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The year 1948 in film involved some significant events.
le class="wikitable"> | | Rank | Title | Studio | Gross |
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| 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)
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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
- Waverley Steps: A Visit to Edinburgh
- 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
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