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

North America

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

Rank	Title	Distributor	Box-office gross
1	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	Universal	$359,197,037
2	Tootsie	Columbia	$177,200,000
3	An Officer and a Gentleman	Paramount	$129,795,554
4	Rocky III	United Artists/MGM	$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 (film)\|The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas]	Universal	$69,701,637
10	Annie	Columbia	$57,059,003

Outside North America

The highest-grossing 1982 films in countries outside of North America.

International market	Title	Director	Production country	Gross
China	Shaolin Temple	Chang Hsin Yen	China / Hong Kong
France	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	Steven Spielberg	United States	7,881,332 admissions
West Germany	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	Steven Spielberg	United States	7,666,017 admissions
India	Vidhaata	Subhash Ghai	India
Italy	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	Steven Spielberg	United States	10,298,000 admissions
Japan	The Gods Must Be Crazy	Jamie Uys	South Africa
South Korea	Dragon Lord	Jackie Chan	Hong Kong
Soviet Union	Sportloto-82	Leonid Gaidai	Soviet Union	13,800,000 Rbls
Spain	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	Steven Spielberg	United States	7,719,932 admissions
Taiwan	The Gods Must Be Crazy	Jamie Uys	South Africa
United Kingdom	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	Steven Spielberg	United States

Worldwide gross revenue

The following table lists known worldwide gross revenue figures for several high-grossing films that originally released in 1982. Note that this list is incomplete and is therefore not representative of the highest-grossing films worldwide in 1982.

Title	Worldwide gross	Source	Production country
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	$792,910,554		United States
Gandhi	$127,767,889		India United Kingdom
Rocky III	$124,146,897		United States
Poltergeist	$121,706,019		United States
Shaolin Temple	$111,441,439		China Hong Kong
Disco Dancer			India
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan	$97,000,000		United States

Events

January 1 - Terry Semel becomes president of Warner Bros.
March 5 - John Belushi dies after being injected with a mixture of heroin and cocaine at the Chateau Marmont hotel in Los Angeles, California.
June 11
* E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is released; it became the highest-grossing film to date.
* Michelle Pfeiffer appears in her first leading role, in Grease 2, the sequel to the top-grossing film of 1978.
June 22 – The Coca-Cola Company acquires Columbia Pictures for $750 million.
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, Vic Morrow and two child actors are accidentally killed during a helicopter scene, leading to reforms in filmmaking safety and child-labor laws.
October 22 – First Blood is released to widespread commercial and critical success, launching the Rambo franchise.
December 8 – Comedian Eddie Murphy makes his film debut in the hit 48 Hrs.
December 17 – Tootsie is released, becoming the highest-grossing comedy to date and Columbia Pictures's highest-grossing film at $177 million.
December 27 - Ned Tanen resigns as president of Universal Pictures. Robert Rehme becomes president of Universal's new Theatrical Motion Picture Group.
The THX Sound System is developed for movie theaters.

Awards

Palme d'Or :
Golden Lion :
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1982 films

By country/region

List of American films of 1982
List of Argentine films of 1982
List of Australian films of 1982
List of Bangladeshi films of 1982
List of British films of 1982
List of Canadian films of 1982
List of French films of 1982
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List of Indian films of 1982
* List of Hindi films of 1982
* List of Kannada films of 1982
* List of Malayalam films of 1982
* List of Marathi films of 1982
* List of Tamil films of 1982
* List of Telugu films of 1982
List of Japanese films of 1982
List of Mexican films of 1982
List of Pakistani films of 1982
List of South Korean films of 1982
List of Soviet films of 1982
List of Spanish films of 1982

