1983 in film

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Events

• February 11 - The Rolling Stones concert film Let's Spend the Night Together opens in New York
• May 25 - Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, the final film in the original Star Wars trilogy, is released. Like the previous films, it goes on to become the top grossing picture of year.
• 1983 was a landmark year in film. More films have gotten an R rating than any other year thus far.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

source: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1983&p=.htm

Awards

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

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture: Yentl

Best Actor: Michael Caine - Educating Rita

Best Actress: Julie Walters - Educating Rita

Other

Best Director: Barbra Streisand - Yentl

Best Foreign Language Film: Fanny and Alexander, Sweden

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

Films released in 1983

U.S.A. unless stated

A

• A Nos Amours (To Our Love), starring Sandrine Bonnaire - (France)
• Adi Shankaracharya, starring Sarvadaman Banerjee - (India)
• All the Right Moves, starring Tom Cruise, Craig T. Nelson, Lea Thompson
• Americana, directed by and starring David Carradine
• 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, Silver Lotus Award for best Indian Actor Om Puri - (India)
• L'Argent, directed by Robert Bresson - (France)
• The Atlantis Interceptors (I predatori di Atlantide) - (Italy)
• Avtaar, directed by Mohan Kumar - (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)
• La Bestia y la Espada Magica (The Beast and the Magic Sword) - (Spain/Japan)
• Betrayal, starring Jeremy Irons and Ben Kingsley - (U.K.)
• 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
• 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
• Brainstorm, starring Christopher Walken 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)
• Christine, directed by John Carpenter, starring Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul, Robert Prosky, Harry Dean Stanton, Kelly Preston
• A Christmas Story, starring Peter Billingsley, Darren McGavin, Melinda Dillon
• City of Pirates (La Ville des pirates) - (France)
• Class, starring Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Jacqueline Bisset, Cliff Robertson
• 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
• 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
• Deadly Run (Mortelle randonnee), starring Michel Serrault and Isabelle Adjani - (France)
• Le Dernier Combat (The Last Battle), directed by Luc Besson - (France)
• 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 Pare 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 - (U.K./U.S.A.)
• 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, Mickey Rourke

F

• The Family Game (家族ゲーム), directed by Yoshimitsu Morita - (Japan)
• Flashdance, directed by Adrian Lyne, starring Jennifer Beals and Michael Nouri
• 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 Pacula, Ian Bannen, Brian Dennehy

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 and Shashi Kapoor - (U.K.)
• Hercules, starring Lou Ferrigno and Sybil Danning
• 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)
• Independence Day, starring Kathleen Quinlan, David Keith, Dianne Wiest
• Jaws 3-D, starring Dennis Quaid, Bess Armstrong, Louis Gossett, Jr.
• Un jeu brutal

K

• The Keep, directed by Michael Mann, starring Scott Glenn
• The King of Comedy, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro and Jerry Lewis
• Krull, starring Ken Marshall, Lysette Anthony and Liam Neeson - (U.K.)

L

• Last Year's Snow Was Falling (Padal proshlogodniy sneg) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Local Hero, directed by Bill Forsyth, starring Peter Riegert and Burt Lancaster - (U.K.)
• Lone Wolf McQuade, starring Chuck Norris
• The Lonely Lady, starring Pia Zadora
• 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)
• Man of Flowers - (Australia)
• The Man with Two Brains, directed by Carl Reiner, starring Steve Martin and Kathleen Turner
• Masoom (The Innocent) - (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 the character Mickey Mouse back to cinemas for the 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 and Teri Garr
• My Tutor, starring Caren Kaye and Matt Lattanzi

N

• Nankyoku Monogatari (South Pole Story) - (Japan)
• 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
• Never Cry Wolf, starring Charles Martin Smith
• Never Say Never Again, starring Sean Connery as James Bond with Kim Basinger and 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 - (U.S.A./Canada)
• One Deadly Summer (L'été meurtrier), starring Isabelle Adjani - (France)
• 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

P-Q

• Pauline at the Beach (Pauline à la plage), directed by Éric Rohmer - (France)
• Phar Lap - (Australia)
• The Pirates of Penzance, a film version of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta starring Kevin Kline - (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
• Project A, starring Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung - (Hong Kong)
• Psycho II, starring Anthony Perkins, Meg Tilly, Robert Loggia, Vera Miles

R

• Rembetiko - (Greece)
• Reuben, Reuben, starring Tom Conti and the debut of Kelly McGillis
• The Right Stuff, directed by Philip Kaufman, starring Scott Glenn, Sam Shepard, Ed Harris, Fred Ward, Dennis Quaid
• Risky Business, starring Tom Cruise and Rebecca De Mornay
• Rock and Rule, an animated rock musical - (Canada)
• 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

