Events

Top grossing films

North America

1. The Red Shoes, (55th in year of release, lifetime box office would place it in first)
2. The Road to Rio
3. Easter Parade
4. Red River
5. The Three Musketeers, Johnny Belinda

Academy Awards

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

Movies released

Movies released in 1948 include:

• 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
• The Pirate
• Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
• Arch of Triumph
• The Bicycle Thief (Ladri di biciclette)
• The Lady from Shanghai
• The Paleface

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
• 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 3 - Ozzy Osbourne, singer/songwriter
• December 27 - Gerard Depardieu, French actor

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.