1984 In Film

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

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
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# '' 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

AWARDS

Academy Awards :

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Golden Globe Awards :

:Drama:
: Best Picture : ''Amadeus''
: Best Actor : F. Murray Abraham - ''Amadeus''
: Best Actress : Sally Field - ''Places in the Heart''

:Musical or comedy:

' -

:Other
: Best Director : Miloš Forman - ''Amadeus''

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 ''

'' 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 ''

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'' 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 ''

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'' 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 ''

'' 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 ''

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'' 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

BIRTHS

January 3 - Maya Ababadjani , actress

February 12 - Alexandra Dahlstrom , 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 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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