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)
• The Motion Picture Association of America institutes the PG-13 rating, as a response to violent movies such as Poltergeist and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank	Title	Studio	Actors	Director	Gross
1.	Beverly Hills Cop	Paramount	Eddie Murphy	Martin Brest	$234,760,478
2.	Ghostbusters	Columbia	Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis and Ernie Hudson	Ivan Reitman	$229,242,989
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

U.S.A. unless stated

#

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

A

• Aaj Ki Awaaz - (India)
• Abnormal Family: Older Brother's Bride (Hentai kazoku: Aniki no yomesan) - (Japan)
• 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
• All of Me - directed by Carl Reiner, starring Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin
• Alley Cat
• 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
• Annie's Coming Out, starring Angela Punch McGregor - (Australia)
• Another Country, starring Rupert Everett and Colin Firth - (U.K.)
• The Annunciation (Angyali üdvözlet) - (Hungary)
• Asesinato en el senado de la nación (Murder in the Senate) - (Argentina)

B

• Bachelor Party, starring Tom Hanks, Adrian Zmed, Tawny Kitaen
• Balkan Spy (Balkanski spijun) - (Yugoslavia)
• Ballad of the Little Soldier (Ballade vom kleinen Soldaten), a documentary film about child soldiers directed by Werner Herzog - (West Germany)
• The Bay Boy, starring Liv Ullman and Kiefer Sutherland - (Canada/France) - Genie Award for Best Canadian Motion Picture.
• Bayan Ko:This Is My Country (Bayan ko: Kapit sa patalim) - (Philippines)
• Beat Street, starring Rae Dawn Chong
• Before Stonewall, a documentary film
• Best Defense, starring Dudley Moore, Eddie Murphy, Kate Capshaw
• Beverly Hills Cop - directed by Martin Brest, starring Eddie Murphy
• Bianca, directed by and starring Nanni Moretti - (Italy)
• Bicycles Are for the Summer (Las bicicletas son para el verano) - (Spain)
• Birdy - directed by Alan Parker, starring Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage, music from Peter Gabriel
• Blind Date, starring Kirstie Alley
• 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 - (U.S.A./U.K.)
• The Bounty, directed by Roger Donaldson, starring Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins - (U.K.)
• 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

C

• C.H.U.D., starring John Heard and Daniel Stern
• Cal, starring John Lynch and Helen Mirren - (U.K.)
• Camila, directed by Maria Luisa Bemberg - (Argentina)
• Cannibal Holocaust - (Italy)
• Cannonball Run II, starring Burt Reynolds, Dom Deluise, Shirley MacLaine, Sammy Davis, Jr., Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra
• Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure, a TV film starring Warwick Davis
• Carmen, a cinematic opera directed by Francesco Rosi, starring Plácido Domingo - (France/Italy)
• Chaos (Kaos)
• Children of the Corn, starring Peter Horton and Linda Hamilton
• Choose Me, starring Lesley Ann Warren and Keith Carradine
• 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 - (U.K.)
• The Company of Wolves, directed by Neil Jordan - (U.K.)
• Conan the Destroyer, directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Wilt Chamberlain, Grace Jones and Olivia d'Abo
• The Coolangatta Gold
• Le Cop, starring Philippe Noiret - (France)
• The Cotton Club - directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane, James Remar, Bob Hoskins, Fred Gwynne, 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

• La diagonale du fou (Dangerous Moves), starring Michel Piccoli - (France/Switzerland) - Academy Award for Foreign Language Film
• Diary for My Children (Napló gyermekeimnek) - (Hungary)
• 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

E

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

F

• Falling in Love - directed by Ulu Grosbard with Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep
• Farewell to the Ark (Saraba hakobune) - (Japan)
• 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, George C. Scott, Martin Sheen and Heather Locklear
• Firstborn, starring Peter Weller and Teri Garr
• The Flamingo Kid - directed by Garry Marshall, starring Matt Dillon
• Flashpoint, starring Kris Kristofferson and Treat Williams
• Footloose - directed by Herbert Ross, starring Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer, John Lithgow, Chris Penn, Dianne Wiest
• Formula of Love - (U.S.S.R.)
• Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
• Full Moon in Paris (Les Nuits de la pleine lune), directed by Éric Rohmer - (France)
• The Funeral aka Death Japanese Style - (Japan)

G

• 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 - (U.K.)
• 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. - (U.K.)

H

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

I

• 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

J

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

K

• 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 - (U.K.) - British Academy Award for Best Film
• Killpoint, starring Richard Roundtree

L

• The Last Starfighter, starring Lance Guest, Robert Preston, Catherine Mary Stewart
• Loafing and Camouflage (Lufa ke Paralayi) - (Greece)
• The Lonely Guy, starring Steve Martin, Charles Grodin
• Love Streams, directed by John Cassavetes - Golden Bear award winner

M

• Making the Grade
• Man Under Suspicion (Morgen in Alabama), starring Maximilian Schell - (West Germany)
• Maria's Lovers, starring Nastassja Kinski, John Savage, Robert Mitchum
• Mashaal, starring Dilip Kumar - (India)
• Mermaid Legend (Ningyo Densetsu) - (Japan)
• 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 - (Japan)
• Missing in Action, starring Chuck Norris
• Monster Dog (Leviatán), starring Alice Cooper - (Spain)
• 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
• My First Wife, starring John Hargreaves - (Australia)

