The year 1946 in film involved some significant events.
Events
Top grossing films (U.S.)
| Rank |
Title |
Studio |
Actors |
Gross |
| 1. |
Song of the South* |
Disney/RKO |
|
$29,229,000 |
| 2. |
The Best Years of Our Lives
Duel in the Sun |
RKO
Selznick |
Dana Andrews, Myrna Loy and Fredric March
Jennifer Jones and Gregory Peck |
$11,300,000 |
| 3. |
The Postman Always Rings Twice |
MGM |
Lana Turner and John Garfield |
$7,600,000 |
| 4. |
Blue Skies |
Paramount |
Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire |
$5,700,000 |
| 5. |
The Yearling |
MGM |
Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman |
$5,568,000 |
| 6. |
The Razor's Edge |
20th Century Fox |
Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney |
$5,000,000 |
| 7. |
Notorious |
RKO |
Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman |
$4,800,000 |
| 8. |
Till the Clouds Roll By |
MGM |
Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra and Robert Walker |
$4,762,000 |
| 9. |
Road to Utopia
The Dolly Sisters |
Paramount
20th Century Fox |
Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour and Bob Hope
Betty Grable |
$4,500,000 |
| 10. |
Gilda |
Columbia |
Rita Hayworth |
$4,488,000 |
(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)
Awards
Academy Awards:
- Best Picture: The Best Years of Our Lives - Goldwyn, RKO Radio
- Best Director: William Wyler - The Best Years of Our Lives
- Best Actor: Fredric March - The Best Years of Our Lives
- Best Actress: Olivia de Havilland - To Each His Own
- Best Supporting Actor: Harold Russell - The Best Years of Our Lives
- Best Supporting Actress: Anne Baxter - The Razor's Edge (1946 film)
Golden Globe Awards:
- Best Picture: The Best Years of Our Lives
- Best Director: Frank Capra - It's a Wonderful Life
- Best Actor: Gregory Peck - The Yearling
- Best Actress: Rosalind Russell - Sister Kenny
- Best Film Promoting International Understanding: The Last Chance (Switzerland)
GRAND PRIX (Cannes Film Festival):
- Portrait of Maria (María Candelaria), directed by Emilio Fernández, Mexico
- The Turning Point (Великий перелом, Velikiy perelom), directed by Fridrikh Ermler, Soviet Union
- La Symphonie pastorale, directed by Jean Delannoy, France
- The Last Chance (Die Letzte Chance), directed by Leopold Lintberg, Switzerland
- Men Without Wings (Muži bez křídel), directed by František Čáp, Czechoslovakia
- Rome, Open City (Roma, città aperta), directed by Roberto Rossellini, Italy
Films released in 1946
- Anna and the King of Siam, starring Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison and Linda Darnell
- Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête), directed by Jean Cocteau, starring Jean Marais and Josette Day
- The Beast with Five Fingers, starring Robert Alda and Peter Lorre
- The Best Years of Our Lives
- Beware, directed by Bud Pollard, starring Louis Jordan
- The Big Sleep, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall
- The Blue Dahlia, starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake
- Blue Skies
- Boom in the Moon starring Buster Keaton
- Brief Encounter
- Caesar and Cleopatra (U.S. release)
- The Captive Heart, the first Prisoner of War film from World War II
- Centennial Summer
- Children of Paradise (U.S. release)
- The Dark Corner, starring Lucille Ball
- The Dark Mirror, starring Olivia de Havilland
- Decoy, a film noir starring Jean Gillie
- Dragonwyck, starring Gene Tierney
- Duel in the Sun, starring Jennifer Jones, Gregory Peck, Joseph Cotten and Lillian Gish
- Gallant Journey, directed by William A. Wellman
- Gilda, starring Rita Hayworth
- Great Expectations, directed by David Lean
- Green for Danger, starring Alastair Sim
- The Green Years
- The Harvey Girls, directed by George Sidney, starring Judy Garland and John Hodiak
- Henry V (U.S. release)
- Humoresque, starring Joan Crawford and John Garfield
- It's a Wonderful Life, directed by Frank Capra, starring James Stewart
- Ivan the Terrible
- The Killers, starring Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner
- Little Giant, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- The Jolson Story
- Make Mine Music
- A Matter of Life and Death, written and directed by Powell and Pressburger
- My Darling Clementine, starring Henry Fonda and Linda Darnell
- Night and Day
- A Night in Casablanca with the Marx Brothers
- Notorious, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman
- The Overlanders
- The Postman Always Rings Twice, starring Lana Turner and John Garfield
- The Razor's Edge, starring Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney
- Road to Utopia, starring Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour and Bob Hope
- She-Wolf of London
- Shock
- The Seventh Veil (U.S. release)
- Sister Kenny, starring Rosalind Russell
- Smithy
- Somewhere In The Night, starring John Hodiak
- Song of the South by Walt Disney, combines animation and live action.
- The Spiral Staircase, starring Dorothy McGuire
- The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, starring Barbara Stanwyck
- The Stranger, directed by and starring Orson Welles, Loretta Young and Edward G. Robinson
- A Stolen Life
- Theirs is the Glory
- Three Strangers
- The Time of Their Lives, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- To Each His Own, starring Olivia de Havilland
- Tomorrow is Forever
- The Verdict
- Wake Up and Dream
- Without Reservations
- The Yearling, starring Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman
Serials
Short film series
Animated Short Film Series
Births
- January 5 - Diane Keaton, actress
- January 16 - Kabir Bedi, actor
- January 19 - Dolly Parton, singer, actress
- January 20 - David Lynch, film director
- January 26 - Gene Siskel, film critic, Siskel and Ebert (d. 1999)
- February 21 - Alan Rickman, actor
- April 25 - Talia Shire, actress
- May 20 - Cher, American singer/actress
- September 15- Oliver Stone, American film director
- September 18- Nicholas Clay, actor (d. 2000)
- October 4 - Susan Sarandon, actress
- October 17 - Vicki Hodge, actress
- October 18 - Andrea Zsadon, actress
- October 25 - Edith Leyrer. actress
- October 27 - Carrie Snodgress, actress
- November 6 - Sally Field, actress
- November 8 - Jill Banner, actress (d. 1982)
- November 18 - Andrea Allan, actress
- November 21 - Emma Cohen, actress
- November 21 - Ulla Jessen, actress
- November 22 - Baisho Mitsuko, actress
- November 25 - Marika Lindstrom, actress
- November 27 - Nina Maslova, actress
- December 2 - Gulsun Karamustafa, film director
- December 8 - Sharmila Tagore, actress
- December 14 - Patty Duke, actress
- December 18 - Steven Spielberg, film director
Deaths
- April 1 - Noah Beery, Sr., American actor
- June 23 - William S. Hart, American actor
- August 10 - Léon Gaumont, French film pioneer
- August 13 - H.G. Wells, British science fiction writer
- August 26 - Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter
- August 28 - Florence Turner, American actress
- September 21 - Olga Engl, Austrian actress
- November 2 - Gabriel Gabrio, French actor
- December 12 - Renée Jeanne Falconetti, French actress
- December 25 - W. C. Fields was an American comedian and actor
Film Debuts
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