1983 in film
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The following is an overview of events in 1983 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths.
Contents
1 Highest-grossing films (U.S.)
2 Events
3 Awards
4 Notable films released in 1983
5 1983 Wide-release movies
5.1 January–March
5.2 April–June
5.3 July–September
5.4 October–December
6 Births
7 Notable deaths
8 Film debuts
9 See also
10 References
Highest-grossing films (U.S.)[edit]
The top ten 1983 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Rank | Title | Distributor | Domestic gross |
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1. | Return of the Jedi | 20th Century Fox | $252,583,617 |
2. | Terms of Endearment | Paramount | $108,423,489 |
3. | Flashdance | $92,921,203 | |
4. | Trading Places | $90,404,800 | |
5. | WarGames | United Artists | $79,567,667 |
6. | Octopussy | $67,800,000 | |
7. | Sudden Impact | Warner Bros. | $67,642,693 |
8. | Staying Alive | Paramount | $64,892,670 |
9. | Mr. Mom | 20th Century Fox | $64,783,827 |
10. | Risky Business | Warner Bros. | $63,541,777 |
Events[edit]
- February 11 - The Rolling Stones concert film Let's Spend the Night Together opens in New York City.
- May 25 - Return of the Jedi, the final installment in the original Star Wars trilogy, is released. Like the previous films, it goes on to become the highest-grossing film of the year.
- 1983 was a landmark year in film. More films have gotten an R-rating than any other year thus far.
Nicole Kidman makes her film debut.
Brainstorm, the final film of screen star Natalie Wood, is released, 2 years after her death.- October - Frank Price resigns as president of Columbia Pictures and is replaced by Guy McElwaine.
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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
- Comedy or Musical:
Best Picture: Yentl
Best Actor: Michael Caine - Educating Rita
Best Actress: Julie Walters - Educating Rita
- Other
Best Supporting Actor: Jack Nicholson - Terms of Endearment
Best Supporting Actress: Cher - Silkwood
Best Director: Barbra Streisand - Yentl
Best Foreign Language Film: Fanny and Alexander, Sweden
Golden Raspberry Awards:
Worst Picture: The Lonely Lady
Worst Director: Peter Sasdy – The Lonely Lady
Worst Actor: Christopher Atkins – A Night in Heaven
Worst Actress: Pia Zadora – The Lonely Lady
Worst Supporting Actor: Jim Nabors – Stroker Ace
Worst Supporting Actress: Sybil Danning – Chained Heat & Hercules
Worst Screenplay: John Kershaw & Shawn Randall - The Lonely Lady
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
Notable films released in 1983[edit]
U.S.A. unless stated
10 to Midnight, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Charles Bronson
A
À Nos Amours (To Our Love), directed by Maurice Pialat, starring Sandrine Bonnaire - (France)
Adi Shankaracharya, starring Sarvadaman Banerjee, the first film to be made in Sanskrit - (India)
All the Right Moves, starring Tom Cruise, Craig T. Nelson, Lea Thompson, Chris Penn
Americana, directed by and starring David Carradine
Among Grey Stones (Sredi serykh kamney) - (U.S.S.R.)
And the Ship Sails On (E la nave va), directed by Federico Fellini - (Italy)
Another Time, Another Place, starring Phyllis Logan - (U.K.)
Ardh Satya (Half Truth), directed by Govind Nihalani, starring Om Puri (Silver Lotus Award for best actor) - (India)
Ascendancy, starring Julie Covington and Ian Charleson, winner of Golden Bear award - (U.K.)
Austeria a.k.a. The Inn - Poland
Avtaar, directed by Mohan Kumar, starring Rajesh Khanna - (India)
B
BMX Bandits, starring Nicole Kidman - (Australia)
Baby It's You, directed by John Sayles, starring Rosanna Arquette and Vincent Spano
Bad Boys, starring Sean Penn, Esai Morales, Ally Sheedy, Clancy Brown
Le Bal (The Ball), directed by Ettore Scola - (Italy/France)
Balkan Express - (Yugoslavia)
The Ballad of Narayama (Narayama bushiko), directed by Shohei Imamura (remake of the 1958 film) - (Japan) - Palme d'Or award
Barefoot Gen (Hadashi no gen) - (Japan)
Beauty and the Beast (Skønheden og udyret) - (Denmark)
La Bestia y la Espada Magica (The Beast and the Magic Sword) - (Spain/Japan)
Betaab (Impatient), starring Sunny Deol and Amrita Singh - (India)
Betrayal, starring Jeremy Irons and Ben Kingsley - (U.K.)
