Film year 1948
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Events
- March 8th - The Łódź Film School is founded.
- November 24th - World premiere of Bicycle Thieves (directed by Vittorio de Sica ). In the first survey of film critics for the best films of all time, carried out by the renowned British film magazine Sight & Sound in 1952, this neorealistic film took first place.
Film awards
Golden Globe Award
The Golden Globe will be presented on March 10th at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel:
- Best Drama: Taboo of the Righteous by Elia Kazan
- Best Actor: Ronald Colman in A Double Life
- Best Actress: Rosalind Russell in Mourning Must Carry Elektra
- Best Supporting Actor: Edmund Gwenn in The Wonder on 34th Street
- Best Supporting Actress: Celeste Holm in Taboo of the Righteous
- Best Director: Elia Kazan for Taboo of the Righteous
- Most Promising Newcomer: Richard Widmark in The Kiss of Death
Academy Awards
The Oscars will be held this year on March 20th at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
- Best Film: Taboo of the Righteous by Elia Kazan
- Best Actor: Ronald Colman in A Double Life
- Best Actress: Loretta Young in The Farmer's Daughter
- Best Director: Elia Kazan for Taboo of the Righteous
- Best Supporting Actor: Edmund Gwenn in The Wonder on 34th Street
- Best Supporting Actress: Celeste Holm in Taboo of the Righteous
- Best music: Miklós Rózsa for a double life
Complete list of award winners
Venice Film Festival
The Venice Festival runs from August 19th to September 4th. The jury awards the following prizes:
- Golden Lion : Hamlet by Laurence Olivier
- Best actor: Ernst Deutsch in the process
- Best Actress: Jean Simmons in Hamlet
New York Film Critics Circle Award
- Best Film: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, by John Huston
- Best Director: John Huston for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- Best Actor: Laurence Olivier in Hamlet
- Best Actress: Olivia de Havilland in The Snake Pit
- Best foreign film: Paisà by Roberto Rossellini
National Board of Review
- Best film: Paisà by Roberto Rossellini
- Best director: Roberto Rossellini for Paisà
- Best Actor: Walter Huston in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- Best Actress: Olivia de Havilland in The Snake Pit
Further film prizes and awards
- Directors Guild of America Award : Tod Browning
- British Film Academy Award : The Best Years of Our Lives by William Wyler
- Karlovy Vary International Film Festival : The final stage by Wanda Jakubowska
- Louis Delluc Prize : The bullies of Jean Dréville
- Photoplay Award : Belvedere cleans up by Walter Lang (best film), Bing Crosby (most popular male star), Ingrid Bergman (most popular female star)
Birthdays
January to March
January
- January 1: Antonello Aglioti , Italian director, costume and set designer († 2013)
- January 1st: Pam Ferris , British actress
- January 8th: Gillies MacKinnon , British director and screenwriter
- January 12th: Anthony Andrews , British actor
- January 14th: Carl Weathers , American actor
- January 16: John Carpenter , American director
- January 22nd: Heinz Emigholz , German director
- January 29th: Delia Boccardo , Italian actress
- January 29th: Marc Singer , American actor
- January 30th: Nick Broomfield , British documentary filmmaker
February
- February 1: Elisabeth Sladen , British actress († 2011)
- February 5: Christopher Guest , American screenwriter and director
- February 5: Barbara Hershey , American actress
- February 5: Errol Morris , American documentary filmmaker
- February 6: Renate Roland , German actress
- February 7: Claudio Caligari , Italian director and screenwriter († 2015)
- February 13: Sam Garbarski , Belgian director
- February 17th: György Cserhalmi , Hungarian actor
- February 20: Jennifer O'Neill , American actress
- February 22nd: John Ashton , American actor
- February 28: Mike Figgis , British director
- February 28: Bernadette Peters , American actress
- February 28: Mercedes Ruehl , American actress
- February 29: Ken Foree , American actor
March
- March 4th: Chris Squire , British rock musician and composer († 2015)
- March 11th: Dominique Sanda , French actress
- March 20: John de Lancie , American actor
- March 25: Bonnie Bedelia , American actress
- March 27: Edgar Selge , German actor
- March 28: Dianne Wiest , American actress
- March 29: Bud Cort , American actor
- March 31: Rhea Perlman , American actress
April to June
April
- April 3: Miguel Herz-Kestranek , Austrian actor
- April 3: Oliver Grimm , German child star († 2017)
- April 4: Towje Kleiner , German actor († 2012)
- April 6: Patrika Darbo , American actress
- April 6: Philippe Garrel , French actor, screenwriter and director
- April 15: Michael Kamen , American composer
- April 18: Régis Wargnier , French director
- April 20: Gregory Itzin , American actor
- April 20: Christian Redl , German actor
- April 21: Claire Denis , French director
- April 22nd: Carol Drinkwater , British actress and writer
- April 26: Josef Bierbichler , German actor
- April 28: Marcia Strassman , American actress († 2014)
- April 30: Perry King , American actor
May
- May 10: Meg Foster , American actress
- May 12: Lindsay Crouse , American actress
- May 16: Shawn Murphy , American sound engineer
- May 20th: Jon Amiel , British director
- May 24th: Richard Dembo , French director
- May 30: Dieter Kosslick , director of the Berlinale
- May 31: Lynda Bellingham , British actress († 2014)
June
- June 1: Powers Boothe , American actor († 2017)
