1984 in film

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Events

• The Walt Disney Company founds Touchstone Pictures to release movies with subject matter deemed inappropriate for the Disney name.
• Tri-Star Pictures, a joint venture of Columbia Pictures, HBO, and CBS, releases its first film.
• Michael Eisner becomes head of The Walt Disney Company
• Prince's first film Purple Rain, is released.
• Annie's Coming Out wins AFI Award (Australia)

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank	Title	Studio	Actors	Director	Gross
1.	Ghostbusters	Columbia	Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis and Ernie Hudson	Ivan Reitman	$238,632,124
2.	Beverly Hills Cop	Paramount	Eddie Murphy	Martin Brest	$234,760,478
3.	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom	Paramount/Lucasfilm	Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth, Philip Stone, Jonathan Ke Quan	Steven Spielberg	$179,870,271
4.	Gremlins	Warner Bros.	Zach Galligan and Phoebe Cates	Joe Dante	$153,168,459
5.	The Karate Kid	Columbia	Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita and Elisabeth Shue	John G. Avildsen	$90,815,558
6.	Police Academy	Ladd Company/Warner Bros.	Steve Guttenberg and Kim Cattrall	Hugh Wilson	$81,198,894
7.	Footloose	Paramount	Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer, Dianne Wiest and John Lithgow	Herbert Ross	$80,035,402
8.	Romancing the Stone	Fox	Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito	Robert Zemeckis	$78,371,200
9.	Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	Paramount	William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy	Leonard Nimoy	$76,572,238
10.	Splash	Touchstone	Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah	Ron Howard	$69,821,334

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: Amadeus

Best Director: Miloš Forman - Amadeus

Best Actor: F. Murray Abraham - Amadeus

Best Actress: Sally Field - Places in the Heart

Best Supporting Actor: Haing S. Ngor - The Killing Fields

Best Supporting Actress: Peggy Ashcroft - A Passage to India

Best Foreign Language Film: La diagonale du fou (Dangerous Moves), directed by Richard Dembo, Switzerland

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: Amadeus

Best Actor: F. Murray Abraham - Amadeus

Best Actress: Sally Field - Places in the Heart

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture: Romancing the Stone

Best Actor: Dudley Moore - Micki + Maude

Best Actress: Kathleen Turner - Romancing the Stone

Other

Best Director: Miloš Forman - Amadeus

Best Foreign English Language Film: A Passage to India, U.K. / U.S.A.

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Paris, Texas, directed by Wim Wenders, France / W. Germany

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

The Year of the Quiet Sun (Rok spokojnego slonca), directed by Krzysztof Zanussi,

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Love Streams, directed by John Cassavetes, United States

Films released in 1984

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• 1984 - directed by Michael Radford, starring John Hurt and Richard Burton
• 2010, directed by Peter Hyams, starring Roy Scheider, John Lithgow and Helen Mirren

A-C

• Aaj Ki Awaaz
• Abnormal Family: Older Brother's Bride
• The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, starring Peter Weller and Jeff Goldblum
• Against All Odds, directed by Taylor Hackford, starring Jeff Bridges, Rachel Ward, James Woods, Alex Karras, Richard Widmark, Jane Greer
• Alley Cat
• All of Me - directed by Carl Reiner, starring Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin
• Amadeus - directed by Milos Forman, starring F. Murray Abraham and Tom Hulce - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture
• The Ambassador, starring Robert Mitchum and Ellen Burstyn
• American Dreamer, starring JoBeth Williams
• Angel
• Annie's Coming Out
• Another Country, starring Rupert Everett and Colin Firth

• Bachelor Party, starring Tom Hanks, Adrian Zmed, Tawny Kitaen
• Balkan Spy (Balkanski spijun)
• The Bay Boy - 1985 Genie Award for Best Canadian Motion Picture.
• Bayan Ko:This Is My Country
• Beat Street
• Before Stonewall
• Best Defense, starring Dudley Moore, Eddie Murphy, Kate Capshaw
• Beverly Hills Cop - directed by Martin Brest, starring Eddie Murphy
• Birdy - directed by Alan Parker, starring Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage, music from Peter Gabriel
• Blind Date'
• Blood Simple - directed by Joel and Ethan Coen (debut), starring John Getz, Dan Hedaya, Frances McDormand, M. Emmet Walsh
• Body Double - directed by Brian De Palma, starring Craig Wasson, Melanie Griffith, Deborah Shelton, Gregg Henry
• Bolero, starring Bo Derek
• The Bostonians - directed by James Ivory, starring Christopher Reeve, Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica Tandy
• The Bounty, starring Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins
• Breakin
• Broadway Danny Rose - directed by and starring Woody Allen with Mia Farrow
• The Brother from Another Planet, directed by John Sayles, starring Joe Morton
• The Buddy System, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Sarandon, Wil Wheaton, Nancy Allen

