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.
The top ten 1983 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
11 February - The Rolling Stones concert film Let's Spend the Night Together opens in New York City
25 May - 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.
Nicole Kidman makes her film debut
Brainstorm the final film of screen star Natalie Wood is released, 2 years after her death.
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
U.S.A. unless stated
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
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 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, Meg Tilly, JoBeth Williams
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
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 Volontè - (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 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 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
Little House on the Prairie: A Look Back to Yesterday
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
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 - (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
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, directed by Richard Franklin, starring Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Meg Tilly and Robert Loggia
R
Rebetiko - (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 & 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)
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
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 Last Ninja
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, 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)
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)
January 1983
January 18
Lianna
January 21
The House on Sorority Row
Treasure of the Four Crowns
The Year of Living Dangerously
February 1983
February 4
The Entity
Videodrome
Without a Trace
February 17
Local Hero
February 18
Lovesick
The Pirates of Penzance
The Sting II
February 19 - Betrayal
March 1983
March 2
Sahara
March 4
Baby It's You
Curtains
My Tutor
March 11
10 to Midnight
Trenchcoat
March 23
Eddie Macon's Run
March 25
Bad Boys
The Black Stallion Returns
Max Dugan Returns
The Outsiders
The Sword in the Stone (re-release)
Spring Break
March 31
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
April 1983
April 1
Heart Like a Wheel
Screwballs
April 6
Conquest
April 11
Flashdance
April 15
Liquid Sky
Lone Wolf McQuade
April 22
Exposed
The Deadly Spawn
Losin' It
April 29
The Hunger
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Valley Girl
May 1983
May 1
The Final Terror
May 6
Still Smokin
May 13
Blue Thunder
May 18
Moon in the Gutter
May 20
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
Tough Enough
May 25
Return of the Jedi
May 27
Chained Heat
June 1983
June 3
The Man with Two Brains
Psycho II
WarGames
June 8
Trading Places
June 10
Octopussy
June 17
Superman III
June 24
Porky's II: The Next Day
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Yellowbeard
July 1983
July 1 - Stroker Ace
July 6 - Class
July 15
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (re-release)
Staying Alive
Zelig
July 22
Jaws 3-D
Mr. Mom
July 29
Krull
Private School
National Lampoon's Vacation
August 1983
August 5
Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island
Get Crazy
Risky Business
The Star Chamber
Twice Upon a Time
August 12
Cujo
The Man Who Wasn't There
Smokey and the Bandit Part 3
August 15
Prisoners of the Lost Universe
August 19
Easy Money
Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn
Yor, the Hunter from the Future
August 26
Strange Brew
Fire and Ice
Hercules
August 28
Young Warriors
August 31
Microwave Massacre
September 1983
September 2
Escape from the Bronx
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Mortuary
September 9
Nightmares
September 16
Revenge of the Ninja
Strange Invaders
Vigilante
September 21
Educating Rita
September 23
Eddie and the Cruisers
Pieces
September 28
The Big Chill
September 30
Brainstorm
Going Berserk
The Honorary Consul
The Lonely Lady
October 1983
October 7
Never Cry Wolf
Never Say Never Again
October 14
The Osterman Weekend
October 21
All the Right Moves
The Dead Zone
The Right Stuff
Rumble Fish
Under Fire (film)
October 28
The Wicked Lady
November 1983
November 2
National Lampoon's Movie Madness
November 4
Deal of the Century
Running Brave
November 10
Star 80
November 18
Amityville 3-D
The Being
A Christmas Story
Nate and Hayes
A Night in Heaven
Sleepaway Camp
November 24
Of Unknown Origin
December 1983
December 6
The Dresser
December 9
Christine
Scarface
Sudden Impact
Terms of Endearment
Yentl
December 12
Curse of the Pink Panther
December 14
Silkwood
December 16
D.C. Cab
The Keep
The Rescuers (re-release)
Two of a Kind
Uncommon Valor
December 30
The Makioka Sisters
January 2 - Kate Bosworth, actress
January 13 - Julian Morris, British actor
January 16 - Marwan Kenzari, Dutch actor
February 21 - Mélanie Laurent, French actress
February 23 - Emily Blunt, English actress
March 1 - Lupita Nyong'o, actress and director
March 4 - Julieta Zylberberg, actress
March 10 - Carrie Underwood, American singer-songwriter and actress
March 31 - Ashleigh Ball, Canadian musician and voice actress
April 21 - Gugu Mbatha-Raw, actress
May 3 - Ari Magder, Canadian child actor (died 2012)
May 5 - Henry Cavill, British actor
May 6 - Gabourey Sidibe, actress
May 11 - Holly Valance, Australian actress and singer
May 14 - Amber Tamblyn, actress
June 10 - Leelee Sobieski, actress
June 24 - John Lloyd Cruz, actor
July 10 - Golshifteh Farahani, actress
August 3 - Mamie Gummer, actress
August 4 - Greta Gerwig, actress
August 7 - Brit Marling, actress
August 11 - Chris Hemsworth, Australian actor
August 14 - Mila Kunis, actress
August 20 - Andrew Garfield, English actor
August 29 - Jennifer Landon, actress
September 21
Joseph Mazzello, actor
Maggie Grace, actress
October 3 - Tessa Thompson, actress
October 5 - Shelby Rabara. Filipino-American Actress and Dancer
December 20 - Jonah Hill, actor
Rowan Atkinson - Never Say Never Again
Steven Bauer - Scarface
Juliette Binoche - Liberty Belle
Matthew Broderick - Max Dugan Returns
Clancy Brown - Bad Boys
John Cusack - Class
Lolita Davidovich - Class
Warwick Davis - Return of the Jedi
Vincent D'Onofrio - The First Turn-On!
Chris Elliott - Lianna
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
Matthew Modine - Baby It's You
Kelly Preston - 10 to Midnight
Mimi Rogers - Blue Skies Again
Alan Ruck - Bad Boys
Ally Sheedy - Bad Boys
Casey Siemaszko - Class
Kiefer Sutherland - Max Dugan Returns
Lea Thompson - Jaws 3-D
Julie Walters - Educating Rita
