- 1982 in film
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Events
- March 26 = I Ought to Be in Pictures, starring Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret and Dinah Manoff (a rare starring role) is released. Manoff would not appear in another movie until 1987's Backfire.
- June = PG-rated film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, becomes one of the highest-grossing box-office success until Jurassic Park,
- June 11 = Michelle Pfeiffer makes her film debut in Grease 2, the sequel to the top grossing film of 1978.
- July 23 = During production of Twilight Zone: The Movie, 53-year-old American actor Vic Morrow and two child actors were accidentally killed during a scene involving an operated helicopter. The accident led to reforms in film-making safety and child-labor laws.
- The THX Sound System is developed for use in movie theaters.
- Hugh Grant makes his film debut.
- Eddie Murphy makes his film debut.
- 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 appeared on film as an adult 11 years later in Cyborg 2.
- The Coca-Cola Company acquires Columbia Pictures.
Top grossing films (U.S.)
Awards
- Best Picture: Gandhi - Indo-British Films, Columbia
- Best Director: Richard Attenborough - Gandhi
- Best Actor: Ben Kingsley - Gandhi
- Best Actress: Meryl Streep - Sophie's Choice
- Best Supporting Actor: Louis Gossett, Jr. - An Officer and a Gentleman
- Best Supporting Actress: Jessica Lange - Tootsie
- Best Foreign Language Film: Volver a empezar (Begin the Beguine), directed by José Luis Garci, Spain
- Drama:
- Best Picture: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
- Best Actor: Ben Kingsley - Gandhi
- Best Actress: Meryl Streep - Sophie's Choice
- Musical or comedy:
- Best Picture: Tootsie
- Best Actor: Dustin Hoffman - Tootsie
- Best Actress: Julie Andrews - Victor Victoria
- Other
- Best Director: Richard Attenborough - Gandhi
- Best Foreign Film: Gandhi, India
Palme 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
Films released in 1982
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- 48 Hours, directed by Walter Hill, starring Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy
A
- Airplane II: The Sequel, starring Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Chad Everett, Raymond Burr, Sonny Bono, William Shatner
- Alone in the Dark
- Amityville II: The Possession
- Android
- Angel
- Annie, directed by John Huston, starring Aileen Quinn and Albert Finney
- Arth, directed by Mahesh Bhatt, Silver Lotus Award for best Indian actress Shabana Azmi
- Author! Author!, starring Al Pacino, Dyan Cannon, Tuesday Weld
B
- La Balance
- Barbarosa, directed by Fred Schepisi, starring Willie Nelson and Gary Busey
- Basket Case
- The Beach Girls
- The Beastmaster
- The Beehive, (La Colmena) Golden Bear (award) winner 1982
- Best Friends, starring Burt Reynolds and Goldie Hawn
- The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, starring Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Jim Nabors, Charles Durning
- Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott, starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, Daryl Hannah
- Blue Island
- Boat People, directed by Ann Hui
- The Border, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Valerie Perrine
- Brimstone and Treacle
- Britannia Hospital, directed by Lindsay Anderson
- Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales
- Butterfly, starring Pia Zadora, Stacy Keach, Orson Welles, Lois Nettleton, Ed McMahon
C
- Cannery Row, starring Nick Nolte and Debra Winger
- Cat People, directed by Paul Schrader, starring Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, John Heard
- Class of 1984, starring Perry King and Timothy Van Patten
- Chan Is Missing, directed by Wayne Wang
- Comeback, starring Eric Burdon, Julie Carmen
- Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, directed by Robert Altman, starring Sandy Dennis, Cher, Karen Black
- Conan the Barbarian, directed by John Milius, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Earl Jones
