1984 in film

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Contents 1 Events 2 Top grossing films 3 Awards 4 Films released in 1984 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] 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

[edit] Top grossing films

North America

1. Ghostbusters, starring Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray
2. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, starring Harrison Ford
3. Gremlins, starring Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Corey Feldman
4. Beverly Hills Cop, starring Eddie Murphy
5. Terms of Endearment (includes some 1983 revenues)
6. The Karate Kid, starring Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita
7. Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
8. Police Academy starring Steve Guttenberg, Kim Catrall
9. Romancing the Stone, starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner
10. Sudden Impact (includes some 1983 revenues)
11. Footloose, starring Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer, Dianne Wiest
12. Splash, starring Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah
13. Purple Rain, starring Prince
14. Amadeus, staring F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce
15. The Terminator, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton

[edit] 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

[edit] Films released in 1984

• 1984
• 2010: The Year We Make Contact
• Aaj Ki Awaaz
• Amadeus - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture
• The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
• All of Me
• Bachelor Party
• The Bay Boy - 1985 Genie Award for Best Canadian Motion Picture.
• Before Stonewall
• Beverly Hills Cop
• Blind Date
• Blood Simple
• Body Double
• Bolero
• The Bostonians
• Broadway Danny Rose
• Cannibal Holocaust
• Cannonball Run II
• Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure
• Choose Me
• City Heat
• Cloak and Dagger
• The Company of Wolves, directed by Neil Jordan
• The Coolangatta Gold
• Country
• La diagonale du fou, (Dangerous Moves) - Academy Award for Foreign Language Film
• Dune
• Electric Dreams
• Eureka, directed by Nicolas Roeg
• Finders Keepers
• Footloose
• Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
• The Funeral aka Death Japanese Style
• Ghostbusters
• Gremlins
• Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
• The Hotel New Hampshire
• Irreconcilable Differences
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
• The Karate Kid
• The Killing Fields - British Academy Award for Best Film
• The Last Starfighter
• The Lonely Guy
• Love Streams - Golden Bear award winner
• Making the Grade
• Micki + Maude
• Monster Dog
• Moscow on the Hudson
• Mrs. Soffel
• The Muppets Take Manhattan
• The Natural
• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (March 11 - Japan)
• The NeverEnding Story (Die Unendliche Geschichte)
• A Nightmare on Elm Street
• Night of the Comet
• Old Enough, Sundance Grand Jury Prize
• Once Upon A Time In America
• Paris, Texas - Palme d'Or winner
• A Passage to India - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film
• The Philadelphia Experiment
• Places in the Heart
• Police Academy
• The Pope of Greenwich Village
• A Private Function
• Purple Rain
• Reckless
• Red Dawn
• Repo Man
• The Return of Godzilla
• Revenge of the Nerds
• The River
• Romancing the Stone - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
• Sixteen Candles
• Slapstick of Another Kind, starring Jerry Lewis
• A Soldier's Story
• Splash
• Starman
• Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
• Stranger Than Paradise
• A Sunday in the Country
• Supergirl
• The Terminator
• Thief of Hearts
• This Is Spinal Tap
• A Year of the Quiet Sun (Rok spokojnego slonca) - Golden Lion winner

[edit] Births

• January 3 - Maya Ababadjani, actress
• February 12 - Alexandra Dahlstrom, actress
• November 22 - Scarlett Johansson, actress
• November 23 - Joseph Hooker, actor

[edit] 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 27 - James Mason, British actor
• August 4 - Mary Miles Minter, actress
• August 5 - Richard Burton, 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, directorde:Filmjahr 1984

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