1983 in film

<u>Musical or Comedy:

Best Picture: Yentl

Best Actor: Michael Caine - Educating Rita

Best Actress: Julie Walters - Educating Rita

<u>Other

Best Director: Barbra Streisand - Yentl

Best Foreign Language Film: Fanny and Alexander, Sweden

PALM 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

• A Christmas Story
• A Nos Amours
• All the Right Moves
• Ardh Satya, directed by Govind Nihalani, Silver Lotus Award for best Indian Actor Om Puri
• Bad Boys
• The Ballad of Narayama (remake of the 1958 film) - Palm d'Or award
• La Bestia y la Espada Magica
• The Big Chill
• Bloodbath at the House of Death
• Bullshot
• Chiefs
• Christine directed by John Carpenter, starring Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul, Robert Prosky, Harry Dean Stanton and Kelly Preston
• Cracking Up
• The Crimson Permanent Assurance, a Monty Python's short film
• Cross Creek
• Danton
• The Dead Zone
• Le Dernier Combat (The Last Battle), directed by Luc Besson
• The Dresser
• Eddie and the Cruisers
• Educating Rita
• El Norte
• Eréndira
• Flashdance
• The Fourth Man
• Jaws 3-D
• Koyaanisqatsi
• The Keep
• The King of Comedy, directed by Martin Scorsese
• Man of Flowers
• Mickey's Christmas Carol, a featurette which brings the character Mickey Mouse back to cinemas for the first time since 1953.
• Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
• Mr. Mom
• National Lampoon's Vacation
• Never Say Never Again
• Nostalghia
• Octopussy
• One Deadly Summer (L'été meurtrier)
• The Outsiders
• Porky's II: The Next Day
• Prénom Carmen (First Name: Carmen) - Golden Lion award
• Psycho II
• Reuben, Reuben
• The Right Stuff
• Risky Business
• Shaka Zulu
• Scarface
• Silkwood
• Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
• Staying Alive
• Superman III
• Sudden Impact
• Tender Mercies
• Terms of Endearment, directed by James L. Brooks - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture
• Trading Places
• Twilight Zone: The Movie
• WarGames
• Yentl - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
• Yellowbeard
• Zelig

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

• January 8 - Gale Page, actress
• March 26 - Tennessee Williams, playwright
• 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 15 - Pat O'Brien, actor
• December 5 - Robert Aldrich, director
• December 8 - Slim Pickens, actor
• December 28 - William Demarest, actorde:Filmjahr 1983