Better Late Than Never, starring David Niven and Art Carney
The Big Chill, directed by Lawrence Kasdan, starring Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Meg Tilly, JoBeth Williams
Bill Cosby: Himself, a stand-up comedy performance
The Black Stallion Returns, starring Kelly Reno and Teri Garr
Bloodbath at the House of Death, starring Kenny Everett - (U.K.)
Blue Thunder, directed by John Badham, starring Roy Scheider, Daniel Stern, Malcolm McDowell
Born in Flames, a documentary film by Lizzie Borden
The Boys from Fengkuei (Feng gui lai de ren) - (Taiwan)
Brainstorm, starring Christopher Walken, Louise Fletcher, Cliff Robertson and, in her final film, Natalie Wood
Breathless, directed by Jim McBride, starring Richard Gere
Bush Christmas, debut of Nicole Kidman - (Australia)
C
Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?, starring Karen Black
Careful, He Might Hear You - (Australia)
Carmen, directed by Carlos Saura - (Spain)
Champions, starring John Hurt - (U.K.)
Christine, directed by John Carpenter, starring Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul, Robert Prosky, Harry Dean Stanton, Kelly Preston
A Christmas Story, directed by Bob Clark, starring Peter Billingsley, Darren McGavin, Melinda Dillon
Circle of Power, starring Yvette Mimieux and Cindy Pickett
City of Pirates (La Ville des pirates) - (France)
Class, starring Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Jacqueline Bisset, Cliff Robertson
Les Compères (Co-Dads), starring Gérard Depardieu and Pierre Richard - (France)
Confidentially Yours (Vivement Dimanche), directed by François Truffaut, starring Fanny Ardant and Jean-Louis Trintignant - (France)
Cracking Up, directed by and starring Jerry Lewis
The Crimson Permanent Assurance, a Monty Python's short film directed by Terry Gilliam - (U.K.)
Cross Creek, starring Mary Steenburgen, Peter Coyote, Rip Torn, Alfre Woodard
Curse of the Pink Panther, directed by Blake Edwards - (U.K.)
Cujo, starring Dee Wallace and Danny Pintauro
D
D.C. Cab, starring Adam Baldwin, Mr. T, Gary Busey
- Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island
Daniel, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Timothy Hutton, Mandy Patinkin, Lindsay Crouse, Ellen Barkin
Danton, directed by Andrzej Wajda, starring Gérard Depardieu - (France/Poland/West Germany)
Dark Habits (Entre tinieblas), directed by Pedro Almodóvar - (Spain)
The Day After (made for television), starring Jason Robards, Steve Guttenberg, JoBeth Williams, John Lithgow
The Dead Zone, directed by David Cronenberg, starring Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Herbert Lom, Tom Skerritt, Martin Sheen
Deadly Run (Mortelle randonnee), starring Michel Serrault and Isabelle Adjani - (France)
Deal of the Century, directed by William Friedkin, starring Chevy Chase, Gregory Hines, Sigourney Weaver
The Death of Mario Ricci (La mort de Mario Ricci), starring Gian Maria Volontè - (Switzerland/France)
Le Dernier Combat (The Last Battle), directed by Luc Besson - (France)
Doctor Detroit, starring Dan Aykroyd, Howard Hesseman, Donna Dixon, Fran Drescher, Lynn Whitfield
The Dragon That Wasn't (Or Was He?) (Als je begrijpt wat ik bedoel) - (Netherlands)
The Dresser, directed by Peter Yates, starring Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay - (U.K.)
Duvar - (Turkey)
E
Easy Money, starring Rodney Dangerfield, Joe Pesci, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Eddie and the Cruisers, starring Michael Paré and Tom Berenger
Eddie Macon's Run, starring Kirk Douglas and John Schneider
Educating Rita, directed by Lewis Gilbert, starring Michael Caine and Julie Walters - (U.K.)
El Norte, directed by Gregory Nava - (U.K./U.S.A.)
