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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

North America

1. The Red Shoes, (55th in year of release, lifetime box office would place it in first)
2. Road to Rio
3. Easter Parade
4. Red River
5. The Three Musketeers and Johnny Belinda

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, (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
• The Man from Colorado
• 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
• The Pirate, (May 20)
• Red River, (September 30)
• The Red Shoes, (September 6)
• Rogues Regiment, (September 28), directed by Robert Florey and starring Dick Powell, Marta Toren and Vincent Price
• 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 (1948 film), (October 20)
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, (January 6), starring Humphrey Bogart
• Up in Central Park, (May 26), directed by William A. Seiter and starring Deanna Durbin and Vincent Price
• The Winslow Boy, (September 24)

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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