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Top Films from Selected Set Decorators

Edward G. Boyle

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 12
2 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder 147
3 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick 170
4 The Great Dictator 1940 Charles Chaplin 392
5 Johnny Guitar 1954 Nicholas Ray 619
6 Force of Evil 1948 Abraham Polonsky 789
7 Body and Soul 1947 Robert Rossen 936
8 And Then There Were None 1945 René Clair 1213
9 Champion 1949 Mark Robson 1225
10 The Thomas Crown Affair 1968 Norman Jewison 1247
11 Story of G.I. Joe 1945 William A. Wellman 1388
12 Man of the West 1958 Anthony Mann 1411
13 Seven Days in May 1964 John Frankenheimer 1419
14 The Big Country 1958 William Wyler 2012
15 Cyrano de Bergerac 1950 Michael Gordon 2118
16 How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying 1967 David Swift 2145
17 Invaders from Mars 1953 William Cameron Menzies 2244
18 Seven Men from Now 1956 Budd Boetticher 2329
19 The Men 1950 Fred Zinnemann 2338
20 Separate Tables 1958 Delbert Mann 2437

Sam Comer

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 10
2 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 30
3 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 34
4 Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961 Blake Edwards 163
5 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 294
6 The Ten Commandments 1956 Cecil B. DeMille 323
7 Stalag 17 1953 Billy Wilder 508
8 Hud 1963 Martin Ritt 531
9 The War of the Worlds 1953 Byron Haskin 682
10 The Nutty Professor 1963 Jerry Lewis 693
11 Funny Face 1957 Stanley Donen 711
12 The Big Carnival 1951 Billy Wilder 830
13 The Court Jester 1955 Melvin Frank and Norman Panama 959
14 Sabrina 1954 Billy Wilder 1016
15 To Catch a Thief 1955 Alfred Hitchcock 1090
16 The Greatest Show on Earth 1952 Cecil B. DeMille 1459
17 The Man Who Knew Too Much 1956 Alfred Hitchcock 1585
18 White Christmas 1954 Michael Curtiz 1638
19 One-Eyed Jacks 1961 Marlon Brando 1952
20 The Bellboy 1960 Jerry Lewis 2029
21 The Bridges at Toko-Ri 1954 Mark Robson 2168
22 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 1957 John Sturges 2175
23 Samson and Delilah 1949 Cecil B. DeMille 2255
24 The Trouble with Harry 1955 Alfred Hitchcock 2514

George James Hopkins

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 2
2 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Elia Kazan 99
3 My Fair Lady 1964 George Cukor 150
4 Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock 220
5 A Star Is Born 1954 George Cukor 224
6 Mildred Pierce 1945 Michael Curtiz 371
7 East of Eden 1955 Elia Kazan 413
8 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 Mike Nichols 435
9 The Music Man 1962 Morton DaCosta 825
10 Days of Wine and Roses 1962 Blake Edwards 1336
11 Dial M for Murder 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 1409
12 Wait until Dark 1967 Terence Young 1553
13 I Confess 1953 Alfred Hitchcock 1692
14 Auntie Mame 1958 Morton DaCosta 1719
15 Life with Father 1947 Michael Curtiz 1754

Thomas Little

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 All about Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 35
2 King Kong 1933 Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack 47
3 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford 68
4 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger 207
5 My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford 211
6 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 Robert Wise 240
7 How Green Was My Valley 1941 John Ford 342
8 The Ox-Bow Incident 1943 William A. Wellman 396
9 Miracle on 34th Street 1947 George Seaton 421
10 Young Mr. Lincoln 1939 John Ford 659
11 Twelve O'Clock High 1949 Henry King 704
12 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 960
13 Gentleman's Agreement 1947 Elia Kazan 1081
14 The Gunfighter 1950 Henry King 1115
15 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1945 Elia Kazan 1319
16 A Letter to Three Wives 1949 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1352
17 Unfaithfully Yours 1948 Preston Sturges 1463
18 Heaven Can Wait 1943 Ernst Lubitsch 1467
19 The Mark of Zorro 1940 Rouben Mamoulian 1513
20 Kiss of Death 1947 Henry Hathaway 1556
21 The Hound of the Baskervilles 1939 Sidney Lanfield 1667
22 The Song of Bernadette 1943 Henry King 1853
23 Viva Zapata! 1952 Elia Kazan 1911
24 The Gang's All Here 1943 Busby Berkeley 1959
25 The Snake Pit 1948 Anatole Litvak 1993
26 Guadalcanal Diary 1943 Lewis Seiler 2117
27 Jane Eyre 1944 Robert Stevenson 2151
28 Leave Her to Heaven 1945 John M. Stahl 2169
29 It Happens Every Spring 1949 Lloyd Bacon 2299
30 Alexander's Ragtime Band 1938 Henry King 2332
31 Lifeboat 1944 Alfred Hitchcock 2388

