Oscar Best Pictures - 1950s/1960s

Academy Award and Oscar History and Trivia for Classic Movie Buffs

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In two decades, the last filled with political and social unrest, movies went from dramas and romances to epics and musicals. The Academy Awards reflected these changes.

The Academy Awards for best picture in the 1950s and 1960s ranged from stories dealing with everyday people to epics to musicals to a x-rated film. Here are some of them, with accompanying stories, from those two decades.

Films from the 1950s

1960s Films

For more information on the Oscars see: Osborne, Robert, 75 Years of the Oscar. New York: Abbeville Press, 2003; The Official Academy Award Site; Oscar, Oscar

More Oscar Topics: Oscars for Direction - 1950s/1960s, Best Acting Oscars - 1950s/1960s


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