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The year 1948 in film involved some significant events.
Events
- Laurence Olivier's Hamlet becomes the first British film to win the American Academy Award for Best Picture.
Top-grossing films (U.S.)
| Rank | Title | Studio | Gross |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | The Red Shoes | Eagle-Lion | $5,000,000 |
| 2. | The Three Musketeers | MGM | $4,507,000 |
| 3. | Red River | United Artists | $4,500,000 |
| 4. | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | Warner Bros. | $4,307,000 |
| 5. | When My Baby Smiles at Me | 20th Century Fox | $4,200,000 |
| 6. | Easter Parade | MGM | $4,100,000 |
| 7. | Johnny Belinda The Snake Pit |
Warner Bros. 20th Century Fox |
$4,089,000 |
| 8. | Joan of Arc | RKO | $4,000,000 |
| 9. | Adventures of Don Juan | Warner Bros. | $3,700,000 |
| 10. | Homecoming | MGM | $3,420,000 |
| 11. | The Loves of Carmen | Columbia | $3,395,000 |
| 12. | Key Largo | Warner Bros. | $3,289,000 |
| 13. | That Lady in Ermine | 20th Century Fox | $3,250,000 |
| 14. | The Emperor Waltz | Paramount | $3,209,000 |
| 15. | The Search | MGM | $3,191,000 |
| 16. | Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House | RKO | $3,140,000 |
| 17. | Hamlet | Rank Film | $3,075,000 |
| 18. | State of the Union | MGM | $2,745,000 |
| 19. | A Foreign Affair | Paramount | $2,450,000 |
| 20. | Sorry, Wrong Number | Paramount | $2,200,000 |
(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)
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
Top ten money making stars
| Rank | Actor/Actress |
|---|---|
| 1. | Bing Crosby |
| 2. | Betty Grable |
| 3. (tie) | Bud Abbott Lou Costello |
| 4. | Gary Cooper |
| 5. | Bob Hope |
| 6. | Humphrey Bogart |
| 7. | Clark Gable |
| 8. | Cary Grant |
| 9. | Spencer Tracy |
| 10. | Ingrid Bergman |
Notable films released in 1948
U.S.A. unless stated
#
- 3 Godfathers, starring John Wayne
A
- Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- Act of Violence, starring Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh
- Adventures of Don Juan, starring Errol Flynn
- Albuquerque, starring Randolph Scott and Barbara Britton
- The Amazing Mr. X, starring Turhan Bey and Lynn Bari
- L'Amore, directed by Roberto Rossellini, starring Anna Magnani - (Italy)
- Anna Karenina, starring Vivien Leigh and Ralph Richardson - (GB)
- Another Part of the Forest, starring Fredric March
- April Showers, starring Ann Sothern and Jack Carson
- Arch of Triumph, starring Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Charles Laughton, Ruth Warrick
B
- B.F.'s Daughter, starring Barbara Stanwyck
- Berlin Express, starring Merle Oberon and Robert Ryan
- The Berliner (Berlin Balade), starring Gert Fröbe - (Germany)
- Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette), directed by Vittorio De Sica - (Italy)
- The Big Clock, starring Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Maureen O'Sullivan
- Blanche Fury, starring Valerie Hobson and Stewart Granger - (GB)
- Blonde Ice, starring Leslie Brooks
- Blood on the Moon, starring Robert Mitchum
- Bodyguard, starring Lawrence Tierney and Priscilla Lane
- The Boy with Green Hair, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Dean Stockwell and Robert Ryan
- The Bride Goes Wild, directed by Norman Taurog, starring June Allyson and Van Johnson
C
- Call Northside 777, starring James Stewart
- La calle sin sol (The Sunless Street) - (Spain)
- Campus Honeymoon, starring Lee and Lyn Wilde
- Canon City, starring Scott Brady
- Command Decision, starring Clark Gable
- Counterblast, directed by Paul L. Stein, starring Mervyn Johns - (GB)
- Cry of the City, starring Victor Mature and Richard Conte
D
- The Dark Past, starring William Holden, Lee J. Cobb, Nina Foch
- A Date with Judy, starring Wallace Beery, Jane Powell, Elizabeth Taylor and Carmen Miranda
- Dédée d'Anvers, starring Simone Signoret - (France)
- Drunken Angel (Yoidore tenshi), directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Takashi Shimura and Toshiro Mifune - (Japan)
E
- The Eagle with Two Heads (L'Aigle à deux têtes), directed by Jean Cocteau - (France)
- Easter Parade, starring Judy Garland and Fred Astaire
- The Emperor Waltz, starring Bing Crosby
- Escape, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring Rex Harrison - (GB/U.S.)
