1984 in film

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• The Walt Disney Company
  The Walt Disney Company
  
  The Walt Disney Company is the largest media and entertainment corporation in the world. Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy O....
   founds Touchstone Pictures
  Touchstone Pictures
  
  Touchstone Pictures is one of several alternate film labels of The Walt Disney Company, established in 1984. Its releases typically feature more mature themes than those that are released under the Walt Disney Pictures banner....
   to release movies with subject matter deemed inappropriate for the Disney name.
• Tri-Star Pictures, a joint venture of Columbia Pictures
  Columbia Pictures
  
  Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an United States film production company and distribution company. It was one of the so-called studio system among the eight major film studios of Hollywood Cinema of the United States#Golden Age of Hollywood....
  , HBO, and CBS
  CBS
  
  CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
  , releases its first film.
• Michael Eisner
  Michael Eisner
  
  Michael Eisner was chief executive officer of The Walt Disney Company from September 22, 1984 to September 30, 2005....
   becomes head of The Walt Disney Company
  The Walt Disney Company
  
  The Walt Disney Company is the largest media and entertainment corporation in the world. Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy O....
  

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Awards

Best Picture

Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to artists working in the film industry....
: Amadeus

Amadeus (film)

Amadeus is a 1984 in film drama film directed by Milo? Forman and written by Peter Shaffer. Based on Shaffer's stage play Amadeus, the film is based loosely on the lives of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, two composers who lived in Vienna, Austria, during the later half of the 18th century....

Best Director: Miloš Forman

Miloš Forman

Jan Tom? Forman , better known as Milo? Forman , is a Czech-American film director, screenwriter, actor and professor. Two of his films, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus are among the most celebrated in the History of Motion Picture....
 - Amadeus

Best Actor

Academy Award for Best Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: F. Murray Abraham

F. Murray Abraham

Fahrid Murray Abraham is an Academy Award-winning United States actor. He became known during the 1980s, after winning the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Amadeus , and has since appeared in many roles, both leading and supporting, in films, television, and mainly on stage....
 - Amadeus

Best Actress

Academy Award for Best Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: Sally Field

Sally Field

Sally Margaret Field is an United States two-time Academy Awards-winning actress. She is also a three-time Emmy Award winner and two-time Golden Globe Award winner who became a household name at the age of 20 as Sister Bertrille in the 1960s sitcom The Flying Nun....
 - Places in the Heart

Places in the Heart

Places in the Heart is a 1984 in film drama film that tells the story of a Southern widow who tries to keep her farm together with the help of a blind man and an African-American man....

Best Supporting Actor

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: Haing S. Ngor

Haing S. Ngor

Dr. Haing S. Ngor was a Cambodian American physician, actor and author who is best known for winning the 1985 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the movie The Killing Fields , in which he portrayed journalist and refugee Dith Pran in 1970s Cambodia, under the rule of the Khmer Rouge....
 - The Killing Fields

The Killing Fields (film)

The Killing Fields is a 1984 in film Cinema of the United Kingdom feature film about the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia.It is based on the experiences of three journalists: Dith Pran, a Cambodian, Sydney Schanberg, an American, and Jon Swain, a journalist from the UK....

Best Supporting Actress

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: Peggy Ashcroft

Peggy Ashcroft

Dame Peggy Ashcroft Order of the British Empire was an English actress....
 - A Passage to India

Best Foreign Language Film

Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Award, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ....
: La diagonale du fou

La diagonale du fou

Dangerous Moves is a 1984 in film French language film about chess, directed by Richard Dembo and starring Michel Piccoli and Alexandre Arbatt....
(Dangerous Moves), directed by Richard Dembo

Richard Dembo

Richard Dembo was a France film director and screenwriter.Dembo achieved worldwide recoginition with his first film: La diagonale du fou....
, Switzerland

Drama:

Best Picture

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama

This page lists the winners and nominees for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture ? Drama, since its institution in 1951....
: Amadeus

Best Actor

Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: F. Murray Abraham - Amadeus

Best Actress

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: Sally Field - Places in the Heart

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy has been awarded annually since 1952 in film by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association....
: Romancing the Stone

Romancing the Stone

Romancing the Stone is a 1984 in film Cinema of the United States action film-adventure film, and has many elements that might categorize it as a romantic comedy film....

