Rashomon, which premiered in Tokyo in August 1950, and which also starred Mifune, became, on September 10, 1951, the surprise winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and was subsequently released in Europe and North America.

His Fender Precision Bass, introduced in 1951, became a widely copied industry standard.

In 1951, he became the first supreme commander of NATO.

In 1950 Eric Gairy founded the Grenada United Labour Party, initially as a trades union, which led the 1951 general strike for better working conditions, this sparked great unrest-so many buildings were set ablaze that the disturbances became known as the ' red sky ' days-and the British authorities had to call in military reinforcements to help regain control of the situation.

48-215 sedans were produced in parallel with the 50-2106 coupé utility from 1951 ; the latter was known colloquially as the " ute " and became ubiquitous in Australian rural areas as the workhorse of choice.

He was an active professor at Illinois from 1951 to 1975 and then became Professor Emeritus.

The 1936 Show Boat, faithfully adapted from the original stage production, is considered the definitive film version of the musical, but became unavailable following the 1951 remake.

After successfully running the midget at some hillclimbing events in 1951, Brabham became interested in road racing.

In 1951 he became a member of the CDU executive board.

Production of an initial batch of 250 began in 1951, but it became clear that they could not be made at a competitive price besides which the advent of transistor radios with their much lower power requirements meant that the original rationale for the set was disappearing.

After the war, he became a consultant to the International Auxiliary Language Association, which would present Interlingua in 1951.

On May 15, 1951, Williams became the 11th player in major league history to hit 300 career home runs.

Soon after the signing of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, it became clear that refugees were not solely restricted to Europe.

WMO became the specialized agency of the United Nations in 1951 for meteorology ( weather and climate ), operational hydrology and related geophysical sciences.

In 1951, Libya became the first African country to gain independence in the decade, and in 1954 the Algerian War began.

The family remained there only briefly and in December 1951 they moved to Presque Isle, Maine where Grissom was assigned to Presque Isle Air Force Base and became a member of the 75th Fighter Interceptor Squadron.

Before he became widely known as an astronaut, the film Air Cadet ( 1951 ) starring Richard Long and Rock Hudson briefly featured Grissom early in the movie as a U. S. Air Force candidate for flight school at Randolph Field, San Antonio, Texas.

After a short stint as a DJ on Radio Luxembourg, in 1951, Mitchell became a versatile professional actor with straight and comedy roles on stage, radio, film and television.

With the advent of the New State regime ( Estado Novo ) extended to the colony, in 1951 Angola became a province of Portugal ( Ultramarine Province ), called the Província Ultramarina de Angola ( Overseas Province of Angola ).

The Antigua Labour Party ( ALP ), formed by Bird and other trade unionists, first ran candidates in the 1946 elections and became the majority party in 1951 beginning a long history of electoral victories.

He became " one of the consummate filmmakers of the 20th century " after directing a string of successful films, including, A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 ), On the Waterfront ( 1954 ), and East of Eden ( 1955 ).

In 1951, Lee Strasberg became its director, and it remained a non-profit enterprise, eventually considered " the nation's most prestigious acting school ," according to film historian James Lipton.

Starting with the 1940 models the leaping ram became more streamlined and by 1951 only the head, complete with curving horns, remained.

It was experimentally discovered by Martin Deutsch at MIT in 1951, and became known as positronium.

In 1951, it became an overseas province.

A pituitary tumour which had caused him to go blind since 1951 ( its growth placing pressure on the optic nerve ), ended his artistic career, though he continued writing until his death in 1957.

Strasberg assumed leadership of the studio in 1951 as its artistic director.

Ironically, at first Strasberg was not asked, but by 1951 he had become its artistic director.

Since 1951, dozens Bienals have been produced with the participation of 159 countries, more than 13 thousand artists, close to 60 thousand works, and almost 7 million visitors, making direct contact possible between the Brazilian public and the visual, theatrical and graphic arts, music, film, architecture, and other forms of artistic expression from around the world.

Former partner Strasberg joined them as artistic director in 1951.

