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The year 1948 in film involved some significant events. Contents 1 Events 2 Top grossing films (U.S.) 3 Awards 4 Films released in 1948 5 Serials 6 Short film series 7 Births 8 Deaths 9 Film debuts Events Laurence Olivier's Hamlet becomes the first British film to win the American Academy Award for Best Picture. Top grossing films (U.S.) Rank Title Studio Actors Gross 1. The Red Shoes Eagle-Lion Moira Shearer $5,000,000 2. The Three Musketeers MGM Lana Turner and Gene Kelly $4,507,000 3. Red River United Artists John Wayne and Montgomery Clift $4,500,000 4. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre Warner Bros. Humphrey Bogart $4,307,000 5. When My Baby Smiles at Me 20th Century Fox Betty Grable and Dan Dailey $4,200,000 6. Easter Parade MGM Judy Garland and Fred Astaire $4,100,000 7. Johnny Belinda The Snake Pit Warner Bros. 20th Century Fox Jane Wyman and Lew Ayres Olivia de Havilland $4,089,000 8. Joan of Arc RKO Ingrid Bergman $4,000,000 9. Adventures of Don Juan Warner Bros. Errol Flynn $3,700,000 10. Homecoming MGM Clark Gable and Lana Turner $3,420,000 11. The Loves of Carmen Columbia Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford $3,395,000 12. Key Largo Warner Bros. Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson and Lauren Bacall $3,289,000 13. That Lady in Ermine 20th Century Fox Betty Grable $3,250,000 14. The Emperor Waltz Paramount Bing Crosby and Joan Fontaine $3,209,000 15. The Search MGM Montgomery Clift $3,191,000 16. Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House RKO Cary Grant and Myrna Loy $3,140,000 17. Hamlet Rank Film Laurence Olivier $3,075,000 18. State of the Union MGM Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn $2,745,000 19. A Foreign Affair Paramount Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich and John Lund $2,450,000 20. Sorry, Wrong Number Paramount Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster $2,200,000

(*) 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 Films released in 1948 Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Act of Violence, starring Van Heflin, Robert Ryan and Janet Leigh Adventures of Don Juan Anna Karenina Arch of Triumph Beast of the East (1948 film, re-released in 1959 as Atrocities of the Orient) B.F.'s Daughter Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette), directed by Vittorio De Sica The Big Clock, starring Ray Milland, Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Sullivan Call Northside 777, with James Stewart Command Decision The Countess of Monte Cristo, starring Sonja Henie Drunken Angel (Yoidore tenshi), directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Takashi Shimura and Toshiro Mifune Easter Parade, starring Judy Garland and Fred Astaire The Emperor Waltz Escape Every Girl Should Be Married The Fallen Idol, written by Graham Greene and directed by Carol Reed, starring Ralph Richardson Fighter Squadron, directed by Raoul Walsh Force of Evil, starring John Garfield A Foreign Affair, starring Jean Arthur and Marlene Dietrich Fort Apache, directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, Henry Fonda and Shirley Temple Germany Year Zero (Germania anno zero), directed by Roberto Rossellini Good-Time Girl Green Grass of Wyoming Hamlet, directed by and starring Laurence Olivier with Jean Simmons He Walked by Night A Hen in the Wind (Kaze no naka no mendori), directed by Yasujiro Ozu Homecoming, starring Clark Gable and Lana Turner, also starring Anne Baxter and John Hodiak I Remember Mama, directed by George Stevens, starring Irene Dunne I Walk Alone Joan of Arc, starring Ingrid Bergman Johnny Belinda, starring Jane Wyman and Lew Ayres Jungle Goddess, starring George Reeves Key Largo, directed by John Huston, starring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall with Lionel Barrymore and Claire Trevor Ladies of the Chorus, starring Marilyn Monroe The Lame Devil (Le Diable boiteux), directed by and starring Sacha Guitry Last of the Wild Horses, starring Jane Frazee and Douglass Dumbrille Letter from an Unknown Woman, directed by Max Ophuls, starring Joan Fontaine and Louis Jourdan The Loves of Carmen, starring Rita Hayworth Louisiana Story 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 The Monkey's Paw starring Milton Rosmer Moonrise Na svoji zemlji The Naked City, directed by Jules Dassin The Noose Hangs High, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Nosotros los pobres, starring Pedro Infante Oliver Twist, directed by David Lean, starring Alec Guinness and Robert Newton The Paleface Les Parents terribles, directed by Jean Cocteau The Pirate, starring Gene Kelly and Judy Garland Portrait of Jennie, starring Jennifer Jones Red River, directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift in his film debut. The Red Shoes, directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, starring Moira Shearer Road House Rogues' Regiment, directed by Robert Florey and starring Dick Powell, Märta Torén and Vincent Price Romance on the High Seas Rope, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart, John Dall and Farley Granger Saigon, the final of 4 films starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake The Sainted Sisters, starring Veronica Lake Scott of the Antarctic, starring John Mills The Search, directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Montgomery Clift Secret Beyond the Door Sitting Pretty Sleeping Car to Trieste The Snake Pit, starring Olivia de Havilland A Song Is Born Sorry, Wrong Number, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster Spring in a Small Town (Xiǎochéng zhī chūn) State of the Union, starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn The Street with No Name La Terra Trema (The Earth Will Tremble), directed by Luchino Visconti The Three Muskteers, starring Lana Turner and Gene Kelly 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) Unfaithfully Yours, starring Linda Darnell and Rex Harrison Up in Central Park, directed by William A. Seiter and starring Deanna Durbin and Vincent Price Ustedes los ricos, starring Pedro Infante Waverley Steps: A Visit to Edinburgh When My Baby Smiles at Me, starring Betty Grable and Dan Dailey The Winslow Boy, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Robert Donat and Margaret Leighton Yellow Sky, starring Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter and Richard Widmark 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 and football player January 16 - John Carpenter, director, producer and screenwriter January 29 - Marc Singer, Canadian actor February 5 - Barbara Hershey, actress February 20 - Jennifer O'Neill, actress February 22 - John Ashton, actor February 28 - Mike Figgis, English director and screenwriter Bernadette Peters, actress and singer Mercedes Ruehl, actress March 11 - Dominique Sanda, French actress March 14 - Billy Crystal, actor and comedian March 25 - Bonnie Bedelia, actress March 28 - Dianne Wiest, actress March 29 - Bud Cort, actor May 21 - Jonathan Hyde, Australian-born English actor June 28 - Kathy Bates, actress July 30 - Jean Reno, French actor September 7 - Susan Blakely, actress September 19 - Jeremy Irons, English actor October 2 - Persis Khambatta, Indian actress and model (d. 1998) October 17 - Margot Kidder, Canadian actress November 10 - Vincent Schiavelli, actor (d. 2005) November 28 - Agnieszka Holland, Polish director and screenwriter December 6 - JoBeth Williams, actress and director December 12 - Tom Wilkinson, English actor December 14 - Dee Wallace, actress December 21 - Samuel L. Jackson, actor and producer December 27 - Gérard Depardieu, French actor and filmmaker Deaths February 11 - Sergei Eisenstein, film director (b. 1898) July 5 - Carole Landis, actress July 15 - William Selig, pioneer studio builder July 23 - David Wark Griffith, film director (b. 1875) August 13 - Elaine Hammerstein, actress Film debuts Montgomery Clift Doris Day Laurence Harvey Rock Hudson Shashi Kapoor Klaus Kinski Marcello Mastroianni