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