1982 in film

<u>Musical or Comedy:

Best Picture: Tootsie

Best Actor: Dustin Hoffman - Tootsie

Best Actress: Julie Andrews - Victor/Victoria

<u>Other

Best Director: Richard Attenborough - Gandhi

Best Foreign Film: Gandhi, India

PALM D'OR (Cannes Film Festival):

Missing, directed by Costa Gavras, United States

Yol (The Way), directed by Yilmaz Güney, Turkey

GOLDEN LION (Venice Film Festival):

The State of Things (Der Stand der Dinge), directed by Wim Wenders, W. Germany / Portugal / USA

GOLDEN BEAR (Berlin Film Festival):

Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss (Veronika Voss), directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, W. Germany

[edit] Films released in 1982

• 48 Hours, starring Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte
• Android
• Annie
• Arth, directed by Mahesh Bhatt, Silver Lotus Award for best Indian actress Shabana Azmi
• The Beehive, (La Colmena) Golden Bear (award) winner 1982
• The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
• Blade Runner
• Conan the Barbarian
• The Dark Crystal
• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
• Death Wish II
• Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder
• Eating Raoul
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
• L'étoile du nord
• Fanny and Alexander, directed by Ingmar Bergman
• Fast Times at Ridgemont High
• First Blood
• Frances
• Friday the 13th Part 3
• Gandhi
• Grease 2
• Halloween III: Season of the Witch
• Hanky Panky
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• Inchon! with Laurence Olivier
• Let's Spend the Night Together documentary on Rolling Stones' concert
• Love Child
• The Man From Snowy River (a)
• Making Love
• Megaforce directed by Hal Needham
• Missing, Palme d'Or winner
• The Missionary
• Monkey Grip (a) (film only mentioned in article)
• Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
• Moonlighting
• My Favorite Year
• The Night of the Shooting Stars, by Paolo Emilio Taviani
• An Officer and a Gentleman
• Partners
• Personal Best
• Pink Floyd The Wall
• Poltergeist
• Porky's
• Purple Haze, Sundance Grand Jury Prize
• Querelle
• Quest for Fire
• The Return of Martin Guerre
• Richard Pryor Live on Sunset Strip
• Rocky III
• The Secret of NIMH
• Sophie's Choice
• Soup For One
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
• Starstruck (a)
• The State of Things, Golden Lion winner, by director Wim Wenders
• Street Music, Sundance Grand Jury Prize
• Tenebrae, directed by Dario Argento
• Tex, starring Matt Dillon
• The Thing, directed by John Carpenter, starring Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter, David Clennon and Keith David
• Things Are Tough All Over, starring Cheech and Chong
• Time Stands Still
• Tootsie, starring Dustin Hoffman
• Tron
• The Verdict
• Veronika Voss, Golden Bear award winner
• Victor/Victoria
• Volver a empezar Academy Award for Foreign language film
• War and Peace
• The World According to Garp (film only mentioned in article)
• The Year of Living Dangerously
• Yol, Palme d'Or winner

[edit] Births

• January 1 - Anusha Dhandekar, Indian actress
• March 11 - Thora Birch, American actress
• April 1 - Sam Huntington, American actor
• April 30 - Kirsten Dunst, American actress
• July 24 - Anna Paquin, Canadian actress
• September 30 - Lacey Chabert, American actress
• November 12 - Anne Hathaway, American actress
• November 30 - Elisha Cuthbert, Canadian actress

[edit] Deaths

• March 5 - John Belushi, actor
• March 6 - Ayn Rand, writer
• May 29 - Romy Schneider, Austrian actress
• June 10 - Rainer Werner Fassbinder, director
• June 18 - Curt Jurgens, Austrian actor
• June 29 - Henry King, actor, director
• August 7 - Jill Banner, actress
• August 12 - Henry Fonda, actor
• August 29 - Ingrid Bergman, actress
• September 14 - Grace Kelly, actress
• November 4 - Dominique Dunne , actress
• November 5 - Jacques Tati - French director, actor
• November 21 - Lee Patrick, actressde:Filmjahr 1982