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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 17
3 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder 127
4 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick 177
5 The Great Dictator 1940 Charles Chaplin 369
6 Johnny Guitar 1954 Nicholas Ray 590
7 Body and Soul 1947 Robert Rossen 785
8 Force of Evil 1948 Abraham Polonsky 891
9 Seven Men from Now 1956 Budd Boetticher 1345
10 Champion 1949 Mark Robson 1463
11 The Thomas Crown Affair 1968 Norman Jewison 1484
12 Man of the West 1958 Anthony Mann 1538
13 The Big Country 1958 William Wyler 1586
14 And Then There Were None 1945 René Clair 1613
15 Seven Days in May 1964 John Frankenheimer 1717
16 Nothing Sacred 1937 William A. Wellman 1880
17 Story of G.I. Joe 1945 William A. Wellman 1907
18 Invaders from Mars 1953 William Cameron Menzies 1930

Sam Comer

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 11
2 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 33
3 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 34
4 Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961 Blake Edwards 203
5 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 288
6 The Ten Commandments 1956 Cecil B. DeMille 403
7 Stalag 17 1953 Billy Wilder 569
8 The War of the Worlds 1953 Byron Haskin 711
9 Funny Face 1957 Stanley Donen 723
10 Hud 1963 Martin Ritt 724
11 The Big Carnival 1951 Billy Wilder 728
12 The Nutty Professor 1963 Jerry Lewis 809
13 The Court Jester 1955 Melvin Frank and Norman Panama 895
14 Sabrina 1954 Billy Wilder 1059
15 One-Eyed Jacks 1961 Marlon Brando 1513
16 To Catch a Thief 1955 Alfred Hitchcock 1517
17 The Man Who Knew Too Much 1956 Alfred Hitchcock 1557
18 White Christmas 1954 Michael Curtiz 1580
19 The Greatest Show on Earth 1952 Cecil B. DeMille 1583
20 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 1957 John Sturges 1939
21 Fear Strikes Out 1957 Robert Mulligan 2223
22 Samson and Delilah 1949 Cecil B. DeMille 2255
23 The Bellboy 1960 Jerry Lewis 2336

George James Hopkins

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 3
2 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Elia Kazan 145
3 My Fair Lady 1964 George Cukor 164
4 Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock 235
5 A Star Is Born 1954 George Cukor 250
6 Mildred Pierce 1945 Michael Curtiz 388
7 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 Mike Nichols 476
8 East of Eden 1955 Elia Kazan 527
9 The Music Man 1962 Morton DaCosta 773
10 Dial M for Murder 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 1176
11 Days of Wine and Roses 1962 Blake Edwards 1731
12 Wait until Dark 1967 Terence Young 1765
13 Auntie Mame 1958 Morton DaCosta 1839
14 Life with Father 1947 Michael Curtiz 2148

Thomas Little

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 All about Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 37
2 King Kong 1933 Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack 47
3 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford 102
4 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 Robert Wise 214
5 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger 259
6 My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford 263
7 How Green Was My Valley 1941 John Ford 417
8 The Ox-Bow Incident 1943 William A. Wellman 525
9 Miracle on 34th Street 1947 George Seaton 540
10 Young Mr. Lincoln 1939 John Ford 725
11 Twelve O'Clock High 1949 Henry King 1002
12 Gentleman's Agreement 1947 Elia Kazan 1064
13 The Gunfighter 1950 Henry King 1203
14 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1307
15 Kiss of Death 1947 Henry Hathaway 1312
16 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1945 Elia Kazan 1384
17 A Letter to Three Wives 1949 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1487
18 Heaven Can Wait 1943 Ernst Lubitsch 1499
19 Unfaithfully Yours 1948 Preston Sturges 1605
20 The Mark of Zorro 1940 Rouben Mamoulian 1710
21 It Happens Every Spring 1949 Lloyd Bacon 2180
22 Leave Her to Heaven 1945 John M. Stahl 2194
23 The Hound of the Baskervilles 1939 Sidney Lanfield 2301
24 The Gang's All Here 1943 Busby Berkeley 2314
25 Jane Eyre 1943 Robert Stevenson 2378