- Concrete Jungle, The, directed by Tom DeSimone, starring Jill St. John and Tracey E. Bregman
- Countryman
- Creepshow, directed by George A. Romero, starring Ted Danson, Leslie Nielsen, Hal Holbrook, Stephen King
D
- The Dark Crystal
- Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, directed by Carl Reiner, starring Steve Martin and Rachel Ward
- Death Wish II, starring Charles Bronson
- Deathtrap, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon
- Diner, directed by Barry Levinson, starring Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon, Tim Daly, Ellen Barkin
- The Draughtsman's Contract, directed by Peter Greenaway, starring Anthony Higgins and Janet Suzman
E
- Eating Raoul, directed by and starring Paul Bartel
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore
- L'étoile du nord, starring Simone Signoret and Philippe Noiret
- Evil Under the Sun, starring Peter Ustinov, Diana Rigg, Maggie Smith, James Mason, Jane Birkin, Roddy McDowall
F
- Fanny and Alexander, directed by Ingmar Bergman
- Fast Times at Ridgemont High, directed by Amy Heckerling, starring Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Phoebe Cates, Ray Walston
- Fast-Walking
- Fighting Back
- Firefox, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood
- First Blood, directed by Ted Kotcheff, starring Sylvester Stallone (as Rambo), Richard Crenna, Brian Dennehy
- Fitzcarraldo, directed by Werner Herzog, starring Klaus Kinski
- The Flight of Dragons
- Forced Vengeance, starring Chuck Norris
- Frances, starring Jessica Lange, Sam Shepard, Kim Stanley
- Friday the 13th Part III
G
- Gandhi, directed by Richard Attenborough, starring Ben Kingsley - Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA for best film
- Grease 2, starring Maxwell Caulfield and Michelle Pfeiffer
- Green Ice
- The Grey Fox, starring Richard Farnsworth
H
- Halloween III: Season of the Witch
- Hammett, directed by Wim Wenders, starring Frederic Forrest, Marilu Henner, Peter Boyle
- Hanky Panky, directed by Sidney Poitier, Starring Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner, Richard Widmark, Kathleen Quinlan
- Heatwave, directed by Philip Noyce, starring Judy Davis
- Heidi's Song
- The Herdsman
- Hey Good Lookin
- Honkytonk Man, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood
- Humongous
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
I
- I Ought to Be in Pictures, directed by Herbert Ross, starring Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret, Dinah Manoff
- I, the Jury, starring Armand Assante, Barbara Carrera, Laurene Landon, Alan King
- Inchon!, directed by Terence Young, starring Laurence Olivier, Jacqueline Bisset, Ben Gazzara
J
- Jinxed!, starring Bette Midler, Ken Wahl, and Rip Torn
K
- Killing 'em Softly, directed by Max Fischer, starring George Segal and Irene Cara
- Kiss Me Goodbye, starring Sally Field, Jeff Bridges, James Caan, Mildred Natwick
- Koyaanisqatsi, directed by Godfrey Reggio
L
- The Last Unicorn
- Let's Spend the Night Together (Rolling Stones' concert film)
- Liquid Sky
- Love Child
M
- Making Love, directed by Arthur Hiller, starring Harry Hamlin, Michael Ontkean, Kate Jackson
- The Man from Snowy River, starring Tom Burlinson and Kirk Douglas
- The Marathon Family
- Megaforce
- A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, directed by and starring Woody Allen with Mia Farrow, Julie Hagerty, Mary Steenburgen, José Ferrer
- Missing, directed by Costa Gavras, starring Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek, Palme d'Or winner
- The Missionary, directed by Richard Loncraine, starring Michael Palin, Maggie Smith, Trevor Howard
- Monkey Grip
- Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
- Moonlighting, directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, starring Jeremy Irons
- My Favorite Year, directed by Richard Benjamin, starring Peter O'Toole
N
- The Night of the Shooting Stars, by Paolo Emilio Taviani
- Night Shift, directed by Ron Howard, starring Henry Winkler, Michael Keaton, Shelley Long
O
- An Officer and a Gentleman, directed by Taylor Hackford, starring Richard Gere, Debra Winger, Louis Gossett, Jr.