- Eva - (Sweden)
- Every Girl Should Be Married, starring Cary Grant
F
- The Fallen Idol, written by Graham Greene and directed by Carol Reed, starring Ralph Richardson - (GB)
- Fighter Squadron, directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Edmond O'Brien and Robert Stack
- Force of Evil, starring John Garfield
- A Foreign Affair, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jean Arthur and Marlene Dietrich
- Fort Apache, directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple
- Four Faces West, starring Joel McCrea and Frances Dee
G
- Germany Year Zero (Germania anno zero), directed by Roberto Rossellini - (Italy)
- God Reward You (Dios se lo pague), starring Arturo de Córdova - (Argentina)
- Good Sam, directed by Leo McCarey, starring Gary Cooper
- Good-Time Girl, starring Jean Kent and Dennis Price - (GB)
- Green Grass of Wyoming, starring Peggy Cummins and Charles Coburn
- The Green Promise, starring Marguerite Chapman and Walter Brennan
- The Guinea Pig, a Boulting Brothers film starring Richard Attenborough - (GB)
H
- Half Past Midnight, starring Kent Taylor and Peggy Knudsen
- Hamlet, directed by and starring Laurence Olivier, with Basil Sydney and Jean Simmons - (GB)
- He Walked by Night, starring Richard Basehart and Jack Webb
- A Hen in the Wind (Kaze no naka no mendori), directed by Yasujirō Ozu - (Japan)
- Hollow Triumph, starring Paul Henreid and Joan Bennett
- Homecoming, starring Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Anne Baxter, John Hodiak
I-J
- I Remember Mama, directed by George Stevens, starring Irene Dunne
- I Walk Alone, starring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas
- The Iron Curtain, directed by William Wellman, starring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, June Havoc
- Isn't It Romantic?, starring Veronica Lake
- Joan of Arc, starring Ingrid Bergman
- Johnny Belinda, starring Jane Wyman and Lew Ayres
- June Bride, starring Bette Davis
K-L
- Key Largo, directed by John Huston, starring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor
- Kiss the Blood off My Hands, starring Joan Fontaine and Burt Lancaster
- The Kissing Bandit, starring Kathryn Grayson and Frank Sinatra
- Ladies of the Chorus, starring Marilyn Monroe
- The Lame Devil (Le Diable boiteux), directed by and starring Sacha Guitry - (France)
- Letter from an Unknown Woman, directed by Max Ophüls, starring Joan Fontaine and Louis Jourdan
- London Belongs to Me, starring Richard Attenborough and Alastair Sim - (GB)
- Louisiana Story, documentary by Robert J. Flaherty
- The Loves of Carmen, starring Rita Hayworth
- The Luck of the Irish, starring Tyrone Power and Anne Baxter
- Luxury Liner, starring Jane Powell and George Brent
M
- Macbeth, directed by and starring Orson Welles
- The Man from Colorado, starring William Holden and Glenn Ford
- The Mating of Millie, starring Evelyn Keyes and Glenn Ford
- Mela, starring Dilip Kumar - (India)
- Melody Time, starring Roy Rogers & Trigger and The Andrews Sisters
- Mexican Hayride, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- Michurin, directed by Alexander Dovzhenko - (U.S.S.R.)
