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:
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. June 1 – Veteran English stage and screen actor Leslie Howard dies at the age of 50 in the crash of BOAC Flight 777 off the coast of Galicia, Spain. While best remembered for his role as Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind, Howard had roles in many other notable films and was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. November 23 – British Forces Broadcasting Service begins operation December 31 – New York City's Times Square greets Frank Sinatra at Paramount Theater
Awards
Top Ten Money Making Stars
1943 film releases
United States
January–March
January 1943
12 January
Shadow of a Doubt
23 January
Casablanca
February 1943
3 February
Air Force
5 February
The Outlaw
11 February
No Place for a Lady
Star Spangled Rhythm
12 February
Journey into Fear
19 February
Saludos Amigos
20 February
The Hard Way
March 1943
1 March
Squadron Leader X (GB) 2 March The Human Comedy 3 March Münchhausen (Germany) 5 March Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man 10 March It Ain't Hay 11 March Hello, Frisco, Hello 15 March The Silver Fleet (GB) 19 March Hitler's Children 22 March Huella de luz (Spain) 25 March Sanshiro Sugata (Japan) 26 March Forever and a Day 27 March Hangmen Also Die!
April–June
April 1943
2 April
Border Patrol
9 April
Cabin in the Sky
It Comes Up Love
12 April
Fires Were Started
15 April
We Dive at Dawn
22 April
Crash Dive
23 April
Clancy Street Boys
24 April
Edge of Darkness
30 April
I Walked with a Zombie
Sherlock Holmes in Washington
May 1943
4 May
Five Graves to Cairo
7 May
They Came to Blow Up America
This Land Is Mine
8 May
The Leopard Man
13 May
The More the Merrier
14 May
Bombardier
16 May
Ossessione (Italy) 17 May The Bells Go Down 21 May Action in the North Atlantic Cowboy in Manhattan The Ox-Bow Incident 22 May Mission to Moscow 27 May Prelude to War 28 May Mr. Lucky June 1943 2 June Hit the Ice 3 June Bataan 10 June The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 11 June Coney Island 22 June Crime Doctor 23 June Angels of the Streets (France) Dixie The Constant Nymph 24 June Stage Door Canteen
July–September
July 1943
3 July
Background to Danger
14 July
For Whom the Bell Tolls
17 July
Victory Through Air Power
21 July
Stormy Weather
26 July
Theatre Royal (GB) August 1943 1 August Behind the Rising Sun 2 August Hi Diddle Diddle Nasreddin in Bukhara (U.S.S.R.) 11 August Heaven Can Wait 12 August Phantom of the Opera 14 August This Is the Army 19 August Destroyer DuBarry Was a Lady 21 August The Seventh Victim 23 August The Man in Grey (GB) 27 August Holy Matrimony Watch on the Rhine 30 August We've Never Been Licked September 1943 2 September The Sky's the Limit 9 September So Proudly We Hail! 10 September The Kansan 13 September Thousands Cheer 16 September Doña Bárbara (Mexico) 17 September Revenge of the Zombies Sherlock Holmes Faces Death Top Man 24 September The Adventures of Tartu (GB) 25 September Thank Your Lucky Stars 28 September Le Corbeau (France) 29 September Corvette K-225