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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.
Highest-grossing films (U.S.)
The top ten 1983 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
| Rank | Title | Distributor | Box-office gross |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Return of the Jedi | 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 | 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 in an Australian movie Bush Christmas
- 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
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
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- 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
- Amityville 3-D, directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Tony Roberts, Tess Harper, Robert Joy, Candy Clark
- 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, Don Galloway
- 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, directed by Allan Arkush, starring Malcolm McDowell, Allen Garfield, Daniel Stern, Lou Reed, Lee Ving
- Gorky Park, directed by Michael Apted, 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 Hound of the Baskervilles (American film shot in England) a Sherlock Holmes mystery directed by Douglas Hickox, starring Ian Richardson as Holmes and Donald Churchill as Watson; co-starred Denholm Elliott and Edward Judd
- The Hunger, directed by Tony Scott, starring Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon - (U.K.)
I
- 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
J
- 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, Sandra Bernhard, 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, Denis Lawson, Peter Capaldi, 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, directed by Curtis Hanson, 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, starring Oleg Yankovsky and Erland Josephson - (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
- Pauline at the Beach (Pauline à la plage), directed by Éric Rohmer - (France)
- Phar Lap, starring Tom Burlinson - (Australia)
- Papa, Can You Hear Me Sing?
- 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)
- The Sign of Four (American film shot in England) a Sherlock Holmes mystery directed by Desmond Davis, starring Ian Richardson as Holmes and David Healy as Watson
- 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, directed by Robert Altman, 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, Denholm Elliott, 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, directed by David Cronenberg, 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)
Y
- Yellowbeard, starring Graham Chapman, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Eric Idle, John Cleese, Peter Cook, Cheech & Chong - (U.K.)
- Yentl, directed by and starring Barbra Streisand, with Mandy Patinkin and Amy Irving - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
Z
- 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 films in the U.S.
January–March
April–June
July–September
October–December
Births
- January 2 - Kate Bosworth, American actress
- January 9 - Kerry Condon, Irish actress
- January 13 - Julian Morris, British actor
- January 16 - Marwan Kenzari, Dutch actor
- January 17 - Ryan Gage, English actor
- January 23 - Svetlana Khodchenkova, Russian actress
- January 24 - Frankie Grande, American actor, singer, producer, television host and YouTube personality
- February 4 – Hannibal Buress, American comedian, actor, writer and producer
- February 7 - Elina Purde, Estonian actress
- February 16 - Agyness Deyn, English actress and model
- February 18
- Evan Jonigkeit, American actor
