The Moonlight Awards: 1951

It's a time of transition for the movies: Marlon Brando is hitting the screen with an all-new acting style, the European and Japanese film industries are reemerging after the devastation of World War II, and in America, Cold War paranoia is giving rise to the golden age of science fiction. It all leads to an influx of very good films in 1951 - but which one film has best stood the test of time? Join Rachel Schaevitz and Aaron Keck as they discuss the year in film, "model" actors, Method actors, the perils of adaptation, unconvincing love stories, homoerotic subtexts, and the keys to timeless sci-fi - and then we dig into the data and the numbers (and our expert panel votes) to identify the best picture of 1951. The nominees are An American in Paris, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Diary of a Country Priest, Strangers on a Train, and A Streetcar Named Desire. (1951 wasn't big on short titles.) Who wins the Moonlight?