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.) edit

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 $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

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Awards edit

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

1983 films edit

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Births edit

Deaths edit

Month Date Name Age Country Profession Notable films
January 8 Gale Page 69 US Actress
15 Shepperd Strudwick 75 US Actor
19 Robert Carson 73 US Screenwriter
24 George Cukor 83 US Director
27 Louis de Funès 68 France Actor, Director
28 Billy Fury 42 UK Singer, Actor
30 Joan Valerie 71 US Actress
February 10 Eduard Franz 80 US Actor
13 Marian Nixon 78 US Actress
19 Charles Bluhdorn 56 Austria Studio Executive
19 Alice White 75 US Actress
21 Marie Mosquini 83 US Actress
25 Tennessee Williams 71 US Screenwriter
27 Ruth Dunning 71 UK Actress
March 7 Robert Bray 65 US Actor
8 William Walton 80 UK Composer
9 Faye Emerson 65 US Actress
14 Maurice Ronet 55 France Actor
16 Arthur Godfrey 79 US Actor
27 James Hayter 75 UK Actor
28 Walter Reisch 79 Austria Screenwriter
April 4 Buster Crabbe 75 US Actor
4 Gloria Swanson 84 US Actress
5 Bronisław Kaper 81 Poland Composer
11 Dolores del Río 77 Mexico Actress
15 Rodolfo Hoyos Jr. 67 Mexico Actor
21 Walter Slezak 80 Austria Actor
23 Selena Royle 78 US Actress
26 Shirley Deane 70 US Actress
26 Vaughn Taylor 73 US Actor
May 1 Joseph Ruttenberg 93 Ukraine Cinematographer
5 John Williams 80 UK Actor
8 Fay Spain 50 US Actress
22 Art Cruickshank 68 US Special Effects Artist
23 George Bruns 68 US Composer
23 Eve Gray 87 UK Actress
25 Sydney Box 78 UK Producer, Screenwriter
28 John C. Howard 52 US Film Editor
30 Burnett Guffey 78 US Cinematographer
June 12 Norma Shearer 80 Canada Actress
22 David MacDonald 79 UK Director
23 Jonathan Latimer 76 US Screenwriter
30 Herbert Baker 62 US Screenwriter
July 1 Charles G. Clarke 84 US Cinematographer
5 Harry James 67 US Musician, Actor
9 Robert Dawn 61 US Makeup Artist
15 Eddie Foy Jr. 78 US Actor
16 Samson Raphaelson 89 US Screenwriter
17 Byron Kennedy 33 Australia Producer
20 E. Preston Ames 77 US Art Director
23 Georges Auric 84 France Composer
25 Jerome Moross 69 US Composer
29 Luis Buñuel 83 Spain Screenwriter, Director, Actor
29 Raymond Massey 86 Canada Actor
29 David Niven 73 UK Actor
30 Lynn Fontanne 95 UK Actress
August 1 Peter Arne 64 UK Actor
3 Carolyn Jones 53 US Actress
5 Judy Canova 69 US Actress
26 Mike Kellin 61 US Actor
28 Jan Clayton 66 US Actress
29 Simon Oakland 68 US Actor
September 15 LeRoy Prinz 88 US Choreographer, Director
16 Henry Grace 76 US Set Decorator
27 Ben Carruthers 47 US Actor
30 William Elliott 49 US Actor
October 5 Rafael Bertrand 66 Cuba Actor
8 Joan Hackett 49 US Actress
10 Ralph Richardson 80 UK Actor, Director
11 William Hornbeck 82 US Film Editor
14 Paul Fix 82 US Actor
15 Pat O'Brien 83 US Actor
17 Vittorio Nino Novarese 76 Italy Costume Designer
18 Barbara Karinska 97 Ukraine Costume Designer
22 Paul Hardwick 64 UK Actor
November ? Eleanore Whitney 66 US Actress
8 Robert Agnew 84 US Actor
15 John Le Mesurier 71 UK Actor
18 Marcel Dalio 83 France Actor
22 Michael Conrad 58 US Actor
28 Johnnie Davis 73 US Actor
28 Christopher George 52 US Actor
December 2 Fifi D'Orsay 79 Canada Actress
5 Robert Aldrich 65 US Director
8 Slim Pickens 64 US Actor
13 Leora Dana 60 US Actress
17 Hal Pereira 78 US Art Director
21 Rod Cameron 73 Canada Actor
22 Charles Lloyd-Pack 81 UK Actor
28 William Demarest 91 US Actor
29 Janet Webb 52 UK Actress

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See also edit

References edit

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

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