Best Actor

Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: Dudley Moore

Dudley Moore

Dudley Stuart John Moore Order of the British Empire was an English people actor, comedian and musician.Moore first came to prominence as one of the four writer-performers in Beyond the Fringe in the early 1960s and became famous as half of the hugely popular television double-act he formed with Peter Cook....
 - Micki + Maude

Micki + Maude

Micki + Maude is a comedy film starring Dudley Moore as Rob Salinger, an overworked television reporter. It co-stars Tony-award winning actress, dancer, and singer Ann Reinking as Micki, a lawyer who eventually becomes promoted to a judge, and is Rob's first wife....

Best Actress

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1950 in film....
: Kathleen Turner

Kathleen Turner

Mary Kathleen Turner , better known as Kathleen Turner, is a Tony Award- and Academy Award-nominated United States actress. She came to fame during the 1980s, after roles in the Hollywood films Body Heat, Romancing the Stone and Prizzi's Honor....
 - Romancing the Stone

Other

Best Director

Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture

This page lists the winners of and nominees for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director. Since its inception in 1943, it has been presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, an organization comprised of journalists who cover the United States film industry for publications based outside North America....
: Miloš Forman - Amadeus

Best Foreign English Language Film

Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the awards presented at the Golden Globe Awards, an American film awards ceremony....
: A Passage to India

A Passage to India (film)

A Passage to India is a 1984 in film adventure film-drama film directed by David Lean, based on the A Passage to India by E. M. Forster....
, U.K. / U.S.A.

The Year of the Quiet Sun

The Year of the Quiet Sun

The Year of the Quiet Sun is a 1984 in film Poland film written and directed by Krzysztof Zanussi. It tells the story of a romance between a Polish refugee and an United States soldier....
(Rok spokojnego slonca), directed by Krzysztof Zanussi

Krzysztof Zanussi

Krzysztof Zanussi, is a Poland film producer and film director.He is a professor of European film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland where he conducts a summer workshop....
,

• 1984
• 2010
• Aaj Ki Awaaz
  Aaj Ki Awaaz
  
  Aaj Ki Awaaz is a 1984 Hindi film produced by B. R. Chopra and directed by Ravi Chopra. The film stars Raj Babbar, Smita Patil, Nana Patekar and Vijay Arora....
  
• Amadeus
  Amadeus (film)
  
  Amadeus is a 1984 in film drama film directed by Milo? Forman and written by Peter Shaffer. Based on Shaffer's stage play Amadeus, the film is based loosely on the lives of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, two composers who lived in Vienna, Austria, during the later half of the 18th century....
  - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture
• The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
  The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
  
  The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension! is an Cinema of the United States science fiction film that has reached cult film status....
  
• All of Me
• Annie's Coming Out
  Annie's Coming Out
  
  Annie's Coming Out is a 1984 Australian drama film directed by Gil Brealey. It is based on the non-fiction book Annie's Coming Out by disability activists Rosemary Crossley and Anne McDonald....
  
• Bachelor Party
  Bachelor Party (film)
  
  Bachelor Party is a 1984 in film comedy film starring Tom Hanks, Tawny Kitaen, Adrian Zmed, Robert Prescott , and Deborah Harmon, directed by Neal Israel....
  
• The Bay Boy
  The Bay Boy
  
  The Bay Boy is a critically acclaimed 1984 Canadian film. It is a semi-autobiographical film based on director Daniel Petrie's experiences of growing up in Glace Bay, a mining town on Cape Breton Island, during the Great Depression....
  - 1985 Genie Award
  Genie Award
  
  Genie Awards are given out to recognize the best of Canadian cinema by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. The awards were originally named the Canadian Film Awards which ran from 1949 to 1979 but in 1980 were renamed The Genie Awards....
   for Best Canadian Motion Picture.
• Before Stonewall
  Before Stonewall
  
  Before Stonewall is a 1984 in film historical documentary film about the LGBT community prior to the 1969 Stonewall riots. It was narrated by author Rita Mae Brown and directed by Greta Schiller....
  
• Beverly Hills Cop
  Beverly Hills Cop
  
  Beverly Hills Cop is a 1984 in film Cinema of the United States action film-comedy film directed by Martin Brest and starring Eddie Murphy. Murphy stars as Axel Foley, a street-smart Detroit cop, who heads to Beverly Hills, California to solve the death of his best friend....
  