El Sur (The South) - (Spain)
Entre Nous (Between Us), starring Miou-Miou and Isabelle Huppert - (France)
Eréndira, starring Irene Papas - (Mexico)
Eureka, directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring Gene Hackman, Rutger Hauer, Theresa Russell, Mickey Rourke
Exposed, directed by James Toback, starring Nastassja Kinski, Rudolf Nureyev, Harvey Keitel
F
The Family Game (Kazoku Gēmu), directed by Yoshimitsu Morita - (Japan)
Ferestadeh - (U.S.A./West Germany)
Flashdance, directed by Adrian Lyne, starring Jennifer Beals and Michael Nouri
Flesh of Your Flesh (Carne de tu carne) - (Colombia)
Forbidden Relations (Visszaesök) - (Hungary)
The Fourth Man (De Vierde Man), directed by Paul Verhoeven - (Netherlands)
Funny Dirty Little War (No habrá más penas ni olvido) - (Argentina)
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Gabriela, Cravo e Canela, starring Sônia Braga and Marcello Mastroianni - (Brazil)
Get Crazy, starring Malcolm McDowell
Gorky Park, starring William Hurt, Lee Marvin, Joanna Pacuła, Ian Bannen, Brian Dennehy
Growing Up (Xiao Bi de gu shi) - (Taiwan)
Gunman (Mue puen) - (Thailand)
H
Heart Like a Wheel, directed by Jonathan Kaplan, starring Bonnie Bedelia and Beau Bridges
Heat and Dust, directed by James Ivory, starring Julie Christie, Greta Scacchi, Shashi Kapoor - (U.K.)
High Road to China, starring Tom Selleck and Bess Armstrong
The Honorary Consul, starring Michael Caine and Richard Gere - (U.K.)
The Hunger, directed by Tony Scott, starring Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon - (U.K.)
I-J
The Illusionist - (Netherlands)
In the White City (Dans la ville blanche), directed by Alain Tanner, starring Bruno Ganz - (Switzerland)
Independence Day, starring Kathleen Quinlan, David Keith, Dianne Wiest
Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro (Just Let it Go, Friends), starring Naseeruddin Shah - (India)
Jaws 3-D, starring Dennis Quaid, Bess Armstrong, Louis Gossett Jr.
Un jeu brutal (A Brutal Game) - (France)
K
The Keep, directed by Michael Mann, starring Scott Glenn
King for a Day (Gospodin za edin den) - (Bulgaria)
The King of Comedy, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro and Jerry Lewis
Krull, directed by Peter Yates, starring Ken Marshall, Lysette Anthony, Francesca Annis, Liam Neeson - (U.K.)
L
L'Argent (Money), directed by Robert Bresson - (France)
Last Year's Snow Was Falling (Padal proshlogodniy sneg) - (U.S.S.R.)
Lianna, directed by John Sayles, starring Linda Griffiths
Liquid Sky, starring Anne Carlisle
- Little House on the Prairie: A Look Back to Yesterday
Local Hero, directed by Bill Forsyth, starring Peter Riegert and Burt Lancaster - (U.K.)
Lone Wolf McQuade, starring Chuck Norris, David Carradine, Barbara Carrera
The Lords of Discipline, starring David Keith and Mark Breland
Losin' It, starring Tom Cruise and Shelley Long
Lovesick, starring Dudley Moore, Elizabeth McGovern, Alec Guinness
M
The Makioka Sisters (Sasame-yuki), directed by Kon Ichikawa - (Japan)
The Man in the Silk Hat (L'homme au chapeau de soie), a documentary about Max Linder - (France)
Man of Flowers, starring Norman Kaye - (Australia)
The Man Who Loved Women, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Burt Reynolds, Julie Andrews, Marilu Henner, Kim Basinger
The Man with Two Brains, directed by Carl Reiner, starring Steve Martin and Kathleen Turner
Mandi, directed by Shyam Benegal - (India)
Moon in the Gutter, directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix, starring Gérard Depardieu and Nastassja Kinski
Masoom (The Innocent), starring Naseeruddin Shah - (India)
Max Dugan Returns, directed by Herbert Ross, starring Marsha Mason, Jason Robards, Donald Sutherland, Matthew Broderick
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Senjō no Merī Kurisumasu), directed by Nagisa Oshima, starring David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto - (Japan/U.K.)
Mickey's Christmas Carol, a featurette which brings Mickey Mouse back to cinemas for first time since 1953
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, directed by Terry Jones, starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Michael Palin and Jones - (U.K.)
