1982 in film

Highest-grossing films

United States
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 (United States and Canada)[1]
RankTitleDistributorDomestic gross
1 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Universal $359,197,037[n 1]
2 Tootsie Columbia $177,200,000
3 An Officer and a Gentleman Paramount $129,795,554
4 Rocky III 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. $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

Outside North America

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

International marketTitleDirectorProduction countryGrossRef
China Shaolin Temple Chang Hsin Yen China / Hong Kong CN¥161,578,014 [3]
France E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Steven Spielberg United States 7,881,332 admissions [4]
Germany E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Steven Spielberg United States 7,666,017 admissions [5]
India Vidhaata Subhash Ghai India ₹160,000,000 ($16,300,000) [6][n 2]
Italy E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Steven Spielberg United States 10,298,000 admissions [8]
Japan The Gods Must Be Crazy Jamie Uys South Africa ¥2,360,000,000 (rentals) [9]
South Korea Dragon Lord Jackie Chan Hong Kong ₩894,366,000 [10][11]
Soviet Union Sportloto-82 Leonid Gaidai Soviet Union 13,800,000 руб ($19,500,000) [n 3]
Spain E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Steven Spielberg United States 7,719,932 admissions [15]
Taiwan The Gods Must Be Crazy Jamie Uys South Africa NT$39,431,235 [16]
United Kingdom E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Steven Spielberg United States £21,700,000 [17]

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.

TitleWorldwide gross (US$)Source(s)Production country
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial $792,910,554 [18] United States
Rocky III $270,000,000 [19]
Gandhi $127,767,889 [20] India
United Kingdom
Poltergeist $121,706,019 [21] United States
Shaolin Temple $106,400,000 [n 4] China
Hong Kong
Disco Dancer $106,000,000 [28][29] India
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan $97,000,000 [30] United States

Events

Awards
Category/Organization40th Golden Globe Awards
January 29, 1983		36th BAFTA Awards
March 20, 1983		55th Academy Awards
April 11, 1983
DramaMusical or Comedy
Best FilmE.T. the Extra-TerrestrialTootsieGandhi
Best DirectorRichard Attenborough
Gandhi
Best ActorBen Kingsley
Gandhi		Dustin Hoffman
Tootsie		Ben Kingsley
Gandhi
Best ActressMeryl Streep
Sophie's Choice		Julie Andrews
Victor/Victoria		Katharine Hepburn
On Golden Pond		Meryl Streep
Sophie's Choice
Best Supporting ActorLouis Gossett Jr.
An Officer and a Gentleman		Jack Nicholson
Reds		Louis Gossett Jr.
An Officer and a Gentleman
Best Supporting ActressJessica Lange
Tootsie		Rohini Hattangadi
Gandhi
Maureen Stapleton
Red		Jessica Lange
Tootsie
Best Screenplay, AdaptedJohn Briley
Gandhi		Costa-Gavras and Donald E. Stewart
Missing		Costa-Gavras and Donald E. Stewart
Missing
Best Screenplay, OriginalJohn Briley
Gandhi
Best Original ScoreJohn Williams
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial		John Williams
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Henry Mancini and Leslie Bricusse
Victor/Victoria
Best Original Song"Up Where We Belong"
An Officer and a Gentleman		"Another Brick in the Wall"
Pink Floyd – The Wall		"Up Where We Belong"
An Officer and a Gentleman
Best Foreign Language FilmGandhiChrist Stopped at EboliBegin the Beguine

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Missing, directed by Costa-Gavras, United States
Yol (The Way), directed by Yılmaz Güney, Turkey

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

The State of Things (Der Stand der Dinge), directed by Wim Wenders, W. Germany / Portugal / US

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss (Veronika Voss), directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, W. Germany

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1982 Wide-release movies

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

Births

Notable deaths
MonthDateNameAgeCountryProfessionNotable films
January 1Victor Buono43USActor
1Margot Grahame70UKActress
4Kathryn Scola90USScreenwriter
5Hans Conried64USActor
5Harvey Lembeck58USActor
8Reta Shaw69USActress
8Grégoire Aslan73UKActor
10Paul Lynde55USActor
30Stanley Holloway91UKActor
February 5Dolores Moran58USActress
11Eleanor Powell69USActress, Dancer
12Victor Jory79USActor
17Lee Strasberg80USActor, Director
24Virginia Bruce71USActress
March 5John Belushi33USActor
6Ayn Rand77USWriter, Actress
19Alan Badel58UKActor, Miscellaneous
21Harry H. Corbett57UKActor, Writer
22Harold Goldblatt82UKActor
26Sam Kydd67UKActor
27Betty Schade87USActress, Writer
29Rudy Bond69USActor
April 3Warren Oates53USActor
15Arthur Lowe66UKActor
21Joe Sawyer75USActor
25W. R. Burnett82USScreenwriter
25Don Wilson81USActor
26Celia Johnson73UKActress
27Tom Tully73USActor
May 2Helmut Dantine63AustriaActor, Producer
2Hugh Marlowe71USActor
2Wini Shaw75USActress, Singer
14Hugh Beaumont73USActor
16Leigh Snowden52USActress
29Romy Schneider43FranceActress
June 10Rainer Werner Fassbinder37GermanyWriter, Director, Actor
18Curd Jürgens66AustriaActor, Director
29Michael Brennan69UKActor
29Henry King96USDirector, Producer
July 8Isa Miranda73ItalyActress
12Kenneth More67UKActor
18John Maxwell64USActor
19John Harvey70UKActor
23Vic Morrow53USActor
August 2Cathleen Nesbitt93UKActress
7Jill Banner35USActress
11Tom Drake64USActor
12Henry Fonda77USActor, Producer
13Joe E. Ross68USActor
13Charles Walters70USDirector
14Patrick Magee58UKActor
19Russell Waters74UKActor
20Ulla Jacobsson53SwedenActress
20Edward Ludwig82RussiaDirector
29Ingrid Bergman67SwedenActress, Producer
September 2Jay Novello78USActor
5Richard Lane83USActor
13Philip Ober80USActor
14Grace Kelly52US, MonacoActress
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24Sarah Churchill67UKActress
28Mabel Albertson81USActress
28Seth Banks66USCostume Designer
29Lucy Griffiths63UKActress
October 3Vivien Merchant53UKActress
5Eddie Frewin61UKTransportation Co-ordinator
8Fernando Lamas67ArgentinaActor, Director
13John Brahm89GermanyDirector
14Dick Ung59USAnimator
26Valerio Zurlini56ItalyDirector, Writer
November 1King Vidor88USDirector, Producer
4Dominique Dunne22USActressPoltergeist
4Jacques Tati75FranceActor, Writer, Director
4Talfryn Thomas60UKActorUnder Milk Wood
7Elio Petri53ItalyDirector, Writer
10John Bay53USActor
17Ruth Donnelly86USActress
18Forbes Murray98USActor
21Lee Patrick80USActress
26Robert Coote73USActor
30Verna Fields64USFilm Editor
30Eric Thompson53UKActor, Writer
December 2Marty Feldman48UKActor, Director, Writer
4George Tovey68UKActor
10Roy Webb94USComposer, Musical Director
21Gladys Henson83UKActress
22Jack Webb62USActor

