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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.

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Highest-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten 1983 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1983 [1]
RankTitleDistributorBox-office gross
1 Return of the Jedi 20th Century Fox $309,306,177
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 $67,893,619
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

Awards

Category/Organization 41st Golden Globe Awards
January 28, 1984
37th BAFTA Awards
March 25, 1984
56th Academy Awards
April 9, 1984
DramaMusical or Comedy
Best Film Terms of Endearment Yentl Educating Rita Terms of Endearment
Best Director Barbra Streisand
Yentl
Bill Forsyth
Local Hero
James L. Brooks
Terms of Endearment
Best Actor Tom Courtenay
The Dresser
Robert Duvall
Tender Mercies
Michael Caine
Educating Rita
Michael Caine
Educating Rita
Dustin Hoffman
Tootsie
Robert Duvall
Tender Mercies
Best Actress Shirley MacLaine
Terms of Endearment
Julie Walters
Educating Rita
Shirley MacLaine
Terms of Endearment
Best Supporting Actor Jack Nicholson
Terms of Endearment
Denholm Elliott
Trading Places
Jack Nicholson
Terms of Endearment
Best Supporting Actress Cher
Silkwood
Jamie Lee Curtis
Trading Places
Linda Hunt
The Year of Living Dangerously
Best Screenplay, Adapted James L. Brooks
Terms of Endearment
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Heat and Dust
James L. Brooks
Terms of Endearment
Best Screenplay, Original Paul D. Zimmerman
The King of Comedy
Horton Foote
Tender Mercies
Best Original Score Giorgio Moroder
Flashdance
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Bill Conti
The Right Stuff (film)
Michel Legrand and Alan and Marilyn Bergman
Yentl
Best Original Song"Flashdance... What a Feeling"
Flashdance
"Up Where We Belong"
An Officer and a Gentleman
"Flashdance... What a Feeling"
Flashdance
Best Foreign Language Film Fanny and Alexander Danton Fanny and Alexander

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

1983 films

By country/region

By genre/medium

Births

Deaths

MonthDateNameAgeCountryProfessionNotable films
January8 Gale Page 69USActress
15 Shepperd Strudwick 75USActor
19 Robert Carson 73USScreenwriter
24 George Cukor 83USDirector
27 Louis de Funès 68FranceActor, Director
28 Billy Fury 42UKSinger, Actor
30 Joan Valerie 71USActress
February10 Eduard Franz 80USActor
13 Marian Nixon 78USActress
19 Charles Bluhdorn 56AustriaStudio Executive
19 Alice White 75USActress
21 Marie Mosquini 83USActress
25 Tennessee Williams 71USScreenwriter
27 Ruth Dunning 71UKActress
March7 Robert Bray 65USActor
8 William Walton 80UKComposer
9 Faye Emerson 65USActress
14 Maurice Ronet 55FranceActor
16 Arthur Godfrey 79USActor
27 James Hayter 75UKActor
28 Walter Reisch 79AustriaScreenwriter
April4 Buster Crabbe 75USActor
4 Gloria Swanson 84USActress
5 Bronisław Kaper 81PolandComposer
11 Dolores del Río 77MexicoActress
15 Rodolfo Hoyos Jr. 67MexicoActor
21 Walter Slezak 80AustriaActor
23 Selena Royle 78USActress
26 Shirley Deane 70USActress
26 Vaughn Taylor 73USActor
May1 Joseph Ruttenberg 93UkraineCinematographer
5 John Williams 80UKActor
8 Fay Spain 50USActress
22 Art Cruickshank 68USSpecial Effects Artist
23 George Bruns 68USComposer
23 Eve Gray 87UKActress
25 Sydney Box 78UKProducer, Screenwriter
28 John C. Howard 52USFilm Editor
30 Burnett Guffey 78USCinematographer
June12 Norma Shearer 80CanadaActress
22 David MacDonald 79UKDirector
23 Jonathan Latimer 76USScreenwriter
30 Herbert Baker 62USScreenwriter
July1 Charles G. Clarke 84USCinematographer
5 Harry James 67USMusician, Actor
9 Robert Dawn 61USMakeup Artist
15 Eddie Foy Jr. 78USActor
16 Samson Raphaelson 89USScreenwriter
17 Byron Kennedy 33AustraliaProducer
20 E. Preston Ames 77USArt Director
23 Georges Auric 84FranceComposer
25 Jerome Moross 69USComposer
29 Luis Buñuel 83SpainScreenwriter, Director, Actor
29 Raymond Massey 86CanadaActor
29 David Niven 73UKActor
30 Lynn Fontanne 95UKActress
August1 Peter Arne 64UKActor
3 Carolyn Jones 53USActress
5 Judy Canova 69USActress
26 Mike Kellin 61USActor
28 Jan Clayton 66USActress
29 Simon Oakland 68USActor
September15 LeRoy Prinz 88USChoreographer, Director
16 Henry Grace 76USSet Decorator
27 Ben Carruthers 47USActor
30 William Elliott 49USActor
October5 Rafael Bertrand 66CubaActor
8 Joan Hackett 49USActress
10 Ralph Richardson 80UKActor, Director
11 William Hornbeck 82USFilm Editor
14 Paul Fix 82USActor
15 Pat O'Brien 83USActor
17 Vittorio Nino Novarese 76ItalyCostume Designer
18 Barbara Karinska 97UkraineCostume Designer
22 Paul Hardwick 64UKActor
November? Eleanore Whitney 66USActress
8 Robert Agnew 84USActor
15 John Le Mesurier 71UKActor
18 Marcel Dalio 83FranceActor
22 Michael Conrad 58USActor
28 Johnnie Davis 73USActor
28 Christopher George 52USActor
December2 Fifi D'Orsay 79CanadaActress
5 Robert Aldrich 65USDirector
8 Slim Pickens 64USActor
13 Leora Dana 60USActress
17 Hal Pereira 78USArt Director
21 Rod Cameron 73CanadaActor
22 Charles Lloyd-Pack 81UKActor
28 William Demarest 91USActor
29 Janet Webb 52UKActress

Film debuts

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References

  1. "1983 Domestic Grosses". Box Office Mojo . Retrieved April 7, 2014.