* 20th Academy Awards ( 1948 ): Best Screenplay, nomination, for Monsieur Verdoux

* 1948 – The Cole Porter Broadway musical, Kiss Me, Kate ( 1, 077 performances ), opens at the New Century Theatre and becomes the first show to win the Best Musical Tony Award.

The BAFTAs had included a Best British Film category since 1948, although the idea was dropped in the 1960s.

Frances worked on several of her husband's films, and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Story for Louisiana Story ( 1948 ).

* 1949: Best Short Subject, Two-reel: Seal Island ( 1948 )

The immediate aftermath of the war in Hollywood avoided the action film and delved into problems experienced by the returning veterans, turning out a number of high quality films that included The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ), Battleground ( 1949 ), Home of the Brave ( 1949 ), Command Decision ( 1948 ), and Twelve O ' Clock High ( 1949 ).

* Oscar winners: Rebecca ( 1940 ), How Green Was My Valley ( 1941 ), Mrs. Miniver ( 1942 ), Casablanca ( 1943 ), Going My Way ( 1944 ), The Lost Weekend ( 1945 ), The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ), Gentleman's Agreement ( 1947 ), Hamlet ( 1948 ), All the King's Men ( 1949 ).

Memorable films from post-war England include David Lean's Great Expectations ( 1946 ) and Oliver Twist ( 1948 ), Carol Reed's Odd Man Out ( 1947 ) and The Third Man ( 1949 ), and Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ), Black Narcissus ( 1946 ) and The Red Shoes ( 1948 ), Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, the first non-American film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture and Kind Hearts and Coronets ( 1949 ) directed by Robert Hamer.

* Edgar Allan Poe Awards: Edgar ; Best Motion Picture, John Paxton ( screenwriter ), Richard Brooks ( author ), Dore Schary ( producer ), Adrian Scott ( associate producer ) and Edward Dmytryk ( director ); 1948.

Brian Easdale's score won an Oscar for " Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture " in 1948.

The score by Daniele Amfitheatrof, Paul J. Smith, and Charles Wolcott was nominated in the " Scoring of a Musical Picture " category, and " Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah ", written by Allie Wrubel and Ray Gilbert won the award for Best Song at the 20th Academy Awards on March 20, 1948.

Other film versions ( which are loose adaptations as opposed to straight translations from stage to screen ) include: the 1929 The Framing of the Shrew, directed by Arvid E. Gillstrom, and starring Edward Thompson and Evelyn Preer ; the 1933 You Made Me Love You, directed by Monty Banks, and starring Stanley Lupino and Thelma Todd ; the 1938 Second Best Bed, directed by Tom Walls, and starring Jane Baxter and Walls himself ; the 1942 Italian adaptation La bisbetica domata, directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli, and starring Amedeo Nazzari and Lilia Silvi ; the 1943 Hungarian adaptation Makacs Kata ( Stubborn Kate ) directed by Emil Martonffy, and starring Katalin Karády and Pál Jávor ; another 1943 Hungarian adaptation, Makrancos hölgy ( Unruly Lady ), directed by Viktor Bánky, and starring Emmi Buttykay and Miklós Hajmássy ; the 1948 Mexican adaptation Cartas marcadas, directed by René Cardona, and starring Marga López and Pedro Infante ; the 1956 Spanish adaptation La fierecilla domada, directed by Antonio Román, and starring Carmen Sevilla and Alberto Closas ; the 1962 Egyptian adaptation Ah min hawaa, directed by Fatin Abdel Wahab, and starring Lobna Abdel Aziz and Rushdy Abaza ; the 1963 western McLintock !, directed by Andrew McLaglen, and starring John Wayne and Maureen O ' Hara ; the 1999 teen film 10 Things I Hate About You, directed by Gil Junger, and starring Julia Stiles as Kat Stratford ( Katherina ) and Heath Ledger as Patrick Verona ( Petruchio ); the 2003 comedy Deliver Us from Eva, directed by Gary Hardwick, and starring Gabrielle Union and LL Cool J ; and the 2010 Bollywood film Isi Life Mein, directed by Vidhi Kasliwal, and starring Akshay Oberoi and Sandeepa Dhar.