- Wrenn Schmidt, American actress
- February 20 - Bronson Webb, British actor
- February 21
- Eoin Macken, Irish actor
- Mélanie Laurent, French actress
- February 22 - Taraka Ratna, Indian actor (died 2023)
- 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 7 - Greta Lee, American actress
- March 10
- Rafe Spall, English actor
- Carrie Underwood, American singer-songwriter and actress
- March 11 - Lucy DeVito, American actress
- March 12 - Ron Funches, American actor, comedian and writer
- March 14 - Johnny Flynn, British actor, musician and singer-songwriter
- March 15 - Sean Biggerstaff, Scottish actor
- March 17 - Christian and Joseph Cousins, American twin actors
- March 18 - Ivan Kolesnikov, Russian actor
- March 20 - Michael Cassidy, American actor
- March 21 - Justin McDonald, British actor
- March 29 - Ed Skrein, English actor, director, screenwriter and rapper
- March 31 - Ashleigh Ball, Canadian singer, musician and voice actress
- April 1 - Matt Lanter, American actor
- April 4
- Eric André, American comedian, actor, writer, producer and musician
- Amanda Righetti, American actress
- April 6 - Diora Baird, American actress and former model
- April 7 - Kyle Labine, Canadian actor
- April 10 - Jamie Chung, American actress and former reality television personality
- April 15 - Alice Braga, Brazilian actress and producer
- April 19 - Victoria Yeates, English actress
- April 21 - Gugu Mbatha-Raw, British actress
- April 22 - Francis Capra, American actor
- May 3 - Ari Magder, Canadian actor (died 2012)
- May 4
- Brad Bufanda, American actor (died 2017)
- Jesse Moss, Canadian actor
- May 5 - Henry Cavill, British actor
- May 6
- Adrianne Palicki, American actress
- Gabourey Sidibe, American actress
- May 9 - Michael Roark, American actor
- May 11 - Holly Valance, Australian actress and singer
- May 12 - Domhnall Gleeson, Irish actor, writer, and director
- May 14 - Amber Tamblyn, American actress, writer, and director
- May 17 - Ginger Gonzaga, American comedian and actress
- May 28 - Megalyn Echikunwoke, American actress
- June 1 - Sylvia Hoeks, Dutch actress
- June 2 - Yuliya Snigir, Russian actress and model
- June 10 - Leelee Sobieski, American retired actress
- June 14 - Louis Garrel, French actor and filmmaker
- June 16 - Olivia Hack, American actress
- June 19 - Aidan Turner, Irish actor
- June 23 - Miles Fisher, American actor, comedian and musician
- June 24 - John Lloyd Cruz, Filipino actor
- June 28 - Scott Haze, American actor and filmmaker
- June 30 - Angela Sarafyan, Armenian-American actress
- July 6 - Christine Firkins, Canadian former actress
- July 8 - DeVaughn Nixon, American actor
- July 10 - Golshifteh Farahani, Iranian actress
- July 18 - Cara Gee, Canadian actress
- July 20 - Martin McCann, Irish actor
- July 23 - Olamide Faison, American actor and singer
- July 28 - Dhanush, Indian actor
- August 1 - Inga Salurand, Estonian actress
- August 3 - Mamie Gummer, American actress
- August 4 - Greta Gerwig, American director, writer, and actress
- August 7 - Brit Marling, American actress and screenwriter
- August 8
- Guy Burnet, British actor
- Trina Nishimura, American voice actress
- August 10 - Bonnie Piesse, Australian actress and singer-songwriter
- August 11
- Chris Hemsworth, Australian actor
- Tatá Werneck, Brazilian actress, television presenter and comedian
- August 14
- Mila Kunis, actress
- Lamorne Morris, American actor, comedian and television personality
- August 16 - Dominik García-Lorido, American actress
- August 19 - Mike Moh, American actor and martial artist
- August 20 - Andrew Garfield, English actor
- August 23 - Annie Ilonzeh, American actress
