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List of years in film (table)
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Years in film

1870s
1880s
1890s
1890 • 1891 • 1892 • 1893 • 1894 1895 • 1896 • 1897 • 1898 • 1899
1900s
1900 • 1901 • 1902 • 1903 • 1904 1905 • 1906 • 1907 • 1908 • 1909
1910s
1910 • 1911 • 1912 • 1913 • 1914 1915 • 1916 • 1917 • 1918 • 1919
1920s
1920 • 1921 • 1922 • 1923 • 1924 1925 • 1926 • 1927 • 1928 • 1929
1930s
1930 • 1931 • 1932 • 1933 • 1934 1935 • 1936 • 1937 • 1938 • 1939
1940s
1940 • 1941 • 1942 • 1943 • 1944 1945 • 1946 • 1947 • 1948 • 1949
1950s
1950 • 1951 • 1952 • 1953 • 1954 1955 • 1956 • 1957 • 1958 • 1959
1960s
1960 • 1961 • 1962 • 1963 • 1964 1965 • 1966 • 1967 • 1968 • 1969
1970s
1970 • 1971 • 1972 • 1973 • 1974 1975 • 1976 • 1977 • 1978 • 1979
1980s
1980 • 1981 • 1982 • 1983 • 1984 1985 • 1986 • 1987 • 1988 • 1989
1990s
1990 • 1991 • 1992 • 1993 • 1994 1995 • 1996 • 1997 • 1998 • 1999
2000s
2000 • 2001 • 2002 • 2003 • 2004 2005 • 2006 • 2007 • 2008 • 2009
2010s
2010 • 2011 and beyond

1 Events
2 Top grossing films (U.S.)
3 Awards
4 Films released in 1982
5 Wide-release movies
6 Births
7 Deaths
8 Film debuts

Events

June = PG-rated 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	Actors	Gross
1.	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	Universal	Henry Thomas and Drew Barrymore	$359,197,037
2.	Tootsie	Columbia Pictures	Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange and Teri Garr	$279,527,951
3.	An Officer and a Gentleman	Paramount	Richard Gere and Debra Winger	$129,795,554
4.	Rocky III	United Artists	Sylvester Stallone	$124,146,897
5.	Porky's	20th Century Fox	Dan Monahan	$105,492,483
6.	Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan	Paramount	William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy	$78,912,963
7.	48 Hrs.	Paramount	Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte	$78,868,508
8.	Poltergeist	MGM	Craig T. Nelson and JoBeth Williams	$76,606,280
9.	The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas	Universal	Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton	$69,701,637
10.	Annie	Columbia	Aileen Quinn, Albert Finney and Bernadette Peters	$57,059,003

Awards

Academy 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

Golden Globe Awards:

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

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
Basket Case
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
Butterfly
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
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
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
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 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 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 - 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, actor
March 6 - Ayn Rand, writer
April 25 - 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

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