His later career included Broadway and television work ; he received a Tony Award in 1948 as Best Actor in a Play.

The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing, Motion Picture Story in 1948.

" She won Best Actress Academy Awards for To Each His Own ( 1946 ) and The Heiress ( 1949 ), and was also widely praised for her Academy Award – nominated performance in The Snake Pit ( 1948 ).

Van Gogh received a prize at the Venice Biennale in 1948, and also won an Oscar for Best 2-reel Short in 1949.

He won the Best Actor Oscar in 1948 for A Double Life.

In 1948, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his starring role in Body and Soul ( 1947 ).

Garfield was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Four Daughters in 1939 and Best Actor for Body and Soul in 1948.

Clift in a trailer screenshot of the 1948 film The Search, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor.

* 1948: Best Actor in a Leading Role — The Search

A hit version of the song, sung by Burl Ives, was featured in the Walt Disney movie, So Dear to My Heart ( 1948 ) and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song.

Director Jules Dassin of The Naked City ( 1948 ) pointed to the neorealists as inspiring his use of on-location photography with nonprofessional extras.

From 1946 to 1948, renowned French linguist André Martinet was Director of Research.

* The Search ( Director: Fred Zinnemann, Starring: Montgomery Clift ) 1948 Filmed in post-war Berlin: A story which brings to life UNRRA work in 1945 Germany.

* September 4 – Antonin Artaud, Theatre Practitioner, Director and Actor ( d. 1948 )

In 1948 he was elected Director of Economics by the Bizonal Economic Council.

In July 1948, a group of southwest German businessmen attacked the restrictive credit policy of Economic Director Erhard.

Early in September 1948, Mar brought Professor Ovid R. Sellers, the new Director of ASOR, some additional scroll fragments that he had acquired.

He served as Director of the Osaka Railways Bureau from 1944 to 1946 and Vice-Minister for Transportation from 1947 to 1948.

Under Sir Eugene Goossens ( Director 1948 – 55 ), opera at the Conservatorium made a major contribution to what researcher Roger Covell has described as " the most seminal years in the history of locally produced opera ...".

* Sir Eugene Goossens ( Director 1948 – 55 )

* 1948 Director of the Division of Pure Physics, National Research Council of Canada

* George W. Lewis ( 1882 – 1948 ), Director of Aeronautical Research at NACA

* David Davies ( football administrator ) ( born 1948 ), former Executive Director of the English Football Association

* Sir George Francis Hill ( 1867 – 1948 ), Director of the British Museum

George William Lewis ( March 10, 1882 – July 12, 1948 ) was the Director of Aeronautical Research at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ( NACA ) until he retired in 1947.

Ultimately this led to Hartnett resigning from his position as Managing Director of GMH, shortly before the launch of the Holden in 1948.

Sir John McLeod Scarlett, KCMG, OBE ( born 18 August 1948 ) was Director General of the British Secret Intelligence Service ( MI6 ) from 2004 to 2009.

He later became Director ( 1948 ), then Managing Director ( 1958 ), then Chairman ( 1967 ) of the business.

In his early career he was: Solicitor for the Handelsbank ( Commercial Bank ) of Stockholm ( 1914 ); head of Bank's Commercial Credit Department ( 1915 ); Assistant Manager and Solicitor of Stockholm Mortgage Bank for several years ; Governor of the Central Bank of Sweden ( Sveriges Riksbank, 1929 – 1948 ); Director of Bank of International Settlements ( 1931 – 1933 and 1937 – 1949 ).

Then he was: Deputy Director for the Department of External Finance of the French Treasury ( 1946 ); Alternate Executive Director for France at the IMF ( 1947 ); Secretary of the French Interministerial Committee in Charge of Questions on European Economic Cooperation ( 1948 ); Financial Attaché at the French Embassy in Washington ( 1949-1953 ); Director of the French Treasury ( 1953-1960 ).

While riding USAir Flight 1948 with the Ottawa Senators, while talking with a flight attendant, he leaned over to Trevor Timmins ( then the Senators ' Director Of Team Services ) and said " Watch out for your bomb there " while motioning towards Timmons ' laptop computer.