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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 10
2 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 32
3 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder 62
4 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick 173
5 The Great Dictator 1940 Charles Chaplin 183
6 Johnny Guitar 1954 Nicholas Ray 419
7 Force of Evil 1948 Abraham Polonsky 850
8 The Big Country 1958 William Wyler 1050
9 Seven Men from Now 1956 Budd Boetticher 1201
10 Body and Soul 1947 Robert Rossen 1593
11 Man of the West 1958 Anthony Mann 1823
12 Invaders from Mars 1953 William Cameron Menzies 2000
13 Seven Days in May 1964 John Frankenheimer 2018
14 The Thomas Crown Affair 1968 Norman Jewison 2144

Sam Comer

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 13
2 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 25
3 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 34
4 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 178
5 Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961 Blake Edwards 359
6 Ace in the Hole 1951 Billy Wilder 423
7 The Ten Commandments 1956 Cecil B. DeMille 493
8 Stalag 17 1953 Billy Wilder 633
9 The War of the Worlds 1953 Byron Haskin 871
10 Funny Face 1957 Stanley Donen 899
11 Hud 1963 Martin Ritt 911
12 The Court Jester 1955 Melvin Frank and Norman Panama 1115
13 The Nutty Professor 1963 Jerry Lewis 1269
14 One-Eyed Jacks 1961 Marlon Brando 1319
15 Sabrina 1954 Billy Wilder 1394
16 The Man Who Knew Too Much 1956 Alfred Hitchcock 1463
17 To Catch a Thief 1955 Alfred Hitchcock 1756
18 White Christmas 1954 Michael Curtiz 1873
19 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 1957 John Sturges 2026
20 When Worlds Collide 1951 Rudolph Maté 2254
21 The Trouble with Harry 1955 Alfred Hitchcock 2578

George James Hopkins

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 5
2 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Elia Kazan 196
3 Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock 263
4 My Fair Lady 1964 George Cukor 322
5 A Star Is Born 1954 George Cukor 396
6 Mildred Pierce 1945 Michael Curtiz 440
7 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 Mike Nichols 448
8 East of Eden 1955 Elia Kazan 766
9 Dial M for Murder 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 826
10 The Music Man 1962 Morton DaCosta 1114
11 Days of Wine and Roses 1962 Blake Edwards 1998
12 Auntie Mame 1958 Morton DaCosta 2331
13 Wait until Dark 1967 Terence Young 2526

Thomas Little

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 King Kong 1933 Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack 51
2 All about Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 56
3 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford 209
4 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 Robert Wise 245
5 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger 279
6 My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford 363
7 The Ox-Bow Incident 1942 William A. Wellman 539
8 Miracle on 34th Street 1947 George Seaton 544
9 How Green Was My Valley 1941 John Ford 708
10 Young Mr. Lincoln 1939 John Ford 975
11 The Gunfighter 1950 Henry King 1104
12 Twelve O'Clock High 1949 Henry King 1185
13 Leave Her to Heaven 1945 John M. Stahl 1448
14 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1528
15 Kiss of Death 1947 Henry Hathaway 1555
16 Unfaithfully Yours 1948 Preston Sturges 2084
17 Nightmare Alley 1947 Edmund Goulding 2139
18 Gentleman's Agreement 1947 Elia Kazan 2150
19 Heaven Can Wait 1943 Ernst Lubitsch 2168
20 Stormy Weather 1943 Andrew L. Stone 2204
21 Broken Arrow 1950 Delmer Daves 2475
22 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1945 Elia Kazan 2517
23 A Letter to Three Wives 1949 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 2558
24 The Mark of Zorro 1940 Rouben Mamoulian 2763

