1941 in film

Events

Top grossing films

1. Sergeant York
2. Buck Privates, starring Abbott and Costello
3. Tobacco Road

Academy Awards

• Best Picture: How Green Was My Valley – 20th Century-Fox
• Best Actor: Gary Cooper – Sergeant York
• Best Actress: Joan Fontaine – Suspicion

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 Kieslowski, film director
• October 4 – Anne Rice, horror/fantasy writer

Deaths

• January 10 – Joe Penner, comedian, actor

Other movies released

• Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion
• Bowery Blitzkrieg
• Citizen Kane, starring Orson Welles
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, starring Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman and Lana Turner
• Dumbo
• Flying Wild
• Hit the Road
• The Lady Eve
• Mob Town
• Pride of the Bowery
• Sea Radiers
• Spooks Run Wild
• The Maltese Falcon, starring Humphrey Bogart