Film debuts

See also

Notes
  1. Amblin corrected Variety's reporting of E.T.'s gross in 1992, stating that it had grossed $367.6 million in its initial release.[2]
  2. ₹9.79 per US$ in 1982[7]
  3. 55.2 million Soviet tickets sold,[12] at average ticket price of 0.25 руб,[13] approximately 13.8 million руб; 0.708 руб per US$ in 1982[14]
  4. Shaolin Temple:
    • China – CN¥161,578,014[3] (US$85,355,528)[22]
    • Hong Kong – HK$16,157,801[23] (US$2,661,911)[22]
    • Japan – ¥1.65 billion distribution rentals[9] – ¥4.29 billion gross receipts[24] (US$17.2 million)[22]
    • South Korea – 294,065 tickets[25] – ₩882,195,000[26] (US$1,206,700)[27]

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  7. Monthly Commentary on Indian Economic Conditions, Volume 28, page xv, Indian Institute of Public Opinion, 1986
  8. "Bilan Annuel Italie – 1982". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  9. "1982年（1月～12月）". Eiren. Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  10. "【ジャッキーチェン興行成績】 第10回：韓国での興行収入". KungFu Tube (in Japanese). 5 September 2010. Retrieved 7 December 2018.
  11. Park, Seung Hyun (2000). A Cultural Interpretation of Korean Cinema, 1988–1997. Indiana University. p. 119. Average Ticket Prices in Korea, 1974–1997 [...] * Source: Korea Cinema Yearbook (1997–1998) * Currency: won [...] Foreign [...] 1982 [...] 3,000
  12. "Prokat2". Kinokultura.com. Archived from the original on 2012-05-10. Retrieved 2012-10-09.
  13. Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire that Lost the Cultural Cold War, page 48, Cornell University Press, 2011
  14. Archive of Bank of Russia http://cbr.ru/currency_base/OldDataFiles/USD.xls
  15. "Bilan Annuel Espagne – 1982". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  16. "1982 Taiwan Box Office". National Chengchi University. 19 February 2001. Retrieved 30 November 2018.
  17. BFI Statistical Yearbook (PDF) (2012 ed.). London: British Film Institute. 2013. pp. 22 & 32. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 December 2013. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
  18. "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on January 24, 2014. Retrieved February 5, 2009.
  19. Scott, Vernon (November 12, 1982). "Stallone found new life in new film". The Bulletin. Bend, Oregon. Retrieved July 4, 2012.
  20. "Gandhi (1982) – Box Office Data, DVD and Blu-ray Sales, Movie News, Cast and Crew Information". The Numbers. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  21. "Box Office Information for Poltergeist". The Numbers. Retrieved January 29, 2012.
  22. "Official exchange rate (LCU per US$, period average)". World Bank. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
  23. "Shaolin Temple (1982)". Hong Kong Movie Database. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
  24. "Statistics of Film Industry in Japan". Eiren. Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan. 1978. Retrieved 17 February 2019. 1982 (...) Box Office Gross Receipts (...) in millions of Yen (...) 169,522 (..) Distributor's Income (...) in millions of Yen (...) 65,268
  25. "영화정보". KOFIC. Korean Film Council. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
  26. Park, Seung Hyun (2000). A Cultural Interpretation of Korean Cinema, 1988-1997. Indiana University. p. 119. Average Ticket Prices in Korea, 1974-1997 [...] * Source: Korea Cinema Yearbook (1997-1998) * Currency: won [...] Foreign [...] 1982 [...] 3,000
  27. "Official exchange rate (KRW per US$, period average)". World Bank. 1982. Retrieved 7 December 2018.
  28. "On Independence Day, here are the most successful Indian movies of every decade since 1947". Hindustan Times. 15 August 2018.
  29. "Official exchange rate (LCU per US$, period average)". World Bank. Retrieved 13 December 2018.
  30. Harmetz, Aljean (June 8, 1982). "'Star Trek II' Sets Mark for Sales at Opening". The New York Times. p. C11.
  31. "Grace Kelly | American actress and princess of Monaco". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 12 March 2020.
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