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Years in film:	1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951
Years in television:	1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951
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Years:	1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951

Contents 1 Events 2 Top grossing films 3 Awards 4 Films released in 1948 5 Short film series 6 Births 7 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Laurence Olivier's Hamlet becomes the first British film to win the American Academy Award for Best Picture.

[edit] 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

[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)

[edit] Films released in 1948

• Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• 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
• Fighter Squadron, directed by Raoul Walsh.
• Fort Apache, directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne
• Hamlet
• 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
• Macbeth, directed by and starring Orson Welles
• Melody Time
• Mexican Hayride, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• The Naked City
• The Noose Hangs High, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• Oliver Twist, directed by David Lean
• The Paleface
• Les parents terribles, directed by Jean Cocteau
• Red River
• The Red Shoes
• Rope, by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart
• Scott of the Antarctic, starring John Mills
• The Snake Pit
• State of the Union
• The Three Musketeers -(film mentioned in disamb.page)
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, starring Humphrey Bogart
• The Winslow Boy

[edit] Short film series

• Donald Duck (1936-1956)
• Popeye (1933-1957)
• The Three Stooges (1934-1959)
• Tom and Jerry (1940-1958)

[edit] 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

[edit] 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, actressde:Filmjahr 1948

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