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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 19
2 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder 59
3 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick 209
4 Johnny Guitar 1954 Nicholas Ray 477
5 The Big Country 1958 William Wyler 1098
6 Force of Evil 1948 Abraham Polonsky 1354
7 Seven Men from Now 1956 Budd Boetticher 1462
8 Man of the West 1958 Anthony Mann 2127
9 Body and Soul 1947 Robert Rossen 2660
10 The Thomas Crown Affair 1968 Norman Jewison 2699
11 Seven Days in May 1964 John Frankenheimer 2776
12 The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms 1953 Eugène Lourié 2869
13 The Children's Hour 1961 William Wyler 2888
14 Caught 1949 Max Ophüls 2984
15 Story of G.I. Joe 1945 William A. Wellman 3006

Sam Comer

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 15
2 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 37
3 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 41
4 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 230
5 Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961 Blake Edwards 326
6 Ace in the Hole 1951 Billy Wilder 510
7 Stalag 17 1953 Billy Wilder 544
8 The Ten Commandments 1956 Cecil B. DeMille 603
9 Funny Face 1957 Stanley Donen 898
10 Hud 1963 Martin Ritt 1037
11 The War of the Worlds 1953 Byron Haskin 1053
12 Sabrina 1954 Billy Wilder 1240
13 The Court Jester 1955 Melvin Frank and Norman Panama 1333
14 The Man Who Knew Too Much 1956 Alfred Hitchcock 1465
15 One-Eyed Jacks 1961 Marlon Brando 1507
16 White Christmas 1954 Michael Curtiz 1610
17 To Catch a Thief 1955 Alfred Hitchcock 1743
18 The Nutty Professor 1963 Jerry Lewis 2138
19 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 1957 John Sturges 2403
20 The Trouble with Harry 1955 Alfred Hitchcock 2426
21 When Worlds Collide 1951 Rudolph Maté 2613

George James Hopkins

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 5
2 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Elia Kazan 237
3 Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock 286
4 My Fair Lady 1964 George Cukor 348
5 A Star Is Born 1954 George Cukor 453
6 Mildred Pierce 1945 Michael Curtiz 454
7 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 Mike Nichols 559
8 East of Eden 1955 Elia Kazan 830
9 Dial M for Murder 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 1101
10 The Music Man 1962 Morton DaCosta 1440
11 Wait until Dark 1967 Terence Young 1737
12 Auntie Mame 1958 Morton DaCosta 2463
13 Days of Wine and Roses 1962 Blake Edwards 2493

Thomas Little

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 All about Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 64
2 King Kong 1933 Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack 68
3 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford 273
4 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 Robert Wise 298
5 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger 408
6 My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford 450
7 The Ox-Bow Incident 1942 William A. Wellman 701
8 Miracle on 34th Street 1947 George Seaton 807
9 How Green Was My Valley 1941 John Ford 895
10 Twelve O'Clock High 1949 Henry King 1094
11 The Gunfighter 1950 Henry King 1178
12 Young Mr. Lincoln 1939 John Ford 1332
13 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1791
14 Nightmare Alley 1947 Edmund Goulding 1844
15 Leave Her to Heaven 1945 John M. Stahl 1954
16 Lifeboat 1944 Alfred Hitchcock 2038
17 Stormy Weather 1943 Andrew L. Stone 2076
18 Heaven Can Wait 1943 Ernst Lubitsch 2538
19 Unfaithfully Yours 1948 Preston Sturges 2580
20 A Letter to Three Wives 1949 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 2602
21 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1945 Elia Kazan 2787
22 Broken Arrow 1950 Delmer Daves 2807

