Events

Top grossing films

North America

1. The Bells of St. Mary's
2. Leave Her to Heaven
3. tie Blue Skies, The Road to Utopia , Spellbound

Academy Awards

• Best Picture: The Best Years of Our Lives - Goldwyn, RKO Radio
• Best Actor: Fredric March - The Best Years of Our Lives
• Best Actress: Olivia de Havilland - To Each His Own

Movies released

Movies released in 1946 include:

• Song of the South by Walt Disney, combines animation and live action.
• The Best Years of Our Lives
• Duel in the Sun
• Notorious, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant
• The Yearling, starring Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman
• The Razor's Edge, starring Tyrone Power
• Tomorrow Is Forever
• Without Reservations
• It's a Wonderful Life, directed by Frank Capra, starring James Stewart
• Henry V
• La Belle et la bête
• The Lost Weekend
• The Postman Always Rings twice
• The Big Sleep, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall
• The Harvey Girls , directed by George Sidney, starring Judy Garland
• Beware , directed by Bud Pollard , starring Louis Jordan
• The Blue Dahlia

Births

• 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 (+ 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 (+ 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 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

Deaths

• April 1 - Noah Beery, Sr., actor
• June 23 - William S. Hart, silent film star
• August 10 - Léon Gaumont, French film pioneer
• August 13 - H.G. Wells, science fiction writer
• August 28 - Florence Turner, actress