Mr. Mom, starring Michael Keaton, Teri Garr, Martin Mull
My Brother's Wedding, directed by Charles Burnett
N
Nankyoku Monogatari (South Pole Story) - (Japan)
Narcissus - (Canada)
Nate and Hayes, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Michael O'Keefe
National Lampoon's Vacation, directed by Harold Ramis, starring Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo
Nešto između - (Yugoslavia)
Never Cry Wolf, starring Charles Martin Smith
Never Say Never Again, starring Sean Connery (as James Bond) with Barbara Carrera, Kim Basinger, Klaus Maria Brandauer - (U.K.)
A Night in Heaven, starring Christopher Atkins and Lesley Ann Warren
Nightmares, starring Cristina Raines and Emilio Estevez
Nostalghia, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky - (U.S.S.R./Italy)
O
Octopussy, starring Roger Moore (as James Bond) with Maud Adams and Louis Jourdan - (U.K.)
Of Unknown Origin, starring Peter Weller - (U.S.A./Canada)
One Deadly Summer (L'été meurtrier), starring Isabelle Adjani - (France)
The Osterman Weekend, directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring Rutger Hauer, John Hurt, Craig T. Nelson, Dennis Hopper, Meg Foster, Helen Shaver, Burt Lancaster
The Outsiders, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Rob Lowe, Patrick Swayze, Emilio Estevez, Tom Cruise
P-Q
Pauline at the Beach (Pauline à la plage), directed by Éric Rohmer - (France)
Phar Lap, starring Tom Burlinson - (Australia)
The Pirates of Penzance, a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, starring Kevin Kline, Rex Smith, Angela Lansbury, Linda Ronstadt - (U.S.A./U.K.)
The Ploughman's Lunch, starring Jonathan Pryce - (U.K.)
Prénom Carmen (First Name: Carmen), directed by Jean-Luc Godard - (France) - Golden Lion award
Private School, starring Phoebe Cates, Matthew Modine, Betsy Russell, Ray Walston
Project A (A Gai Wak), starring Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung - (Hong Kong)
Psycho II, directed by Richard Franklin, starring Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Meg Tilly and Robert Loggia
R
Rebetiko - (Greece)
Return of the Jedi, directed by Richard Marquand, starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
Reuben, Reuben, starring Tom Conti and Kelly McGillis
The Right Stuff, directed by Philip Kaufman, starring Scott Glenn, Sam Shepard, Ed Harris, Fred Ward, Dennis Quaid, Barbara Hershey, Pamela Reed
Risky Business, directed by Paul Brickman, starring Tom Cruise and Rebecca De Mornay
Rock & Rule, an animated rock musical - (Canada)
Romantic Comedy, directed by Arthur Hiller, starring Dudley Moore and Mary Steenburgen
Rumble Fish, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane, Vincent Spano, Diana Scarwid, Nicolas Cage, Dennis Hopper
Running Brave, starring Robby Benson
S
Sagara Sangamam (The Confluence) - (India)
Sadma (Trauma) - (India)
Sahara, starring Brooke Shields and Horst Buchholz
Sans Soleil (Sunless), directed by Chris Marker - (France)
A Season in Hakkari (Hakkâri'de Bir Mevsim) - (Turkey)
Scarface, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Loggia
The Scarlet and the Black, directed by Jerry London, starring Gregory Peck, Christopher Plummer, John Gielgud
Sheer Madness (Heller Wahn), directed by Margarethe von Trotta, starring Hanna Schygulla - (West Germany)
Silkwood, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher
Sleepaway Camp, starring Mike Kellin
Smokey and the Bandit Part 3, starring Jackie Gleason and Jerry Reed
So Long, Stooge (Tchao Pantin), directed by Claude Berri - (France)
Something Wicked This Way Comes, starring Jason Robards and Jonathan Pryce
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, directed by Lamont Johnson, starring Peter Strauss and Molly Ringwald
Star 80, directed by Bob Fosse, starring Mariel Hemingway and Eric Roberts
The Star Chamber, starring Michael Douglas and Hal Holbrook
