1948 in film

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)

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

Top ten money making stars

Notable films released in 1948

U.S.A. unless stated

• 3 Godfathers, starring John Wayne

ABC

• 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
• 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
• Arch of Triumph, starring Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Charles Laughton, Ruth Warrick
• 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
• Call Northside 777, starring James Stewart
• La calle sin sol (The Sunless Street) - (Spain)
• 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

DEF

• 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)
• 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
• 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

GHIJ

• 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 Guinea Pig, a Boulting Brothers film starring Richard Attenborough - (GB)
• 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 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

KLM

• 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
• Macbeth, directed by and starring Orson Welles
• The Man from Colorado, starring William Holden 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)

NOPQ

• The Naked City, directed by Jules Dassin, starring Barry Fitzgerald
• Night Has a Thousand Eyes, starring Edward G. Robinson
• The Noose Hangs High, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• Nosotros los pobres (We the Poor), starring Pedro Infante - (Mexico)
• 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)

RS

• 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
• 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)
• 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)
• 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 (XiÇŽochéng zhÄ« chÅ«n), 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

TUV

• 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)
• 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)

WXYZ

• 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
• 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 â€"- 1957 - Popeye
• 1934 â€"- 1959 - The Three Stooges
• 1936 â€"- 1956 - Donald Duck
• 1939 -- 1953 - Goofy
• 1940 â€"- 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
• 1946â€"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 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
• 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 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, Russian film director (born 1898)
• May 12 - Dante Cappelli, Italian actor (born 1866)
• May 26 - Torsten Bergström, Swedish actor and director (born 1896)
• July 5 - Carole Landis, American actress
• July 15 - William Selig, American pioneer studio builder
• July 23 - David Wark Griffith, American film director (born 1875)
• August 13 - Elaine Hammerstein, American actress
• September 24 - Warren William, American actor

Film debuts

• 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
• Irene Papas - Fallen Angels
• Debbie Reynolds - June Bride