- August 24 - Antonio Campos, American film director
- August 29 - Jennifer Landon, American actress
- September 9 - Zoe Kazan, American actress and screenwriter
- September 21
- Scott Evans, American actor
- Maggie Grace, American actress
- Joseph Mazzello, American actor
- September 25 - Donald Glover, American actor, singer, comedian, writer, producer and director
- October 3 - Tessa Thompson, American actress
- October 5
- Jesse Eisenberg, American actor, director, producer, and writer
- Shelby Rabara, Filipino-American actress and dancer
- Noot Seear, Canadian actress
- Noah Segan, American actor
- October 9 - Spencer Grammer, American actress
- October 10 - Layke Anderson, British director and former actor
- October 17 - Felicity Jones, English actress
- October 19 - Rebecca Ferguson, Swedish actress
- October 24 - Katie McGrath, Irish actress
- October 28 - Joe Thomas, English actor, writer and comedian
- October 29 - Johnny Lewis, American actor (died 2012)
- November 7 - Adam DeVine, American actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer and singer
- November 8 - Chris Rankin, New Zealand-born British actor
- November 15 - Sophia Di Martino, English actress
- November 19 - Adam Driver, American actor
- November 24 - Gwilym Lee, British actor
- December 8 - Utkarsh Ambudkar, American actor, singer and rapper
- December 10
- Patrick Flueger, American actor
- Xavier Samuel, Australian actor
- December 13 - Satya Bhabha, British-American actor
- December 17 - Stef Dawson, Australian actress
- December 20 - Jonah Hill, American actor, filmmaker, and comedian
- December 23 - Joe Dinicol, Canadian actor
Deaths
| 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 | Writer | ||
| 24 | George Cukor | 83 | US | Director | ||
| 27 | Louis de Funès | 68 | France | Actor, Writer, Director | ||
| 28 | Billy Fury | 42 | UK | Singer, Actor | ||
| 30 | Joan Valerie | 71 | US | Actress | ||
| February | 13 | Marian Nixon | 78 | US | Actress | |
| 19 | Alice White | 75 | US | Actress | ||
| 21 | Marie Mosquini | 83 | US | Actress | ||
| 25 | Tennessee Williams | 71 | US | Writer | ||
| 27 | Ruth Dunning | 71 | UK | Actress | ||
| March | 7 | Robert Bray | 65 | US | Actor | |
| 9 | Faye Emerson | 65 | US | Actress | ||
| 14 | Maurice Ronet | 55 | France | Actor, Director, Writer | ||
| 16 | Arthur Godfrey | 79 | US | Actor | ||
| 27 | James Hayter | 75 | Spain | Actor | ||
| 28 | Walter Reisch | 79 | Austria | Screenwriter | ||
| April | 4 | Buster Crabbe | 75 | US | Actor | |
| 4 | Gloria Swanson | 84 | US | Actress, Producer | ||
| 11 | Dolores del Río | 77 | Mexico | Actress | ||
| 21 | Walter Slezak | 80 | Austria | Actor | ||
| 23 | Selena Royle | 78 | US | Actress | ||
| 26 | Shirley Deane | 70 | US | Actress | ||
| May | 1 | Joseph Ruttenberg | 93 | Russia | Cinematographer | |
| 5 | John Williams | 80 | UK | Actor | ||
| 8 | Fay Spain | 50 | US | Actress | ||
| 23 | George Bruns | 68 | US | Composer | ||
| 23 | Eve Gray | 87 | UK | Actress | ||
| 25 | Sydney Box | 78 | UK | Producer, Writer | ||
| 30 | Burnett Guffey | 78 | US | Cinematographer | ||
| June | 12 | Norma Shearer | 80 | US | Actress | |
| 22 | David MacDonald | 79 | UK | Director | ||
| 23 | Jonathan Latimer | 76 | US | Screenwriter | ||
| 30 | Herbert Baker | 62 | US | Screenwriter | ||
| July | 5 | Harry James | 67 | US | Musician, Actor | |
| 15 | Eddie Foy Jr. | 78 | US | Actor | ||
| 16 | Samson Raphaelson | 89 | US | Screenwriter | ||
| 17 | Byron Kennedy | 33 | Australia | Producer | ||
| 19 | Olle Hilding | 85 | Sweden | Actor | ||
| 29 | Luis Buñuel | 83 | Spain-Mexico | Writer, Director, Actor | ||