Staying Alive, directed by Sylvester Stallone, starring John Travolta, Cynthia Rhodes, Finola Hughes
The Sting II, starring Jackie Gleason, Mac Davis, Karl Malden, Oliver Reed, Teri Garr
Strange Brew, starring Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas - (Canada)
Strange Invaders, starring Paul Le Mat, Nancy Allen, Diana Scarwid
Stray Dogs (Deulgae) - (South Korea)
Streamers, starring Matthew Modine and David Alan Grier
Stroker Ace, directed by Hal Needham, starring Burt Reynolds, Loni Anderson, Jim Nabors, Ned Beatty
Sudden Impact, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, with Sondra Locke
Sugar Cane Alley (Rue Cases-Negres) - (France/Martinique)
Superman III, directed by Richard Lester, starring Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor, Annette O'Toole, Pamela Stephenson, Robert Vaughn
The Survivors, starring Walter Matthau and Robin Williams
Sweet Bunch, directed by Nikos Nikolaidis - (Greece)
T
Table for Five, starring Jon Voight, Marie-Christine Barrault, Richard Crenna, Millie Perkins, Roxana Zal
Tender Mercies, directed by Bruce Beresford, starring Robert Duvall, Tess Harper, Betty Buckley, Ellen Barkin
Terms of Endearment, directed by James L. Brooks, starring Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Jeff Daniels, John Lithgow
Testament, starring Jane Alexander, William Devane, Leon Ames, Roxana Zal
- The Last Ninja
The Thorn Birds, TV miniseries, starring Rachel Ward, Richard Chamberlain, Bryan Brown, Christopher Plummer, Barbara Stanwyck
Three Crowns of the Sailor (Les Trois couronnes du matelot) - (France)
Tight Quarters (Könnyű testi sértés) - (Hungary)
To Be or Not to Be, starring Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft, Tim Matheson, Charles Durning, José Ferrer
Toki o Kakeru Shōjo (The Little Girl who Conquered Time) - (Japan)
Tough Enough, starring Dennis Quaid, Warren Oates, Stan Shaw
Trading Places, directed by John Landis, starring Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche
Trenchcoat, starring Margot Kidder and Robert Hays
Twenty Years of African Cinema a.k.a. Caméra d'Afrique - (Tunisia)
Twilight Zone: The Movie, segments directed by John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante and George Miller, starring Vic Morrow, Scatman Crothers, Kathleen Quinlan, John Lithgow
- Twice Upon a Time
Two of a Kind, directed by John Herzfeld, starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John
U
Uncommon Valor, directed by Ted Kotcheff, starring Gene Hackman, Fred Ward, Robert Stack, Randall "Tex" Cobb, Patrick Swayze
Under Fire, directed by Roger Spottiswoode, starring Nick Nolte, Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy
Utu - (New Zealand)
V
Valley Girl, starring Deborah Foreman and Nicolas Cage
The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun (Faunovo velmi pozdní odpoledne) - (Czechoslovakia)
Videodrome, starring James Woods and Deborah Harry - (Canada)
Vigilante, starring Robert Forster
Vlyublyon po sobstvennomu zhelaniyu (Love by Request) - (U.S.S.R.)
Voyage in Time (Tempo di Viaggio), directed by Tonino Guerra and Andrei Tarkovsky - (Italy)
W
Walking the Edge, starring Robert Forster and Nancy Kwan
Walking, Walking (Cammina, cammina), directed by Ermanno Olmi - (Italy)
WarGames, directed by John Badham, starring Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, Ally Sheedy
Wartime Romance (Voenno-polevoy roman), directed by Pyotr Todorovsky - (U.S.S.R.)
We Are from Jazz (My iz dzhaza) - (U.S.S.R.)
The Wind in the Willows, starring Richard Pearson, Ian Carmichael, David Jason and Michael Hordern - (U.K.)
The Winds of War, TV mini-series, starring Robert Mitchum, Ali MacGraw, Polly Bergen, Peter Graves, John Houseman, Ralph Bellamy
- Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore
Without a Trace, starring Kate Nelligan and Judd Hirsch
The Wounded Man (l'Homme blessé) - (France)
YZ
Yellowbeard, starring Graham Chapman and Peter Boyle - (U.K.)
