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The year 1946 in film involved some significant events, including the release of the decade's highest-grossing film, The Best Years of Our Lives, which won seven Academy Awards. Top-grossing films (U.S.)
Title Director Cast Genre Notes The Bachelor's Daughters: Andrew L. Stone: Claire Trevor, Gail Russell, Ann Dvorak: Comedy: United Artists: Bad Bascomb: S. Sylvan Simon: Wallace Beery, Margaret O'Brien, Marjorie Main
David Keith Lynch (January 20, 1946 – January 16, 2025) was an American filmmaker, visual artist, musician, and actor. Widely considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, [a] Lynch was often called a "visionary" and was acclaimed for films often distinguished by their surrealist and experimental qualities.
1893 – Blacksmiths, the first film shown publicly on the Kinetoscope, a system given to Edison; Thomas Edison created "America's First Film Studio", Black Maria. 1894 – Carmencita was made. According to film historian Charles Musser the first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera was in the film. She may have been the ...
Dragonwyck is a 1946 American period drama film made by Twentieth Century-Fox. [4] [5] It was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and Ernst Lubitsch (uncredited), from a screenplay by Mankiewicz, based on the novel Dragonwyck by Anya Seton. The music score was by Alfred Newman, and the cinematography by Arthur C ...
The film made $4.85 million in theatrical rentals in the United States and Canada on its first release, making it one of the highest-grossing films of the year. [ 43 ] [ 44 ] [ 45 ] Overseas, it earned $2.3 million, for worldwide rentals of $7.15 million, generating RKO a profit of $1.01 million.
Film portal This category is for film events and films originally released in the year 1946 . Individual films appear in the subcategory Category:1946 films .
This category is for film in the United States in the year ... 1946 New York Film Critics Circle Awards; A. 18th Academy Awards; B. Bigelow v. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. F.