By genre/medium

Births

January 4 - Kang Hye-jung, South Korean actress
January 6
*Misha Omar, Malaysian actress and singer
*Eddie Redmayne, English actor
January 7 – Lauren Cohan, British-American actress
January 8 – Gaby Hoffmann, American actress
January 10
*Josh Ryan Evans, American actor
*Misato Fukuen, Japanese voice actress
January 11
*Blake Heron, American actor
*Son Ye-jin, South Korean actress
January 13 - Ruth Wilson, English actress
January 16 – Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Danish actress
January 18 - Joanna Newsom, American singer-songwriter and actress
January 19
*Tom Lorcan, English actor
*Simone Missick, American actress
*Jodie Sweetin, American actress
January 23 - Geoffrey Wigdor, American actor
January 24 – Daveed Diggs, American actor, rapper, singer, songwriter, screenwriter, and film producer
January 25 - John Behlmann, American actor
January 28 – Mirtel Pohla, Estonian actress
February 1 - Daisy Betts, Australian actress
February 3 – Bridget Regan, American actress
February 5 – Yū Kobayashi, Japanese voice actress
February 6 – Alice Eve, English actress
February 7 – Cory Doran, Canadian voice actor and director
February 8 – Danny Tamberelli, American actor
February 10 – Yoshimasa Hosoya, Japanese voice actor
February 11 – Natalie Dormer, English actress
February 12 – Carter Hayden, Canadian actor and voice actor
February 15 – Nesreen Tafesh, Syrian-Palestinian-Algerian actress and singer
February 22
*Buğra Gülsoy, Turkish actor and director
*Dichen Lachman, Australian actress and producer
February 23 – Adam Hann-Byrd, American actor and screenwriter
February 24 – Fala Chen, Hong Kong actress
March 1 – Kim Min-hee, South Korean actress
March 2 – Pilou Asbæk, Danish actor
March 3 – Jessica Biel, American actress
March 7 – Nora Danish, Malaysian actress
March 8 – Marjorie Estiano, Brazilian actress
March 10
*Shin Koyamada, Japanese actor, producer and martial artist
*Thomas Middleditch, Canadian actor, voice actor, comedian and screenwriter
March 11
*Thora Birch, American actress
*Robbie Daymond, American voice actor
*Mircea Monroe, American actress and model
March 12
*Lili Bordán, Hungarian-American actress
*Samm Levine, American comedian and actor
*Luis Gerardo Méndez, Mexican actor and producer
March 14 – Kate Maberly, English actress, director, writer, producer and musician
March 15
*Tom Budge, Australian actor
*Patricia Summersett, Canadian actress
March 16 – Dian Sastrowardoyo, Indonesian actress
March 18 – Adam Pally, American actor, comedian, writer and producer
March 20
*Nick Blood, English actor
*Erica Luttrell, Canadian actress
March 21 - Santino Fontana, American actor and singer
March 22 – Constance Wu, American actress
March 23 - Nicolas Wright, Canadian actor and writer
March 24 – Kenichirou Ohashi, Japanese voice actor
March 25
*Sean Faris, American actor and model
*Rory Markham, American mixed martial artist and actor
*Jenny Slate, American actress and comedian
March 26 - Joe Anderson, English actor and singer
March 28 - Flula Borg, German actor, musician, comedian, YouTube personality and DJ
March 31
*Falk Hentschel, German actor and choreographer
*Judi Shekoni, English actress
*Brian Tyree Henry, American actor
*Chloé Zhao, Chinese-American director
April 1
*Sam Huntington, American actor
*Taran Killam, American actor and comedian
April 3
*Sofia Boutella, Algerian actress
*Cobie Smulders, Canadian actress
April 4
*Justin Cook, American voice actor
*Kett Turton, American-born Canadian actor
April 5 – Hayley Atwell, English-American actress
April 6 – Miguel Ángel Silvestre, Spanish actor
April 9 – Jay Baruchel, Canadian actor-comedian
April 10 – Chyler Leigh, American actress
April 11 – Remy Ishak, Malaysian actor
April 14 – Paolla Oliveira, Brazilian actress
April 15 - Seth Rogen, Canadian actor, comedian and filmmaker
April 16 - Gina Carano, American actress
April 19
*Marta Milans, Spanish-American actress
