[edit] Events [edit] Top grossing films (U.S.) | Rank | Title | Studio | Gross | | 1. | Return of the Jedi | 20th Century Fox | $475,106,177 | | 2. | Terms of Endearment | Paramount | $108,423,489 | | 3. | Flashdance | Paramount | $92,921,203 | | 4. | Trading Places | Paramount | $90,404,800 | | 5. | WarGames | MGM | $79,567,667 | | 6. | Octopussy | MGM | $67,893,619 | | 7. | Sudden Impact | Warner Brothers | $67,642,693 | | 8. | Staying Alive | Paramount | $64,892,670 | | 9. | Mr. Mom | 20th Century Fox | $64,783,827 | | 10. | Risky Business | Warner Brothers | $63,541,777 | source: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1983&p=.htm [edit] 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
[edit] Films released in 1983 - Bad Boys
- The Ballad of Narayama (remake of the 1958 film) - Palme d'Or award
- La Bestia y la Espada Magica
- Betrayal
- The Big Chill, directed by Lawrence Kasdan, starring Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Mary Kay Place, Meg Tilly and JoBeth Williams
- Bloodbath at the House of Death
- Blue Thunder
- BMX Bandits, starring Nicole Kidman
- Born in Flames
- Bush Christmas, debut of Nicole Kidman
- Brainstorm, final film of Natalie Wood
- Breathless
- Bullshot
- Chiefs
- Christine directed by John Carpenter, starring Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul, Robert Prosky, Harry Dean Stanton and Kelly Preston
- Class, starring Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy and Jacqueline Bisset
- Cracking Up
- The Crimson Permanent Assurance, a Monty Python's short film
- Cross Creek, starring Mary Steenburgen, Peter Coyote, Rip Torn and Alfre Woodard
- Shaka Zulu
- Scarface, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Al Pacino
- The Scarlet and The Black
- Silkwood, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell and Cher
- Skullduggery, directed by Ota Richter, starring David Calderisi, Wendy Crewson and Thom Haverstock
- Sleepaway Camp
- Something Wicked This Way Comes
- Star 80
- Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
- Staying Alive, starring John Travolta, Cynthia Rhodes and Finola Hughes
- Strange Invaders
- Stryker
- Superman III, starring Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor and Margot Kidder
- Sudden Impact, starring Clint Eastwood
- The Survivors
- Tender Mercies, 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 and John Lithgow - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture
- Testament, starring Jane Alexander and William Devane
- Trenchcoat
- Trading Places, starring Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy and Jamie Lee Curtis
- Twilight Zone: The Movie
- Twice Upon a Time
[edit] Births [edit] Deaths - January 8 - Gale Page, actress
- January 27 - Louis de Funès , actor
- February 4 - Karen Carpenter, musician
- 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
- December 5 - Robert Aldrich, director
- December 8 - Slim Pickens, actor
- December 28 - William Demarest, actor
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