Yentl, directed by and starring Barbra Streisand, with Mandy Patinkin and Amy Irving - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
Zappa, directed by Bille August - (Denmark)
Zelig, directed by and starring Woody Allen, with Mia Farrow
Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain (Xin shu shan jian ke), starring Sammo Hung - (Hong Kong)
1983 Wide-release movies[edit]
January–March[edit]
- January 1983
- January 4
- Xtro
- January 18
- Lianna
- January 21
- The House on Sorority Row
- Treasure of the Four Crowns
- January 28
- Sacred Ground
- January 4
- February 1983
- February 4
- The Entity
- Videodrome
- Without a Trace
- February 18
- Local Hero
- Lovesick
- The Pirates of Penzance
- The Sting II
- Table for Five
- February 20
- Betrayal
- February 4
- March 1983
- March 2
- Sahara
- March 4
- Baby It's You
- Curtains
- My Tutor
- Tender Mercies
- March 11
- 10 to Midnight
The Sword in the Stone (re-release)- Trenchcoat
- March 18
- High Road to China
- March 23
- Eddie Macon's Run
- March 25
- Bad Boys
- The Black Stallion Returns
- Max Dugan Returns
- The Outsiders
Raiders of the Lost Ark (re-release)- Spring Break
- March 31
- Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
- March 2
April–June[edit]
- April 1983
- April 1
- Heart Like a Wheel
- Screwballs
- April 6
- Conquest
- April 11
- Flashdance
- April 15
- Liquid Sky
- Lone Wolf McQuade
- April 22
- Exposed
- The Deadly Spawn
- Losin' It
- April 29
- The Hunger
- Something Wicked This Way Comes
- Valley Girl
- April 1
- May 1983
- May 1
- The Final Terror
- May 6
- Still Smokin
- May 13
- Blue Thunder
- May 16
- Deadly Eyes
- May 17
- Nostalghia
- May 18
- Moon in the Gutter
- May 20
- Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
- Tough Enough
- May 25
- Return of the Jedi
- May 27
- Chained Heat
- May 1
- June 1983
- June 3
- The Man with Two Brains
- Psycho II
- WarGames
- June 8
- Trading Places
- June 10
- Octopussy
- June 17
- Superman III
- June 24
- Porky's II: The Next Day
- Twilight Zone: The Movie
- Yellowbeard
- June 3
July–September[edit]
- July 1983
- July 1
- Stroker Ace
- July 6
- Class
- July 15
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (re-release)- Staying Alive
- Zelig
- July 22
- Jaws 3-D
- Mr. Mom
- July 29
- Krull
- National Lampoon's Vacation
- Private School
- July 1
- August 1983
- August 5
- Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island
- Get Crazy
- Risky Business
- The Star Chamber
- Twice Upon a Time
- August 12
- Cujo
- Curse of the Pink Panther
- The Man Who Wasn't There
- Smokey and the Bandit Part 3
- August 15
- Prisoners of the Lost Universe
- August 19
- Easy Money
- Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn
- Yor, the Hunter from the Future
- August 26
- Strange Brew
- Fire and Ice
- Hercules
- August 28
- Young Warriors
- August 31
- Microwave Massacre
- August 5
- September 1983
- September 2
- Escape from the Bronx
- Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
- Mortuary
- September 9
- Nightmares
- September 16
- Revenge of the Ninja
- Strange Invaders
- Vigilante
- September 21
- Educating Rita
- September 23
- Eddie and the Cruisers
- Pieces
- September 28
- The Big Chill
- September 30
- Brainstorm
- Going Berserk
- The Honorary Consul
- The Lonely Lady
- September 2
October–December[edit]
- October 1983
- October 7
- Never Cry Wolf
- Never Say Never Again
- October 21
- All the Right Moves
- The Dead Zone
- The Right Stuff
- Rumble Fish
- Under Fire
- October 28
- The Wicked Lady
- October 7
- November 1983
- November 2
- National Lampoon's Movie Madness
- November 4
- Deal of the Century
- Experience Preferred... But Not Essential
- The Osterman Weekend
- Running Brave
- November 10
- Star 80
- Unico in the Island of Magic
- November 18
