1948 in film
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[edit] Events
- Laurence Olivier's Hamlet becomes the first British film to win the American Academy Award for Best Picture.
[edit] Top grossing films
- North America
- The Red Shoes, (55th in year of release, lifetime box office would place it in first)
- Road to Rio
- Easter Parade
- Red River
- The Three Musketeers and Johnny Belinda
[edit] Awards
- Best Picture: Hamlet - Two Cities Films
- Best Director: John Huston - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- Best Actor: Laurence Olivier - Hamlet
- Best Actress: Jane Wyman - Johnny Belinda
- Best Supporting Actor: Walter Huston - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- Best Supporting Actress: Claire Trevor - Key Largo
- Best Picture (tie): Johnny Belinda
- Best Picture (tie): The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- Best Director: John Huston - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- Best Actor: Laurence Olivier - Hamlet
- Best Actress: Jane Wyman - Johnny Belinda
Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival): not held
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival)
- Hamlet, directed by Laurence Olivier (United Kingdom)
- Best Actor: Ernst Deutsch in Der Prozess
- Best Actress: Jean Simmons in Hamlet
[edit] Films released in 1948
- Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, (June 15), starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- Anna Karenina, (January 22)
- Arch of Triumph, (February 17)
- Bicycle Thieves, (November 24), (Ladri di biciclette)
- Call Northside 777, (February 1), with James Stewart
- The Fallen Idol, (September 30), written by Graham Greene and directed by Carol Reed
- Easter Parade, (June 30)
- Fighter Squadron, (November 19), directed by Raoul Walsh.
- Fort Apache, (March 9), directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne
- Hamlet, (May 4)
- Joan of Arc, (November 11), starring Ingrid Bergman and José Ferrer
- Johnny Belinda, (September 14)
- Key Largo, (July 16), starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall
- Ladies of the Chorus, (October 22)
- The Lady from Shanghai, (June 9)
- Macbeth, (October 1), directed by and starring Orson Welles
- Melody Time, (May 27)
- Mexican Hayride, (December 27), starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- The Naked City, (March 4)
- The Noose Hangs High, (March 4), starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- Na svoji zemlji, (November 15)
- Oliver Twist, (June 30), directed by David Lean
- The Paleface, (December 24)
- Les parents terribles, (December 1), directed by Jean Cocteau
- Red River, (September 30)
- The Red Shoes, (September 6)
- Rope, (August 23), by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart
- Scott of the Antarctic, (December ?), starring John Mills
- The Snake Pit, (November 4)
- State of the Union, (April 30)
- The Three Musketeers, (October 20), -(film mentioned in disamb.page)
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, (January 6), starring Humphrey Bogart
- The Winslow Boy, (September 24)
[edit] Serials
- G-Men Never Forget, starring Clayton Moore
- Dangers of the Canadian Mounted
- Adventures of Frank and Jesse James, starring Clayton Moore
- Superman, starring Kirk Alyn and Noel Neill
- Tex Granger
- Congo Bill
[edit] Short film series
- 1933 –- 1957 - Popeye
- 1934 –- 1959 - The Three Stooges
- 1936 –- 1956 - Donald Duck
- 1940 –- 1958 - Tom and Jerry
[edit] Births
- January 14 - Carl Weathers, actor
- January 14 - T-Bone Burnett, producer, musician
- January 16 - John Carpenter, director
- February 20 - Jennifer O'Neill, actress
- March 28 - Dianne Wiest, actress
- July 30 - Jean Reno, actor
- October 9 - Jackson Browne, songwriter
- October 17 - Margot Kidder, Canadian actress
- November 28 - Agnieszka Holland, Polish director and script writer
- December 21 - Samuel L. Jackson, American actor
- December 27 - Gérard Depardieu, French actor
[edit] Deaths
- February 11 - Sergy Eisenstein, film director
- July 5 - Carole Landis, actress
- July 15 - William Selig, pioneer studio builder
- July 23 - David Wark Griffith, film director
- August 13 - Elaine Hammerstein, actress