Walter M. Scott

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 All about Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 35
2 The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise 62
3 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 100
4 M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman 117
5 Planet of the Apes 1968 Franklin J. Schaffner 279
6 An Affair to Remember 1957 Leo McCarey 455
7 The King and I 1956 Walter Lang 475
8 The Seven Year Itch 1955 Billy Wilder 670
9 The Diary of Anne Frank 1959 George Stevens 912
10 Beyond the Valley of the Dolls 1970 Russ Meyer 1029
11 Carousel 1956 Henry King 1075
12 South Pacific 1958 Joshua Logan 1105
13 The Gunfighter 1950 Henry King 1115
14 Fantastic Voyage 1966 Richard Fleischer 1123
15 Cleopatra 1963 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1169
16 A Letter to Three Wives 1949 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1352
17 Bigger Than Life 1956 Nicholas Ray 1435
18 The Robe 1953 Henry Koster 1606
19 The Girl Can't Help It 1956 Frank Tashlin 1821
20 Tora! Tora! Tora! 1970 Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, and Toshio Masuda 1832
21 The Fly 1958 Kurt Neumann 1940
22 The Great White Hope 1970 Martin Ritt 2002
23 Batman 1966 Leslie H. Martinson 2315
24 Von Ryan's Express 1965 Mark Robson 2395
25 The Long, Hot Summer 1958 Martin Ritt 2403
26 Hombre 1967 Martin Ritt 2421
27 Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing 1955 Henry King 2469

Darrell Silvera

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 1
2 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 121
3 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Orson Welles 142
4 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur 222
5 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 294
6 Cat People 1942 Jacques Tourneur 338
7 Gunga Din 1939 George Stevens 388
8 The Thing from Another World 1951 Christian Nyby 482
9 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939 William Dieterle 759
10 I Walked with a Zombie 1943 Jacques Tourneur 849
11 They Live by Night 1948 Nicholas Ray 957
12 Murder, My Sweet 1944 Edward Dmytryk 991
13 The Set-Up 1949 Robert Wise 1420
14 Suspicion 1941 Alfred Hitchcock 1522
15 The Spiral Staircase 1945 Robert Siodmak 1579
16 Love Affair 1939 Leo McCarey 1778
17 The Devil and Daniel Webster 1941 William Dieterle 1890
18 Dance, Girl, Dance 1940 Dorothy Arzner 1923
19 Crossfire 1947 Edward Dmytryk 1930
20 The Narrow Margin 1952 Richard Fleischer 1946
21 Beyond a Reasonable Doubt 1956 Fritz Lang 2063
22 The Curse of the Cat People 1944 Gunther von Fritsch and Robert Wise 2070
23 The Man with the Golden Arm 1955 Otto Preminger 2355
24 Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House 1948 H.C. Potter 2376
25 Charley Varrick 1973 Don Siegel 2398
26 I Remember Mama 1948 George Stevens 2518

Edwin B. Willis

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 5
2 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming 6
3 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor 81
4 An American in Paris 1951 Vincente Minnelli 169
5 Ninotchka 1939 Ernst Lubitsch 190
6 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Vincente Minnelli 204
7 Adam's Rib 1949 George Cukor 270
8 The Band Wagon 1953 Vincente Minnelli 335
9 The Shop around the Corner 1940 Ernst Lubitsch 344
10 Forbidden Planet 1956 Fred M. Wilcox 427
11 On the Town 1949 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 471
12 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954 Stanley Donen 555
13 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 John Huston 557
14 Woman of the Year 1942 George Stevens 566
15 National Velvet 1944 Clarence Brown 629
16 The Postman Always Rings Twice 1946 Tay Garnett 633
17 The Women 1939 George Cukor 668
18 Gaslight 1944 George Cukor 688
19 Mrs. Miniver 1942 William Wyler 701
20 Bad Day at Black Rock 1955 John Sturges 760
21 Ben-Hur 1925 Fred Niblo 861
22 Pride and Prejudice 1940 Robert Z. Leonard 917
23 Pat and Mike 1952 George Cukor 1024
24 Lust for Life 1956 Vincente Minnelli 1086
25 Father of the Bride 1950 Vincente Minnelli 1096
26 They Were Expendable 1945 John Ford 1129
27 The Bad and the Beautiful 1952 Vincente Minnelli 1172
28 The Red Badge of Courage 1951 John Huston 1284
29 High Society 1956 Charles Walters 1296
30 Battleground 1949 William A. Wellman 1309
31 Easter Parade 1948 Charles Walters 1327
32 Cabin in the Sky 1943 Vincente Minnelli 1404
33 The Naked Spur 1953 Anthony Mann 1406
34 Random Harvest 1942 Mervyn LeRoy 1457
35 Kiss Me Kate 1953 George Sidney 1526
36 The Yearling 1946 Clarence Brown 1586
37 Blackboard Jungle 1955 Richard Brooks 1607
38 Lassie Come Home 1943 Fred M. Wilcox 1730
39 Thirty Seconds over Tokyo 1944 Mervyn LeRoy 1770
40 The Pirate 1948 Vincente Minnelli 1825
41 Brigadoon 1954 Vincente Minnelli 1950
42 Julius Caesar 1953 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 2009
43 Somebody Up There Likes Me 1956 Robert Wise 2010
44 Intruder in the Dust 1949 Clarence Brown 2074
45 Northwest Passage 1940 King Vidor 2123
46 King Solomon's Mines 1950 Compton Bennett and Andrew Marton 2142
47 Angels in the Outfield 1951 Clarence Brown 2180
48 Show Boat 1951 George Sidney 2226
49 Royal Wedding 1951 Stanley Donen 2372
50 Lili 1953 Charles Walters 2394
51 Annie Get Your Gun 1950 George Sidney 2400
52 Babes in Arms 1939 Busby Berkeley 2404
53 Silk Stockings 1957 Rouben Mamoulian 2413
54 Love Me or Leave Me 1955 Charles Vidor 2476
55 The Clock 1945 Vincente Minnelli 2482
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