The year involved some significant events.
:North America
#'' The Bells Of St. Mary's ''
#'' Leave Her To Heaven ''
# tie '' Blue Skies '', '' Road To Utopia '', '' Spellbound ''
:Best Film Promoting International Understanding: '' The Last Chance '' ( Switzerland )
:'' (''María Candelaria''), directed by Emilio Fernández , Mexico
:'' (Великий перелом, ''Velikiy perelom''), directed by Fridrikh Markovitch Ermler , Soviet Union
:'', directed by Jean Delannoy , France
:'' (''Die Letzte Chance''), directed by Leopold Lintberg , Switzerland
:'' (''Muži bez křídel''), directed by František Čáp , Czechoslovakia
:'' (''Roma, città aperta''), directed by Roberto Rossellini , Italy
- '' 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
- '' The Captive Heart '', the first Prisoner of War film from World War II
- '' Duel In The Sun ''
- '' 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
- '' It's A Wonderful Life '', directed by Frank Capra , starring James Stewart
- '' Ivan The Terrible ''
- '' 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 ''
- '' Smithy
- '' Song Of The South '' by Walt Disney, combines animation and live action.
- '' The Spiral Staircase ''
- '' 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
- 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 23 - Blair Brown , actress
- April 25 - Talia Shire , actress
- May 20 - Cher , American singer/actress
- June 15 - Brigitte Fossey , French 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
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