1983 in film
Events
Top grossing films (U.S.)
| Rank |
Title |
Studio |
Gross |
| 1. |
Return of the Jedi |
20th Century Fox |
$252,583,617 |
| 2. |
Terms of Endearment |
Paramount |
$108,423,489 |
| 3. |
Flashdance |
Paramount |
$92,921,203 |
| 4. |
Trading Places |
Paramount |
$90,404,800 |
| 5. |
WarGames |
MGM |
$79,567,667 |
| 6. |
Octopussy |
MGM |
$67,893,619 |
| 7. |
Sudden Impact |
Warner Brothers |
$67,642,693 |
| 8. |
Staying Alive |
Paramount |
$64,892,670 |
| 9. |
Mr. Mom |
20th Century Fox |
$64,783,827 |
| 10. |
Risky Business |
Warner Brothers |
$63,541,777 |
source: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1983&p=.htm
Awards
Academy Awards:
- Best Picture: Terms of Endearment
- Best Director: James L. Brooks - Terms of Endearment
- Best Actor: Robert Duvall - Tender Mercies
- Best Actress: Shirley MacLaine - Terms of Endearment
- Best Supporting Actor: Jack Nicholson - Terms of Endearment
- Best Supporting Actress: Linda Hunt - The Year of Living Dangerously
- Best Foreign Language Film: Fanny and Alexander (Fanny och Alexander), directed by Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
Golden Globe Awards:
- Drama:
- Best Picture: Terms of Endearment
- Best Actor (tie): Tom Courtenay - The Dresser
- Best Actor (tie): Robert Duvall - Tender Mercies
- Best Actress: Shirley MacLaine - Terms of Endearment
- Musical or comedy:
- Best Picture: Yentl
- Best Actor: Michael Caine - Educating Rita
- Best Actress: Julie Walters - Educating Rita
- Other
- Best Director: Barbra Streisand - Yentl
- Best Foreign Language Film: Fanny and Alexander, Sweden
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
- The Ballad of Narayama (楢山節考, Narayama bushiko), directed by Shohei Imamura, Japan
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
- Prénom Carmen (First Name: Carmen), directed by Jean-Luc Godard,
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
- Ascendancy, directed by Edward Bennett, United Kingdom
- The Beehive (La Colmena), directed by Mario Camus, Spain
Films released in 1983
- A Christmas Story
- A Night in Heaven
- A Nos Amours
- All the Right Moves
- Ardh Satya, directed by Govind Nihalani, Silver Lotus Award for best Indian Actor Om Puri
- The Atlantis Interceptors
- Bad Boys
- The Ballad of Narayama (remake of the 1958 film) - Palme d'Or award
- La Bestia y la Espada Magica
- The Big Chill
- Bloodbath at the House of Death
- Blue Thunder
- Born in Flames
- Brainstorm
- Bullshot
- Chiefs
- Christine directed by John Carpenter, starring Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul, Robert Prosky, Harry Dean Stanton and Kelly Preston
- Class
- Cracking Up
- The Crimson Permanent Assurance, a Monty Python's short film
- Cross Creek
- Danton
- D.C. Cab
- The Dead Zone
- Le Dernier Combat (The Last Battle), directed by Luc Besson
- The Dresser
- Eddie and the Cruisers
- Educating Rita
- El Norte
- Entre Nous
- Eréndira
- Flashdance
- The Fourth Man
- Get Crazy
- Hercules
- The Hunger
- Jaws 3-D
- Koyaanisqatsi
- The Keep
- The King of Comedy, directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Jerry Lewis and Robert De Niro
- Local Hero
- Lone Wolf McQuade
- Man of Flowers
- Mickey's Christmas Carol, a featurette which brings the character Mickey Mouse back to cinemas for the first time since 1953.
- Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
- Mr. Mom
- National Lampoon's Vacation
- Never Say Never Again
- Nightmares
- Nostalghia
- Octopussy
- One Deadly Summer (L'été meurtrier)
- The Outsiders
- Phar Lap
- Porky's II: The Next Day
- Prénom Carmen (First Name: Carmen) - Golden Lion award
- Psycho II
- Reuben, Reuben
- The Right Stuff
- Risky Business
- Shaka Zulu
- Scarface
- The Scarlet and The Black
- Silkwood
- Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
- Staying Alive
- Superman III
- Sudden Impact
- Tender Mercies
- Terms of Endearment, directed by James L. Brooks - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture
- Trading Places
- Twilight Zone: The Movie
- Valley Girl
- Videodrome
- WarGames
- Yentl - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
- Yellowbeard
- Zelig
Births
Deaths
- January 8 - Gale Page, actress
- February 4 - Karen Carpenter, musician
- February 25 - Tennessee Williams, playwright
- March 14 - Maurice Ronet, actor, director, writer
- April 4 - Gloria Swanson, actress
- April 16 - Fifi D'Orsay, actress
- April 23 - Buster Crabbe, actor
- June 12 - Norma Shearer, Academy Award winning actress
- July 5 - Harry James, bandleader who appeared in some films, and was once married to actress Betty Grable
- July 29 - Raymond Massey, actor, father of actor Daniel Massey and actress Anna Massey
- July 29 - David Niven, Academy Award winning actor
- August 3 - Carolyn Jones, actress
- August 5 - Judy Canova, entertainer
- August 29 - Simon Oakland, actor
- October 8 - Joan Hackett, actress
- October 10 - Ralph Richardson, actor, one of the theatrical knights of the English stage
- October 15 - Pat O'Brien, actor
- November 28 - Johnnie Davis, actor, singer
- November 28 - Christopher George, leading film/television actor
- December 5 - Robert Aldrich, director
- December 8 - Slim Pickens, actor
- December 28 - William Demarest, actor
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