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The year 1943 in film featured various significant events for the film industry.

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten 1943 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1943
Rank	Title	Studio	Box-office gross rental
1	This is the Army	Warner Bros.	$8,301,000^[1]
2	For Whom the Bell Tolls	Paramount Pictures	$6,300,000^[2]
3	The Song of Bernadette	20th Century Fox	$5,000,000^[2]
4	Stage Door Canteen	United Artists	$4,400,000^[2]
5	Star Spangled Rhythm	Paramount Pictures	$3,900,000^[3]
6	Thousands Cheer	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	$3,751,000^[4]
7	Casablanca	Warner Bros.	$3,398,000^[1]
8	Coney Island	20th Century Fox	$3,305,000^[3]
9	Destination Tokyo	Warner Bros.	$3,237,000^[1]
10	Dixie	Paramount Pictures	$3,100,000^[5]

Events

January 23 - The film Casablanca is released nationally in the United States and becomes one of the top-grossing pictures of 1943. It goes on to win the Best Picture and Best Director awards at the 16th Academy Awards.
February 20 - American film studio executives agree to allow the United States Office of War Information to censor films.^[6]
June 1 - Veteran English actor Leslie Howard, best known to many for his role as Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind, dies at the age of 50 in the crash of BOAC Flight 777 off the coast of Galicia, Spain.
November 23 - British Forces Broadcasting Service begins operation^[6]
December 31 - New York City's Times Square greets Frank Sinatra at Paramount Theater^[6]

Awards

Category/Organization	1st Golden Globe Awards January 20, 1944	16th Academy Awards March 2, 1944
Best Film	The Song of Bernadette	Casablanca
Best Director	Henry King The Song of Bernadette	Michael Curtiz Casablanca
Best Actor	Paul Lukas Watch on the Rhine
Best Actress	Jennifer Jones The Song of Bernadette
Best Supporting Actor	Akim Tamiroff For Whom the Bell Tolls	Charles Coburn The More the Merrier
Best Supporting Actress	Katina Paxinou For Whom the Bell Tolls

Top Ten Money Making Stars

Rank	Actor/Actress
1.	Betty Grable
2.	Bob Hope
3. (tie)	Bud Abbott Lou Costello
4.	Bing Crosby
5.	Gary Cooper
6.	Greer Garson
7.	Humphrey Bogart
8.	James Cagney
9.	Mickey Rooney
10.	Clark Gable

1943 film releases

United States

Notable films released in 1943

United States unless stated

Ukraine in Flames (Bitva za nashu Sovetskuyu Ukrainu) - (U.S.S.R.)

Serials

Comedy film series

Animated short film series

Births

January 1 - Don Novello, American writer, film director, producer, actor, singer and comedian
January 13 - Richard Moll, actor
January 24 - Sharon Tate, actress and model (died 1969)
January 25 - Tobe Hooper, director and screenwriter (died 2017)
January 28 - John Beck, actor
January 31 - Peter McRobbie, actor
February 3 - Blythe Danner, actress
February 9 - Joe Pesci, actor
February 20 - Mike Leigh, English director
February 25 - George Harrison, English musician and songwriter (died 2001)
March 8 - Lynn Redgrave, English actress (died 2010)
March 15 - David Cronenberg, Canadian director and screenwriter
March 29 - Eric Idle, English actor, comedian, author and musician
March 31 - Christopher Walken, actor
April 20 - Edie Sedgwick, actress, socialite, model and heiress (died 1971)
June 2 - Charles Haid, American actor and film director
June 7 - Michael Pennington, English actor, director and writer
June 13 - Malcolm McDowell, English actor
June 23 - Patrick Bokanowski, French director
July 3 - Kurtwood Smith, actor
July 21 - Edward Herrmann, actor (died 2014)
August 15 - Barbara Bouchet, German-American actress
August 17 - Robert De Niro, actor
August 27 - Tuesday Weld, actress
September 21 - Jerry Bruckheimer, producer
September 24 - Randall Duk Kim, Korean American stage, film and television actor
September 28 - J. T. Walsh, actor (died 1998)
October 4 - John Bindon, English actor and bodyguard
October 8 - Chevy Chase, actor and comedian
October 15 - Penny Marshall, American television actress, film director and producer (died 2018)
October 22 - Catherine Deneuve, French actress
November 5 - Sam Shepard, American actor (died 2017)
November 12 - Wallace Shawn, American actor
November 28 - Randy Newman, American singer, film composer
December 13 - Arturo Ripstein, Mexican director
December 16 - Patti Deutsch, American voice artist, actress and comedian (died 2017)
December 21 - Jack Nance, actor (died 1996)
December 23 - Harry Shearer, actor
December 31
- Victor Raider-Wexler, American actor
- Ben Kingsley, English actor

Deaths

Film Debuts

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Warner Bros financial information in The William Shaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 28 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
^ ^a ^b ^c Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 358-359. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
^ ^a ^b "All-time Film Rental Champs". Variety. October 15, 1990. p. M162 to 166.
^ The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
^ "Top Grossers of the Season", Variety, 5 January 1944 p 54
^ ^a ^b ^c "Historical Events in 1943". www.historyorb.com.

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