Walter M. Scott

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 All about Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 56
2 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 136
3 The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise 144
4 Planet of the Apes 1968 Franklin J. Schaffner 166
5 M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman 248
6 An Affair to Remember 1957 Leo McCarey 794
7 The King and I 1956 Walter Lang 997
8 The Gunfighter 1950 Henry King 1104
9 Bigger than Life 1956 Nicholas Ray 1282
10 The Seven Year Itch 1955 Billy Wilder 1425
11 Forty Guns 1957 Samuel Fuller 1471
12 The Fly 1958 Kurt Neumann 1482
13 Fantastic Voyage 1966 Richard Fleischer 1500
14 Cleopatra 1963 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1654
15 The Girl Can't Help It 1956 Frank Tashlin 1812
16 Beyond the Valley of the Dolls 1970 Russ Meyer 2055
17 The Robe 1953 Henry Koster 2065
18 South Pacific 1958 Joshua Logan 2143
19 Hombre 1967 Martin Ritt 2205
20 Batman 1966 Leslie H. Martinson 2556
21 A Letter to Three Wives 1949 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 2558
22 Carousel 1956 Henry King 2651
23 Wild River 1960 Elia Kazan 2696
24 How to Marry a Millionaire 1953 Jean Negulesco 2716

Darrell Silvera

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 4
2 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 126
3 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 178
4 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur 289
5 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Orson Welles 405
6 Cat People 1942 Jacques Tourneur 452
7 The Thing from Another World 1951 Christian Nyby 762
8 I Walked with a Zombie 1943 Jacques Tourneur 864
9 They Live by Night 1948 Nicholas Ray 991
10 Gunga Din 1939 George Stevens 1213
11 The Man with the Golden Arm 1955 Otto Preminger 1383
12 Murder, My Sweet 1944 Edward Dmytryk 1413
13 The Set-Up 1949 Robert Wise 1437
14 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939 William Dieterle 1656
15 The Driver 1978 Walter Hill 1959
16 The Narrow Margin 1952 Richard Fleischer 2216
17 Suspicion 1941 Alfred Hitchcock 2312
18 The Seventh Victim 1943 Mark Robson 2351
19 The Hitch-Hiker 1953 Ida Lupino 2415
20 The Spiral Staircase 1946 Robert Siodmak 2425
21 Charley Varrick 1973 Don Siegel 2515
22 Dance, Girl, Dance 1940 Dorothy Arzner 2547
23 The Lusty Men 1952 Nicholas Ray 2668
24 The Curse of the Cat People 1944 Robert Wise and Gunther von Fritsch 2693
25 Crossfire 1947 Edward Dmytryk 2736

Edwin B. Willis

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 7
2 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming 15
3 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor 131
4 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Vincente Minnelli 283
5 The Shop around the Corner 1940 Ernst Lubitsch 345
6 Forbidden Planet 1956 Fred M. Wilcox 351
7 An American in Paris 1951 Vincente Minnelli 391
8 Ninotchka 1939 Ernst Lubitsch 401
9 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 John Huston 562
10 Adam's Rib 1949 George Cukor 574
11 The Band Wagon 1953 Vincente Minnelli 585
12 On the Town 1949 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 706
13 Bad Day at Black Rock 1955 John Sturges 710
14 The Naked Spur 1953 Anthony Mann 867
15 The Postman Always Rings Twice 1946 Tay Garnett 954
16 National Velvet 1944 Clarence Brown 1019
17 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954 Stanley Donen 1169
18 The Bad and the Beautiful 1952 Vincente Minnelli 1292
19 The Women 1939 George Cukor 1294
20 Gaslight 1944 George Cukor 1380
21 Queen Christina 1933 Rouben Mamoulian 1462
22 Easter Parade 1948 Charles Walters 1472
23 Mrs. Miniver 1942 William Wyler 1496
24 Blackboard Jungle 1955 Richard Brooks 1623
25 Ben-Hur 1925 Fred Niblo 1673
26 High Society 1956 Charles Walters 1795
27 Woman of the Year 1942 George Stevens 1858
28 They Were Expendable 1945 John Ford 1911
29 Cabin in the Sky 1943 Vincente Minnelli 2013
30 Kiss Me Kate 1953 George Sidney 2047
31 Battleground 1949 William A. Wellman 2137
32 Lust for Life 1956 Vincente Minnelli 2182
33 It's Always Fair Weather 1955 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 2579
34 Pat and Mike 1952 George Cukor 2646
35 Anchors Aweigh 1945 George Sidney 2670
36 The Harvey Girls 1946 George Sidney 2691
37 Father of the Bride 1950 Vincente Minnelli 2715
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