1984 in film
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Contents |
[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
- Ghostbusters, starring Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, starring Harrison Ford
- Gremlins
- Beverly Hills Cop, starring Eddie Murphy
- Terms of Endearment (includes some 1983 revenues)
- The Karate Kid, starring Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita
- Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
- Police Academy starring Steve Guttenberg, Kim Catrall
- Romancing the Stone, starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner
- Sudden Impact (includes some 1983 revenues)
- Footloose
- Splash
- Purple Rain, starring Prince
- Amadeus
- The Terminator, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton
[edit] 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
- 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
- Amadeus - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture
- The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
- All of Me
- Bachelor Party
- Beverly Hills Cop
- 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
- 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
- Footloose
- Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
- The Funeral aka Death Japanese Style
- Ghostbusters
- Gremlins
- Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
- 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
- Micki + Maude
- Monster Dog
- Moscow on the Hudson
- 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
- 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
[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, director