- Amityville 3-D
- The Being
- A Christmas Story
- Nate and Hayes
- A Night in Heaven
- Sleepaway Camp
- November 24
- Of Unknown Origin
- November 25
- The Smurfs and the Magic Flute
- November 2
- December 1983
- December 6
- The Dresser
- December 9
- Christine
- Scarface
- Sudden Impact
- Terms of Endearment
- Yentl
- December 14
- Silkwood
- December 16
- D.C. Cab
- The Keep
- The Plague Dogs
The Rescuers (re-release)- Two of a Kind
- Uncommon Valor
- December 29
Seeding of a Ghost (Hong Kong)
- December 30
- The Makioka Sisters
- December 6
Births[edit]
- January 2 - Kate Bosworth, American actress
- January 13 - Julian Morris, British actor
- January 16 - Marwan Kenzari, Dutch actor
- February 7 - Elina Purde, Estonian actress
- February 21 - Mélanie Laurent, French actress
- February 23 - Emily Blunt, English actress
- February 27 - Kate Mara, American actress
- March 1 - Lupita Nyong'o, Kenyan-Mexican actress and director
- March 4 - Julieta Zylberberg, Argentine actress
- March 10
Rafe Spall, English actor
Carrie Underwood, American singer-songwriter and actress
- March 31 - Ashleigh Ball, Canadian musician and voice actress
- April 1 - Matt Lanter, actor
- April 21 - Gugu Mbatha-Raw, British actress
- April 23 - Maria Alche, Argentine actress
- May 3 - Ari Magder, Canadian actor (died 2012)
- May 5 - Henry Cavill, British actor
- May 6 - Gabourey Sidibe, actress
- May 11 - Holly Valance, Australian actress and singer
- May 12 - Domhnall Gleeson, Irish actor
- May 14 - Amber Tamblyn, actress
- June 10 - Leelee Sobieski, actress
- June 16 - Olivia Hack, actress
- June 24 - John Lloyd Cruz, actor
- July 10 - Golshifteh Farahani, actress
- August 1 - Inga Salurand, Estonian actress
- August 3 - Mamie Gummer, American actress
- August 4 - Greta Gerwig, actress
- August 7 - Brit Marling, actress
- August 11 - Chris Hemsworth, Australian actor
- August 14 - Mila Kunis, actress
- August 20 - Andrew Garfield, English actor
- August 24 - Antonio Campos, American film director
- August 29 - Jennifer Landon, actress
- September 21
Maggie Grace, actress
Joseph Mazzello, actor
- October 3 - Tessa Thompson, actress
- October 5
Jesse Eisenberg, American actor
Shelby Rabara, Filipino-American actress and dancer
- October 17 - Felicity Jones, English actress
- December 20 - Jonah Hill, American actor
Notable deaths[edit]
Month | Date | Name | Age | Country | Profession | Notable films |
January | 8 | Gale Page | 69 | USA | Actress |
|
15 | Shepperd Strudwick | 75 | USA | Actor |
| |
19 | Robert Carson | 73 | USA | Writer |
| |
24 | George Cukor | 83 | USA | Director |
| |
27 | Louis de Funès | 68 | France | Actor, Writer, Director |
| |
28 | Billy Fury | 42 | UK | Singer, Actor |
| |
30 | Joan Valerie | 71 | USA | Actress |
| |
February | 13 | Marian Nixon | 78 | USA | Actress |
|
19 | Alice White | 75 | USA | Actress |
| |
21 | Marie Mosquini | 83 | USA | Actress |
| |
25 | Tennessee Williams | 71 | USA | Writer |
| |
27 | Ruth Dunning | 71 | UK | Actress |
| |
March | 7 | Robert Bray | 65 | USA | Actor |
|
9 | Faye Emerson | 65 | USA | Actress |
| |
14 | Maurice Ronet | 55 | France | Actor, Director, Writer |
| |
16 | Arthur Godfrey | 79 | USA | Actor |
| |
27 | James Hayter | 75 | Spain | Actor |
| |
28 | Walter Reisch | 79 | Austria | Screenwriter |
| |
April | 4 | Buster Crabbe | 75 | USA | Actor |
|
4 | Gloria Swanson | 84 | USA | Actress, Producer |
| |
11 | Dolores del Río | 77 | Mexico | Actress |
| |
21 | Walter Slezak | 80 | Austria | Actor |
| |
23 | Selena Royle | 78 | USA | Actress |
| |
26 | Shirley Deane | 70 | USA | Actress |
| |
May | 1 | Joseph Ruttenberg | 93 | Russia | Cinematographer |
|
5 | John Williams | 80 | UK | Actor |
| |
8 | Fay Spain | 50 | USA | Actress |
| |
23 | George Bruns | 68 | USA | Composer |
