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The following is an overview of events in 1982 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths.

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Highest-grossing films

North America

The top ten 1982 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1982 [1]
RankTitleDistributorBox-office gross
1 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Universal $359,197,037 [n 1]
2 Tootsie Columbia $177,200,000
3 An Officer and a Gentleman Paramount $129,795,554
4 First Blood Orion $125,212,904
5 Rocky III United Artists $124,146,897
6 Porky's 20th Century Fox $105,492,483
7 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Paramount $78,912,963
8 48 Hrs. $78,868,508
9 Poltergeist MGM $76,606,280
10 The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas Universal $69,701,637

Outside North America

The highest-grossing 1982 films in countries outside of North America.

International marketTitleDirectorProduction countryGrossRef
China Shaolin Temple Chang Hsin Yen China / Hong Kong CN¥ 161,578,014 [3]
France E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Steven Spielberg United States 7,881,332 admissions [4]
West Germany E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Steven Spielberg United States 7,666,017 admissions [5]
India Vidhaata Subhash Ghai India ₹160,000,000 ( $16,300,000) [6] [n 2]
Italy E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Steven Spielberg United States 10,298,000 admissions [8]
Japan The Gods Must Be Crazy Jamie Uys South Africa ¥2,360,000,000 (rentals) [9]
South Korea Dragon Lord Jackie Chan Hong Kong ₩ 894,366,000 [10] [11]
Soviet Union Sportloto-82 Leonid Gaidai Soviet Union 13,800,000  Rbls ($19,500,000) [n 3]
Spain E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Steven Spielberg United States 7,719,932 admissions [15]
Taiwan The Gods Must Be Crazy Jamie Uys South Africa NT$ 39,431,235 [16]
United Kingdom E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Steven Spielberg United States £21,700,000 [17]

Worldwide gross revenue

The following table lists known worldwide gross revenue figures for several high-grossing films that originally released in 1982. Note that this list is incomplete and is therefore not representative of the highest-grossing films worldwide in 1982.

TitleWorldwide gross (US$)Source(s)Production country
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial $792,910,554 [18] United States
Gandhi $127,767,889 [19] India
United Kingdom
Rocky III $124,146,897 [20] United States
Poltergeist $121,706,019 [21]
Shaolin Temple $111,441,439 [n 4] China
Hong Kong
Disco Dancer $106,000,000 [26] [27] India
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan $97,000,000 [28] United States

Events

Awards

Category/Organization 40th Golden Globe Awards
January 29, 1983		 36th BAFTA Awards
March 20, 1983		 55th Academy Awards
April 11, 1983
DramaMusical or Comedy
Best Film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Tootsie Gandhi
Best Director Richard Attenborough
Gandhi
Best Actor Ben Kingsley
Gandhi 		Dustin Hoffman
Tootsie 		Ben Kingsley
Gandhi
Best Actress Meryl Streep
Sophie's Choice 		Julie Andrews
Victor/Victoria 		Katharine Hepburn
On Golden Pond 		Meryl Streep
Sophie's Choice
Best Supporting Actor Louis Gossett Jr.
An Officer and a Gentleman 		Jack Nicholson
Reds 		Louis Gossett Jr.
An Officer and a Gentleman
Best Supporting Actress Jessica Lange
Tootsie 		Rohini Hattangadi
Gandhi
Maureen Stapleton
Reds 		Jessica Lange
Tootsie
Best Screenplay, Adapted John Briley
Gandhi 		Costa-Gavras and Donald E. Stewart
Missing 		Costa-Gavras and Donald E. Stewart
Missing
Best Screenplay, Original John Briley
Gandhi
Best Original Score John Williams
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 		John Williams
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Henry Mancini and Leslie Bricusse
Victor/Victoria
Best Original Song"Up Where We Belong"
An Officer and a Gentleman 		"Another Brick in the Wall"
Pink Floyd – The Wall 		"Up Where We Belong"
An Officer and a Gentleman
Best Foreign Language Film Gandhi Christ Stopped at Eboli Begin the Beguine

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Missing , directed by Costa-Gavras, United States
Yol (The Way), directed by Yılmaz Güney, Turkey

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

The State of Things (Der Stand der Dinge), directed by Wim Wenders, W. Germany / Portugal / US

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss (Veronika Voss), directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, W. Germany

