The 5th Youth in Film Awards ceremony (now known as the Young Artist Awards), presented by the Youth in Film Association, honored outstanding youth performers under the age of 21 in the fields of film, television and theater for the 1982-1983 season, and took place on December 4, 1983, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.

[1][2][3] Established in 1978 by long-standing Hollywood Foreign Press Association member, Maureen Dragone, the Youth in Film Association was the first organization to establish an awards ceremony specifically set to recognize and award the contributions of performers under the age of 18 in the fields of film, television, theater and music.

[3] ★ C. Thomas Howell - The Outsiders (Warner Bros) ★ Roxana Zal - Table for Five (Warner Bros) ★ Scott Schwartz - The Toy (Columbia) ★ Missy Francis - Man, Woman and Child (Paramount) ★ Gary Coleman - The Boy With the 200 IQ (NBC) ★ Sydney Penny - The Thorn Birds (ABC) ★ River Phoenix - Seven Brides For Seven Brothers (CBS) ★ Melissa Gilbert - Little House on the Prairie: A New Beginning (NBC) ★ Ricky Schroder - Silver Spoons (NBC) ★ Missy Gold - Benson (ABC) ★ John P. Navin, Jr. - Jennifer Slept Here (NBC) ★ Tracey Gold - Goodnight, Beantown (CBS) ★ (tie) David Mendenhall - General Hospital (ABC) ★ (tie) John Stamos - General Hospital (ABC) ★ Tracey Bregman - The Young and the Restless (CBS) ★ Timothy Patrick Murphy - The Love Boat (ABC) ★ Dana Hill - Magnum, P.I.

(CBS) ★ Return of the Jedi (20th Century Fox) ★ Mr.

Mom (20th Century Fox) ★ Goodnight Beantown (CBS) ★ Norman Lear ★ Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - Disney ★ Ann Jillian ★ Aaron Lohr ★ Glenn Scarpelli ★ Television Special Adam - John Walsh