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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.
Top grossing films (U.S.)[]
| Rank | Title | Studio | Gross |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Beverly Hills Cop | Paramount | $234,760,478 |
| 2. | Ghostbusters | Columbia | $229,242,989 |
| 3. | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | Paramount | $179,870,271 |
| 4. | Gremlins | Warner Brothers | $148,168,459 |
| 5. | The Karate Kid | Columbia | $90,815,558 |
| 6. | Police Academy | Warner Brothers | $81,198,894 |
| 7. | Footloose | Paramount | $80,035,402 |
| 8. | Romancing the Stone | 20th Century Fox | $76,572,238 |
| 9. | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | Paramount | $76,471,046 |
| 10. | Purple Rain | Warner Brothers | $68,392,977 |
source: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1984&p=.htm
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[]
- 1984
- 2010
- Aaj Ki Awaaz
- Amadeus - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture
- The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
- Alley Cat
- All of Me
- Annie's Coming Out
- Angel
- Bachelor Party
- The Bay Boy - 1985 Genie Award for Best Canadian Motion Picture.
- Beat Street
- Before Stonewall
- Best Defense
- Beverly Hills Cop
- Birdy
- Blind Date
- Blood Simple
- Body Double
- Bolero
- Breakin
- Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
- The Bostonians
- Broadway Danny Rose
- Cannibal Holocaust
- Cannonball Run II
- Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure
- Children of the Corn
- Choose Me
- C.H.U.D.
- City Heat
- Cloak & Dagger
- The Company of Wolves, directed by Neil Jordan
- The Coolangatta Gold
- The Cotton Club
- Country
- La diagonale du fou, (Dangerous Moves) - Academy Award for Foreign Language Film
- Dune
- Electric Dreams
- Exterminator 2
- Eureka, directed by Nicolas Roeg
- Falling in Love, with Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep
- Fear City
- Finders Keepers
- Firestarter
- The Flamingo Kid
- Flashpoint
- Footloose
- Frankenweenie
- Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
- The Funeral aka Death Japanese Style
- Gallavants
- Ghostbusters
- Give My Regards To Broad Street
- Gremlins
- Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes starring Sir Ralph Richardson in his final role.
- The Hotel New Hampshire
- Irreconcilable Differences
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- The Jesse Owens Story
- Just the Way You Are
- 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
- Maria’s Lovers
- Micki + Maude
- Mike's Murder
- Missing In Action
- Monster Dog
- Monster Shark
- Moscow on the Hudson
- Mrs. Soffel
- The Muppets Take Manhattan
- The Naked Face
- National Lampoon's Joy of Sex
- The Natural
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
- The NeverEnding Story (Die Unendliche Geschichte)
- The Ninja Mission
- 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 (also known as "Godzilla 1985")
- Revenge of the Nerds
- Rhinestone
- The River
- Roadhouse 66
- Romancing the Stone - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
- Runaway
- Sheena
- 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
- Streets of Fire
- A Sunday in the Country
- Supergirl
- Swing Shift
- Tank
- The Terminator
- Terror in the Aisles
- Thief of Hearts
- This Is Spinal Tap
- Top Secret!
- Under the Volcano
- Ultraman Story
- Ultraman Zoffy: Ultra Warriors vs. the Giant Monster Army
- The Warrior and the Sorceress
- Where the Boys Are '84
- Where The Toys Come From
- The Year of the Quiet Sun (Rok spokojnego slonca) - Golden Lion winner
Wide-release movies[]
January-March[]
April-June[]
July-September[]
October-December[]
Births[]
- January 3 - Maya Ababadjani, actress
- February 12 - Alexandra Dahlstrom, actress
- September 19 - Edward O'Donnell, artist
- November 22 - Scarlett Johansson, actress
- November 28 - Mary Elizabeth Winstead, 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, 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[]
External links[]
- "Was 1984 the greatest year in movies ever?" by Chris Nashawaty - Entertainment Weekly online - Jul 25, 2009 @ 01:17 PM