1955 — Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

1. All That Heaven Allows (dir: Douglas Sirk)

2. The Night of the Hunter (dir: Charles Laughton)

3. Rebel Without a Cause (dir: Nicholas Ray)

4. Les Diaboliques (dir: Henri-Georges Clouzot)

5. Marty (dir: Delbert Mann)

6. Él (dir: Luis Buñuel; US Release Date)

7. Kiss Me Deadly (dir: Robert Aldrich)

8. Sansho the Bailiff (dir: Kenji Mizoguchi; US Release Date)

9. The Big Combo (dir: Joseph H. Lewis)

10. House of Bamboo (dir: Samuel Fuller)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): Bad Day at Black Rock (dir: John Sturges), The Brute (dir: Luis Buñuel), East of Eden (dir: Elia Kazan), Floating Clouds (dir: Mikio Naruse), Guys and Dolls (dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz), The Ladykillers (dir: Alexander Mackendrick), The Man from Laramie (dir: Anthony Mann), The Man with the Golden Arm (dir: Otto Preminger), Ordet (dir: Carl Theodor Dreyer), Samurai Part Two: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (dir: Hiroshi Inagaki), Smiles of a Summer Night (dir: Ingmar Bergman), and To Catch a Thief (dir: Alfred Hitchcock)

Best Picture: All That Heaven Allows
Director: Douglas Sirk Producer: Ross Hunter
US Distributor: Universal Pictures

Best Director:
Douglas Sirk, All That Heaven Allows
2. Charles Laughton, The Night of the Hunter
3. Nicholas Ray, Rebel Without a Cause
4. Henri-Georges Clouzot, Les Diaboliques
5. Robert Aldrich, Kiss Me Deadly

Best Actor:
Robert Mitchum, The Night of the Hunter
2. James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause AND East of Eden
3. Ernest Borgnine, Marty
4. Alec Guinness, The Ladykillers
5. Spencer Tracy, Bad Day at Black Rock

Best Actress:
Simone Signoret, Les Diaboliques
2. Hideko Takamine, Floating Clouds
3. Katy Jurado, The Brute
4. Jane Wyman, All That Heaven Allows
5. Eva Dahlbeck, Smiles of a Summer Night

Best Supporting Actor:
Richard Conte, The Big Combo
2. Raymond Massey, East of Eden
3. Stubby Kaye, Guys and Dolls
4. Jack Lemmon, Mister Roberts
5. William Powell, Mister Roberts

Best Supporting Actress:
Shirley Yamaguchi, House of Bamboo
2. Jean Wallace, The Big Combo
3. Agnes Moorehead, All That Heaven Allows
4. Natalie Wood, Rebel Without a Cause
5. Lillian Gish, Night of the Hunter

Best Original Screenplay:
Rebel Without a Cause — Irving Shulman, Nicholas Ray, and Stewart Stern
2. Marty — Paddy Chayefsky
3. All That Heaven Allows — Edna L. Lee and Harry Lee
4. The Ladykillers — William Rose
5. The Big Combo — Philip Yordan

Best Adapted Screenplay:
The Night of the Hunter — James Agee
2. Él — Luis Buñuel and Luis Alcoriza
3. Kiss Me Deadly — A.I. Bezzarides
4. Les Diaboliques — Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jerome Geronimi, Rene Masson and Frederic Grendel
5. The Man from Laramie — Philip Yordan and Frank Burt

Best Cinematography:
The Night of the Hunter — Stanley Cortez
2. The Big Combo — John Alton
3. All That Heaven Allows — Russell Metty
4. House of Bamboo — Joe MacDonald
5. Kiss Me Deadly — Ernest Laszlo

Best Film Editing: 
Kiss Me Deadly — Michael Luciano
2.The Night of the Hunter — Robert Golden
3. Les Diaboliques — Madeline Gug
4. East of Eden — Owen Marks
5. To Catch a Thief — George Tomasini

Best Original Score: 
All That Heaven Allows — Frank Skinner
2. Pather Panchali — Ravi Shankar
3.  The Man with the Golden Arm — Elmer Bernstein
4. The Red Balloon — Maurice Le Roux
5. Picnic — George Duning

Best Production Design: 
The Night of the Hunter — Hilyard Brown and Al Spencer
2. All That Heaven Allows — Alexander Golitzen and Eric Orbom
3. Sansho the Bailiff — Hisakazu Tsuji and Kosaburô Nakajima
4. Smiles of a Summer Night — P.A. Lundgren
5. Guys and Dolls — Oliver Smith, Joseph Wright, and Howard Bristol

Best Costume Design: 
Sansho the Bailiff — Shima Yoshizane
2. Smiles of a Summer Night — Mago
3. To Catch a Thief — Edith Head
4. Guys and Dolls — Irene Sharaff
5. I'll Cry Tomorrow — Helen Rose

Best Visual Effects:
Conquest of Space

Best Sound:
The Night of the Hunter

Best Ensemble Cast:
Marty

Orson Welles’ Best First Feature:
Charles Laughton, The Night of the Hunter

Best Ensemble Cast:
Marty (dir: Delbert Mann; in alphabetical order): Betsy Blair (pictured), Ernest Borgnine (pictured), Augusta Ciolli, Joe Mantell, Esther Minciotti, Jerry Paris, and Karen Steele

Orson Welles' Best First Feature Award: 
Shelley Winters (pictured) in Charles Laughton, Night of the Hunter

RECAP

W I N S :

The Night of the Hunter — 5,
All That Heaven Allows — 3, The Big Combo — 1, Conquest of Space — 1, House of Bamboo — 1, Kiss Me Deadly — 1, Les Diaboliques — 1, Marty — 1, Rebel Without a Cause — 1, Sansho the Bailiff — 1

M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S:

The Night of the Hunter — 9,
All That Heaven Allows — 8, Rebel Without a Cause — 6, The Big Combo — 5, Kiss Me Deadly — 5, Les Diaboliques — 5, Marty — 4, East of Eden — 3, House of Bamboo — 3, Sansho the Bailiff — 3, Smiles of a Summer Night — 3, El – 2, Guys & Dolls — 2, Ladykillers — 2, To Catch a Thief — 2

the year-end project:
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Best of the Decade:
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