Walter M. Scott

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 All about Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 37
2 The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise 79
3 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 114
4 M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman 128
5 Planet of the Apes 1968 Franklin J. Schaffner 240
6 An Affair to Remember 1957 Leo McCarey 514
7 The King and I 1956 Walter Lang 519
8 The Seven Year Itch 1955 Billy Wilder 817
9 Beyond the Valley of the Dolls 1970 Russ Meyer 1011
10 Carousel 1956 Henry King 1162
11 The Gunfighter 1950 Henry King 1203
12 Fantastic Voyage 1966 Richard Fleischer 1361
13 South Pacific 1958 Joshua Logan 1391
14 Cleopatra 1963 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1397
15 The Diary of Anne Frank 1959 George Stevens 1427
16 Bigger Than Life 1956 Nicholas Ray 1461
17 A Letter to Three Wives 1949 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1487
18 The Girl Can't Help It 1956 Frank Tashlin 1576
19 The Robe 1953 Henry Koster 1645
20 Tora! Tora! Tora! 1970 Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, and Toshio Masuda 1760
21 Batman 1966 Leslie H. Martinson 1966
22 Von Ryan's Express 1965 Mark Robson 2007
23 The Fly 1958 Kurt Neumann 2198

Darrell Silvera

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 2
2 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 104
3 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Orson Welles 201
4 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur 242
5 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 288
6 Cat People 1942 Jacques Tourneur 458
7 The Thing from Another World 1951 Christian Nyby 513
8 Gunga Din 1939 George Stevens 623
9 I Walked with a Zombie 1943 Jacques Tourneur 883
10 They Live by Night 1949 Nicholas Ray 910
11 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939 William Dieterle 1102
12 Murder, My Sweet 1944 Edward Dmytryk 1241
13 The Set-Up 1949 Robert Wise 1275
14 The Man with the Golden Arm 1955 Otto Preminger 1480
15 The Spiral Staircase 1945 Robert Siodmak 1564
16 Dance, Girl, Dance 1940 Dorothy Arzner 1764
17 Suspicion 1941 Alfred Hitchcock 1822
18 The Narrow Margin 1952 Richard Fleischer 2026
19 Love Affair 1939 Leo McCarey 2209
20 The Curse of the Cat People 1944 Robert Wise and Gunther von Fritsch 2294
21 The Devil and Daniel Webster 1941 William Dieterle 2296
22 The Driver 1978 Walter Hill 2298
23 My Favorite Wife 1940 Garson Kanin 2332

Edwin B. Willis

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming 5
2 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 6
3 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor 109
4 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Vincente Minnelli 226
5 Ninotchka 1939 Ernst Lubitsch 229
6 An American in Paris 1951 Vincente Minnelli 237
7 Forbidden Planet 1956 Fred M. Wilcox 340
8 Adam's Rib 1949 George Cukor 358
9 The Band Wagon 1953 Vincente Minnelli 381
10 The Shop around the Corner 1940 Ernst Lubitsch 472
11 On the Town 1949 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 506
12 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 John Huston 558
13 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954 Stanley Donen 580
14 Bad Day at Black Rock 1955 John Sturges 639
15 National Velvet 1944 Clarence Brown 657
16 The Postman Always Rings Twice 1946 Tay Garnett 779
17 Queen Christina 1933 Rouben Mamoulian 800
18 Woman of the Year 1942 George Stevens 827
19 The Women 1939 George Cukor 835
20 Gaslight 1944 George Cukor 923
21 Mrs. Miniver 1942 William Wyler 949
22 The Naked Spur 1953 Anthony Mann 990
23 Pat and Mike 1952 George Cukor 1105
24 The Bad and the Beautiful 1952 Vincente Minnelli 1190
25 Ben-Hur 1925 Fred Niblo 1226
26 High Society 1956 Charles Walters 1263
27 Pride and Prejudice 1940 Robert Z. Leonard 1277
28 Father of the Bride 1950 Vincente Minnelli 1372
29 They Were Expendable 1945 John Ford 1405
30 Easter Parade 1948 Charles Walters 1437
31 Lust for Life 1956 Vincente Minnelli 1525
32 The Red Badge of Courage 1951 John Huston 1554
33 Blackboard Jungle 1955 Richard Brooks 1556
34 Kiss Me Kate 1953 George Sidney 1620
35 Battleground 1949 William A. Wellman 1707
36 Lassie Come Home 1943 Fred M. Wilcox 1787
37 Annie Get Your Gun 1950 George Sidney 1993
38 The Pirate 1948 Vincente Minnelli 2027
39 State of the Union 1948 Frank Capra 2081
40 Random Harvest 1942 Mervyn LeRoy 2097
41 Somebody Up There Likes Me 1956 Robert Wise 2169
42 Thirty Seconds over Tokyo 1944 Mervyn LeRoy 2284
43 Cabin in the Sky 1943 Vincente Minnelli 2344
44 Angels in the Outfield 1951 Clarence Brown 2386
45 Love Me or Leave Me 1955 Charles Vidor 2392
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