1946 in film
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[edit] Events
[edit] Top grossing films
- North America
- The Bells of St. Mary's
- Leave Her to Heaven
- tie Blue Skies, The Road to Utopia, Spellbound
[edit] Awards
- Best Picture: The Best Years of Our Lives - Goldwyn, RKO Radio
- Best Director: William Wyler - The Best Years of Our Lives
- Best Actor: Fredric March - The Best Years of Our Lives
- Best Actress: Olivia de Havilland - To Each His Own
- Best Supporting Actor: Harold Russell - The Best Years of Our Lives
- Best Supporting Actress: Anne Baxter - The Razor’s Edge
- Best Picture: The Best Years of Our Lives
- Best Director: Frank Capra - It's A Wonderful Life
- Best Actor: Gregory Peck - The Yearling
- Best Actress: Rosalind Russell - Sister Kenny
- Best Film Promoting International Understanding: The Last Chance (Switzerland)
GRAND PRIX (Cannes Film Festival):
- Portrait of Maria (María Candelaria), directed by Emilio Fernández, Mexico
- The Turning Point (Великий перелом, Velikiy perelom), directed by Fridrikh Markovitch Ermler, Soviet Union
- La Symphonie pastorale, directed by Jean Delannoy, France
- The Last Chance (Die Letzte Chance), directed by Leopold Lintberg, Switzerland
- Men Without Wings (Muži bez křídel), directed by František Čáp, Czechoslovakia
- Rome, Open City (Roma, città aperta), directed by Roberto Rossellini, Italy
[edit] Films released in 1946
- Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête), directed by Jean Cocteau, starring Jean Marais and Josette Day
- The Beast with Five Fingers, starring Robert Alda and Peter Lorre
- The Best Years of Our Lives
- Beware, directed by Bud Pollard, starring Louis Jordan
- The Big Sleep, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall
- The Blue Dahlia
- Blue Skies
- The Captive Heart, the first Prisoner of War film from World War II
- Duel in the Sun
- Great Expectations, directed by David Lean
- Green for Danger, starring Alastair Sim
- The Green Years
- The Harvey Girls, directed by George Sidney, starring Judy Garland
- It's a Wonderful Life, directed by Frank Capra, starring James Stewart
- Ivan the Terrible
- Little Giant, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- The Jolson Story
- Make Mine Music
- A Matter of Life and Death, written and directed by Powell and Pressburger
- My Darling Clementine
- Night and Day
- Notorious, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant
- The Overlanders
- The Postman Always Rings Twice
- The Razor's Edge, starring Tyrone Power
- The Road to Utopia
- Smithy
- Song of the South by Walt Disney, combines animation and live action.
- The Spiral Staircase
- Theirs is the Glory
- The Time of Their Lives, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- To Each His Own
- Tomorrow is Forever
- Without Reservations
- The Yearling, starring Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman
[edit] Short film series
- Donald Duck (1937-1956)
- Popeye (1933-1957)
- Tom and Jerry (1940-1958)
[edit] Births
- January 5 - Diane Keaton, actress
- January 16 - Kabir Bedi, actor
- January 19 - Dolly Parton, singer, actress
- January 20 - David Lynch, film director
- January 26 - Gene Siskel, film critic, Siskel and Ebert (d. 1999)
- April 23 - Blair Brown, actress
- April 25 - Talia Shire, actress
- May 20 - Cher, American singer/actress
- June 15 - Brigitte Fossey, French actress
- September 15- Oliver Stone, American film director
- September 18- Nicholas Clay, actor (d. 2000)
- October 4 - Susan Sarandon, actress
- October 17 - Vicki Hodge, actress
- October 18 - Andrea Zsadon, actress
- October 25 - Edith Leyrer. actress
- October 27 - Carrie Snodgress, actress
- November 6 - Sally Field, actress
- November 8 - Jill Banner, actress (d. 1982)
- November 18 - Andrea Allan, actress
- November 21 - Emma Cohen, actress
- November 21 - Ulla Jessen, actress
- November 22 - Baisho Mitsuko, actress
- November 25 - Marika Lindstrom, actress
- November 27 - Nina Maslova, actress
- December 2 - Gulsun Karamustafa, film director
- December 8 - Sharmila Tagore, actress
- December 14 - Patty Duke, actress
- December 18 - Steven Spielberg, film director
[edit] Deaths
- April 1 - Noah Beery, Sr., actor
- June 23 - William S. Hart, silent film star
- August 10 - Léon Gaumont, French film pioneer
- August 13 - H.G. Wells, science fiction writer
- August 26 - Jeanie MacPherson, actress and screenwriter
- August 28 - Florence Turner, actress
- December 12 - Renée Jeanne Falconetti, French actress