In 1951, Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki returned to the United States to take a visiting professorship at Columbia University, where his open lectures attracted many members of the literary, artistic, and cultural elite.

Celia Franca, ( 25 June 1921 – 19 February 2007 ) was the founder of The National Ballet of Canada ( 1951 ) and its artistic director for 24 years.

A determined woman who thrived on challenges, she did the impossible in only 10 months – while supporting herself as a file clerk at Eaton's department store, she recruited and trained dancers, staged some Promenade Concerts, organized a summer school, gathered a talented artistic staff and whipped her uneven but enthusiastic new company into shape for its opening on 12 November 1951.

He began exhibiting his work in the galleries of Berthe Weill ( 1865 – 1951 ) and Ambroise Vollard ( 1866 – 1939 ), quickly gaining a growing reputation and a following amongst the artistic community of Montparnasse.

Bill is credited with having been " the spark that lighted the fuse of Brazil's artistic revolution " and the country's " movement toward concrete art " with his 1951 retrospective at the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art.

Mary Blair was credited with color styling on Cinderella ( 1950 ), Alice in Wonderland ( 1951 ) and Peter Pan ( 1953 ), and the artistic influence of her concept art is strongly felt in those films, as well as in several animated shorts, including Susie the Little Blue Coupe and The Little House, she designed during that period.

Over time, Konstantin Sergeyev — artistic director and chief choreographer of the Kirov Ballet from 1951 – 1955 and 1960-1970 — added various new pieces.

* 1951 – Mamoru Oshii, Japanese director

1951 ), film director, writer, producer ; actor

Walsh had no great name recognition during his half-century as a working director, but his noirs White Heat ( 1949 ) and The Enforcer ( 1951 ) had A-list stars and are seen as important examples of the cycle.

Serving as producer, writer, director, and top-billed performer, Hugo Haas made several such films, including Pickup ( 1951 ) and The Other Woman ( 1954 ).

* 1951 – John McTiernan, American film director

* 1951 – Nicolas Philibert, French film director

* 1951 – Abel Ferrara, American director and screenwriter

* 1881 – Al Christie, Canadian-born film director and producer ( d. 1951 )

* 1951 – André Wetzel, Dutch footballer, manager and technical director

* 1951 – David Starobin, American guitarist, producer, and director

Meanwhile he had already had two sons with her: Manuel, in 1949, a musician, and Christian, in 1951, who would follow his father's path as an actor and director.

* November 24 – Al Christie, Canadian-born director and producer ( d. 1951 )

He also worked as an assistant director on several large-scale international productions shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome, notably Quo Vadis ( 1951 ) and Ben-Hur ( 1959 ), financially backed by the American studios.

* Moni Moshonov ( b. 1951 ), Israeli actor, comedian and theater director.

In 1951 he became a director of the Czech division of the Radio Free Europe.

The NCAA had no full-time administrator until 1951, when Walter Byers was appointed executive director.

Alan was born in Dulwich, London, to Alfred Walter Bush ( 1869 – 1935 ), a director of the manufacturing chemists, W. J. Bush & Co., and his wife, Alice Maud Brinsley ( 1870 – 1951 ).

Two years later, they moved to Paris, where Sauvé was employed as the assistant to the director of the Youth Secretariat at UNESCO, and in 1951 she enrolled for one year at the Sorbonne, graduating with a degree in French civilization.

Although the film was made between July and October 1951, it was not released until 1953 due to director Stevens ' extensive editing.

A. L. Diamond of a 1935 French movie, Fanfare d ' Amour, from a story by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan, which was also remade in 1951 by German director Kurt Hoffmann as Fanfaren der Liebe.

The Scarf ( 1951 ) screen writer and director

It was directed by the Austrian director George Hoellering with music by the Hungarian composer Laszlo Lajtha and won the Grand Prix at the Venice Film Festival in 1951.

Enki Bilal ( born October 7, 1951 ) is a French comic book creator, comics artist and film director.

* 1951: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn ( book, director, producer )