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Contents 1 Events 2 Top grossing films (U.S.) 3 Awards 4 Films released in 1984 5 Wide-release movies 5.1 January-March 5.2 April-June 5.3 July-September 5.4 October-December 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 Film debuts 9 External links

[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
• Prince's first film, and overall best, Purple Rain, is released.

[edit] 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

[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
• 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

[edit] Wide-release movies

[edit] January-March

[edit] April-June

[edit] July-September

[edit] October-December

[edit] 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

[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

[edit] Film debuts

• Johnny Depp

[edit] External links

• "Was 1984 the greatest year in movies ever?" by Chris Nashawaty - Entertainment Weekly online - Jul 25, 2009 @ 01:17 PM