*Cassandra Lee Morris, American voice actress
*Ignacio Serricchio, Argentine-born American actor
*Ali Wong, Vietnamese-Chinese-American stand-up comedian, actress and writer
*Blitz the Ambassador, Ghanaian filmmaker, author, visual artist, rapper
April 22
* Cassidy Freeman, American actress and musician
* Noriko Shitaya, Japanese voice actress
April 24 – Kelly Clarkson, American singer, songwriter and actress
April 25 – Josh Kelly, American actor
April 26 – Cedric Sanders, American actor
April 28 – Harry Shum Jr., Costa Rican-American actor, singer and dancer
April 30
*Kirsten Dunst, American actress
*Joseph Perrino, American actor
*Drew Seeley, Canadian actor and singer
May 1 – Jamie Dornan, Northern Irish actor
May 3 – Rebecca Hall, English-American actress
May 8 – Christina Cole, English actress
May 11
*Jonathan Jackson, American actor
*Cory Monteith, Canadian actor and musician
May 14
*Anjelah Johnson, American actress and comedian
*Jessica Raine, English actress
May 15 - Alexandra Breckenridge, American actress
May 16 - Tiya Sircar, American actress
May 20 – Donald Reignoux, French voice actor
May 24 – Chaunté Wayans, American actress, comedian, writer and editor
May 25 – Fryda Wolff, American voice actress
May 28 – Alexa Davalos, American actress
May 29 – Anita Briem, Icelandic actress
May 31
*Lee Majdoub, Canadian actor
*Jonathan Tucker, American actor
June 2 – Jewel Staite, Canadian actress
June 4 – MC Jin, American rapper, actor and comedian of Chinese descent
June 5 – Yoo In-na, South Korean actress
June 7 - Amy Nuttall, English actress and singer
June 8 – Josh Pence, American actor
June 16
*Missy Peregrym, Canadian actress
*Jodi Sta. Maria, Filipina actress
June 17
*Arthur Darvill, English actor and musician
*Ursula Ratasepp, Estonian actress
*Jodie Whittaker, English actress
June 19 – Gabriella Wright, English actress
June 21
*Benjamin Walker, American actor
*Jussie Smollett, American actor
June 22 – Mati Diop, French-Senegalese actress and director
June 24
*Laura Donnelly, Northern Irish actress
*Sarai Givaty, Israeli actress and singer-songwriter
*Lotte Verbeek, Dutch actress
June 27
*Polo Ravales, Filipino actor and model
*Takeru Shibaki, Japanese actor
June 28 – Grazi Massafera, Brazilian actress
June 29
*Colin Jost, American actor and comedian
*Matthew Mercer, American voice actor
*Lily Rabe, American actress
*Ott Sepp, Estonian actor
June 30 – Lizzy Caplan, American actress
July 1
*Hilarie Burton, American actress
*Fedi Nuril, Indonesian actor
July 6 - Misty Upham, Native American actress
July 8
*Sophia Bush, American actress
*Schuyler Fisk, American singer-songwriter and actress
July 9 – Toby Kebbell, English actor
July 13 - Aya Cash, American actress
July 18 – Priyanka Chopra, Indian actress
July 19
*Jared Padalecki, American actor
*Derek Wilson, American actor
July 23
*Zanjoe Marudo, Filipino actor
*Tom Mison, English actor
*Paul Wesley, American actor
July 24
* Elisabeth Moss, American actress
* Anna Paquin, New Zealand actress
July 25 – Brad Renfro, American actor
July 28 - Tom Pelphrey, American actor
July 29 - Allison Mack, American actress
July 30
*Nesrin Cavadzade, Turkish-Azerbaijani actress
*Brandon Scott, American actor and producer
*Martin Starr, American actor
*Yvonne Strahovski, Australian actress
August 1 – Ai Tominaga, Japanese model and actress
August 6 – Romola Garai, English actress
August 7 – Abbie Cornish, Australian actress
August 10 – Devon Aoki, American actress and model
August 11 - Remi Adeleke, American writer and actor
August 13 – Sebastian Stan, Romanian-American actor
August 16
*Cam Gigandet, American actor
*Todd Haberkorn, American voice actor
August 19
*Erika Christensen, American actress
*Melissa Fumero, American actress
August 20
*Meghan Ory, Canadian actress
*Jamil Walker Smith, American actor
August 21 – Akane Omae, Japanese voice actress
August 25 – Benjamin Diskin, American voice actor
August 26
*Nazneen Contractor, Canadian actress