• Cal
• Camila, directed by Maria Luisa Bemberg
• Cannibal Holocaust
• Cannonball Run II, starring Burt Reynolds, Dom Deluise, Shirley MacLaine, Sammy Davis, Jr., Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra
• Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure
• Carmen, a cinematic opera directed by Francesco Rosi, starring Plácido Domingo
• Chaos (Kaos)
• Children of the Corn, starring Peter Horton and Linda Hamilton
• Choose Me, starring Lesley Ann Warren and Keith Carradine
• C.H.U.D.
• City Heat - directed by Richard Benjamin, starring Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds
• Cloak & Dagger, starring Henry Thomas and Dabney Coleman
• Comfort and Joy, directed by Bill Forsyth
• The Company of Wolves, directed by Neil Jordan
• Conan the Destroyer
• The Coolangatta Gold
• Le Cop
• The Cotton Club - directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane, Lonette McKee, James Remar, Bob Hoskins, Fred Gwynne, Allen Garfield, Maurice Hines, Nicolas Cage
• Country - directed by Richard Pearce, starring Jessica Lange and Sam Shepard
• Crimes of Passion, directed by Ken Russell, starring Kathleen Turner and Anthony Perkins

D-F

• La diagonale du fou, (Dangerous Moves) - Academy Award for Foreign Language Film
• Dreamscape, starring Dennis Quaid, Kate Capshaw, Max von Sydow, Christopher Lee
• Dune - directed by David Lynch, starring Kyle McLachlan, Sting, Sean Young, Francesca Annis, Jürgen Prochnow, Kenneth McMillan, José Ferrer, Max von Sydow

• Electric Dreams, starring Virginia Madsen and Bud Cort
• The Element of Crime (Forbrydelsens element), directed by Lars von Trier
• Exterminator 2

• Falling in Love - directed by Ulu Grosbard with Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep
• Fear City - directed by Abel Ferrara, starring Tom Berenger and Billy Dee Williams
• Finders Keepers
• Firestarter - directed by Mark L. Lester, starring Drew Barrymore, David Keith and George C. Scott
• Firstborn, starring Peter Weller and Teri Garr
• The Flamingo Kid - directed by Garry Marshall, starring Matt Dillon
• Flashpoint
• Footloose - directed by Herbert Ross, starring Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer, John Lithgow, Chris Penn, Dianne Wiest
• Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
• The Funeral aka Death Japanese Style

G-H

• Gallavants
• Ghostbusters - directed by Ivan Reitman, starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Sigourney Weaver, Rick Moranis, Ernie Hudson
• Give My Regards To Broad Street - written by and starring Paul McCartney
• Gremlins - directed by Joe Dante, starring Zach Galligan and Phoebe Cates
• Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes - directed by Hugh Hudson, starring Christopher Lambert, Andie MacDowell, and Sir Ralph Richardson in his final role.

• Heartbreakers, starring Peter Coyote, Nick Mancuso, Kathryn Harrold, Carol Wayne
• The Hit, directed by Stephen Frears, starring John Hurt and Terence Stamp
• The Hotel New Hampshire - directed by Tony Richardson, starring Rob Lowe, Jodie Foster, Nastassja Kinski, Beau Bridges

I-K

• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Harrison Ford and Kate Capshaw
• Irreconcilable Differences, starring Ryan O'Neal, Shelley Long, Drew Barrymore

• The Jesse Owens Story
• Just the Way You Are, starring Kristy McNichol
• Johnny Dangerously, starring Michael Keaton, Marilu Henner, Joe Piscopo, Griffin Dunne, Maureen Stapleton, Peter Boyle

• The Karate Kid - directed by John G. Avildsen, starring Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita
• The Killing Fields - directed by Roland Joffe, starring Sam Waterston, John Malkovich, Haing S. Ngor - British Academy Award for Best Film
• Killpoint

L-N

• The Last Starfighter, starring Lance Guest, Robert Preston, Catherine Mary Stewart
• The Lonely Guy, starring Steve Martin, Charles Grodin
• Love Streams, directed by John Cassavetes - Golden Bear award winner

