The year 1948 in film involved some significant events. [edit] Events [edit] Top grossing films (U.S.) | Rank | Title | Studio | Actors | Gross | | 1. | The Red Shoes | Eagle-Lion | Moira Shearer | $5,000,000 | | 2. | Red River | United Artists | John Wayne and Montgomery Clift | $4,507,000 | | 3. | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | Warner Brothers | Humphrey Bogart | $4,500,000 | | 4. | The Three Musketeers | MGM | Lana Turner and Gene Kelly | $4,307,000 | | 5. | Easter Parade | MGM | Judy Garland and Fred Astaire | $4,190,000 | | 6. | Johnny Belinda
The Snake Pit | Warner Brothers
20th Century Fox | Jane Wyman and Lew Ayres
Olivia de Havilland | $4,100,000 | | 7. | Joan of Arc | RKO | Ingrid Bergman | $4,089,000 | | 8. | When My Baby Smiles at Me | 20th Century Fox | Betty Grable and Dan Dailey | $4,000,000 | | 9. | A Date with Judy | MGM | Wallace Beery, Jane Powell and Elizabeth Taylor | $3,700,000 | | 10. | Homecoming | MGM | Clark Gable and Lana Turner | $3,420,000 | (*) After theatrical re-issue(s) [edit] 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
[edit] 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
- B.F.'s Daughter
- 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, starring Judy Garland and Fred Astaire
- The Emperor Waltz
- Every Girl Should Be Married
- Fighter Squadron, directed by Raoul Walsh
- A Foreign Affair, starring Jean Arthur and Marlene Dietrich
- Fort Apache, directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, Henry Fonda and Shirley Temple
- Green Grass of Wyoming
- Hamlet, starring Laurence Olivier and Jean Simmons
- Homecoming, starring Clark Gable and Lana Turner, also starring Anne Baxter and John Hodiak
- I Remember Mama, starring Irene Dunne
- Joan of Arc, starring Ingrid Bergman
- Johnny Belinda, starring Jane Wyman and Lew Ayres
- Key Largo, starring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall with Lionel Barrymore and Claire Trevor
- Ladies of the Chorus, starring Marilyn Monroe
- The Lady from Shanghai, starring Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles
- 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
- Moonrise
- Na svoji zemlji
- The Naked City
- The Noose Hangs High, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- Nosotros los pobres, starring Pedro Infante
- Oliver Twist, directed by David Lean
- 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, starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift in his film debut.
- The Red Shoes, starring Moira Shearer
- Rogues' Regiment, directed by Robert Florey and starring Dick Powell, Marta Toren 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, starring Montgomery Clift
- Sitting Pretty
- The Snake Pit, starring Olivia de Havilland
- A Song Is Born
- Sorry, Wrong Number, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster
- State of the Union, starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn
- The Three Muskteers, starring Lana Turner and Gene Kelly
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, starring Humphrey Bogart
- 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
[edit] Serials [edit] Short film series [edit] Births - January 14 - Carl Weathers, actor
- January 14 - T-Bone Burnett, producer, musician
- January 16 - John Carpenter, director
- February 5 - Barbara Hershey, actress
- February 20 - Jennifer O'Neill, actress
- February 28 - Mike Figgis, director
- March 14 - Billy Crystal, actor
- March 28 - Dianne Wiest, actress
- June 28 - Kathy Bates, actress
- July 30 - Jean Reno, actor
- September 19 - Jeremy Irons, actor
- October 9 - Jackson Browne, songwriter
- October 17 - Margot Kidder, Canadian actress
- November 28 - Agnieszka Holland, Polish director and script writer
- December 12 - Tom Wilkinson, British actor
- December 21 - Samuel L. Jackson, American actor
- December 27 - Gérard Depardieu, French actor
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