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HistoryCentral Est. 1996
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1948
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1948

Major Events · Sports · Music · Screen · Prizes

The Berlin Blockade triggered the Allied airlift, Israel declared independence, and Gandhi was assassinated. Truman pulled off his stunning upset over Dewey, apartheid took hold in South Africa, and Laurence Olivier's Hamlet won Best Picture.

A Year in Review
Best Picture
Hamlet
Nobel · Literature
Eliot
World Series
No. 1 Song
Top TV
Academy · Actor
Laurence Oliver

Screen & Television

At the box office & on the air

Top Movies

  1. The Road to Rio
  2. Easter Parade
  3. Red River
  4. The Three Musketeers
  5. Jonny Belinda
  6. Cass Timberlane
  7. The Emperor Waltz
  8. Gentleman's Agreement
  9. Date with Judy
  10. Captain from Castile

Academy Awards

Honoring 1948
Best Picture
Hamlet
Best Director
John Huston
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Best Actor
Laurence Oliver
Hamlet
Best Actress
Jane Wyman
Johnny Belinda

Nobel & Pulitzer Prizes

The year in letters & science

Nobel Prizes

Chemistry
TISELIUS, ARNE WILHELM KAURIN, Sweden, Uppsala University, b. 1902, d. 1971: "for his research on electrophoresis and adsorption analysis, especially for his discoveries concerning the complex nature of the serum proteins"
Literature
ELIOT, THOMAS STEARNS, Great Britain, b. 1888 (in S:t Louis, MO., U.S.A.), d. 1965: "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry"
Peace
The prize money was allocated to the Main Fund (1/3) and to the Special Fund (2/3) of this prize section
Physiology or Medicine
M†LLER, PAUL HERMANN, Switzerland, Laboratorium der Farben-Fabriken J.R. Geigy A.G. (Laboratory of the J.R. Geigy Dye-Factory Co.), Basel, b. 1899, d. 1965: "for his discovery of the high efficiency of DDT as a contact poison against severa
Physics
BLACKETT, Lord PATRICK MAYNARD STUART, Great Britain, Victoria University, Manchester, b. 1897, d. 1974: "for his development of the Wilson cloud chamber method, and his discoveries therewith in the fields of nuclear physics and cosmic radi

Pulitzer Prizes

Drama
Tennessee Williams ... "A Streetcar Named Desire"
Fiction
James A. Michener ... "Tales of the South Pacific"
History
Bernard DeVoto ... "Across the Wide Missouri" International Reporting: Paul W. Ward ... "Baltimore Sun" National Reporting: Bert Andrews ... "New York Herald Tribune" & Nat S. Finney ... "Minneapolis Tribune"
Public Service
"St. Louis Post-Dispatch"