1948 in film

Events

Top Grossing Films of 1948

1. Easter Parade
2. The Pirate
3. Arch of Triumph
4. The Bicycle Thief (Ladri di biciclette)
5. The Lady from Shanghai

Academy Awards

• Best Picture: Hamlet - Two Cities Films, U-I (British)
• Best Actor: Laurence Olivier - Hamlet
• Best Actress: Jane Wyman - Johnny Belinda

Movies Released

• Hamlet
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre starring Humphrey Bogart
• Joan of Arc starring Ingrid Bergman and José Ferrer
• Key Largo starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall
• Alfred Hitchcock's Rope, starring James Stewart

Births

• January 14 - Carl Weathers, actor
• January 14 - T-Bone Burnett, producer, musician
• January 16 - John Carpenter, director
• July 30 - Jean Reno, actor
• October 9 - Jackson Browne, songwriter
• December 3 - Ozzy Osbourne, singer/songwriter
• December 27 - Gerard Depardieu, French actor

Deaths

• February 11 - Sergy Eisenstein, film director.
• July 5 - Carole Landis, actress
• July 23 - David Wark Griffith, film director.

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