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The following is an overview of 1933 in film, including significant events, a list of films released, and notable births and deaths.

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten 1933 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1933

Rank	Title	Distributor	Domestic rentals
1	Roman Scandals	United Artists	$2,443,000[1]
2	I'm No Angel	Paramount	$2,250,000[1]
3	Gold Diggers of 1933	Warner Bros.	$2,202,000[2]
4	She Done Him Wrong	Paramount	$2,200,000[3]
5	Tugboat Annie	MGM	$1,917,000[4]
6	Footlight Parade	Warner Bros.	$1,601,000[2]
7	Dancing Lady	MGM	$1,490,000[4]
8	42nd Street	Warner Bros.	$1,438,000[2]
9	Dinner at Eight	MGM	$1,398,000[4]
10	Little Women	RKO	$1,337,000[5]

Events

The Film Daily Yearbook listed the following as the ten leading news events of the year in North America.^[6]

• Motion picture industry goes under National Recovery Administration code.
• Receivers appointed for Paramount Publix, RKO and Fox Theatres.
• Film industry takes eight week salary cut.
• Sirovich bill for sweeping probe of film industry is defeated.
• John D. Hertz withdraws as Paramount Publix finance chairman and Adolph Zukor appoints George J. Schaefer as general manager.
• Sidney Kent effects financial reorganization of Fox Film Corp., averting receivership, and company shows first profit since 1930.
• Ruling of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware creates "open market" for sound equipment.
• Nathan Nathanson regains control of Famous Players Canadian circuit.
• Darryl F. Zanuck quits Warner Bros-First National and with Joseph M. Schenck forms Twentieth Century Pictures, turning out eight productions in the first four months, beginning with The Bowery.
• Harold B. Franklin resigns as president of RKO Theaters.

Other notable events include:

• January 11 – Radio City Music Hall in New York City starts showing films.^[7]
• January 20 – The film Ecstasy premieres in Czechoslovakia film; its foreign distribution presents difficulties as 18-year-old actress Hedy Lamarr is seen naked in it.
• March – Director Fritz Lang is informed by Joseph Goebbels that release of Lang's crime-thriller The Testament of Dr. Mabuse in Germany will not be permitted by the newly formed Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. The German-language premiere takes place on April 21 in Budapest (Hungary). On April 20, Lang divorces his wife, the film's writer Thea von Harbou, and on July 31 leaves Germany permanently, initially settling in Paris.^[8]
• March 2 – King Kong premieres at Radio City Music Hall in New York City;^[9] opening weekend takings are estimated at US$90,000.
• March 9 – Punyal na Ginto (The Golden Dagger), the first Filipino-language film made in the Philippines, is released.^[10]
• March 11 – 42nd Street sparks a comeback for musical film.^[7]
• June 6 – Chemical company executive Richard Hollingshead opens a drive-in theater near Camden, New Jersey, according to his U.S patent granted May 16.^[11][12]
• September 6 – Daily Variety, a trade newspaper, is published for the first time in Hollywood.^[13]
• October 10 – John Wayne appears as Singin' Sandy Saunders in Riders of Destiny.
• December 29 – Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers appear on screen together for the first time in Flying Down to Rio.
• Ang Aswang, the first sound film made in the Philippines, is released.^[14]
• Makata At Paraluman (The Poet and the Maiden), the first talking film in vernacular made in the Philippines, is released.^[15]
• British Film Institute founded.^[16]
• GPO Film Unit established in the United Kingdom under John Grierson, taking over responsibility for documentary film making from the Empire Marketing Board.
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) once again expresses interest in The Wizard of Oz books for a series of animated shorts, but once again fail to make a deal with the estate of creator L. Frank Baum.
• The Private Life of Henry VIII becomes the first British film to win an American Academy Award. Featured actor Charles Laughton wins the 1933 Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance. The film is the first British production to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
• The book Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox is published, detailing what William Fox considers to be the conspiracy that forced him from control of Fox Film in 1930.

Academy Awards

The 6th Academy Awards were held on March 16, 1934, at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. They were hosted by Will Rogers and Rogers also presented all of the awards. This was the last time that the Oscars' eligibility period was spread over two different calendar years, creating the longest time frame for which films could be nominated: the seventeen months from August 1, 1932, to December 31, 1933.

Most nominations: Cavalcade (Fox Film); A Farewell to Arms (Paramount Pictures) and Lady for a Day (Columbia Pictures) – 4

Major awards:

• Best Picture: Cavalcade – Fox Film
• Best Director: Frank Lloyd – Cavalcade
• Best Actor: Charles Laughton – The Private Life of Henry VIII
• Best Actress: Katharine Hepburn – Morning Glory

Most Awards: Cavalcade – 3 (Outstanding Production; Best Director; Best Art Direction)

1933 film releases

United States unless stated

January–March

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