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.)

(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)
source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1948.shtml

Awards

Academy 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

Golden Globe Awards:

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

Films released in 1948

• Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• Act of Violence
• Adventures of Don Juan
• Anna Karenina
• Arch of Triumph
• Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette)
• Call Northside 777, with James Stewart
• The Fallen Idol, written by Graham Greene and directed by Carol Reed
• Easter Parade
• The Emperor Waltz
• Every Girl Should Be Married
• Fighter Squadron, directed by Raoul Walsh
• A Foreign Affair
• Fort Apache, directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne
• Green Grass of Wyoming
• Hamlet
• I Remember Mama
• Joan of Arc, starring Ingrid Bergman and José Ferrer
• Johnny Belinda
• Key Largo, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall
• Ladies of the Chorus
• The Lady from Shanghai
• Louisiana Story
• The Loves of Carmen
• The Luck of the Irish
• Macbeth, directed by and starring Orson Welles
• The Man from Colorado
• Melody Time
• Mexican Hayride, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
• Moonrise
• The Naked City
• The Noose Hangs High, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• Na svoji zemlji
• Oliver Twist, directed by David Lean
• The Paleface
• Les parents terribles, directed by Jean Cocteau
• The Pirate
• Portrait of Jennie
• Red River
• The Red Shoes
• Rogues' Regiment, directed by Robert Florey and starring Dick Powell, Marta Toren and Vincent Price
• Romance on the High Seas
• Rope, by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart
• Scott of the Antarctic, starring John Mills
• The Search
• Sitting Pretty
• The Snake Pit
• A Song Is Born
• Sorry, Wrong Number
• State of the Union
• The Three Muskteers
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, starring Humphrey Bogart
• Up in Central Park, directed by William A. Seiter and starring Deanna Durbin and Vincent Price
• Waverley Steps: A Visit to Edinburgh
• When My Baby Smiles at Me
• The Winslow Boy

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 -- 1962 - 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 -- 1963 - Yosemite Sam
• 1946 -- 1948 - George and Junior
• 1947 -- 1949 - Blackie the Sheep

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

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

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