1982 in film

The following is an overview of events in 1982 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths.

Highest-grossing films (U.S.)
See also: List of 1982 box office number-one films in the United States

The top ten 1982 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1982

Rank

Title

Studio

Domestic gross

1. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Universal Pictures $359,197,037 2. Tootsie Columbia Pictures $177,200,000 3. An Officer and a Gentleman Paramount Pictures / Lorimar $129,795,554 4. Rocky III United Artists $124,146,897 5. Porky's 20th Century Fox $105,492,483 6. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Paramount Pictures $78,912,963 7. 48 Hrs. Paramount Pictures $78,868,508 8. Poltergeist Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer $76,606,280 9. The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas Universal Pictures / RKO Pictures $69,701,637 10. Annie Columbia Pictures / Rastar $57,059,003

Events

 * June 11 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is released; it will become the highest-grossing film of all time.
 * Michelle Pfeiffer appears in her first leading role, in Grease 2, the sequel to the top-grossing film of 1978 (her film debut had come as Tony Danza's character's girlfriend in the 1980 movie The Hollywood Knights).
 * July 9 — Sci-fi movie Tron is the first feature film to use computer animation extensively.
 * July 23 — During production of Twilight Zone: The Movie, 53-year-old American actor Vic Morrow and two child actors are accidentally killed during a scene involving an operated helicopter. The accident leads to reforms in filmmaking safety and child-labor laws.
 * October 8 — Angelina Jolie makes her film debut as a child actress appearing with her father Jon Voight, in Lookin' to Get Out. She next appears on film as an adult 11 years later in Cyborg 2.
 * Glenn Close makes her film debut.
 * Hugh Grant makes his film debut.
 * Eddie Murphy makes his film debut.
 * The Coca-Cola Company acquires Columbia Pictures.
 * The THX Sound System is developed for use in movie theaters.

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Academy Awards: Golden Globe Awards: Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival): Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival): Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
 * Best Picture: Gandhi – Indo-British Films, ColumbiaBest Director: Richard Attenborough – GandhiBest Actor: Ben Kingsley – GandhiBest Actress: Meryl Streep – Sophie's ChoiceBest Supporting Actor: Louis Gossett, Jr. – An Officer and a GentlemanBest Supporting Actress: Jessica Lange – TootsieBest Foreign Language Film: Volver a empezar (Begin the Beguine), directed by José Luis Garci, Spain
 * Drama:Best Picture: E.T. the Extra-TerrestrialBest Actor: Ben Kingsley – GandhiBest Actress: Meryl Streep – Sophie's Choice
 * Musical or comedy:Best Picture: TootsieBest Actor: Dustin Hoffman – TootsieBest Actress: Julie Andrews – Victor VictoriaOtherBest Director: Richard Attenborough – GandhiBest Foreign Film: Gandhi, India
 * Missing, directed by Costa Gavras, United StatesYol (The Way), directed by Yılmaz Güney, Turkey
 * The State of Things (Der Stand der Dinge), directed by Wim Wenders, W. Germany / Portugal / USA
 * Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss (Veronika Voss), directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, W. Germany

