sam Fuller), I Was a Male War Bride (Howard Hawks), A Letter to Three Wives (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), My Love Has Been Burning (Kenji Mizoguchi), Only a Mother (Alf Sjoberg), The Reckless Moment (Max Ophuls), Samson and Delilah (Cecil B. DeMille), The Small Back Room (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger), Stromboli (Roberto Rossellini), Thieves’ Highway (Jules Dassin), They Live By Night (Nicholas Ray), Whisky Galore (Alexander Mackendrick), The Window (Ted Tetzlaff)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: All the King’s Men (Robert Rossen)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica)
Cannes, Grand Prix: The Third Man
Venice, Golden Lion: Manon (Henri-Georges Clouzot)