Best Films – 1948

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
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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
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
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
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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