1984 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

The 10th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards were announced on 5 December 1984 and given on 24 January 1985.

Winners

• Best Picture:
  • Amadeus
  • Runner-up: Once Upon a Time in America
• Best Director:
  • Miloš Forman - Amadeus
  • Runner-up: Sergio Leone – Once Upon a Time in America
• Best Actor (tie):
  • F. Murray Abraham – Amadeus
  • Albert Finney – Under the Volcano
• Best Actress:
  • Kathleen Turner - Crimes of Passion and Romancing the Stone
  • Runner-up: Vanessa Redgrave – The Bostonians
• Best Supporting Actor:
  • Adolph Caesar - A Soldier's Story
  • Runner-up: John Malkovich – Places in the Heart and The Killing Fields
• Best Supporting Actress:
  • Peggy Ashcroft – A Passage to India
  • Runner-up: Christine Lahti – Swing Shift
• Best Screenplay:
  • Peter Shaffer - Amadeus
  • Runner-up: Alan Rudolph – Choose Me
• Best Cinematography:
  • Chris Menges – The Killing Fields
  • Runner-up: Robby Müller – Repo Man and Paris, Texas
• Best Music Score:
  • Ennio Morricone – Once Upon a Time in America
  • Runner-up: Amadeus
• Best Foreign Film:
  • The Fourth Man (De vierde man) • Netherlands
  • Runner-up: The Gods Must Be Crazy • Botswana/South Africa
• Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award:
  • George Kuchar (for the body of his work)
• New Generation Award:
  • Alan Rudolph
• Career Achievement Award:
  • Rouben Mamoulian
• Special Citation:
  • Andrew Sarris
  • François Truffaut

External links

• 10th Annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

References

• Mozart Film Biography Wins Over Tough Critics