• Making the Grade
• Maria's Lovers, starring Nastassja Kinski, John Savage, Robert Mitchum
• Mermaid Legend
• Micki + Maude - directed by Blake Edwards, starring Dudley Moore, Ann Reinking, Amy Irving
• Mike's Murder, directed by James Bridges, starring Debra Winger
• The Miracle of Joe Petrel
• Missing in Action, starring Chuck Norris
• Monster Dog
• Monster Shark
• Moscow on the Hudson - directed by Paul Mazursky, starring Robin Williams
• Mrs. Soffel - directed by Gillian Armstrong, starring Diane Keaton and Mel Gibson
• The Muppets Take Manhattan

• The Naked Face, starring Roger Moore, Rod Steiger, Elliott Gould, Anne Archer, Art Carney
• National Lampoon's Joy of Sex
• The Natural - directed by Barry Levinson, starring Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Barbara Hershey, Kim Basinger
• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
• The NeverEnding Story (Die Unendliche Geschichte) - directed by Wolfgang Petersen
• A Nightmare on Elm Street - directed by Wes Craven, starring Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon, Ronee Blakley
• Night of the Comet, starring Penelope Ann Miller and Tim Daly
• The Ninja Mission

O-Q

• Old Enough, Sundance Grand Jury Prize
• Once Upon a Time in America - directed by Sergio Leone, starring Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Joe Pesci, Tuesday Weld, Treat Williams
• Over the Brooklyn Bridge, starring Elliott Gould, Shelley Winters, Sid Caesar

• Paris, Texas - directed by Wim Wenders, starring Harry Dean Stanton and Nastassja Kinski - Palme d'Or winner
• A Passage to India - directed by David Lean, starring Judy Davis, Victor Bannerjee, Peggy Ashcroft - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film
• The Philadelphia Experiment - starring Michael Pare and Nancy Allen
• Places in the Heart - directed by Robert Benton, starring Sally Field, Danny Glover, John Malkovich, Ed Harris, Lindsay Crouse, Amy Madigan
• Police Academy - directed by Hugh Wilson, starring Steve Guttenberg, Kim Cattrall, Bubba Smith
• The Pope of Greenwich Village, starring Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke, Daryl Hannah, Kenneth McMillan, Geraldine Page
• A Private Function - directed by Malcolm Mowbray, starring Michael Palin and Maggie Smith
• Purple Rain - starring Prince

R-S

• Reckless, starring Aidan Quinn and Daryl Hannah
• Red Dawn - directed by John Milius, starring Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, Lea Thompson
• Repo Man - directed by Alex Cox, starring Emilio Estevez, Dick Rude, Harry Dean Stanton
• The Return of Godzilla (also known as "Godzilla 1985")
• Revenge of the Nerds, starring Robert Carradine, Anthony Edwards, Curtis Armstrong, Timothy Busfield
• Rhinestone, starring Sylvester Stallone and Dolly Parton
• The River - directed by Mark Rydell, starring Sissy Spacek and Mel Gibson
• Roadhouse 66
• Romancing the Stone - directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
• The Rosebud Beach Hotel, starring Colleen Camp and Peter Scolari
• Runaway, starring Tom Selleck

• Secret Honor, directed by Robert Altman, starring Philip Baker Hall
• Sheena, starring Tanya Roberts
• Sixteen Candles, written and directed by John Hughes, starring Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Michael Schoeffling, Gedde Watanabe, Justin Henry, Paul Dooley, Haviland Morris
• Slapstick of Another Kind, starring Jerry Lewis
• A Soldier's Story - directed by Norman Jewison, starring Howard E. Rollins, Jr., Adolph Caesar, Denzel Washington
• Splash - directed by Ron Howard, starring Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, John Candy
• Starman - directed by John Carpenter, starring Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen
• Star Trek III: The Search for Spock - directed by Leonard Nimoy, starring William Shatner, Nimoy and DeForest Kelley
• Stranger Than Paradise
• Streets of Fire, directed by Walter Hill, starring Michael Pare, Diane Lane, Rick Moranis, Amy Madigan, Willem Dafoe
• A Sunday in the Country
• Supergirl, starring Helen Slater, Faye Dunaway, Peter O'Toole
• Surf II
• Swing Shift - directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Christine Lahti
• Sword of the Valiant