N

• 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 (Kaze no Tani no Naushika) - (Japan)
• The NeverEnding Story (Die Unendliche Geschichte) - directed by Wolfgang Petersen, starring Barret Oliver and Noah Hathaway - (West Germany)
• Night of the Comet, starring Penelope Ann Miller and Tim Daly
• A Nightmare on Elm Street - directed by Wes Craven, starring Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon, Ronee Blakley
• The Ninja Mission (Misja ninja) - (Sweden)

O

• 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 - (Italy/U.S.A.)
• Opasen Char (Dangerous Charm) - (Bulgaria)
• Over the Brooklyn Bridge, starring Elliott Gould, Shelley Winters, Sid Caesar

P-Q

• 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 - (U.K.) - 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 - (U.K.)
• Purple Rain - starring Prince

R

• 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") - (Japan)
• 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)
• Ronia, the Robber's Daughter (Ronja Rövardotter) - (Sweden)
• Runaway, starring Tom Selleck

S

• Saaransh - (India)
• Secret Honor, directed by Robert Altman, starring Philip Baker Hall
• Sharaabi (Drunkard), directed by Prakash Mehra - (India)
• Sheena, starring Tanya Roberts
• Sixteen Candles, written and directed by John Hughes, starring Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Michael Schoeffling, Gedde Watanabe, Justin Henry
• Slapstick of Another Kind, starring Jerry Lewis
• Slunce, seno, jahody - (Czechoslovakia)
• 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
• Star Trek III: The Search for Spock - directed by Leonard Nimoy, starring William Shatner, Nimoy and DeForest Kelley
• Starman - directed by John Carpenter, starring Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen
• Stop Making Sense, a concert film directed by Jonathan Demme featuring Talking Heads
• Stranger Than Paradise, directed by Jim Jarmusch
• Streets of Fire, directed by Walter Hill, starring Michael Pare, Diane Lane, Rick Moranis, Amy Madigan, Willem Dafoe
• A Summer at Grandpa's (Dong–dong de jia qi) - (Taiwan)
• A Sunday in the Country (Un dimanche à la campagne), directed by Bertrand Tavernier - (France)
• 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, starring Miles O'Keefe and Sean Connery - (U.K.)

T

• The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Skazka o tsare Saltanye) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Tank, starring James Garner and Shirley Jones
• Le Tartuffe, directed by and starring Gérard Depardieu - (France)
• 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, starring Donald Pleasence and Nancy Allen
• 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

U-V

• Ultraman Story (Urutoraman Sutōr) - (Japan)
• Ultraman Zoffy: Ultra Warriors vs. the Giant Monster Army - (Japan)
• Under the Volcano - directed by John Huston, starring Albert Finney and Jacqueline Bisset
• Veneno para las hadas (Poison for the Fairies) - (Mexico)
• Voyage to Cythera (Taxidi sta Kythira) - (Greece)

W

• W's Tragedy (W no higeki) - (Japan)
• The Warrior and the Sorceress - (Argentina/U.S.A.)
• What Have I Done to Deserve This? (¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto?), directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Carmen Maura - (Spain)
• Wheels on Meals (Fai Chan Tse), starring Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung - (Hong Kong)
• Where the Boys Are '84, starring Lisa Hartman, Lorna Luft, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Wendy Schaal
• Where The Toys Come From
• The Wild Life, starring Chris Penn, Eric Stoltz and Lea Thompson
• The Woman in Red, starring Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner, Charles Grodin, Judith Ivey, Kelly LeBrock

Y

• A Year of the Quiet Sun (Rok spokojnego slonca) - (Poland) - Golden Lion winner
• Yellow Earth (Huáng tǔdì), directed by Chen Kaige - (China)

Wide-release movies

January–March

• Splash

April–June

• Once Upon a Time in America

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 - Katharine 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
• July 27 - Kenny Wormald, American actor
• September 22 - Laura Vandervoort, Canadian actress
• September 27 - Avril Lavigne, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 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

• Jesse Bradford - Falling in Love
• Jennifer Connelly - Once Upon a Time in America
• Jon Cryer - No Small Affair
• Johnny Depp - A Nightmare on Elm Street
• Tate Donovan - No Small Affair
• Colin Firth - Another Country
• Rupert Everett - Another Country
• Sarah Michelle Gellar - Over the Brooklyn Bridge
• Heather Graham - Mrs. Soffel
• Seth Green - A Billion for Boris
• Val Kilmer - Top Secret!
• Andie MacDowell - Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
• Kyle MacLachlan - Dune
• John Malkovich - Places in the Heart
• Frances McDormand - Blood Simple
• Connie Nielsen - Par Où T'es Rentré? On T'a Pas Vu Sortir
• Aidan Quinn - Reckless
• Lou Diamond Phillips - Interface
• Tim Roth - The Hit
• Charlie Sheen - Red Dawn
• Elisabeth Shue - The Karate Kid
• Helen Slater - Supergirl
• Jennifer Tilly - No Small Affair
• Marisa Tomei - The Flamingo Kid
• Jean-Claude Van Damme - Breakin'
• Lars von Trier (director)
• Ken Watanabe - MacArthur's Children
• Damon Wayans - Beverly Hills Cop
• Michelle Yeoh - The Owl vs Bombo

See also

• List of American films of 1984
• British films of 1984
• French films of 1984
• List of German films: 1980s
• Bollywood films of 1984
• Italian films of 1984
• Japanese films of 1984
• Swedish films of the 1980s

External links

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