Births

 * January 6 Misha Omar, Malaysian actress and singer
 * Eddie Redmayne, English actor
 * January 8 – Gaby Hoffmann, American actress
 * January 19 – Jodie Sweetin, American actress
 * February 6 – Alice Eve, English actress
 * February 8 – Danny Tamberelli, American actor
 * February 11 – Natalie Dormer, English actress
 * March 3 – Jessica Biel, American actress
 * March 7 – Nora Danish, Malaysian actress
 * March 11 – Thora Birch, American actress
 * March 16 – Dian Sastrowardoyo, Indonesian actress
 * March 24 – Vino Bastian, Indonesian actor
 * March 25 – Jenny Slate, American actress-comedian
 * April 3 – Cobie Smulders, Canadian actress
 * April 4 – Justin Cook, American voice actor
 * April 5 – Hayley Atwell, English actress
 * April 9 – Jay Baruchel, Canadian actor-comedian
 * April 10 – Chyler Leigh, American actress
 * April 11 – Remy Ishak, Malaysian actor
 * April 15 – Seth Rogen, Canadian actor-comedian
 * April 30 – Kirsten Dunst, American actress
 * May 11 – Jonathan Jackson, American actor
 * June 29 Matthew Mercer, American voice actor
 * Ott Sepp, Estonian actor
 * June 30 – Lizzy Caplan, American actress
 * July 1 – Hilarie Burton, American actress
 * July 8 Sophia Bush, American actress
 * Schuyler Fisk, American singer-songwriter and actress
 * July 9 – Toby Kebbell, English actor
 * July 18 – Priyanka Chopra, Indian actress
 * July 19 – Jared Padalecki, American actor
 * July 24 Elisabeth Moss, American actress
 * Anna Paquin, New Zealand actress
 * July 25 – Brad Renfro, American actor (d. 2008)
 * August 6 – Romola Garai, English actress
 * August 7 – Abbie Cornish, Australian actress
 * August 10 – Devon Aoki, American actress and model
 * August 13 – Sebastian Stan, Romanian-American actor
 * August 16 Cam Gigandet, American actor
 * Todd Haberkorn, American voice actor
 * August 19 – Erika Christensen, American actress
 * September 4 – Shaheizy Sam, Malaysian actor
 * September 10 – Bret Iwan, current voice of Mickey Mouse
 * September 13 – J. G. Quintel, American animator, television writer, and voice actor
 * September 19 – Columbus Short, American actor and dancer
 * September 22 – Billie Piper, English singer and actress
 * September 27 – Anna Camp, American actress and singer
 * September 30 Kieran Culkin, American actor
 * Lacey Chabert, American actress
 * October 3 – Clémence Poésy, French actress and model
 * October 23 – Bradley Pierce, American actor
 * October 27 – Patrick Fugit, American actor
 * October 31 – Justin Chatwin, Canadian actor
 * November 10 – Heather Matarazzo, American actress
 * November 12 – Anne Hathaway, American actress
 * November 29 – Lucas Black, American actor
 * November 30 – Elisha Cuthbert, Canadian actress
 * December 29 – Alison Brie, American actress
 * December 30 – Kristin Kreuk, Canadian actress

