1984 in film

See also: *1983 in film *1984 *1985 in film *1980s in film *years in film *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.
*November 26 - Filming starts on Back to the Future.
* Actress Sharon Stone marries Michael Greenburg
* 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# Star Trek III: The Search for Spock # Police Academy# 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

Academy Award Winners

*Best Film - 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 - Dame Peggy Ashcroft, A Passage To India

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
*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

Other movies released

1984
A Nos Amours
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
All of Me
Amadeus
Bachelor Party
Body Double
Bolero
The Bostonians
Cannonball Run II
Choose Me
City Heat
* The Coolangatta Gold
The Company of Wolves
Country
Dangerous Moves, ("la diagonale du fou") Academy Award for Foreign Language Film
Dune
Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure
The Fourth Man
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Irreconcilable Differences
The Killing Fields (film), British Academy Award for Film
The Lonely Guy
Love Streams, Golden Bear (award) winner
Micki + Maude
* Moscow on the Hudson
The Muppets Take Manhattan
The Natural
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (March 11 - Japan)
Die Unendliche Geschichte (film)
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Old Enough, Sundance Grand Jury Prize
Once Upon a Time in America
Paris, Texas, Palme d'Or winner
A Passage to India (film)
Places in the Heart
The Pope of Greenwich Village
Repo Man
The Return of Godzilla
Revenge of the Nerds
The River
Sixteen Candles
A Soldier's Story
Starman directed by John Carpenter, starring Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen and Charles Martin Smith
Stranger Than Paradise
A Sunday in the Country
Supergirl
This Is Spinal Tap
A Year of the Quiet Sun, Golden Lion winner