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The year 1949 in film involved some significant events.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank	Title	Studio	Actors	Gross
1.	Samson and Delilah	Paramount	Hedy Lamarr and Victor Mature	$11,500,000
2.	Battleground	MGM	Van Johnson and John Hodiak	$5,051,000
3.	Jolson Sings Again Sands of Iwo Jima	Columbia Republic	Larry Parks John Wayne	$5,000,000
5.	I Was a Male War Bride	20th Century Fox	Cary Grant and Ann Sheridan	$4,100,000
6.	Twelve O'Clock High	20th Century Fox	Gregory Peck	$4,025,000
7.	A Letter to Three Wives	20th Century Fox	Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern	$3,800,000
8.	The Heiress	Paramount	Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift and Miriam Hopkins	$3,700,000
9.	Pinky	20th Century Fox	Jeanne Crain	$3,600,000
10.	All the King's Men	Columbia	Broderick Crawford and John Ireland	$3,500,000
11.	Little Women	MGM	June Allyson and Elizabeth Taylor	$3,500,000
12.	Look for the Silver Lining	20th Century Fox	June Haver and Ray Bolger	$3,250,000

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: All the King's Men - Rossen, Columbia

Best Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz - A Letter to Three Wives

Best Actor: Broderick Crawford - All the King's Men

Best Actress: Olivia de Havilland - The Heiress

Best Supporting Actor: Dean Jagger - Twelve O'Clock High

Best Supporting Actress: Mercedes McCambridge - All the King's Men

Golden Globe Awards:

Best Picture: All the King's Men

Best Director: Robert Rossen - All the King's Men

Best Actor: Broderick Crawford - All the King's Men

Best Actress: Olivia de Havilland - The Heiress

Best Foreign Language Film: The Bicycle Thief (Ladri di Biciclette), Italy

Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival):

The Third Man, directed by Carol Reed, United Kingdom

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival)

Manon, directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, France

Films released in 1949

U.S.A. unless stated

• Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• Adam's Rib, starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn
• The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
• Africa Screams, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• Alexander Popov, starring Nikolai Cherkasov - (U.S.S.R.)
• All the King's Men, starring Broderick Crawford
• The Bad Lord Byron, directed by David MacDonald and starring Dennis Price (U.K.)
• The Barkleys of Broadway, the last of 10 films starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
• Barsaat, directed by and starring Raj Kapoor - (India)
• Battleground
• The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend, starring Betty Grable
• Beyond the Forest, starring Bette Davis
• The Bicycle Thief (U.S. release)
• The Big Steal, starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer and Patric Knowles
• Bitter Rice (Riso Amaro), starring Vittorio Gassman and Silvana Mangano - (Italy)
• The Blue Lagoon, starring Jean Simmons - (U.K.)
• Border Incident
• The Bribe, starring Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton, Vincent Price and John Hodiak

• Caught, directed by Max Ophuls, starring Barbara Bel Geddes and Robert Ryan
• Champion, starring Kirk Douglas and Marilyn Maxwell
• The Chiltern Hundreds, directed by John Paddy Carstairs (U.K.)
• Christopher Columbus, directed by David MacDonald and starring Frederic March as Columbus (U.K.)
• City Across the River
• Colorado Territory, directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Joel McCrea and Virginia Mayo
• Come to the Stable, starring Loretta Young
• Criss Cross, starring Burt Lancaster and Yvonne De Carlo
• Crows and Sparrows (烏鴉與麻雀), directed by Zheng Junli - (China)
• Distant Journey - (Czechoslovakia)

• Edward, My Son, starring Spencer Tracy and Deborah Kerr
• The Emperor of Capri (L'imperatore di Capri), directed by Luigi Comencini - (Italy)
• The Emperor's Nightingale, an animated film narrated by Boris Karloff - (Czechoslovakia)
• The Fallen Idol (U.S. release)
• Father was a Fullback
• Flamingo Road, starring Joan Crawford
• For Them That Trespass, directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, starring Richard Todd - (U.K.)
• The Fountainhead, starring Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal

• Give Us This Day - (U.K.)
• The Great Madcap (El Gran Calavera), directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Fernando Soler - (Mexico)
• Hardly a Criminal (Apenas un delincuente) - (Argentina)
• The Hasty Heart, starring Ronald Reagan and Patricia Neal - (U.S./U.K.)
• The Heiress, directed by William Wyler, starring Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift and Miriam Hopkins
• Holiday Affair, starring Robert Mitchum and Janet Leigh
• Home of the Brave
• House of Strangers, starring Edward G. Robinson

• I Shot Jesse James
• I Was a Male War Bride, starring Cary Grant
• Impact, starring Brian Donlevy
• In the Good Old Summertime
• In the Name of the Law (In nome della legge) - (Italy)
• The Inspector General
• The Interrupted Journey - (U.K.)
• Intruder in the Dust
• It Happens Every Spring, starring Ray Milland
• It's Not Cricket directed by Alfred Roome and starring Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne (U.K.)
• Jolson Sings Again
• Jour de fête, directed by and starring Jacques Tati - (France)

• Kind Hearts and Coronets, directed by Robert Hamer, starring Alec Guinness, Dennis Price and Valerie Hobson - (U.K.)
• King of the Rocket Men
• Late Spring (Banshun), directed by Yasujiro Ozu - (Japan)
• A Letter to Three Wives, starring Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell and Ann Sothern
• Little Women, starring Elizabeth Taylor

• Ma and Pa Kettle, starring Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride
• Madame Bovary, starring Jennifer Jones
• Malaya
• Manon, directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot - (France)
• Mighty Joe Young
• Mother Is a Freshman
• My Foolish Heart, starring Susan Hayward and Dana Andrews
• My Friend Irma, film debut of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis

• Neptune's Daughter, starring Esther Williams
• No Way Back starring Terence De Marney, Eleanor Summerfield (U.K.)