- Miranda, directed by Ken Annakin, starring Glynis Johns - (GB)
- Miss Tatlock's Millions, starring Wanda Hendrix, Barry Fitzgerald, John Lund
- The Monkey's Paw, starring Milton Rosmer - (GB)
- Moonrise, directed by Frank Borzage, starring Gail Russell and Dane Clark
- Morituri - (Germany)
- Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, starring Cary Grant and Myrna Loy
- My Dear Secretary, starring Kirk Douglas, Laraine Day
- Myriad of Lights (Wanjia denghuo) - (China)
- The Mysterious Apartment (Den hemmelighetsfulle leiligheten) - (Norway)
N
- The Naked City, directed by Jules Dassin, starring Barry Fitzgerald
- Night Has a Thousand Eyes, starring Edward G. Robinson
- No Room at the Inn, starring Freda Jackson and Hermione Baddeley - (GB)
- Noose, starring Carole Landis
- The Noose Hangs High, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- Nosotros los pobres (We the Poor), starring Pedro Infante - (Mexico)
O-Q
- Oliver Twist, directed by David Lean, starring Alec Guinness and Robert Newton - (GB)
- On Our Own Land (Na svoji zemlji) - (Yugoslavia)
- The Paleface, starring Bob Hope and Jane Russell
- Les Parents terribles, directed by Jean Cocteau, starring Jean Marais - (France)
- The Pirate, starring Gene Kelly and Judy Garland
- Pitfall, starring Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Jane Wyatt, Raymond Burr
- Port of Call (Hamnstad), directed by Ingmar Bergman - (Sweden)
- Portrait of Jennie, starring Jennifer Jones
- Quartet, starring Mai Zetterling - (GB)
R
- Race Street, starring George Raft and William Bendix
- Rachel and the Stranger, starring Loretta Young, William Holden, Robert Mitchum
- Raw Deal, directed by Anthony Mann, starring Dennis O'Keefe, Claire Trevor, Marsha Hunt, Raymond Burr
- Red River, directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Wayne, Montgomery Clift (in his film debut), Walter Brennan, Joanne Dru, John Ireland
- The Red Shoes, directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, starring Moira Shearer and Anton Walbrook - (GB)
- Road House, starring Ida Lupino
- Rogues' Regiment, directed by Robert Florey and starring Dick Powell, Märta Torén, Vincent Price
- Romance on the High Seas, starring Jack Carson and Janis Paige and Doris Day (film debut)
- Rope, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger
- Ruthless, starring Zachary Scott and Diana Lynn
S
- Saigon, the final of 4 films starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake
- The Sainted Sisters, starring Veronica Lake and Joan Caulfield
- Saraband for Dead Lovers, starring Stewart Granger and Joan Greenwood - (GB)
- Scott of the Antarctic, starring John Mills - (GB)
- Sealed Verdict, starring Ray Milland
- The Search, directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Montgomery Clift - (USA/Switzerland)
- Secret Beyond the Door, directed by Fritz Lang, starring Joan Bennett and Michael Redgrave
- Senza pietà (Without Pity) - (Italy)
- Shaheed, starring Dilip Kumar - (India)
- Silver River, starring Errol Flynn and Ann Sheridan
- Sitting Pretty, starring Robert Young and Maureen O'Hara
- Sleep, My Love, starring Claudette Colbert
- Sleeping Car to Trieste, starring Jean Kent - (GB)
- Smart Girls Don't Talk, starring Virginia Mayo
- The Snake Pit, starring Olivia de Havilland
- So Evil My Love, starring Ray Milland, Ann Todd, Geraldine Fitzgerald - (GB)
- A Song Is Born, starring Danny Kaye
- Sorry, Wrong Number, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster
- Spring in a Small Town (Xiǎochéng zhī chūn), directed by Fei Mu - (China)
- Spring in Park Lane, starring Anna Neagle and Michael Wilding - (GB)
- State of the Union, starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn
- Station West, starring Dick Powell and Jane Greer
- The Street with No Name, starring Richard Widmark
T
- Tap Roots, starring Van Heflin and Susan Hayward
- La Terra Trema (The Earth Will Tremble), directed by Luchino Visconti - (Italy)
- The Three Muskteers, starring Lana Turner and Gene Kelly
- The Time of Your Life, starring James Cagney
- Tragic Hunt (Caccia tragica) - (Italy)
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, directed by John Huston (Oscars for best director and best screenplay), starring Humphrey Bogart and Walter Huston (best supporting actor)
- Treasured Earth (Talpalatnyi föld) - (Hungary)
- Los tres huastecos, starring Pedro Infante - (Mexico)
U-V
- Under the Sun of Rome (Sotto il sole di Roma), directed by Renato Castellani - (Italy)
- Unfaithfully Yours, starring Linda Darnell and Rex Harrison
- Up in Central Park, directed by William A. Seiter, starring Deanna Durbin and Vincent Price
- Ustedes los ricos (you the Rich), starring Pedro Infante - (Mexico)
- Vidya, starring Dev Anand - (India)
W-Z
- Waverley Steps: A Visit to Edinburgh - (GB) documentary
- Western Heritage, starring Tim Holt
- When My Baby Smiles at Me, starring Betty Grable and Dan Dailey
- When You Come Home
- Whiplash, starring Alexis Smith and Dane Clark
- Whispering Smith, starring Alan Ladd and Robert Preston
- The Winslow Boy, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Robert Donat and Margaret Leighton - (GB)
- Yellow Sky, starring Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark
- You Gotta Stay Happy, starring Joan Fontaine and James Stewart
- The Young Guard (Molodaya Gvardiya) - (U.S.S.R.)
