1983 in film

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.

"1983 film" redirects here. For the Indian film, see 1983 (film).

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Highest-grossing films (U.S.)

See also: List of 1983 box office number-one films in the United States

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

Highest-grossing films of 1983[1]

Rank	Title	Distributor	Box-office gross
1	Return of the Jedi	20th Century Fox	$252,583,617
2	Terms of Endearment	Paramount Pictures	$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 Pictures	$64,892,670
9	Mr. Mom	20th Century Fox	$64,783,827
10	Risky Business	Warner Bros.	$63,541,777

Events

• 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.
• Academy Award winner 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.

Awards

Category/Organization	41st Golden Globe Awards January 28, 1984		37th BAFTA Awards March 25, 1984	56th Academy Awards April 9, 1984
	Drama	Musical 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

Notable films released in 1983

United States 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, Mary Kay Place, 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, Candy Clark, Warren Oates
• 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 and Valerie Kaprisky
• 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 Volonté - (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 - (UK/US)
• 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, Joe Pesci
• Exposed, directed by James Toback, starring Nastassja Kinski, Rudolf Nureyev, Harvey Keitel

F

• The Family Game (Kazoku Gēmu), directed by Yoshimitsu Morita - (Japan)
• Ferestadeh - (United States/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)

G

• 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, Cliff DeYoung, Frances Sternhagen, 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, Jurgen Prochnow, Alberta Watson, Ian McKellen, Gabriel Byrne, Robert Prosky
• 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
• 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, Takeshi Kitano - (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 and Brian Dennehy
• 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 - (United States/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, Dennis Hopper, Chris Sarandon
• The Outsiders, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Rob Lowe, Patrick Swayze, Emilio Estevez, Tom Cruise, Diane Lane, Leif Garrett

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 - (US/UK)
• The Ploughman's Lunch, starring Jonathan Pryce - (U.K.)
• Prénom Carmen (First Name: Carmen), directed by Jean-Luc Godard - (France) - Golden Lion award
• The Prey, starring Debbie Thureson and Steve Bond
• 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, Parker Stevenson
• 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 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, 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.)
• Wild style, directed by Charlie Ahearn.
• 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

January–March

• January 1983
  • January 4
    • Xtro
  • January 18
    • Lianna
  • January 21
    • The House on Sorority Row
    • Treasure of the Four Crowns
  • January 28
    • Sacred Ground
• 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
• March 1983
  • March 4
    • Baby It's You
    • Curtains
    • My Tutor
    • Tender Mercies
  • March 11
    • 10 to Midnight
    • 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
    • Spring Break
  • March 31
    • Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

April–June

• 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
• 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
• 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

July–September

• July 1983
  • July 1
    • Stroker Ace
  • July 6
    • Class
  • July 15
    • Staying Alive
    • Zelig
  • July 22
    • Jaws 3-D
    • Mr. Mom
  • July 29
    • Krull
    • National Lampoon's Vacation
    • Private School
• 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
• 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

October–December

• 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
• 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
• 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
    • Two of a Kind
    • Uncommon Valor
  • December 29
    • Seeding of a Ghost (Hong Kong)
  • December 30
    • The Makioka Sisters

Births

• January 2 - Kate Bosworth, American actress
• January 13 - Julian Morris, British actor
• January 16 - Marwan Kenzari, Dutch actor
• February 4 – Hannibal Buress, American comedian, actor, writer and producer
• February 7 - Elina Purde, Estonian actress
• February 21 - Mélanie Laurent, French actress
• February 23
  • Aziz Ansari, American actor, writer, producer, director and comedian
  • 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 singer, 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
• June 30 - Angela Sarafyan, actress
• 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
• September 25 - Donald Glover, American actor, singer, comedian, writer, producer and director
• October 3 - Tessa Thompson, actress
• October 5
  • Jesse Eisenberg, American actor
  • Shelby Rabara, Filipino-American actress and dancer
• October 17 - Felicity Jones, English actress
• October 28 - Joe Thomas, English actor, writer and comedian
• December 20 - Jonah Hill, American actor