*John Mulaney, American stand-up comedian, actor, writer and producer
August 28 – LeAnn Rimes, American singer-songwriter and actress
August 29 – Echo Kellum, American comedian and actor
September 1 – Zoe Lister-Jones, American actress and filmmaker
September 3 – Ayumi Fujimura, Japanese voice actress
September 4
*Shaheizy Sam, Malaysian actor
*Sarah Solemani, English actress and writer
September 7
*David Dawson, English actor
*Ryoko Shiraishi, Japanese voice actress
September 10 – Bret Iwan, American voice actor
September 13
*J. G. Quintel, American animator, television writer and voice actor
September 15 – Evan Goldberg, Canadian filmmaker and comedian
September 19 – Columbus Short, American actor and dancer
September 20
*JJ Jia, Hong Kong actress
*Hu Ge, Chinese actor
September 22
*Katie Lowes, American actress
*Billie Piper, English singer and actress
September 23 - Alyssa Sutherland, Australian actress
September 25 – Charlene Amoia, American actress
September 27 – Anna Camp, American actress and singer
September 28 – Ranbir Kapoor, Indian actor
September 29 – Stephen "tWitch" Boss, American dancer, choreographer, and actor
September 30
*Lacey Chabert, American actress
*Kieran Culkin, American actor
October 1 – Olga Fonda, Russian-American actress
October 2 - Amanda Hale, English actress
October 3 – Erik von Detten, former American actor
October 5 - Francisco Bosch, Spanish actor
October 10 – Dan Stevens, British actor
October 13 – Jo Yoon-hee, South Korean actress and model
October 15
*Imran Abbas, Pakistani actor and model
*Jessica Rey, American actress
*Lane Toran, American actor, voice actor, musician and songwriter
October 19 - Gillian Jacobs, American actress
October 23 – Bradley Pierce, American actor
October 27
* Patrick Fugit, American actor
* Takashi Tsukamoto, Japanese actor and singer
October 28 – Matt Smith, English actor
October 29 – Chelan Simmons, Canadian actress and former professional model
October 30 – Clémence Poésy, French actress and model
October 31 – Justin Chatwin, Canadian actor
November 2 – Kyoko Fukada, Japanese actress and singer
November 4 – Travis Van Winkle, American actor
November 10 – Heather Matarazzo, American actress
November 11 – Fayssal Bazzi, Australian actor
November 12 – Anne Hathaway, American actress
November 14 - Laura Ramsey, American actress
November 15 – Yaya DaCosta, American actress
November 18
*Akeno Watanabe, Japanese voice actress
*Damon Wayans Jr., American actor, comedian and writer
November 21 – Ryan Carnes, American actor
November 22 – Fiona Glascott, Irish actress
November 24 – Joey Ansah, British actor, director and martial artist
November 25 – Natalia Cordova-Buckley, Mexican-American actress
November 28
*Malcolm Goodwin, American actor
*Alan Ritchson, American actor, filmmaker and singer
November 29
*Gemma Chan, English actress
*Lucas Black, American actor
*Eddie Spears, Indigenous American actor
November 30 – Elisha Cuthbert, Canadian actress
December 1
*Riz Ahmed, British actor and rapper
*Jonny Cruz, American actor, scriptwriter, producer, filmmaker and musician
December 3
*Jaycee Chan, American-born Hong Kong actor and singer
*Dascha Polanco, Dominican-American actress
December 5 – Gabriel Luna, American actor and producer
December 7
*Jack Huston, British actor
*Jesse Johnson, American actor
December 8
*Nicki Minaj, American rapper
*Hannah Ware, English actress
December 12 – Ai Kato, Japanese actress
December 14 - Jesse Garcia, American actor
December 15
*Charlie Cox, English actor
*George O. Gore II, American actor
December 16 – Justin Mentell, American actor
December 21 – Alexia Barlier, French actress
December 22 – Alinne Moraes, Brazilian actress
December 24
*Robert Schwartzman, American actor, screenwriter, director, and musician
*Tetsuya Kakihara, Japanese voice actor
December 28 – Beau Garrett, American actress and model
December 29 – Alison Brie, American actress
December 30 – Kristin Kreuk, Canadian actress

