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.

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Top-grossing films (U.S.) edit

The top ten 1946 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1946
Rank Title Distributor Domestic rentals
1 The Best Years of Our Lives RKO $10,170,000[1]
2 Duel in the Sun Selznick International $8,700,000[1]
3 The Jolson Story Columbia $7,600,000[2]
4 Blue Skies Paramount $5,700,000[2]
5 Saratoga Trunk Warner Bros. $5,148,000[3]
6 The Razor's Edge 20th Century Fox $5,000,000[2]
7 Night and Day Warner Bros. $4,990,000[3]
8 Notorious RKO $4,850,000[4]
9 The Yearling MGM $4,768,000[5]
10 Till the Clouds Roll By $4,748,000[5]

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Category/Organization 4th Golden Globe Awards
February 26, 1947
19th Academy Awards
March 13, 1947
Best Film The Best Years of Our Lives
Best Director Frank Capra
It's a Wonderful Life
William Wyler
The Best Years of Our Lives
Best Actor Gregory Peck
The Yearling
Fredric March
The Best Years of Our Lives
Best Actress Rosalind Russell
Sister Kenny
Olivia de Havilland
To Each His Own
Best Supporting Actor Clifton Webb
The Razor's Edge
Harold Russell
The Best Years of Our Lives
Best Supporting Actress Anne Baxter
The Razor's Edge

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References edit

  1. ^ a b "All-Time Top Grossers". Variety. 18 January 1950. p. 18. Retrieved 3 December 2023 – via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ a b c Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 356–357. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
  3. ^ a b Warner Bros financial information in The William Shaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 26 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
  4. ^ "Richard B. Jewell's RKO film grosses, 1929–51: The C. J. Trevlin Ledger: A comment". Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Volume 14, Issue 1, 1994.
  5. ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  6. ^ "Alan Rickman obituary". the Guardian. 14 January 2016. Retrieved 14 January 2021.

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