• Birdy (film)
  Birdy (film)
  
  Birdy is a 1984 film directed by Alan Parker and starring Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage. It is based on the Birdy by William Wharton . The story is about two friends, Birdy and Al , who become friends at school and serve in Vietnam War....
  
• Blind Date
  Blind Date (1984 film)
  
  Blind Date, also known as Deadly Seduction, is a 1984 in film independent Thriller by B-film maker Nico Mastorakis. It stars Kirstie Alley and Joseph Bottoms....
  
• Blood Simple
  Blood Simple
  
  Blood Simple is a 1985 in film neo-noir crime film. It was the directorial debut of Coen brothers, and the first major film of cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld, who later became a noted director....
  
• Body Double
  Body double
  
  A body double is a general term for someone who substitutes for the credit ed actor of a character in any recorded visual medium, whether videotape or film....
  
• Bolero
  Bolero (1984 film)
  
  Bolero is a 1984 in film film starring Bo Derek, and written and directed by her husband John Derek. The film centers on the protagonist's sexual awakening and her journey around the world to pursue an ideal first lover who will take her virginity....
  
• The Bostonians
  The Bostonians (film)
  
  The Bostonians is 1984 in film's Merchant Ivory, based on Henry James' The Bostonians. The film starred Vanessa Redgrave, Christopher Reeve, Madeleine Potter and Jessica Tandy....
  
• Broadway Danny Rose
  Broadway Danny Rose
  
  Broadway Danny Rose is a black and white 1984 in film Academy Award-nominated film written, directed by and starring Woody Allen....
  
• Cannibal Holocaust
  Cannibal Holocaust
  
  Cannibal Holocaust is a controversial exploitation film directed by Ruggero Deodato from a screenplay by Gianfranco Clerici. Filmed in the Amazon Rainforest, the movie tells the story of four documentary film who journey deep into the jungle to film Indigenous peoples of the Americas tribes....
  
• Cannonball Run II
  Cannonball Run II
  
  See also Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy DashCannonball Run II is a 1984 comedy film released by Twentieth Century Fox....
  
• Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure
  Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure
  
  The Ewok Adventure was an United States Television movie set in the Star Wars Star Wars galaxy. It was released theatrically in Europe as Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure, and is known by that title today....
  
• Children of the Corn (film)
  Children of the Corn (film)
  
  Children of the Corn is a 1984 horror film based upon Children of the Corn by Stephen King. Directed by Fritz Kiersch, the film stars Peter Horton and Linda Hamilton....
  
• Choose Me
  Choose Me
  
  Choose Me is a 1984 in film Cinema of the United States comedy-drama film directed and written by Alan Rudolph. It was rated MPAA rating system by the Motion Picture Association of America....
  
• City Heat
  City Heat
  
  City Heat is the title of a 1984 action-comedy starring Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds.City Heat was released in North America in December 1984....
  
• Cloak & Dagger
  Cloak & Dagger
  
  Cloak & Dagger is a 1984 in film film directed by Richard Franklin starring Henry Thomas and Dabney Coleman. It is a remake of the 1949 in film film The Window....
  
• The Company of Wolves
  The Company of Wolves
  
  The Company of Wolves is a 1984 in film gothic fantasy film-horror film directed by Neil Jordan, and starring Sarah Patterson and Angela Lansbury....
  , directed by Neil Jordan
  Neil Jordan
  
  Neil Jordan is an Academy Award-winning Ireland filmmaker and novelist. He received the Academy Award for The Crying Game....
  
• The Coolangatta Gold
  The Coolangatta Gold
  
  The NIB Coolangatta Gold is one of the premier events in the Australia sport of Ironman . The event is organised by Surf Life Saving Australia....
  
• The Cotton Club (film)
  The Cotton Club (film)
  
  The Cotton Club is a 1984 in film crime film-drama film, centered on a popular real-life Harlem, Manhattan jazz club in the 1930s, the Cotton Club....
  
• Country
  Country (film)
  
  Country is a 1984 film which follows the trials and tribulations of the Ivy family as they struggle to hold onto their farm in trying economic times....
  