Notable deaths

Month	Date	Name	Age	Country	Profession	Notable films
January	8	Gale Page	69	US	Actress	They Drive by Night Knute Rockne, All American
	15	Shepperd Strudwick	75	US	Actor	All the King's Men A Place in the Sun
	19	Robert Carson	73	US	Writer	A Star Is Born Beau Geste
	24	George Cukor	83	US	Director	The Philadelphia Story My Fair Lady
	27	Louis de Funès	68	France	Actor, Writer, Director	La Grande Vadrouille L'avare
	28	Billy Fury	42	UK	Singer, Actor	That'll Be the Day Play It Cool
	30	Joan Valerie	71	US	Actress	Blazing Sixes Free, Blonde and 21
February	13	Marian Nixon	78	US	Actress	Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Winner Take All
	19	Alice White	75	US	Actress	The Girl from Woolworth's Showgirl in Hollywood
	21	Marie Mosquini	83	US	Actress	Short Orders 7th Heaven
	25	Tennessee Williams	71	US	Writer	A Streetcar Named Desire Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
	27	Ruth Dunning	71	UK	Actress	It's a Great Day Hoffman
March	7	Robert Bray	65	US	Actor	My Gun Is Quick Bus Stop
	9	Faye Emerson	65	US	Actress	The Mask of Dimitrios Nobody Lives Forever
	14	Maurice Ronet	55	France	Actor, Director, Writer	Elevator to the Gallows Purple Noon
	16	Arthur Godfrey	79	US	Actor	The Glass Bottom Boat Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
	27	James Hayter	75	Spain	Actor	Oliver! Night and the City
	28	Walter Reisch	79	Austria	Screenwriter	Gaslight Titanic
April	4	Buster Crabbe	75	US	Actor	Flash Gordon Jungle Man
	4	Gloria Swanson	84	US	Actress, Producer	Sunset Boulevard Airport 1975
	11	Dolores del Río	77	Mexico	Actress	Ramona Bird of Paradise
	21	Walter Slezak	80	Austria	Actor	Lifeboat Ten Thousand Bedrooms
	23	Selena Royle	78	US	Actress	Joan of Arc Night and Day
	26	Shirley Deane	70	US	Actress	Educating Father Undercover Agent
May	1	Joseph Ruttenberg	93	Russia	Cinematographer	Brigadoon Gigi
	5	John Williams	80	UK	Actor	Dial M for Murder To Catch a Thief
	8	Fay Spain	50	US	Actress	Al Capone God's Little Acre
	23	George Bruns	68	US	Composer	The Aristocats One Hundred and One Dalmatians
	23	Eve Gray	87	UK	Actress	Murder at Monte Carlo Midnight
	25	Sydney Box	78	UK	Producer, Writer	The Seventh Veil A Girl in a Million
	30	Burnett Guffey	78	US	Cinematographer	Bonnie and Clyde From Here to Eternity
June	12	Norma Shearer	80	US	Actress	The Women Marie Antoinette
	22	David MacDonald	79	UK	Director	Dead Men Tell No Tales The Moonraker
	23	Jonathan Latimer	76	US	Screenwriter	The Glass Key The Big Clock
	30	Herbert Baker	62	US	Screenwriter	Dream Wife Murderers' Row
July	5	Harry James	67	US	Musician, Actor	Two Girls and a Sailor Bathing Beauty
	15	Eddie Foy Jr.	78	US	Actor	Yankee Doodle Dandy Bells Are Ringing
	16	Samson Raphaelson	89	US	Screenwriter	The Shop Around the Corner Heaven Can Wait
	19	Olle Hilding	85	Sweden	Actor	Vandring med månen
	29	Luis Buñuel	83	Spain-Mexico	Writer, Director, Actor	Un Chien Andalou Belle de Jour
	29	Raymond Massey	86	US	Actor	Arsenic and Old Lace East of Eden
	29	David Niven	73	Switzerland	Actor, Producer	The Pink Panther The Guns of Navarone
	30	Lynn Fontanne	95	US	Actress	The Guardsman The Magnificent Yankee
August	1	Peter Arne	64	UK	Actor	Straw Dogs Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
	3	Carolyn Jones	53	US	Actress	King Creole Last Train from Gun Hill
	5	Judy Canova	69	US	Actress	Louisiana Hayride The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
	28	Jan Clayton	66	US	Actress	The Showdown This Man's Navy
	29	Simon Oakland	68	US	Actor	Psycho West Side Story
September	15	LeRoy Prinz	88	US	Choreographer	Show Boat Yankee Doodle Dandy
October	5	Rafael Bertrand	66	Mexico	Actor	The Professionals Isle of the Snake People
	8	Joan Hackett	49	US	Actress	Support Your Local Sheriff! The Last of Sheila
	10	Ralph Richardson	80	UK	Actor, Director	Doctor Zhivago Time Bandits
	14	Paul Fix	82	US	Actor	To Kill a Mockingbird Giant
	15	Pat O'Brien	83	US	Actor	Some Like It Hot Angels with Dirty Faces
	17	Vittorio Nino Novarese	76	Italy	Costume Designer	Cleopatra Cromwell
November	?	Eleanore Whitney	66	US	Actress	Rose Bowl Blonde Trouble
	2	Michael Spice	52	UK	Actor	A Countess from Hong Kong
	8	Robert Agnew	84	US	Actor	The Heart of Broadway The College Hero
	15	John Le Mesurier	71	UK	Actor	Ben-Hur The Pink Panther
	22	Michael Conrad	58	US	Actor	The Longest Yard They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
	28	Johnnie Davis	73	US	Actor	I Love to Singa Hollywood Hotel
	28	Christopher George	52	US	Actor	El Dorado Midway
December	2	Fifi D'Orsay	79	Canada	Actress	Those Three French Girls Going Hollywood
	4	Maurice Browning	64	UK	Actor	The Assassination Bureau The Party's Over
	5	Robert Aldrich	65	US	Director	The Dirty Dozen What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
	8	Slim Pickens	64	US	Actor	Dr. Strangelove Blazing Saddles
	21	Rod Cameron	73	US	Actor	Requiem for a Gunfighter Santa Fe Passage
	22	Charles Lloyd-Pack	81	UK	Actor	if.... Dracula
	28	William Demarest	91	US	Actor	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
	29	Janet Webb	52	UK	Actress	A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Joseph Andrews

Film debuts

• 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

• 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

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