Notable deaths
Month Date Name Age Country Profession Notable films January 1 Victor Buono 43 USA Actor What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? · The Greatest Story Ever Told 5 Hans Conried 64 USA Actor The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T · The Birds and the Bees 5 Harvey Lembeck 58 USA Actor Stalag 17 · Beach Party 8 Reta Shaw 69 USA Actress Mary Poppins · Escape to Witch Mountain 8 Grégoire Aslan 73 UK Actor Cleopatra · The Return of the Pink Panther 10 Paul Lynde 55 USA Actor Bye Bye Birdie · Son of Flubber 30 Stanley Holloway 91 UK Actor My Fair Lady · Brief Encounter February 11 Eleanor Powell 69 USA Actress, Dancer That's Entertainment! · Broadway Melody of 1936 12 Victor Jory 79 USA Actor Gone with the Wind · The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 17 Lee Strasberg 80 USA Actor, Director The Godfather Part II · The Cassandra Crossing March 5 John Belushi 33 USA Actor The Blues Brothers · National Lampoon's Animal House 6 Ayn Rand 77 USA Writer, Actress The King of Kings · The Fountainhead 19 Alan Badel 58 UK Actor, Miscellaneous The Day of the Jackal · Force 10 from Navarone 21 Harry H. Corbett 57 UK Actor, Writer Jabberwocky · Carry On Screaming! 26 Sam Kydd 67 UK Actor The Ladykillers · Eye of the Needle 27 Betty Schade 87 USA Actress, Writer After Five · First Love 29 Rudy Bond 69 USA Actor The Godfather · 12 Angry Men April 3 Warren Oates 53 USA Actor The Wild Bunch · In the Heat of the Night 15 Arthur Lowe 66 UK Actor Dad's Army · Theatre of Blood 22 Harold Goldblatt 82 UK Actor A Night to Remember · Sunday Bloody Sunday 25 Don Wilson 81 USA Actor Niagara · Buck Benny Rides Again 26 Celia Johnson 73 UK Actress Brief Encounter · The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 27 Tom Tully 73 USA Actor The Caine Mutiny · Charley Varrick May 2 Hugh Marlowe 71 USA Actor All About Eve · Seven Days in May 14 Hugh Beaumont 73 USA Actor The Blue Dahlia · Railroaded! 29 Romy Schneider 43 France Actress The Trial · What's New Pussycat? June 10 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 37 Germany Writer, Director, Actor Love Is Colder Than Death · Katzelmacher 18 Curd Jürgens 66 Austria Actor, Director The Spy Who Loved Me · The Longest Day 29 Henry King 96 USA Director, Producer Twelve O'Clock High · The Gunfighter 29 Michael Brennan 69 UK Actor Trouble in Store · Up in the World July 12 Kenneth More 67 UK Actor The Longest Day · Battle of Britain 19 John Harvey 70 UK Actor The Satanic Rites of Dracula · The Man with My Face 23 Vic Morrow 53 USA Actor Twilight Zone: The Movie · The Bad News Bears August 7 Jill Banner 35 USA Actress Spider Baby · The President's Analyst 11 Tom Drake 64 USA Actor Meet Me in St. Louis · Words and Music 12 Henry Fonda 77 USA Actor, Producer 12 Angry Men · Once Upon a Time in the West 14 Patrick Magee 58 UK Actor A Clockwork Orange · Barry Lyndon 29 Ingrid Bergman 67 Sweden Actress, Producer Casablanca · Notorious September 13 Philip Ober 80 USA Actor From Here to Eternity · North by Northwest 14 Grace Kelly 52 USA, Monaco Actress Rear Window · Dial M for Murder 28 Mabel Albertson 81 USA Actress What's Up, Doc · Barefoot in the Park 28 Seth Banks 66 USA Costume Designer To Kill a Mockingbird · 9 to 5 29 Lucy Griffiths 63 UK Actress The Ladykillers · Murder, She Said October 1 Larry Breeding 36 USA Actor Street Music 3 Vivien Merchant 53 UK Actress Frenzy · Alfie 5 Rafael Bertrand 65 Mexico Actor The Professionals · Isle of the Snake People 5 Eddie Frewin 61 UK Transportation Co-ordinator, Unit Production Manager 2001: A Space Odyssey · The Pink Panther 8 Fernando Lamas 67 Argentina Actor, Director Dangerous When Wet · The Merry Widow 14 Dick Ung 59 USA Animator One Hundred and One Dalmatians · The Pink Panther November 1 King Vidor 88 USA Director, Writer, Producer The Wizard of Oz · The Fountainhead 4 Dominique Dunne 22 USA Actress Poltergeist 4 Jacques Tati 75 France Actor, Writer, Director Mon Oncle · Mr. Hulot's Holiday 4 Talfryn Thomas 60 UK Actor Under Milk Wood 7 Elio Petri 53 Italy Director, Writer Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion · The 10th Victim 10 John Bay 53 USA Actor Gold 18 Forbes Murray 98 USA Actor Vertigo · Singin' in the Rain 21 Lee Patrick 80 USA Actress Vertigo · The Maltese Falcon 26 Robert Coote 73 USA Actor A Matter of Life and Death · The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 30 Eric Thompson 53 UK Actor, Writer The Jokers · One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 30 Verna Fields 64 USA Film Editor Jaws · American Graffiti December 2 Marty Feldman 48 UK Actor, Director, Writer Young Frankenstein · The Last Remake of Beau Geste 4 George Tovey 68 UK Actor Frenzy · Steptoe and Son Ride Again 10 Roy Webb 94 USA Composer, Musical Director Notorious · Bringing Up Baby 21 Gladys Henson 83 UK Actress A Night to Remember · The Prince and the Showgirl 22 Jack Webb 62 USA Actor Sunset Boulevard · Pete Kelly's Blues

Film debuts
Kirstie Alley – Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
 * Antonio Banderas – Labyrinth of Passion
 * Ellen Barkin – Diner
 * Glenn Close – The World According to Garp
 * Geena Davis – Tootsie
 * Shannen Doherty – Night Shift
 * Christine Ebersole – Tootsie
 * Emilio Estevez – Tex
 * Hugh Grant – Privileged
 * Anthony Michael Hall – Six Pack
 * Linda Hamilton – Tag: The Assassination Game
 * C. Thomas Howell – E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
 * Hulk Hogan – Rocky III
 * Jet Li – Shaolin Temple
 * Angelina Jolie – Lookin' to Get Out
 * Kevin Kline – Sophie's Choice
 * Amy Madigan – Love Child
 * Michael Madsen – Against All Hope
 * Eddie Murphy – 48 Hrs.
 * Heather O'Rourke – Poltergeist
 * Gary Oldman – Remembrance
 * Molly Ringwald – Tempest
 * Meredith Salenger – Annie
 * Eric Stoltz – Fast Times at Ridgemont High
 * Mr. T – Rocky III
 * Forest Whitaker – Tag: The Assassination Game
 * Aileen Quinn – Annie