1983 Toronto International Film Festival

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1983 Toronto International Film Festival
1983 Toronto International Film Festival poster.jpg
Festival poster
Opening film The Big Chill
Location Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hosted byToronto International Film Festival Group
Festival dateSeptember 9, 1983 (1983-09-09)–September 17, 1983 (1983-09-17)
LanguageEnglish
Website tiff.net

The 8th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 9 and September 17, 1983. This year, the festival introduced Contemporary World Cinema programme. [1] The festival also shone light on Paul Verhoeven's work. [2] The festival also held a retrospective in honor of David Cronenberg, first time for a Toronto-reared director. The censor board insisted that the censored version of Cronenberg's film The Brood , approved in 1979 be used. [3]

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The Big Chill by Lawrence Kasdan was selected as the opening film. It won the People's Choice Award at the festival, [4] and later got nominated for Academy Awards, BAFTAs and the Golden Globes. [5]

Awards

Award [6] [7] FilmDirector
People's Choice Award The Big Chill Lawrence Kasdan
International Critics' Award The Fourth Man Paul Verhoeven

Programme

Gala Presentations

Contemporary World Cinema

Documentaries

David Cronenberg retrospective

References

  1. ↑ "TIFF History". Archived from the original on October 15, 2013. Retrieved October 18, 2013.
  2. ↑ "Taking a look back at TIFF". Archived from the original on 2013-10-12. Retrieved October 18, 2013.
  3. ↑ Bradburn, Jamie (September 9, 2013). "Censoring the Toronto International Film Festival". Archived from the original on September 18, 2013. Retrieved October 18, 2013.
  4. ↑ Jay Scott, "Festival of Festivals: Big Chill the big winner". The Globe and Mail , September 19, 1983.
  5. ↑ "TIFF: A history of opening nights". CBC News. Retrieved October 18, 2013.
  6. ↑ "Awards Archive | tiff.net". Toronto International Film Festival. Archived from the original on 2012-09-27. Retrieved 2025-10-23.
  7. ↑ "TIFF People's Choice prize heralds film industry kudos". CBC News. Retrieved October 16, 2013.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 Jay Scott, "Comedy, tragedy and a little sex: Rarely seen films may be real stars of Toronto festival". The Globe and Mail , September 9, 1983.
  9. ↑ Jay Scott, "Passages, or everyone old is new again". The Globe and Mail , September 10, 1983.
  10. ↑ Jay Scott, "Deserters plays a guessing game". The Globe and Mail , August 24, 1983.
  11. ↑ "World premieres set for festival". The Globe and Mail , September 7, 1983.
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