1948 in film explained
The year 1948 in film involved some significant events.
Events
Top grossing films (U.S.)
| Rank | Title | Studio | Gross |
|---|
| 1. | The Red Shoes
| Eagle-Lion | $5,000,000 |
| 2. | Red River | United Artists | $4,507,000 |
| 3. | The Paleface | Paramount | $4,500,000 |
| 4. | The Three Musketeers | MGM | $4,307,000 |
| 5. | Easter Parade | MGM | $4,190,000 |
| 6. | Johnny Belinda
The Snake Pit | Warner Brothers
20th Century Fox | $4,100,000 |
| 7. | Joan of Arc | RKO | $4,089,000 |
| 8. | The Emperor Waltz | Paramount | $4,000,000 |
| 9. | A Date with Judy | MGM | $3,700,000 |
|
(*) 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
- When My Baby Smiles at Me
- The Winslow Boy
Serials
Short film series
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
