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Events[]
- June = PG-rating film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, becomes one of the highest-grossing box-office success until Jurassic Park,
- 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.
- 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.)[]
| Rank | Title | Studio | Gross |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Universal | $359,197,037 |
| 2. | Tootsie | Columbia Pictures | $279,527,951 |
| 3. | An Officer and a Gentleman | Paramount | $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 | $78,912,963 |
| 7. | 48 Hrs. | Paramount | $78,868,508 |
| 8. | Poltergeist | MGM | $76,606,280 |
| 9. | The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas | Universal | $69,701,637 |
| 10. | Annie | Columbia | $57,059,003 |
source: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1982&p=.htm
Awards[]
Academy Awards:
- Best Picture: Gandhi - Indo-British Films, Columbia
- Best Director: Richard Attenborough - Gandhi (film)
- Best Actor: Ben Kingsley - Gandhi (film)
- 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
Golden Globe Awards:
- Drama:
- Best Picture: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
- Best Actor: Ben Kingsley - Gandhi (film)
- 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 (film)
- Best Foreign Film: Gandhi (film), 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[]
- 48 Hours, starring Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy
- Android
- Annie, directed by John Huston, starring Aileen Quinn and Albert Finney
- Airplane II: The Sequel (re-released in 2006)
- Arth, directed by Mahesh Bhatt, Silver Lotus Award for best Indian actress Shabana Azmi
- The Beach Girls
- The Beastmaster
- The Beehive, (La Colmena) Golden Bear (award) winner 1982
- Best Friends
- The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, starring Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton and Charles Durning
- Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott, starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos and Daryl Hannah
- Blue Island
- The Border
- Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales
- Cat People, starring Nastassja Kinski and Malcolm McDowell
- Class of 1984
- Creepshow
- Comeback, starring Eric Burdon, Julie Carmen
- Conan the Barbarian, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
- The Dark Crystal
- Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
- Death Wish II
- Dimensions of Dialogue
- Diner
- Eating Raoul
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace-Stone, Peter Coyote, Robert McNaughton and Drew Barrymore
- L'étoile du nord
- Fanny and Alexander
- Fast Times at Ridgemont High, starring Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Phoebe Cates, Robert Romanus and Ray Walston
- Firefox
- First Blood, starring Sylvester Stallone
- The Flight of Dragons
- Fighting Back
- Fitzcarraldo
- Frances, starring Jessica Lange, Sam Shepard and Kim Stanley
- Friday the 13th Part III
- Gandhi, directed by Richard Attenborough, starring Ben Kingsley
- Grease 2, starring Maxwell Caulfield and Michelle Pfeiffer
- Halloween III: Season of the Witch
- Hanky Panky
- Heidi's Song
- The Herdsman
- Hey Good Lookin
- Honkytonk Man
- Humongous
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- I Ought to Be in Pictures
- Inchon!
- Killing 'em Softly, directed by Max Fischer, starring George Segal and Irene Cara
- Koyaanisqatsi
- Let's Spend the Night Together (Rolling Stones' concert film)
- Love Child
- The Man from Snowy River (a)
- Making Love
- The Marathon Family
- Megaforce
- Missing, directed by Costa Gavras, starring Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek, Palme d'Or winner
- The Missionary
- Monkey Grip
- Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
- Moonlighting
- My Favorite Year, starring Peter O'Toole
- The Night of the Shooting Stars, by Paolo Emilio Taviani
- An Officer and a Gentleman, directed by Taylor Hackford, starring Richard Gere, Debra Winger and Louis Gossett, Jr.
- Paradise starring Phoebe Cates and Willie Aames
- Partners
- Personal Best
- Pink Floyd The Wall
- The Plague Dogs
- Poltergeist, starring Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Dominique Dunne, Oliver Robins, Heather O'Rourke, Zelda Rubinstein and Beatrice Straight
- Pokrovsky Gates
- Porky's
- Purple Haze, Sundance Grand Jury Prize
- Querelle
- Quest for Fire
- A Question of Silence
- The Return of Martin Guerre
- Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
- Rocky III
- The Secret of NIMH
- She Grazed Horses on Concrete
- Showdown at Eagle Gap
- Six Pack
- Sophie's Choice, directed by Alan J. Pakula, starring Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline and Peter MacNicol
- 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
- Swamp Thing
- The Sword and the Sorcerer
- Tempest
- Tenebrae
- Tex
- That Night in Varennes
- This Is Elvis
- The Thing, starring Kurt Russell
- Things Are Tough All Over
- Timerider, starring Fred Ward
- Time Stands Still
- Tootsie, directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange and Teri Garr
- Trail of the Pink Panther
- Tron
- Turkey Shoot
- The Verdict, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, James Mason, Jack Warden and Milo O'Shea
- Veronika Voss, Golden Bear award winner
- Vice Squad
- Victor/Victoria, starring Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston and Lesley Ann Warren
- Volver a empezar Academy Award for Foreign language film
- War and Peace
- Wend Kuuni
- The World According to Garp, starring Robin Williams, Glenn Close, John Lithgow and Mary Beth Hurt
- The Year of Living Dangerously, starring Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver and Linda Hunt
- We of the Never Never
- Yol, Palme d'Or winner
- Young Doctors in Love
Wide-release movies[]
January-March[]
April-June[]
July-September[]
October-December[]
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
- May 16 - Dean Kissell, American actor, writer
- July 24 - Anna Paquin, New Zealand actress
- September 30 - Lacey Chabert, American actress
- October 3 - Stephen Droegmoeller, American actor
- November 12 - Anne Hathaway, American actress
- November 30 - Elisha Cuthbert, Canadian actress
- December 17 - Leander Suleiman, American actress
Deaths[]
- January 30 - Stanley Holloway, English actor
- March 5 - John Belushi, actor
- March 6 - Ayn Rand, writer
- April 26 - Celia Johnson, English actress (Brief Encounter)
- May 29 - Romy Schneider, Austrian actress
- June 10 - Rainer Werner Fassbinder, director
- June 18 - Curt Jurgens, Austrian actor
- June 29 - Henry King, actor, director
- July 12 - Kenneth More English actor
- August 7 - Jill Banner, actress
- August 12 - Henry Fonda, actor
- August 29 - Ingrid Bergman, actress
- September 14 - Grace Kelly, actress
- November 1 - King Vidor, Film director
- November 4 - Dominique Dunne, actress
- November 5 - Jacques Tati - French director, actor
- November 21 - Lee Patrick, actress
Film debuts[]
- Glenn Close
- Whoopi Goldberg
- Angelina Jolie
- Michael Keaton
- Eddie Murphy