Best Films – 1948

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Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan in Letter from an Unknown Woman
Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan in Letter from an Unknown Woman

FILM

Anna Karenina
d: Julien Duvivier; scr: Jean Anouilh, Guy Morgan, Julien Duvivier

Cry of the City
d: Robert Siodmak; scr: Richard Murphy

Johnny Belinda
d: Jean Negulesco; scr: Irmgard von Cube, Allen Vincent

Key Largo
d: John Huston; scr: Richard Brooks, John Huston

Ladri di biciclette / The Bicycle Thief
d: Vittorio De Sica; scr: Oreste Biancoli, Suso Cecchi D’Amico, Vittorio De Sica, Adolfo Franci, Gherardo Gherardi, Gerardo Guerrieri, Cesare Zavattini

Letter from an Unknown Woman
d: Max Ophüls; scr: Howard Koch

Portrait of Jennie
d: William Dieterle; scr: Peter Berneis, Paul Osborn, Leonard Berrovici

State of the Union
d: Frank Capra; scr: Anthony Veiller, Myles Connolly

The Winslow Boy
d: Anthony Asquith; scr: Terence Rattigan, Anatole de Grunwald

 

Joan Bennett in Secret Beyond the Door
Joan Bennett in Secret Beyond the Door

CHECK THESE OUT

The Big Clock
d: John Farrow; scr: Jonathan Latimer

A Foreign Affair
d: Billy Wilder; scr: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Richard Breen

I Remember Mama
d: George Stevens; scr: DeWitt Bodeen

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
d: H. C. Potter; scr: Norman Panama, Melvin Frank

The Search
d: Fred Zinnemann; scr: Richard Schweizer, David Wechsler

Secret Beyond the Door
d: Fritz Lang; scr: Silvia Richards

Sorry, Wrong Number
d: Anatole Litvak; scr: Lucille Fletcher

The Three Musketeers
d: George Sidney; scr: Robert Ardrey

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
d, scr: John Huston

 

Lamberto Maggiorani in The Bicycle Thief
Lamberto Maggiorani in The Bicycle Thief

ACTOR

Joseph Cotten
Portrait of Jennie

Robert Donat
The Winslow Boy

Cary Grant
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

Alec Guinness
Oliver Twist

Cedric Hardwicke
The Winslow Boy

Lamberto Maggiorani
The Bicycle Thief

Victor Mature
Cry of the City

Edward G. Robinson
Key Largo

Spencer Tracy
State of the Union

 

Celeste Holm, Olivia de Havilland in The Snake Pit
Celeste Holm, Olivia de Havilland in The Snake Pit

ACTRESS

Jean Arthur
A Foreign Affair

Olivia de Havilland
The Snake Pit

Marlene Dietrich
A Foreign Affair

Irene Dunne
I Remember Mama

Joan Fontaine
Letter from an Unknown Woman

Katharine Hepburn
State of the Union

Jennifer Jones
Portrait of Jennie

Vivien Leigh
Anna Karenina

Barbara Stanwyck
Sorry, Wrong Number

Jane Wyman
Johnny Belinda

 

SUPPORTING ACTOR

Lionel Barrymore
Key Largo

Charles Bickford
Johnny Belinda

Melvyn Douglas
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

Thomas Gomez
Key Largo

Walter Huston
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

John Ireland
Red River

Ivan Jandl
The Search

Cecil Parker
Quartet

Ralph Richardson
Anna Karenina

Enzo Staiola
The Bicycle Thief

 

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Ethel Barrymore
Portrait of Jennie

Sonia Dresdel
The Fallen Idol

Hope Emerson
Cry of the City

Edith Evanston
I Remember Mama

Elsa Lanchester
The Big Clock

Angela Lansbury
State of the Union

Michèle Morgan
The Fallen Idol

Mildred Natwick
The Kissing Bandit

Claire Trevor
Key Largo

 

Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth in The Lady from Shanghai
Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth in The Lady from Shanghai

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Henri Alekan
Anna Karenina

Joseph H. August
Portrait of Jennie

Stanley Cortez
Secret Beyond the Door

Desmond Dickinson
Hamlet

Charles Frend
Scott of the Antarctic

Richard Leacock
The Louisiana Story

Russell Metty
Kiss the Blood off My Hands

Franz Planer
Letter from an Unknown Woman

Karl Freund
Key Largo

Charles Lawton Jr.
The Lady from Shanghai

Robert Planck
The Three Musketeers

 

MUSIC

Daniele Amfitheatrof
Letter from an Unknown Woman

Alessandro Cicognini
The Bicycle Thief

 

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