T-V

• Tank, starring James Garner and Shirley Jones
• Teachers, starring Nick Nolte, JoBeth Williams, Judd Hirsch
• The Terminator - directed by James Cameron, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn and Linda Hamilton
• Terror in the Aisles
• Thief of Hearts, starring Steven Bauer, Barbara Williams, George Wendt
• This Is Spinal Tap - directed by Rob Reiner, starring Harry Shearer, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest
• Tightrope, starring Clint Eastwood and Genevieve Bujold
• Top Secret!, starring Val Kilmer

• Ultraman Story
• Ultraman Zoffy: Ultra Warriors vs. the Giant Monster Army
• Under the Volcano - directed by John Huston, starring Albert Finney and Jacqueline Bisset

• Voyage to Cythera (Taxidi sta Kythira)

W-Z

• The Warrior and the Sorceress
• What Have I Done to Deserve This?, directed by Pedro Almodóvar
• Where the Boys Are '84, starring Lisa Hartman, Lorna Luft, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Wendy Schaal
• Where The Toys Come From
• The Wild Life
• The Woman in Red, starring Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner, Charles Grodin, Judith Ivey, Kelly LeBrock

• The Year of the Quiet Sun (Rok spokojnego slonca) - Golden Lion winner

Wide-release movies

January–March

• Splash

April–June

• Once Upon a Time in America

July–September

October–December

• Mrs. Soffel
• Micki + Maude

Births

• January 3 - Maya Ababadjani, actress
• February 12 - Alexandra Dahlstrom, actress
• March 10 - Olivia Wilde, American actress
• March 25 - Katherine McPhee, American singer and actress
• April 2 - Ashley Peldon, American actress
• April 8 - Kirsten Storms, American actress
• April 10 - Mandy Moore, American singer-songwriter and actress
• April 18 - America Ferrera, American actress
• June 30 - Fantasia Barrino, American singer and actress
• October 3 - Ashlee Simpson, American actress and singer
• October 27 - Kelly Osbourne, English actress and singer
• November 21 - Jena Malone, American actress
• November 22 - Scarlett Johansson, American actress
• November 23 - Lucas Grabeel, American actor and singer
• November 28 - Mary Elizabeth Winstead, American actress
• December 4 - Lauren London, American actress

Deaths

• January 20 - Johnny Weissmuller, actor
• January 29 - Frances Goodrich, screenwriter
• February 15 - Ethel Merman, singer, actress
• March 1 - Jackie Coogan, actor
• March 24 - Sam Jaffe, actor
• May 16 - Andy Kaufman, comedian
• May 21 - Andrea Leeds, actress
• May 21 - Ann Little, actress
• June 18 - Luis Moglia Barth, director
• July 25 - Akihiko Hirata, Japanese actor
• July 27 - James Mason, British actor
• August 4 - Mary Miles Minter, actress
• August 5 - Richard Burton, Welsh actor
• September 17 - Richard Basehart, actor
• September 25 - Walter Pidgeon, actor
• October 21 - François Truffaut, French film director
• October 23 - Oskar Werner, actor
• October 25 - Pascale Ogier, French actress
• December 24 - Peter Lawford, actor
• December 28 - Sam Peckinpah, director

Film debuts

• Johnny Depp - A Nightmare on Elm Street
• Colin Firth - Another Country
• Rupert Everett - Another Country
• Lars von Trier (director)
• Helen Slater - Supergirl
• Jennifer Connelly - Once Upon a Time in America
• Charlie Sheen - Red Dawn
• Marisa Tomei - The Flamingo Kid
• Damon Wayans - Beverly Hills Cop
• Jennifer Grey - Reckless
• Aidan Quinn - Reckless
• Jean-Claude Van Damme - Breakin'
• Frances McDormand - Blood Simple
• Seth Green - A Billion for Boris
• Jon Cryer - No Small Affair
• Jennifer Tilly - No Small Affair
• Tate Donovan - No Small Affair
• Lou Diamond Phillips - Interface
• Ken Watanabe - MacArthur's Children
• Alyssa Milano - Old Enough
• John Malkovich - Places in the Heart
• Michelle Yeoh - The Owl vs Bombo
• Kyle MacLachlan - Dune
• Val Kilmer - Top Secret!
• Elisabeth Shue - The Karate Kid
• Andie MacDowell - Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
• Tim Roth - The Hit
• Jesse Bradford - Falling in Love
• Heather Graham - Mrs. Soffel

External links

• "Was 1984 the greatest year in movies ever?" by Chris Nashawaty - Entertainment Weekly online - Jul 25, 2009 @ 01:17 PM