| |
23 | Eve Gray | 87 | UK | Actress |
| |
25 | Sydney Box | 78 | UK | Producer, Writer |
| |
30 | Burnett Guffey | 78 | USA | Cinematographer |
| |
June | 12 | Norma Shearer | 80 | USA | Actress |
|
22 | David MacDonald | 79 | UK | Director |
| |
23 | Jonathan Latimer | 76 | USA | Screenwriter |
| |
30 | Herbert Baker | 62 | USA | Screenwriter |
| |
July | 5 | Harry James | 67 | USA | Musician, Actor |
|
15 | Eddie Foy Jr. | 78 | USA | Actor |
| |
16 | Samson Raphaelson | 89 | USA | Screenwriter |
| |
19 | Olle Hilding | 85 | Sweden | Actor |
| |
29 | Luis Buñuel | 83 | Spain-Mexico | Writer, Director, Actor |
| |
29 | Raymond Massey | 86 | USA | Actor |
| |
29 | David Niven | 73 | Switzerland | Actor, Producer |
| |
30 | Lynn Fontanne | 95 | USA | Actress |
| |
August | 1 | Peter Arne | 64 | UK | Actor |
|
3 | Carolyn Jones | 53 | USA | Actress |
| |
5 | Judy Canova | 69 | USA | Actress |
| |
28 | Jan Clayton | 66 | USA | Actress |
| |
29 | Simon Oakland | 68 | USA | Actor |
| |
September | 15 | LeRoy Prinz | 88 | USA | Choreographer |
|
October | 5 | Rafael Bertrand | 66 | Mexico | Actor |
|
8 | Joan Hackett | 49 | USA | Actress |
| |
10 | Ralph Richardson | 80 | UK | Actor, Director |
| |
14 | Paul Fix | 82 | USA | Actor |
| |
15 | Pat O'Brien | 83 | USA | Actor |
| |
17 | Vittorio Nino Novarese | 76 | Italy | Costume Designer |
| |
November | ? | Eleanore Whitney | 66 | USA | Actress |
|
2 | Michael Spice | 52 | UK | Actor | A Countess from Hong Kong | |
8 | Robert Agnew | 84 | USA | Actor |
| |
15 | John Le Mesurier | 71 | UK | Actor |
| |
22 | Michael Conrad | 58 | USA | Actor |
| |
28 | Johnnie Davis | 73 | USA | Actor |
| |
28 | Christopher George | 52 | USA | Actor |
| |
December | 2 | Fifi D'Orsay | 79 | Canada | Actress |
|
4 | Maurice Browning | 64 | UK | Actor |
| |
5 | Robert Aldrich | 65 | USA | Director |
| |
8 | Slim Pickens | 64 | USA | Actor |
| |
21 | Rod Cameron | 73 | USA | Actor |
| |
22 | Charles Lloyd-Pack | 81 | UK | Actor |
| |
28 | William Demarest | 91 | USA | Actor |
| |
29 | Janet Webb | 52 | UK | Actress |
|
Film debuts[edit]
Curtis Armstrong - Risky Business
Rowan Atkinson - Never Say Never Again
Kathy Baker - The Right Stuff
Steven Bauer - Scarface
Juliette Binoche - Liberty Belle
Matthew Broderick - Max Dugan Returns
Clancy Brown - Bad Boys
Jim Carrey - All in Good Taste (filmed in 1981, released in May 1983)
Wendy Crewson - Skullduggery
John Cusack - Class
Lolita Davidovich - Class
Warwick Davis - Return of the Jedi
Vincent D'Onofrio - The First Turn-On!
Chris Elliott - Lianna
Andy García - Blue Skies Again
Crispin Glover - My Tutor
Graham Greene - Running Brave
Tess Harper - Tender Mercies
Nicole Kidman - Bush Christmas
Maurice LaMarche - Rock & Rule
Ray Liotta - The Lonely Lady
Rob Lowe - The Outsiders
Virginia Madsen - Class
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio - Scarface
Andrew McCarthy - Class
Kelly McGillis - Reuben, Reuben
Matthew Modine - Baby It's You
Rick Moranis - Strange Brew
Lori Loughlin - ‘’Amityville 3-D’’
Megan Mullally - Risky Business
Judd Nelson - Rock 'n' Roll Hotel
Sarah Jessica Parker - Somewhere Tomorrow
Alexandra Paul - American Nightmare
Bronson Pinchot - Risky Business
Kelly Preston - 10 to Midnight
Mimi Rogers - Blue Skies Again
Alan Ruck - Bad Boys
Ally Sheedy - Bad Boys
Casey Siemaszko - Class
Kiefer Sutherland - Max Dugan Returns
Lea Thompson - Jaws 3-D
Julie Walters - Educating Rita
See also[edit]
- List of American films of 1983
- List of British films of 1983
- List of French films of 1983
- List of German films of the 1980s
- List of Bollywood films of 1983
- List of Italian films of 1983
- List of Japanese films of 1983
- List of Swedish films of the 1980s
References[edit]
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