• La diagonale du fou
  La diagonale du fou
  
  Dangerous Moves is a 1984 in film French language film about chess, directed by Richard Dembo and starring Michel Piccoli and Alexandre Arbatt....
  , (Dangerous Moves) - Academy Award for Foreign Language Film
• Dune
  Dune (film)
  
  Dune is a 1984 in film science fiction film written and directed by David Lynch, based on the 1965 Frank Herbert Dune . The film stars Kyle MacLachlan as Paul Atreides, and includes an ensemble of well-known United States and European actors in supporting roles, including Sting , Jose Ferrer, Virginia Madsen, Linda Hunt, Patrick Stewart,...
  
• Electric Dreams
• Eureka
  Eureka (1984 film)
  
  Eureka , directed by Nicolas Roeg, is the story of Klondike prospector, Jack McCann who strikes it rich, yet ends up fearing that his daughter Tracy and his son-in-law are scheming to take his wealth and his soul; moreover, greedy investors are also hunting McCann's fortune....
  , directed by Nicolas Roeg
  Nicolas Roeg
  
  'Nicolas Jack Roeg', British Society of Cinematographers is an England film director and cinematographer. Contributing to the visual look of Lawrence of Arabia and Roger Corman's The Masque of the Red Death , and co-directing Performance , he would later become the guiding force behind such landmark films as Walkabout , Don'...
  
• Falling in Love (film)
  Falling in Love (film)
  
  Falling in Love is a 1984 in film United States romance film-drama film starring Meryl Streep and Robert De Niro and directed by Ulu Grosbard....
  , with Robert De Niro
  Robert De Niro
  
  Robert Mario De Niro, Jr. is a two-time Academy Award-winning United States actor, director and producer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential actors of all time....
   and Meryl Streep
  Meryl Streep
  
  Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is widely regarded as being one of the most talented and respected movie actors of the modern era....
  
• Finders Keepers
  Finders Keepers (1984 film)
  
  Finders Keepers is a 1984 film starring Michael O'Keefe and Beverly D'Angelo. It also starred Jim Carrey in his 6th film role....
  
• Firestarter
  Firestarter (film)
  
  Firestarter is a 1984 in film science fiction Thriller based on the Firestarter by Stephen King. The plot concerns a young girl who develops pyrokinesis and the The Shop which seeks to control her....
  
• The Flamingo Kid
  The Flamingo Kid
  
  The Flamingo Kid is a comedy film directed by Garry Marshall, written by Marshall, Neal Marshall and Bo Goldman. It stars Matt Dillon, Richard Crenna, Hector Elizondo and Janet Jones....
  
• Footloose
  Footloose
  
  Footloose is a film that tells the story of Ren McCormack , a teenager who was raised in Chicago. McCormack moves to a small town where the town government has banned dance and rock music....
  
• Frankenweenie
  Frankenweenie
  
  Frankenweenie is a Short subject directed by Tim Burton, and co-written by Burton with Leonard Ripps. It is a parody of, and homage to, the 1931 film Frankenstein based on Mary Shelley's book of the same name....
  
• Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
  Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
  
  Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter is a slasher film. It is the fourth film in the Friday the 13th . Though it was billed as "The Final Chapter," there have been many further sequels in the franchise....
  
• The Funeral
  The Funeral (1984 film)
  
  is a 1984 in film Japanese comedy film by film director Itami Juzo.The film shows the preparations for a traditional Japanese funeral. It mixes grief at the loss of a husband and father with wry observations of the various characters as they interact during the three days of preparation....
  aka Death Japanese Style
• Ghostbusters
  Ghostbusters
  
  Ghostbusters is a 1984 in film comedy film about three eccentric New York City parapsychology-turned-ghost exterminators. The film was released in the United States on June 8, 1984....
  
• Give My Regards To Broad Street
  Give My Regards to Broad Street
  
  Give My Regards to Broad Street is the name of a film and soundtrack album, masterminded by Paul McCartney. They were both were released in 1984, following the success of McCartney's previous albums Tug of War and Pipes of Peace ....
  
• Gremlins
  Gremlins
  
  Gremlins is an Cinema of the United States comedy horror film directed by Joe Dante and released in 1984 in film by Warner Bros. It is about a young man who receives a strange creature named Gizmo as a pet, which then spawns other creatures who transform into small, destructive, evil monsters....
  
• Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
  Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
  
  Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes is a 1984 in film British film directed by Hugh Hudson and based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel Tarzan of the Apes....
  
• The Hotel New Hampshire
  The Hotel New Hampshire (film)
  
  The Hotel New Hampshire is a 1984 in film film based on a 1981 The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving. The film was film director by Tony Richardson and stars Jodie Foster, Rob Lowe and Beau Bridges....
  
• Irreconcilable Differences
  Irreconcilable Differences (film)
  
  Irreconcilable Differences is a 1984 in film Comedy-drama starring Ryan O'Neal, Shelley Long, and Drew Barrymore. The film was a minor box office success, making over $12 million....
  
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
  Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
  
  Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is a 1984 period piece adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg. It is the second film in the Indiana Jones franchise, and prequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark ....
  
• The Jesse Owens Story
  The Jesse Owens Story
  
  The Jesse Owens Story is a biographical film about the black athlete Jesse Owens. Dorian Harewood plays the Olympic gold-winning athlete. The drama won a 1985 Primetime Emmy Award and was nominated for two more....
  
• Just the Way You Are
  Just the Way You Are (film)
  
  Just the Way You Are is a 1984 comedy film/drama film that stars Kristy McNichol and Michael Ontkean. It was directed by Edouard Molinaro. It is rated PG for brief nudity and adult language....
  
• The Karate Kid
  The Karate Kid
  
  The Karate Kid is a 1984 in film film directed by John G. Avildsen and written by Robert Mark Kamen, starring Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita and Elisabeth Shue....
  
• The Killing Fields
  The Killing Fields (film)
  
  The Killing Fields is a 1984 in film Cinema of the United Kingdom feature film about the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia.It is based on the experiences of three journalists: Dith Pran, a Cambodian, Sydney Schanberg, an American, and Jon Swain, a journalist from the UK....
  - British Academy Award for Best Film
• The Last Starfighter
  The Last Starfighter
  
  The Last Starfighter is a 1984 in film science fiction adventure film directed by Nick Castle. There was a subsequent novelization of the movie by Alan Dean Foster, as well as Star Raiders 2 based on the production....
  
• The Lonely Guy
  The Lonely Guy
  
  The Lonely Guy is a 1984 in film Steve Martin romantic comedy film, written by Neil Simon and directed by Arthur Hiller. Martin portrays Larry Hubbard, a greeting card writer who goes through a period of terrible luck with women....
  
• Love Streams
  Love Streams
  
  Love Streams is an 1984 American film by John Cassavetes that tells the story of a middle-aged brother and sister who find themselves caring for one another after the other loves in their lives abandon them....
  - Golden Bear award winner
• Making the Grade
  Making the Grade (film)
  
  Making the Grade is an United States film which was released in 1984 in film. It was directed by Dorian Walker and written by Charles Gale and Gene Quintano....
  
• Micki + Maude
  Micki + Maude
  
  Micki + Maude is a comedy film starring Dudley Moore as Rob Salinger, an overworked television reporter. It co-stars Tony-award winning actress, dancer, and singer Ann Reinking as Micki, a lawyer who eventually becomes promoted to a judge, and is Rob's first wife....
  
• Mike's Murder
  Mike's Murder
  
  Mike's Murder is the 1983 Film soundtrack album for the movie of the same name. The album features original music by Joe Jackson .Long unavailable on CD, Mike's Murder was released in 2006 on the Lilith label....
  
• Monster Dog
  Monster Dog
  
  Monster Dog, also known as Leviat?n, The Bite and Los Perros de la Muerte, is a 1984 in film horror film written and directed by Claudio Fragasso....
  
• Moscow on the Hudson
  Moscow on the Hudson
  
  Moscow on the Hudson is a 1984 in film American comedy film drama film starring Robin Williams, and directed by Paul Mazursky. Williams plays a Russian circus musician who defects from the Soviet Union while on a visit to the United States....
  
• Mrs. Soffel
  Mrs. Soffel
  
  Mrs. Soffel is a 1984 in film American film drama based on the true Buck McGovern and the Biddle Boys case of 1901 Pittsburgh, starring Diane Keaton and Mel Gibson....
  
• The Muppets Take Manhattan
  The Muppets Take Manhattan
  
  The Muppets Take Manhattan is the third of a series of live-action musical film feature films starring Jim Henson's Muppets, and the final film before Henson's death....
  