• Sadma (Trauma) - (India)
• Sans Soleil (Sunless), directed by Chris Marker - (France)
• 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
• Shaka Zulu
• Silkwood, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher
• Skullduggery, directed by Ota Richter, starring David Calderisi, Wendy Crewson, Thom Haverstock - (Canada)
• Sleepaway Camp
• The Smurfs and the Magic Flute
• So Long, Stooge (Tchao Pantin), directed by Claude Berri - (France)
• Something Wicked This Way Comes, starring Jason Robards and Jonathan Pryce
• Star 80, directed by Bob Fosse, starring Mariel Hemingway and Eric Roberts
• The Star Chamber, starring Michael Douglas
• Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, directed by Richard Marquand, starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
• 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)
• Sudden Impact, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood with Sondra Locke
• Sugar Cane Alley (Rue Cases-Negres) - (France/Martinique)
• Superman III, starring Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor, Margot Kidder
• The Survivors, starring Walter Matthau and Robin Williams

T

• Tender Mercies, directed by Bruce Beresford, starring Robert Duvall and Tess Harper
• 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 and William Devane
• To Be or Not to Be, starring Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft, Tim Matheson
• 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
• Twilight Zone: The Movie, segments directed by John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante and George Miller
• Twice Upon a Time
• Two of a Kind, directed by John Herzfeld, starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John

U

• Uncommon Valor, starring Gene Hackman, Fred Ward and Patrick Swayze
• Under Fire, starring Nick Nolte, Gene Hackman and Joanna Cassidy
• Utu - (New Zealand)

V

• Valley Girl, starring Deborah Foreman and Nicolas Cage
• Videodrome, starring James Woods and Deborah Harry - (Canada)
• Vigilante
• Vlyublyon po sobstvennomu zhelaniyu - (U.S.S.R.)

W

• WarGames, directed by John Badham, starring Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman and Ally Sheedy
• Wartime Romance (Voenno-polevoy roman), directed by Pyotr Todorovsky - (U.S.S.R.)
• The Winds of War, TV mini-series, starring Robert Mitchum, Ali MacGraw and Polly Bergen
• Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore
• Without a Trace, starring Kate Nelligan and Judd Hirsch

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)
• Yor Hunter From The Future - (Italy/France)
• Zelig, directed by and starring Woody Allen

Births

• January 2 - Kate Bosworth, American actress
• February 23 - Emily Blunt, English actress
• March 10 - Carrie Underwood, American singer and actress
• May 5 - Henry Cavill, British actor
• May 6 - Gabourey Sidibe, American actress
• May 14 - Amber Tamblyn, American actress
• June 10 - Leelee Sobieski, American actress
• August 3 - Mamie Gummer, American actress
• August 11 - Chris Hemsworth, Australian actor
• August 14 - Mila Kunis, American actress
• August 29 - Jennifer Landon, American actress
• September 21 - Maggie Grace, American actress
• December 20 - Jonah Hill, American actor
• December 29 - Alison Brie, American actress

Deaths

• January 8 - Gale Page, actress
• January 19 - Robert Carson, screenwriter
• January 27 - Louis de Funès, actor
• February 25 - Tennessee Williams, playwright
• March 14 - Maurice Ronet, actor, director, writer
• April 4 - Gloria Swanson, actress
• April 16 - Fifi D'Orsay, actress
• April 23 - Buster Crabbe, actor
• June 12 - Norma Shearer, Academy Award winning actress
• July 5 - Harry James, bandleader who appeared in some films, and was once married to actress Betty Grable
• July 29 - Raymond Massey, actor, father of actor Daniel Massey and actress Anna Massey
• July 29 - David Niven, Academy Award winning actor
• August 3 - Carolyn Jones, actress
• August 5 - Judy Canova, entertainer
• August 29 - Simon Oakland, actor
• October 8 - Joan Hackett, actress
• October 10 - Ralph Richardson, actor, one of the theatrical knights of the English stage
• October 15 - Pat O'Brien, actor
• November 15 - John Le Mesurier, British actor
• November 28 - Johnnie Davis, actor, singer
• November 28 - Christopher George, leading film/television actor
• November 29 - Natalie Wood, actress
• December 5 - Robert Aldrich, director
• December 8 - Slim Pickens, actor
• December 28 - William Demarest, actor

Film debuts

• Rowan Atkinson - Never Say Never Again
• Steven Bauer - Scarface
• Juliette Binoche - Liberty Belle
• Matthew Broderick - Max Dugan Returns
• John Cusack - Class
• Warwick Davis - Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
• Vincent D'Onofrio - The First Turn-On!
• Andy García - Blue Skies Again
• Nicole Kidman - Bush Christmas
• Ray Liotta - The Lonely Lady
• Rob Lowe - The Outsiders
• Virginia Madsen - Class
• Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio - Scarface
• Andrew McCarthy - Class
• Kelly McGillis - Reuben, Reuben
• Kelly Preston - 10 to Midnight
• Mimi Rogers - Blue Skies Again
• Kiefer Sutherland - Max Dugan Returns
• Lea Thompson - Jaws 3-D
• Julie Walters - Educating Rita

See also

• List of American films of 1983
• British films of 1983
• French films of 1983
• List of German films: 1980s
• Bollywood films of 1983
• Italian films of 1983
• Japanese films of 1983
• Swedish films of the 1980s