- One from the Heart, directed by Francis Coppola, starring Teri Garr, Frederic Forrest, Nastassja Kinski, Raúl Juliá
P
- Paradise, starring Phoebe Cates and Willie Aames
- Partners, starring Ryan O'Neal and John Hurt
- Personal Best, starring Mariel Hemingway and Scott Glenn
- Pink Floyd The Wall, directed by Alan Parker, starring Bob Geldof
- The Pirate Movie, starring Christopher Atkins and Kristy McNichol
- The Plague Dogs
- Pokrovsky Gates
- Poltergeist, directed by Tobe Hooper, starring Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Dominique Dunne, Heather O'Rourke, Zelda Rubinstein, Beatrice Straight
- Porky's, directed by Bob Clark
Q
- Q, starring Michael Moriarty, Richard Roundtree, Candy Clark
- Querelle
- Quest for Fire, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, starring Everett McGill, Rae Dawn Chong, Ron Perlman
- A Question of Silence
R
- The Return of Martin Guerre, starring Gérard Depardieu
- The Return of the Soldier, starring Alan Bates, Julie Christie, Glenda Jackson
- Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
- Rocky III, directed by and starring Sylvester Stallone, Mr. T, Talia Shire, Carl Weathers, Burt Young, Burgess Meredith
S
- Safari 3000, directed by Harry Hurwitz, starring David Carradine, Stockard Channing, Christopher Lee
- The Secret of NIMH
- The Seduction, starring Morgan Fairchild
- The Shaolin Temple
- She Grazed Horses on Concrete
- Shoot the Moon, directed by Alan Parker, starring Albert Finney and Diane Keaton
- Showdown at Eagle Gap
- Six Pack, starring Kenny Rogers and Diane Lane
- Sophie's Choice, directed by Alan J. Pakula, starring Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol
- Soup For One
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, directed by Nicholas Meyer, starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Ricardo Montalbán
- Starstruck
- The State of Things, Golden Lion winner, directed by Wim Wenders
- Street Music, Sundance Grand Jury Prize
- Swamp Thing, directed by Wes Craven, starring Louis Jourdan and Adrienne Barbeau
- The Sword and the Sorcerer
T
- Tempest, directed by Paul Mazursky, starring John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Molly Ringwald, Susan Sarandon
- Tenebrae
- Tex, starring Matt Dillon
- That Championship Season, starring Robert Mitchum, Bruce Dern, Stacy Keach, Paul Sorvino, Martin Sheen
- That Night in Varennes
- The Thing, directed by John Carpenter, starring Kurt Russell
- Things Are Tough All Over, starring Cheech & Chong
- Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann, starring Fred Ward, Belinda Bauer, Peter Coyote
- Time Stands Still
- Tootsie, directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Dabney Coleman, Geena Davis, Bill Murray, Teri Garr
- Trail of the Pink Panther
- Tron, directed by Steven Lisberger, starring Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner, Cindy Morgan
- The Trout (La Truite), directed by Joseph Losey, starring Isabelle Huppert
- Turkey Shoot
V
- The Verdict, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, James Mason, Jack Warden, Milo O'Shea
- Veronika Voss, directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, starring Rosel Zech - Golden Bear award winner
- Vice Squad
- Victor Victoria, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston, Lesley Ann Warren
- Visiting Hours, starring Lee Grant and William Shatner
- Volver a empezar Academy Award for Foreign language film
W
- War and Peace
- We of the Never Never
- Die Weiße Rose (The White Rose)
- Wend Kuuni
- The Wind (Finye), directed by Souleymane Cissé
- White Dog, starring Kristy McNichol, Paul Winfield, Jameson Parker, Burl Ives
- The World According to Garp, directed by George Roy Hill, starring Robin Williams, Glenn Close, John Lithgow, Mary Beth Hurt
Y
- The Year of Living Dangerously, directed by Peter Weir, starring Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt
- Yol, Palme d'Or winner
- Young Doctors in Love, directed by Garry Marshall, starring Michael McKean and Sean Young
Wide-release movies
January–March
April–June
July–September
October–December
Births
- January 8 - Gaby Hoffman, American actress
- January 19 - Jodie Sweetin, American actress
- March 3 - Jessica Biel, American actress
- March 11 - Thora Birch, American actress
- April 3 - Cobie Smulders, Canadian actress
- April 15 - Seth Rogen, Canadian actor-comedian
- April 10 - Chyler Leigh, American actress