Walter M. Scott

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 All about Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 64
2 The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise 135
3 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 162
4 Planet of the Apes 1968 Franklin J. Schaffner 181
5 M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman 344
6 An Affair to Remember 1957 Leo McCarey 900
7 The Gunfighter 1950 Henry King 1178
8 The King and I 1956 Walter Lang 1315
9 The Seven Year Itch 1955 Billy Wilder 1317
10 The Fly 1958 Kurt Neumann 1515
11 Forty Guns 1957 Samuel Fuller 1561
12 Cleopatra 1963 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1904
13 Bigger than Life 1956 Nicholas Ray 2028
14 Fantastic Voyage 1966 Richard Fleischer 2090
15 Beyond the Valley of the Dolls 1970 Russ Meyer 2142
16 Batman 1966 Leslie H. Martinson 2311
17 The Girl Can't Help It 1956 Frank Tashlin 2562
18 A Letter to Three Wives 1949 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 2602
19 Hombre 1967 Martin Ritt 2609
20 Wild River 1960 Elia Kazan 2719
21 The Sand Pebbles 1966 Robert Wise 2795
22 The Robe 1953 Henry Koster 2811
23 Von Ryan's Express 1965 Mark Robson 2927
24 How to Marry a Millionaire 1953 Jean Negulesco 2937

Darrell Silvera

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 11
2 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 148
3 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 230
4 Cat People 1942 Jacques Tourneur 435
5 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur 461
6 The Thing from Another World 1951 Christian Nyby 843
7 I Walked with a Zombie 1943 Jacques Tourneur 960
8 They Live by Night 1948 Nicholas Ray 1472
9 Gunga Din 1939 George Stevens 1598
10 The Man with the Golden Arm 1955 Otto Preminger 1653
11 The Set-Up 1949 Robert Wise 1801
12 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939 William Dieterle 1846
13 Murder, My Sweet 1944 Edward Dmytryk 1855
14 The Hitch-Hiker 1953 Ida Lupino 2126
15 The Seventh Victim 1943 Mark Robson 2314
16 Dance, Girl, Dance 1940 Dorothy Arzner 2359
17 Suspicion 1941 Alfred Hitchcock 2566
18 The Driver 1978 Walter Hill 2749
19 Charley Varrick 1973 Don Siegel 2780
20 The Spiral Staircase 1946 Robert Siodmak 2784
21 The Lusty Men 1952 Nicholas Ray 2809
22 Love Affair 1939 Leo McCarey 2875
23 Outrage 1950 Ida Lupino 2882
24 The Narrow Margin 1952 Richard Fleischer 3013

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 9
3 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor 126
4 The Shop around the Corner 1940 Ernst Lubitsch 260
5 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Vincente Minnelli 284
6 Forbidden Planet 1956 Fred M. Wilcox 401
7 An American in Paris 1951 Vincente Minnelli 405
8 The Band Wagon 1953 Vincente Minnelli 542
9 Ninotchka 1939 Ernst Lubitsch 573
10 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 John Huston 641
11 Adam's Rib 1949 George Cukor 880
12 Bad Day at Black Rock 1955 John Sturges 883
13 On the Town 1949 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 1023
14 The Naked Spur 1953 Anthony Mann 1042
15 The Postman Always Rings Twice 1946 Tay Garnett 1112
16 Gaslight 1944 George Cukor 1280
17 The Women 1939 George Cukor 1294
18 The Bad and the Beautiful 1952 Vincente Minnelli 1310
19 National Velvet 1944 Clarence Brown 1388
20 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954 Stanley Donen 1392
21 Mrs. Miniver 1942 William Wyler 1546
22 They Were Expendable 1945 John Ford 1642
23 Queen Christina 1933 Rouben Mamoulian 1701
24 Battleground 1949 William A. Wellman 1926
25 Blackboard Jungle 1955 Richard Brooks 1942
26 Cabin in the Sky 1943 Vincente Minnelli 1970
27 Easter Parade 1948 Charles Walters 2026
28 Woman of the Year 1942 George Stevens 2119
29 High Society 1956 Charles Walters 2439
30 Thirty Seconds over Tokyo 1944 Mervyn LeRoy 2458
31 The Picture of Dorian Gray 1945 Albert Lewin 2507
32 Kiss Me Kate 1953 George Sidney 2605
33 It's Always Fair Weather 1955 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 2645
34 Anchors Aweigh 1945 George Sidney 2651
35 Lust for Life 1956 Vincente Minnelli 2818
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