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The year 1946 in film involved some significant events.

Events

November 21 - William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives premieres in New York featuring an ensemble cast including Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, and Harold Russell.

December 20 - Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life, featuring James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Travers, and Thomas Mitchell opens in New York.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank	Title	Studio	Gross
1.	Song of the South*	Disney/RKO	$29,229,000
2.	The Best Years of Our Lives	RKO	$11,300,000
2.	Duel in the Sun	Selznick	$11,300,000
4.	The Jolson Story	Columbia	$7,600,000
5.	Blue Skies	Paramount	$5,700,000
6.	The Yearling	MGM	$5,568,000
7.	The Razor's Edge	20th Century Fox	$5,000,000
8.	Notorious	RKO	$4,800,000
9.	Till the Clouds Roll By	MGM	$4,762,000
10.	Road to Utopia	Paramount	$4,500,000

(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)

source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1946.shtml

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 Markovitch 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
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
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 Mirror
Decoy, a film noir starring Jean Gillie
Dragonwyck
Duel in the Sun
Gallant Journey, directed by William A. Wellman
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
Henry V (U.S. release)
Humoresque, directed by Jean Negulesco
It's a Wonderful Life, directed by Frank Capra, starring James Stewart
Ivan the Terrible
The Killers
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
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
The Razor's Edge, starring Tyrone Power
Road to Utopia
She-Wolf of London
Shock
The Seventh Veil (U.S. release)
Sister Kenny
Smithy
Song of the South by Walt Disney, combines animation and live action.
The Spiral Staircase
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
The Stranger, starring Orson Welles and Edward G. Robinson
A Stolen Life
Theirs is the Glory
The Time of Their Lives, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
To Each His Own
Tomorrow is Forever
Without Reservations
The Yearling, starring Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman

Serials

Daughter of Don Q
Chick Carter, Detective
The Crimson Ghost
Hop Harrigan
King of the Forest Rangers, starring Larry Thompson
Lost City of the Jungle
The Mysterious Mr. M
The Phantom Rider, starring Robert Kent and Peggy Stewart
The Scarlet Horseman
Son of the Guardsman

Short film series

The Three Stooges (1934-1959)
Popular Science (1935-1950)

Animated Short Film Series

Mickey Mouse (1928-1952)
Looney Tunes (1930-1969)
Terrytoons (1930-1964)
Merrie Melodies (1931-1969)
Popeye (1933-1957)
Color Rhapsodies (1934-1949)
Donald Duck (1936-1956)
Pluto (1937-1951)
Andy Panda (1939-1949)
Goofy (1939-1953)
Bugs Bunny (1940-1962)
Tom and Jerry (1940-1958)
The Fox and the Crow (1941-1950)
Woody Woodpecker (1941-1949)
Mighty Mouse (1942-1955)
Droopy (1943-1958)
Chip and Dale (1943-1956)
Screwball Squirrel (1943-1946)
Yosemite Sam (1945-1963)
George and Junior (1946-1948)

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)
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
December 12 - Renée Jeanne Falconetti, French actress