1941 in film
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Events
Top grossing films
Academy Awards
- Best Picture: How Green Was My Valley - 20th Century-Fox
- Best Actor: Gary Cooper - Sergeant York
- Best Actress: Joan Fontaine - Suspicion
Other films released
- Bowery Blitzkrieg
- Citizen Kane, directed by and starring Orson Welles
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, starring Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman and Lana Turner
- Dumbo
- Flying Wild
- Forty-Ninth Parallel
- Hellzapoppin'
- Hit the Road
- Kipps
- The Lady Eve
- Listen to Britain, British propaganda film directed by Humphrey Jennings
- The Maltese Falcon, starring Humphrey Bogart
- Mob Town
- Pride of the Bowery
- Spooks Run Wild
- Target for Tonight
Short film series
Animated short film series
- Mickey Mouse (1928-1953)
- Looney Tunes (1930-1969)
- Terrytoons (1930-1964)
- Merrie Melodies (1931-1969)
- Scrappy (1931-1941)
- Popeye (1933-1957)
- Color Rhapsodies (1934-1949)
- Donald Duck (1937-1956)
- Walter Lantz Cartunes (a.k.a. New Universal Cartoons or Cartune Comedies) (1938-1942)
- Goofy (1939-1955)
- Andy Panda (1939-1949)
- Tom and Jerry (MGM) (1940-1958)
- Woody Woodpecker (1941-1949)
- Swing Symphonies (1941-1945)
- The Fox and the Crow (1941-1950)
Births
- January 3 - Van Dyke Parks, musician, composer
- January 4 - Henri Bergson, writer
- January 5 - Miyazaki Hayao, Japanese film maker
- January 8 - Graham Chapman, comedian
- January 14 - Faye Dunaway, actress
- February 11 - Glenn Randall Jr, stuntman
- June 25 - Denys Arcand, screenwriter, film director
- June 27 - Krzysztof Kieślowski, film director
- October 4 - Anne Rice, horror/fantasy writer
Deaths
- January 10 - Joe Penner, comedian, actor
