1948 in film
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Events
- Laurence Olivier's Hamlet becomes the first British film to win the American Academy Award for Best Picture.
Top grossing films
- North America
- The Red Shoes, (55th in year of release, lifetime box office would place it in first)
- The Road to Rio
- Easter Parade
- Red River
- The Three Musketeers, Johnny Belinda
- Best Picture: Hamlet - Two Cities Films
- Best Actor: Laurence Olivier - Hamlet
- Best Actress: Jane Wyman - Johnny Belinda
Other films released
Other films released in 1948 include:
- Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
- Arch of Triumph
- The Bicycle Thief (Ladri di biciclette)
- The Fallen Idol, written by Graham Greene and directed by Carol Reed
- Joan of Arc starring Ingrid Bergman and José Ferrer
- Key Largo starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall
- Ladies of the Chorus
- The Lady from Shanghai
- Macbeth, directed by and starring Orson Welles
- The Naked City
- Oliver Twist, directed by David Lean
- The Paleface
- The Pirate
- Alfred Hitchcock's Rope, starring James Stewart
- Scott of the Antarctic, starring John Mills
- State of the Union
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre starring Humphrey Bogart
- Whisky Galore!
- ''Melody Time
Short film series
- Donald Duck (1936-1956)
- Popeye (1933-1957)
- The Three Stooges (1934-1959)
- Tom and Jerry (1940-1958)
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 27 - Gérard Depardieu, French actor
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.
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