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
Short film series
- 1928 -- 1952 - Mickey Mouse
- 1930 -- 1964 - Terrytoons
- 1933 –- 1957 - Popeye
- 1934 –- 1959 - The Three Stooges
- 1936 –- 1956 - Donald Duck
- 1939 -- 1953 - Goofy
- 1940 –- 1958 - Tom and Jerry
- 1940 -- 1964 - Bugs Bunny
- 1941 -- 1950 - The Fox and the Crow
- 1941 -- 1949 - Woody Woodpecker
- 1942 -- 1955 - Mighty Mouse
- 1943 -- 1956 - Chip and Dale
- 1943 -- 1958 - Droopy
- 1945 -- 1964 - Yosemite Sam
- 1946—1948 - George and Junior
- 1947 -- 1949 - Blackie the Sheep
Births
- January 10 - William Sanderson, American actor
- January 14 - Carl Weathers, American actor and football player
- January 16 - John Carpenter, American director, producer and screenwriter
- January 29 - Marc Singer, Canadian actor
- February 5
- Barbara Hershey, American actress
- Tom Wilkinson, English actor
- February 20 - Jennifer O'Neill, American actress
- February 22 - John Ashton, American actor
- February 28
- Bernadette Peters, American actress and singer
- Mercedes Ruehl, American actress
- Mike Figgis, English director and screenwriter
- March 11 - Dominique Sanda, French actress
- March 14 - Billy Crystal, American actor and comedian
- March 20 - Helene Vannari, Estonian actrss
- March 25 - Bonnie Bedelia, American actress
- March 28 - Dianne Wiest, American actress
- March 29 - Bud Cort, American actor
- May 3 - Chris Mulkey, American actor
- May 21 - Jonathan Hyde, Australian-born English actor
- June 28 - Kathy Bates, American actress
- July 13 - Catherine Breillat, French director
- July 30 - Jean Reno, French actor
- August 30 - Lewis Black, American actor and comedian
- September 7 - Susan Blakely, American actress
- September 19 - Jeremy Irons, English actor
- October 2 - Persis Khambatta, Indian actress and model (died 1998)
- October 17 - Margot Kidder, Canadian actress
- November 11 - Vincent Schiavelli, American actor (died 2005)
- November 13 - Adelle Lutz, American model, actress, and costume designer
- November 14 - Robert Ginty, American actor and producer (d. 2009)
- November 28 - Agnieszka Holland, Polish director and screenwriter
- December 6 - JoBeth Williams, American actress and director
- December 21 - Samuel L. Jackson, American actor and producer
- December 27 - Gérard Depardieu, French actor and filmmaker
Deaths
- February 11 - Sergei Eisenstein, 50, Russian film director, Battleship Potemkin, Alexander Nevsky, Ivan the Terrible, Part One, Ivan the Terrible, Part Two
- February 14 - James Baskett, 44, American actor, Song of the South
- May 3 - Gideon Wahlberg, 58, Swedish actor, writer and film director
- May 12 - Dante Cappelli, 82, Italian actor, Macbeth, Love Everlasting, The Mysterious Mirror
- May 26 - Torsten Bergström, 51, Swedish actor and director, The Pilgrimage to Kevlaar, Trollebokungen, Ungdom
- July 5 - Carole Landis, 29, American actress, Topper Returns, I Wake Up Screaming, One Million B.C., Four Jills in a Jeep
- July 15 - William Selig, 84, American pioneer studio builder
- July 23 - David Wark Griffith, 73, American film director, The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, Broken Blossoms, Orphans of the Storm
- August 13 - Elaine Hammerstein, 51, American actress, Paint and Powder, The Midnight Express
- August 13 - Edwin Maxwell, 62, American actor, Duck Soup, Cleopatra, His Girl Friday
- September 24 - Warren William, 53, American actor, Gold Diggers of 1933, The Wolf Man, Lady for a Day, Imitation of Life
- September 28 - Gregg Toland, 44, American cinematographer, Citizen Kane, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Long Voyage Home, December 7th: The Movie, Wuthering Heights, The Grapes of Wrath, Song of the South, The Little Foxes
- October 10 - Mary Eaton, 47, American actress, Glorifying the American Girl, The Cocoanuts
- October 13 - Samuel S. Hinds, 73, American actor, It's a Wonderful Life, Buck Privates
- October 16 - Nora Lane, 43, American actress, The Cisco Kid, Six-Gun Trail
- December 20 - C. Aubrey Smith, 85, English actor, A Bill of Divorcement, Madame Curie
Film debuts
- Pat Buttram - The Strawberry Roan
- Beau Bridges - No Minor Vices
- Montgomery Clift - The Search
- Doris Day - Romance on the High Seas
- Laurence Harvey - House of Darkness
- Rock Hudson - Fighter Squadron
- Klaus Kinski - Morituri
- Christopher Lee - Corridor of Mirrors
- Irene Papas - Fallen Angels
- Debbie Reynolds - June Bride
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