| 29 | Raymond Massey | 86 | US | Actor | ||
| 29 | David Niven | 73 | UK | Actor, Producer | ||
| 30 | Lynn Fontanne | 95 | US | Actress | ||
| August | 1 | Peter Arne | 64 | UK | Actor | |
| 3 | Carolyn Jones | 53 | US | Actress | ||
| 5 | Judy Canova | 69 | US | Actress | ||
| 28 | Jan Clayton | 66 | US | Actress | ||
| 29 | Simon Oakland | 68 | US | Actor | ||
| September | 15 | LeRoy Prinz | 88 | US | Choreographer | |
| October | 5 | Rafael Bertrand | 66 | Mexico | Actor | |
| 8 | Joan Hackett | 49 | US | Actress | ||
| 10 | Ralph Richardson | 80 | UK | Actor, Director | ||
| 14 | Paul Fix | 82 | US | Actor | ||
| 15 | Pat O'Brien | 83 | US | Actor | ||
| 17 | Vittorio Nino Novarese | 76 | Italy | Costume Designer | ||
| November | ? | Eleanore Whitney | 66 | US | Actress | |
| 2 | Michael Spice | 52 | UK | Actor | A Countess from Hong Kong | |
| 8 | Robert Agnew | 84 | US | Actor | ||
| 15 | John Le Mesurier | 71 | UK | 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 | |
| 4 | Maurice Browning | 64 | UK | Actor | ||
| 5 | Robert Aldrich | 65 | US | Director | ||
| 8 | Slim Pickens | 64 | US | Actor | ||
| 21 | Rod Cameron | 73 | US | Actor | ||
| 22 | Charles Lloyd-Pack | 81 | UK | Actor | ||
| 28 | William Demarest | 91 | US | Actor | ||
| 29 | Janet Webb | 52 | UK | Actress |
Film debuts
- Curtis Armstrong - Risky Business
- Rowan Atkinson - Never Say Never Again
- Kathy Baker - The Right Stuff
- Steven Bauer - Scarface
- Juliette Binoche - Liberty Belle
- Mark Boone Junior - Variety
- Matthew Broderick - Max Dugan Returns
- Clancy Brown - Bad Boys
- Jim Carrey - All in Good Taste
- Nancy Cartwright - Twilight Zone: The Movie
- Wendy Crewson - Skullduggery
- John Cusack - Class
- Lolita Davidovich - Class
- Warwick Davis - Return of the Jedi
- William B. Davis - The Dead Zone
- Vincent D'Onofrio - The First Turn-On!
- Chris Elliott - Lianna
- Frances Fisher - Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?
- Matt Frewer - The Lords of Discipline
- Andy García - Blue Skies Again
- Mary Pat Gleason - Easy Money
- Crispin Glover - My Tutor
- John Goodman - Eddie Macon's Run
- Kelsey Grammer - WarGames
- Graham Greene - Running Brave
- David Alan Grier - Streamers
- Lukas Haas - Testament
- Tess Harper - Tender Mercies
- Arliss Howard - The Prodigal
- Nicole Kidman - Bush Christmas
- Jane Krakowski - National Lampoon's Vacation
- Maurice LaMarche - Rock & Rule
- Al Leong - Twilight Zone: The Movie
- Ray Liotta - The Lonely Lady
- John Bedford Lloyd - Trading Places
- Rob Lowe - The Outsiders
- Virginia Madsen - Class
- Camryn Manheim - Sudden Impact
- Andrew McCarthy - Class
- Kelly McGillis - Reuben, Reuben
- Peter McRobbie - Zelig
- Julio Oscar Mechoso - Guaguasi
- Fred Melamed - Lovesick
- Matthew Modine - Baby It's You
- Rick Moranis - Strange Brew
- Megan Mullally - Risky Business
- Judd Nelson - Rock 'n' Roll Hotel
- Afemo Omilami - Trading Places
- Michael Paré - Eddie and the Cruisers
- Sarah Jessica Parker - Somewhere Tomorrow
- Alexandra Paul - American Nightmare
- Bronson Pinchot - Risky Business
- Kevin Pollak - The Right Stuff
- Kelly Preston - 10 to Midnight
- Paul Rodriguez - D.C. Cab
- Mimi Rogers - Blue Skies Again
- Alan Ruck - Bad Boys
- Ally Sheedy - Bad Boys
- Elisabeth Shue - Somewhere Tomorrow
- Kiefer Sutherland - Max Dugan Returns
- Lea Thompson - Jaws 3-D
- J. T. Walsh - Eddie Macon's Run
- Julie Walters - Educating Rita
- Lynn Whitfield - Doctor Detroit
- Kathleen Wilhoite - Private School
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
- ^ "1983 Domestic Grosses". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved April 7, 2014.