1948

1. The Red Shoes- Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
2. [Letter From An Unknown Woman- Max Ophüls]
3. Red River- Howard Hawks
4. The Bicycle Thief- Vittorio de Sica
5. It Always Rains on Sunday- Robert Hamer
6. Force of Evil- Abraham Polonsky
7. Treasure of the Sierra Madre- John Huston
8. Unfaithfully Yours- Preston Sturges
9. The Lady From Shanghai- Orson Welles
10. Fort Apache- John Ford
11. The Fallen Idol- Carol Reed
12. Rope- Alfred Hitchcock

Ripe for re-appraisal: Easter Parade (Charles Walters), Jour de Fete (Jacques Tati), Key Largo (John Huston), Three Godfathers (John Ford)

Need to see: Act of Violence (Fred Zinnemann), Berlin Express (Jacques Tourneur), The Big Clock (John Farrow), Call Northside 777 (Henry Hathaway), Drunken Angel (Akira Kurosawa), A Foreign Affair (Billy Wilder), Good Sam (Leo McCarey), A Hen in the Wind (Yasujiro Ozu), Macbeth (Orson Welles), Louisiana Story (Robert Flaherty), Moonrise (Frank Borzage), The Naked City (Jules Dassin), Oliver Twist (David Lean), The Pirate (Vincente Minnelli), Pitfall (Andre de Toth), Portrait of Jennie (William Dieterle), Raw Deal (Anthony Mann), A Song Is Born (Howard Hawks), Spring in a Small Town (Fei Mu), State of the Union (Frank Capra), La Terra Trema (Luchino Visconti)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Hamlet (Laurence Olivier)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Hamlet