• Obsession, directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring Robert Newton - (U.K.)
• On the Town, starring Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra

• The Passionate Friends, directed by David Lean - (U.K.)
• Passport to Pimlico, starring Stanley Holloway and Margaret Rutherford - (U.K.)
• Pinky, starring Jeanne Crain
• Prince of Foxes
• Prison - (Sweden)
• The Queen of Spades - (U.K.)
• The Quiet Duel (Shizukanaru Ketto), starring Toshiro Mifune - (Japan)
• The Reckless Moment, starring James Mason and Joan Bennett
• The Red Pony
• The Rocking Horse Winner - (U.K.)
• Rotation - (Germany)
• Rustlers, starring Tim Holt and Martha Hyer

• Samson and Delilah, starring Hedy Lamarr and Victor Mature
• Sands of Iwo Jima, starring John Wayne
• Saraband for Dead Lovers (U.S. release)
• The Secret Garden
• The Set-Up, starring Robert Ryan
• "She Shoulda Said 'No'!"
• She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, starring John Wayne
• Une si jolie petite plage (Such a Pretty Little Beach), directed by Yves Allégret - (France)
• Le Silence de la mer, directed by Jean-Pierre Melville - (France)
• Slattery's Hurricane, starring Richard Widmark, Veronica Lake and Linda Darnell
• The Small Back Room, directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger - (U.K.)
• So Dear to My Heart
• The Stratton Story, starring James Stewart
• Stray Dog (Nora inu), directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune - (Japan)

• They Live by Night, directed by Nicholas Ray, starring Farley Granger and Cathy O'Donnell
• Thieves' Highway, directed by Jules Dassin
• The Third Man, directed by Carol Reed, starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli and Orson Welles - (U.K.)
• Too Late for Tears
• Tulsa, starring Susan Hayward
• Twelve O'Clock High, starring Gregory Peck
• Under Capricorn, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Ingrid Bergman - (U.K.)

• Waga koi wa moenu (Flame of My Love), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi - (Japan)
• The Walls of Malapaga (Au-delà des grilles), directed by Rene Clement, starring Jean Gabin - (France/Italy)
• Whirlpool, starring Gene Tierney
• Whisky Galore!, directed by Alexander Mackendrick, starring Basil Radford and Joan Greenwood - (U.K.)
• White Heat, directed by Raoul Walsh, starring James Cagney and Virginia Mayo
• The Window

Serials

• Adventures of Sir Galahad, starring George Reeves and Charles King
• Batman and Robin, starring Robert Lowery
• Bruce Gentry, starring Tom Neal
• Federal Agents vs. Underworld, Inc, starring Kirk Alyn and Rosemary LaPlanche
• Ghost of Zorro, starring Clayton Moore and Pamela Blake
• The James Brothers of Missouri, starring Keith Richards and Noel Neill
• King of the Rocket Men, starring Tristram Coffin and Mae Clarke
• Radar Patrol vs Spy King, starring Kirk Alyn

Short film series

• Mickey Mouse (1928-1952)
• Looney Tunes (1930-1969)
• Merrie Melodies (1931-1969)
• Popeye (1933-1957)
• Color Rhapsodies (1934-1949)
• The Three Stooges (1934-1959)
• Donald Duck (1934-1956)
• Pluto (1937-1951)
• Chip and Dale (1943-1956)
• Andy Panda (1939-1949)
• Goofy (1939-1953)
• Tom and Jerry (1940-1958)
• The Fox and the Crow (1941-1950)
• Woody Woodpecker (1941-1949)
• Mighty Mouse (1942-1955)
• Droopy (1943-1958)
• Blackie the Sheep (1947-1949)
• Red Hot Riding Hood (1943-1949)
• Jan Wickman Shorts (1949-1994)

Births

• January 12 - Wayne Wang, Hong Kong-born director
• January 14 - Lawrence Kasdan, American director and screenwriter
• January 16 - Caroline Munro, English actress and model
• January 17 - Andy Kaufman, American actor and comedian (died 1984)
• January 24 - John Belushi, American actor and comedian (died 1982)
• February 8 - Brooke Adams, American actress
• March 12 - Rob Cohen, American director, producer and writer
• March 16 - Victor Garber, Canadian actor
• March 22 - Fanny Ardant, French actress
• April 14 - John Shea, American actor
• April 20 - Jessica Lange, American actress
  • Veronica Cartwright, English-born actress
• May 24 - Jim Broadbent, English actor
• May 31 - Tom Berenger, American actor
• June 15 - Jim Varney, American actor and comedian (died 2000)
• June 22 - Meryl Streep, American actress
• July 7 - Shelley Duvall, American actress
• August 17 - Julian Fellowes, British actor, writer, director and screenwriter
• August 23 - Shelley Long, American actress
• August 31 - Richard Gere, American actor
• September 16 - Ed Begley, Jr., American actor
• October 4 - Armand Assante, American actor
• October 8 - Sigourney Weaver, American actress
• December 4 - Jeff Bridges, American actor
• December 25 - Sissy Spacek, American actress

Deaths

• January 6 - Victor Fleming, director & producer (born 1889)
• April 15 - Wallace Beery, American screen actor (born 1885)
• April 18 - Will Hay, Comedian, film director (born 1888)
• April 22 - Charles B. Middleton, stage & film actor (born 1874)
• October 14 - Fritz Leiber, Sr., stage & screen actor
• December 16 - Sidney Olcott, pioneer film director

Film Debuts

• Yul Brynner
• Richard Burton
• Tony Curtis
• Jerry Lewis
• Dean Martin
• Philippe Noiret
• Max von Sydow