Deaths

Month	Date	Name	Age	Country	Profession	Notable films
January	1	Victor Buono	43	US	Actor
January	1	Margot Grahame	70	UK	Actress
January	4	Kathryn Scola	90	US	Screenwriter
January	5	Hans Conried	64	US	Actor
January	5	Harvey Lembeck	58	US	Actor
January	8	Reta Shaw	69	US	Actress
January	8	Grégoire Aslan	73	Switzerland	Actor
January	10	Paul Lynde	55	US	Actor
January	30	Stanley Holloway	91	UK	Actor
February	5	Dolores Moran	58	US	Actress
February	11	Eleanor Powell	69	US	Actress, Dancer
February	11	Takashi Shimura	76	Japan	Actor
February	12	Victor Jory	79	Canada	Actor
February	14	Antonio Casas	70	Spain	Actor
February	17	Lee Strasberg	80	US	Actor
February	18	Tina Carver	59	US	Actress
February	22	John Carter	74	US	Sound Engineer
February	24	Virginia Bruce	71	US	Actress
March	5	John Belushi	33	US	Actor
March	5	Burton Miller	57	US	Costume Designer
March	5	Giuseppe Porelli	84	Italy	Actor
March	6	Ayn Rand	77	Russia	Screenwriter
March	8	Walter Plunkett	79	US	Costume Designer
March	19	Alan Badel	58	UK	Actor
March	21	Harry H. Corbett	57	UK	Actor
March	22	Harold Goldblatt	82	UK	Actor
March	26	Sam Kydd	67	UK	Actor
March	27	Betty Schade	87	US	Actress
March	29	Rudy Bond	69	US	Actor
April	1	Stephen Chase	79	US	Actor
April	3	Warren Oates	53	US	Actor
April	7	Brenda Benet	36	US	Actress
April	12	Lenny Baker	37	US	Actor
April	15	Arthur Lowe	66	UK	Actor
April	21	Joe Sawyer	75	Canada	Actor
April	22	Stanley Roberts	65	US	Screenwriter
April	25	W. R. Burnett	82	US	Screenwriter
April	25	Don Wilson	81	US	Actor
April	26	Celia Johnson	73	UK	Actress
April	27	George Dunn	67	US	Actor
April	27	Tom Tully	73	US	Actor
May	1	Margaret Sheridan	55	US	Actress
May	2	Helmut Dantine	63	Austria	Actor
May	2	Hugh Marlowe	71	US	Actor
May	2	Wini Shaw	75	US	Actress, Singer
May	14	Hugh Beaumont	73	US	Actor
May	16	Sidney Hickox	86	US	Cinematographer
May	16	Leigh Snowden	52	US	Actress
May	29	Romy Schneider	43	Germany	Actress
June	10	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	37	Germany	Screenwriter, Director, Actor
June	16	Gwen Wakeling	81	US	Costume Designer
June	18	Curd Jürgens	66	Germany	Actor, Director
June	21	Cotton Warburton	70	US	Film Editor
June	29	Michael Brennan	69	UK	Actor
June	29	Henry King	96	US	Director, Producer
July	8	Isa Miranda	73	Italy	Actress
July	12	Kenneth More	67	UK	Actor
July	16	Patrick Dewaere	35	France	Actor, Screenwriter, Director
July	18	John Maxwell	64	US	Actor
July	19	John Harvey	70	UK	Actor
July	23	Vic Morrow	53	US	Actor
July	29	Harold Sakata	62	US	Actor
August	2	Cathleen Nesbitt	93	UK	Actress
August	7	Jill Banner	35	US	Actress
August	10	William Henry	67	US	Actor
August	10	José Nieto	80	Spain	Actor
August	11	Folmar Blangsted	77	Denmark	Film Editor
August	11	Tom Drake	64	US	Actor
August	12	Henry Fonda	77	US	Actor
August	13	Joe E. Ross	68	US	Actor
August	13	Charles Walters	70	US	Director
August	14	Kanhaiyalal	71-72	India	Actor
August	14	Patrick Magee	58	Ireland	Actor
August	19	Russell Waters	74	UK	Actor
August	20	Ulla Jacobsson	53	Sweden	Actress
August	20	Edward Ludwig	82	Russia	Director
August	22	John Boxer	73	UK	Actor
August	29	Ingrid Bergman	67	Sweden	Actress
September	2	Jay Novello	78	US	Actor
September	5	Richard Lane	83	US	Actor
September	13	Philip Ober	80	US	Actor
September	14	Grace Kelly	52	US	Actress
September	15	Rolfe Sedan	86	US	Actor
September	24	Sarah Churchill	67	UK	Actress
September	28	Mabel Albertson	81	US	Actress
September	28	Seth Banks	66	US	Costume Designer
October	3	Vivien Merchant	53	UK	Actress
October	5	Joseph Hurley	68	US	Art Director
October	8	Fernando Lamas	67	Argentina	Actor, Director
October	12	John Brahm	89	Germany	Director
October	12	Howard Sackler	52	US	Screenwriter
October	26	Valerio Zurlini	56	Italy	Director, Screenwriter
November	1	King Vidor	88	US	Director, Producer, Screenwriter
November	1	James Broderick	55	US	Actor
November	4	Dominique Dunne	22	US	Actress	Poltergeist
November	4	Jacques Tati	75	France	Actor, Screenwriter, Director
November	7	Elio Petri	53	Italy	Director, Screenwriter
November	17	Ruth Donnelly	86	US	Actress
November	18	William P. McGivern	63	US	Screenwriter
November	21	Lee Patrick	80	US	Actress
November	26	Robert Coote	73	UK	Actor
November	26	Dan Tobin	72	US	Actor
November	27	Steve Gordon	44	US	Screenwriter, Director
November	30	Verna Fields	64	US	Film Editor
December	2	Marty Feldman	48	UK	Actor, Director, Screenwriter
December	10	Roy Webb	94	US	Composer
December	21	Gladys Henson	83	Ireland	Actress
December	22	Jack Webb	62	US	Actor
December	29	Sol C. Siegel	79	US	Producer