- June 7th: Pamela Susan Shoop , American actress
- June 15: MC Gainey , American actor
- June 19: Phylicia Rashad , American actress
- June 26: Sergei Bodrov , Russian director
- June 28: Kathy Bates , American actress
July to September
July
- July 2: Saul Rubinek , American actor
- July 4th: Walter Bockmayer , German director († 2014)
- July 6: Nathalie Baye , French actress
- July 7th: Stephan Paryla , Austrian actor
- July 12: Ben Burtt , American sound engineer
- July 20: Muse Watson , American actor
- July 22nd: Otto Waalkes , German comedian actor and voice actor
- July 23: Lenore Kasdorf , American actress
- July 24th: Alexander Waechter , Austrian actor
- July 27: Betty Thomas , American actress and director
- July 28: Georgia Engel , American actress († 2019)
- July 30th: Jean Reno , French actor
August
- August 1: Christopher Crowe , American screenwriter
- August 6: Alan Howarth , American composer and sound engineer
- August 19: Jim Carter , British actor
- August 24th: Nana Djordjadze , Georgian director
- August 28th: Leo G. Linder , German author, director and producer
- August 31: Lowell Ganz , American screenwriter
September
- September 1: James Rebhorn , American actor († 2014)
- September 5: Pavel Nový , Czech actor
- September 5: Scott H. Reiniger , American actor
- September 10th: Tony Gatlif , French director
- September 16: Nicole Jamet , French actress
- September 17: John Ritter , American actor
- September 19: Jeremy Irons , British actor
- September 21: Jacques Bral , French director
- September 25: Mimi Kennedy , American actress
- September 26: Mary Beth Hurt , American actress
- September 26: Olivia Newton-John , Australian actress
- September 27: A Martinez , American actor
October to December
October
- October 2: Avery Brooks , American actor
- October 3: Gisela Schneeberger , German actress
- October 6th: Dorothea Parton , Austrian actress
- October 8: Claude Jade , French actress
- October 12: Catherine Jourdan , French actress
- October 17: George Wendt , American actor
- October 19: Mimi Gibson , American actress
- October 20: Sandra Dickinson , American actress
- October 27: Bernie Wrightson , American comic artist and screenwriter († 2017)
- October 29: Kate Jackson , American actress
- October 31: Michael Kitchen , British actor
November
- November 7: James Houghton , American actor and screenwriter
- November 9: Bille August , Danish director
- November 17th: Adi Hirschal , Austrian actor
- November 20: Park Chul-soo , South Korean director and screenwriter († 2013)
- November 20: Richard Masur , American actor
- November 21: Deborah Shelton , American actress
- November 26th: Marianne Muellerleile , American actress
- November 27: James Avery , American actor
- November 28th: Agnieszka Holland , Polish director
December
- December 6th: Marius Müller-Westernhagen , German singer and actor
- December 6: JoBeth Williams , American actress
- December 9th: Marleen Gorris , Dutch director and screenwriter
- December 12th: Tom Wilkinson , British actor
- December 21: Barry Gordon , American actor
- December 21: Samuel L. Jackson , American actor
- December 21: Anneli Martini , Swedish actress
- December 24th: Edwige Fenech , Italian actress
- December 26: Heinz Werner Kraehkamp , German actor († 2012)
- December 27th: Gérard Depardieu , French actor
- December 31: Joe Dallesandro , American actor
Day unknown
- Utpalendu Chakraborty , Bengali-Indian director
- Lodovico Gasparini , Italian director
- Toni Slama , Austrian actor
deceased
January to June
- January 8: Richard Tauber , Austrian singer and actor (* 1891)
- January 13: Karlheinz Martin , German director and screenwriter (* 1886)
- January 28: Ludwig Schaschek , Austrian cameraman (* 1888)
- February 9: Karl Valentin , German actor (* 1882)
- February 10: Stephen Morehouse Avery , American screenwriter (* 1893)
- February 10: Frank Brownlee , American actor (* 1874)
- February 11: Sergej M. Eisenstein , Russian director (* 1898)
- February 12: Leo F. Forbstein , American composer (* 1892)
- February 26: Paul Everton , American actor (* 1868)
- March 4th: Antonin Artaud , French actor (* 1896)
- March 20: Gustav Diessl , Austrian actor (* 1899)
- May 25: Jacques Feyder , Belgian director (* 1885)
- May 29: Dame May Whitty , British actress (* 1865)
- June 6th: Louis Lumière , French film pioneer (* 1862)
- June 9: James Young , American director (* 1872)
July to December
- July 5: Carole Landis , American actress (born 1919)
- July 6th: Philipp Lothar Mayring , German actor and director (* 1879)
- July 9: James Baskett , American actor (born 1904)
- July 23: David Wark Griffith , American director (* 1875)
- August 31: Billy Laughlin , American child actor (* 1932)
- September 13: Jack Kirk , American actor (* 1895)
- September 13: Paul Wegener , German actor and director (* 1874)
- September 17th: Lilian Braithwaite , British actress (* 1873)
- September 20: Leo White , American actor (* 1882)
- September 24: Warren William , American actor (* 1895)
- September 26: Gregg Toland , American cameraman (* 1904)
- October 10: Mary Eaton , American actress (* 1901)
- October 21: Elissa Landi , American actress (* 1904)
- November 9: Edgar Kennedy , American actor (* 1890)
- November 11th: Fred Niblo , American director (* 1874)
- November 28: Will Dohm , German actor (* 1897)
- November 29: Maria Koppenhöfer , German actress (* 1901)
- December 20: C. Aubrey Smith , British actor (born 1863)
See also
Web links
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