- April 30 - Kirsten Dunst, American actress
- May 11 - Jonathan Jackson, American actor
- June 29 - Ott Sepp, Estonian actor
- June 30 - Lizzy Caplan, American actress
- July 1 - Hilarie Burton, American actress
- July 8 - Sophia Bush, American actress
- July 8 - Schuyler Fisk, American singer-songwriter and actress
- July 19 - Jared Padalecki, American actor
- July 24 - Elisabeth Moss, American actress
- July 24 - Anna Paquin, New Zealand actress
- July 25 - Brad Renfro, American actor
- August 6 - Romola Garai, British actress
- August 7 - Abbie Cornish, Australian actress
- August 10 - Devon Aoki, American actress and model
- August 19 - Erika Christensen, American actress
- September 19 - Columbus Short, American actor and dancer
- September 22 - Billie Piper, English singer and actress
- September 30 - Lacey Chabert, American actress
- September 30 - Kieran Culkin, 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 30 - Elisha Cuthbert, Canadian actress
- December 30 - Kristin Kreuk, Canadian actress
Deaths
- January 30 - Stanley Holloway, English actor
- March 5 - John Belushi, American actor
- March 6 - Ayn Rand, Russian-born American writer
- March 27 - Betty Schade, German-born American actress
- April 25 - Celia Johnson, English actress
- May 29 - Romy Schneider, Austrian actress
- June 10 - Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German director
- June 18 - Curt Jurgens, Austrian actor
- June 29 - Henry King, American actor, director
- July 12 - Kenneth More, English actor
- July 23 - Vic Morrow, American actor, director
- August 7 - Jill Banner, American actress
- August 12 - Henry Fonda, American actor
- August 29 - Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress
- September 14 - Grace Kelly, American-born Monagesque actress
- November 1 - King Vidor, American film director
- November 4 - Dominique Dunne, American actress
- November 5 - Jacques Tati - French director, actor
- November 21 - Lee Patrick, American actress
Film debuts
- Antonio Banderas
- Glenn Close - The World According to Garp
- Angelina Jolie - Lookin' to Get Out
- Michael Keaton - Night Shift
- Kevin Kline - Sophie's Choice
- Eddie Murphy - 48 Hrs.
- Gary Oldman - Remembrance
- Hugh Grant - Privileged
- Forest Whitaker - Tag: The Assassination Game
- Linda Hamilton - Tag: The Assassination Game
- Jet Li - Shaolin Temple
- Molly Ringwald - Tempest
- Eric Stoltz - Fast Times at Ridgemont High
- Geena Davis - Tootsie
- Kristie Alley - Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
- Christine Ebersole
- Ellen Barkin - Diner
- C. Thomas Howell - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
References
- ^ "Box Office Information for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial". BoxOfficeMojo.com. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=et.htm. Retrieved June 11, 2010.
- ^ "Box Office Information for Tootsie". BoxOfficeMojo.com. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=tootsie.htm. Retrieved June 11, 2010.
- ^ "Box Office Information for An Officer and a Gentleman". BoxOfficeMojo.com. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=officerandagentleman.htm. Retrieved June 11, 2010.
- ^ "Box Office Information for Rocky III". BoxOfficeMojo.com. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=rocky3.htm. Retrieved June 11, 2010.
- ^ "Box Office Information for Porky's". BoxOfficeMojo.com. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=porkys.htm. Retrieved June 11, 2010.
- ^ "Box Office Information for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan". BoxOfficeMojo.com. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=startrek2.htm. Retrieved June 11, 2010.
- ^ "Box Office Information for 48 Hrs.". BoxOfficeMojo.com. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=48hrs.htm. Retrieved June 11, 2010.
- ^ "Box Office Information for Poltergeist". BoxOfficeMojo.com. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=poltergeist.htm. Retrieved June 11, 2010.
- ^ "Box Office Information for The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas". BoxOfficeMojo.com. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=bestlittlewhorehouseintexas.htm. Retrieved June 11, 2010.
- ^ "Box Office Information for Annie". BoxOfficeMojo.com. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=annie.htm. Retrieved June 11, 2010.
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