1982 films

By country/region

By genre/medium

Births

Deaths

MonthDateNameAgeCountryProfessionNotable films
January1 Victor Buono 43USActor
1 Margot Grahame 70UKActress
4 Kathryn Scola 90USScreenwriter
5 Hans Conried 64USActor
5 Harvey Lembeck 58USActor
8 Reta Shaw 69USActress
8 Grégoire Aslan 73SwitzerlandActor
10 Paul Lynde 55USActor
30 Stanley Holloway 91UKActor
February5 Dolores Moran 58USActress
11 Eleanor Powell 69USActress, Dancer
11 Takashi Shimura 76JapanActor
12 Victor Jory 79CanadaActor
14 Antonio Casas 70SpainActor
17 Lee Strasberg 80USActor
18 Tina Carver 59USActress
22 John Carter 74USSound Engineer
24 Virginia Bruce 71USActress
March5 John Belushi 33USActor
5 Burton Miller 57USCostume Designer
5 Giuseppe Porelli 84ItalyActor
6 Ayn Rand 77RussiaScreenwriter
8 Walter Plunkett 79USCostume Designer
19 Alan Badel 58UKActor
21 Harry H. Corbett 57UKActor
22 Harold Goldblatt 82UKActor
26 Sam Kydd 67UKActor
27 Betty Schade 87USActress
29 Rudy Bond 69USActor
April1 Stephen Chase 79USActor
3 Warren Oates 53USActor
7 Brenda Benet 36USActress
12 Lenny Baker 37USActor
15 Arthur Lowe 66UKActor
21 Joe Sawyer 75CanadaActor
22 Stanley Roberts 65USScreenwriter
25 W. R. Burnett 82USScreenwriter
25 Don Wilson 81USActor
26 Celia Johnson 73UKActress
27 George Dunn 67USActor
27 Tom Tully 73USActor
May1 Margaret Sheridan 55USActress
2 Helmut Dantine 63AustriaActor
2 Hugh Marlowe 71USActor
2 Wini Shaw 75USActress, Singer
14 Hugh Beaumont 73USActor
16 Sidney Hickox 86USCinematographer
16 Leigh Snowden 52USActress
29 Romy Schneider 43GermanyActress
June10 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 37GermanyScreenwriter, Director, Actor
16 Gwen Wakeling 81USCostume Designer
18 Curd Jürgens 66GermanyActor, Director
21 Cotton Warburton 70USFilm Editor
29 Michael Brennan 69UKActor
29 Henry King 96USDirector, Producer
July8 Isa Miranda 73ItalyActress
12 Kenneth More 67UKActor
16 Patrick Dewaere 35FranceActor, Screenwriter, Director
18 John Maxwell 64USActor
19 John Harvey 70UKActor
23 Vic Morrow 53USActor
29 Harold Sakata 62USActor
August2 Cathleen Nesbitt 93UKActress
7 Jill Banner 35USActress
10 William Henry 67USActor
10 José Nieto 80SpainActor
11 Folmar Blangsted 77DenmarkFilm Editor
11 Tom Drake 64USActor
12 Henry Fonda 77USActor
13 Joe E. Ross 68USActor
13 Charles Walters 70USDirector
14 Kanhaiyalal 71-72IndiaActor
14 Patrick Magee 58IrelandActor
19 Russell Waters 74UKActor
20 Ulla Jacobsson 53SwedenActress
20 Edward Ludwig 82RussiaDirector
22 John Boxer 73UKActor
29 Ingrid Bergman 67SwedenActress
September2 Jay Novello 78USActor
5 Richard Lane 83USActor
13 Philip Ober 80USActor
14 Grace Kelly [37] 52USActress
15 Rolfe Sedan 86USActor
24 Sarah Churchill 67UKActress
28 Mabel Albertson 81USActress
28Seth Banks66USCostume Designer
October3 Vivien Merchant 53UKActress
5 Joseph Hurley 68USArt Director
8 Fernando Lamas 67ArgentinaActor, Director
12 John Brahm 89GermanyDirector
12 Howard Sackler 52USScreenwriter
26 Valerio Zurlini 56ItalyDirector, Screenwriter
November1 King Vidor 88USDirector, Producer, Screenwriter
1 James Broderick 55USActor
4 Dominique Dunne 22USActress Poltergeist
4 Jacques Tati 75FranceActor, Screenwriter, Director
7 Elio Petri 53ItalyDirector, Screenwriter
17 Ruth Donnelly 86USActress
18 William P. McGivern 63USScreenwriter
21 Lee Patrick 80USActress
26 Robert Coote 73UKActor
26 Dan Tobin 72USActor
27 Steve Gordon 44USScreenwriter, Director
30 Verna Fields 64USFilm Editor
December2 Marty Feldman 48UKActor, Director, Screenwriter
10 Roy Webb 94USComposer
21 Gladys Henson 83IrelandActress
22 Jack Webb 62USActor
29 Sol C. Siegel 79USProducer

Film debuts

Notes

  1. ↑ Amblin corrected Variety 's reporting of E.T.'s gross in 1992, stating that it had grossed $367.6 million in its initial release. [2]
  2. ↑ ₹9.79 per US$ in 1982 [7]
  3. ↑ 55.2 million Soviet tickets sold, [12] at average ticket price of 25 kopecks , [13] approximately 13.8 million руб; 0.708 Rbl per US$ in 1982 [14]
  4. ↑ Shaolin Temple:
    • China – CN¥161,578,014 [3] ( US$85,355,528) [22]
    • Hong Kong – HK$16,157,801 [23] (US$2,661,911) [22]
    • Singapore – S$1.7 million [24] (US$794,000)
    • Japan – ¥4 billion [25] (US$16.06 million)
    • South Korea – ₩5.1 billion [25] (US$6.57 million)

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