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.)

Rank	Title	Studio	Actor/Actress	Director	Gross
1.	Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi	Lucasfilm/Fox	Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, and Ian McDiarmid	Richard Marquand	$475,106,177
2.	Terms of Endearment	Paramount	Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Jeff Daniels, Danny DeVito, and John Lithgow	James L. Brooks	$108,423,489
3.	Flashdance	Paramount	Jennifer Beals and Michael Nouri	Adrian Lyne	$92,921,203
4.	Trading Places	Paramount	Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Jamie Lee Curtis, Denholm Elliott, Don Ameche, Ralph Bellamy, and Paul Gleason	John Landis	$90,404,800
5.	WarGames	United Artists	Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, Ally Sheedy, and John Wood	John Badham	$79,567,667
6.	Octopussy	United Artists	Roger Moore, Maud Adams, and Louis Jourdan	John Glen	$67,893,619
7.	Sudden Impact	Warner Bros.	Clint Eastwood and Sondra Locke	Clint Eastwood	$67,642,693
8.	Staying Alive	Paramount	John Travolta, Cynthia Rhodes, and Finola Hughes	Sylvester Stallone	$64,892,670
9.	Mr. Mom	Fox	Michael Keaton and Teri Garr	Stan Dragoti	$64,783,827
10.	Risky Business	Warner Bros.	Tom Cruise and Rebecca De Mornay	Paul Brickman	$63,541,777
11.	National Lampoon's Vacation	Warner Bros.	Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Anthony Michael Hall, Dana Barron, Randy Quaid and Imogene Coca	Harold Ramis	$61,399,552
12.	Superman III	Warner Bros.	Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor, Jackie Cooper, Marc McClure, and Annette O'Toole	Richard Lester	$59,950,623
13.	The Big Chill	Columbia	Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Mary Kay Place, Meg Tilly, JoBeth Williams and Don Galloway	Lawrence Kasdan	$56,342,711
14.	Never Say Never Again	Warner Bros.	Sean Connery, Kim Basinger and Klaus Maria Brandauer	Irvin Kershner	$55,432,841
15.	Jaws 3-D	Universal	Dennis Quaid, Bess Armstrong, and Lea Thompson	Joe Alves	$45,517,055
16.	Scarface	Universal	Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Loggia, F. Murray Abraham and Harris Yulin	Brian De Palma	$44,668,798
17.	Blue Thunder	Columbia	Roy Scheider and Malcolm McDowell	John Badham	$42,313,354
18.	Yentl	MGM	Barbra Streisand, Mandy Patinkin and Amy Irving	Barbra Streisand	$40,218,899
19.	Silkwood	Fox	Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher, Craig T. Nelson and Fred Ward	Mike Nichols	$35,615,609
20.	Psycho II	Universal	Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Robert Loggia and Meg Tilly	Richard Franklin	$34,725,000
21.	Porky's II: The Next Day	Fox	Dan Monahan, Wyatt Knight, Mark Herrier, Roger Wilson, and Cyril O'Reilly	Bob Clark	$33,759,266
22.	Uncommon Valor	Paramount	Gene Hackman, Fred Ward, and Patrick Swayze	Ted Kotcheff	$30,503,151
23.	Never Cry Wolf	Disney	Charles Martin Smith, Brian Dennehy, and Zachary Ittimangnaq	Carroll Ballard	$29,600,000
24.	Twilight Zone: The Movie	Warner Bros.	Dan Aykroyd, Albert Brooks, Vic Morrow, Scatman Crothers, Kathleen Quinlan, John Lithgow, and Burgess Meredith	John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, and George Miller	$29,450,919
25.	Easy Money	Orion	Rodney Dangerfield, Joe Pesci, and Geraldine Fitzgerald	James Signorelli	$29,309,766
26.	High Road to China	Warner Bros.	Tom Selleck, Bess Armstrong, Jack Weston, Wilford Brimley, and Robert Morley	Brian G. Hutton	$28,445,927

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 Shōhei 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

U.S.A. unless stated

• 10 to Midnight, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Charles Bronson

A

• A 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)
• L'Argent (Money), directed by Robert Bresson - (France)
• 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 Shōhei 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.)
• The Big Chill, directed by Lawrence Kasdan, starring Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Meg Tilly, JoBeth Williams
• Bill Cosby: Himself, a stand-up comedy performance
• The Black Cauldron, a Walt Disney animated film
• 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
• 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
• 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 - (U.K./U.S.A.)
• 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
• Exposed, directed by James Toback, starring Nastassja Kinski, Rudolf Nureyev, Harvey Keitel

F

• The Family Game (Kazoku Gēmu), directed by Yoshimitsu Morita - (Japan)
• Ferestadeh - (U.S.A./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 Pacula, 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, 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
• 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

• 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
• 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 - (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

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
• 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 - (U.S.A./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
• The Outsiders, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Rob Lowe, Patrick Swayze, Emilio Estevez, Tom Cruise

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 - (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
• 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, starring Anthony Perkins, Meg Tilly, Robert Loggia, Dennis Franz, Vera Miles

R

• Rembetiko - (Greece)
• 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 and 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

• Saagara 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
• 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)
• Streamers, starring Matthew Modine and David Alan Grier
• Stroker Ace, directed by Hal Needham, starring Burt Reynolds, Loni Anderson, Jim Nabors, Ned Beatty
• 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

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)
• Walking the Edge, starring Robert Forster and Nancy Kwan
• 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.)
• The Wind in the Willows (1983 film), starring Richard Pearson (actor), 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)

Births

• January 2 - Kate Bosworth, American actress
• February 21 - Melanie Laurent, French 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 7 - Brit Marling, 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

Notable deaths

• 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
• July 29 - Luis Buñuel, Spanish filmmaker

• August 3 - Carolyn Jones, actress
• August 5 - Judy Canova, entertainer
• August 29 - Simon Oakland, actor
• October 8 - Joan Hackett, actress

• October 15 - Pat O'Brien, actor

• November 28 - Johnnie Davis, actor, singer
• November 28 - Christopher George, leading film/television 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