• The Natural
  The Natural (film)
  
  The Natural is a 1984 in film film adaptation of Bernard Malamud's 1952 baseball The Natural. The film was directed by Barry Levinson and stars Robert Redford....
  
• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
  Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
  
  is a 1984 in film Cinema of Japan anime film, written and film director by Hayao Miyazaki, based on his manga Nausica? of the Valley of the Wind . The movie has environmentalism undertones and was presented by the World Wide Fund for Nature when it was released in 1984....
  (March 11 - Japan
  Japan
  
  Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
  )
• The NeverEnding Story
  The NeverEnding Story (film)
  
  The NeverEnding Story is a 1984 fantasy film based on the German novel The Neverending Story by Michael Ende. The film was directed by Wolfgang Petersen and starred Barret Oliver as Bastian Balthazar Bux, Noah Hathaway as Characters of The Neverending Story#Atreyu, and Tami Stronach as The Childlike Empress....
  (Die Unendliche Geschichte)
• A Nightmare on Elm Street
  A Nightmare on Elm Street
  
  A Nightmare on Elm Street is a 1984 in film Cinema of the United States horror film directed and written by Wes Craven, and the first film in the A Nightmare on Elm Street ....
  
• Night of the Comet
  Night of the Comet
  
  Night of the Comet is a 1984 in film science fiction comedy horror zombie film directed by Thom Eberhardt and starring Catherine Mary Stewart, Robert Beltran, and Kelli Maroney....
  
• Old Enough
  Old Enough
  
  This article is about the film. For the single by Nickelback, see Old Enough .For the single by The Raconteurs, see Old Enough Old Enough is a 1984 in film teen-oriented film....
  , Sundance Grand Jury Prize
• Once Upon A Time In America
  Once Upon a Time in America
  
  Once Upon a Time in America is a 1984 in film epic film crime film directed by Sergio Leone, starring Robert De Niro and James Woods. The story chronicles the lives of Jewish ghetto youths who rise to prominence in New York City's world of organized crime....
  
• Paris, Texas
  Paris, Texas (film)
  
  Paris, Texas is a 1984 film directed by Wim Wenders. The screenplay is by L.M. Kit Carson and Sam Shepard, and the distinctive musical score was composed by Ry Cooder....
  - Palme d'Or winner
• A Passage to India
  A Passage to India (film)
  
  A Passage to India is a 1984 in film adventure film-drama film directed by David Lean, based on the A Passage to India by E. M. Forster....
  - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film
• The Philadelphia Experiment
  The Philadelphia Experiment (film)
  
  The Philadelphia Experiment is a 1984 science fiction film. It was directed by Stewart Raffill and starred Michael Par?, Bobby Di Cicco, Nancy Allen , and Eric Christmas....
  
• Places in the Heart
  Places in the Heart
  
  Places in the Heart is a 1984 in film drama film that tells the story of a Southern widow who tries to keep her farm together with the help of a blind man and an African-American man....
  
• Police Academy
  Police Academy (film)
  
  Police Academy is a 1984 in film comedy film directed by Hugh Wilson , and starring Steve Guttenberg, Kim Cattrall and G.W. Bailey. It grossed approximately $146 million worldwide and spawned six Police Academy ....
  
• The Pope of Greenwich Village
  The Pope of Greenwich Village
  
  The Pope of Greenwich Village is a 1984 in film United States film starring Mickey Rourke, Eric Roberts, Daryl Hannah, Geraldine Page, Kenneth McMillan and Burt Young....
  
• A Private Function
  A Private Function
  
  A Private Function is a 1984 in film United Kingdom comedy film starring Michael Palin and Maggie Smith. The film was predominantly filmed in Ilkley and Ben Rhydding, West Yorkshire....
  
• Purple Rain
  Purple Rain (film)
  
  Purple Rain is a 1984 in film feature film directed by Albert Magnoli and written by Magnoli and William Blinn. Prince stars in this movie, which was developed to showcase his particular talents....
  
• Reckless
  Reckless (1984 film)
  
  Reckless is a 1984 in film love story shot in the Appalachian Mountains and Rust Belt of Steubenville, Ohio, Weirton, West Virginia and Mingo Junction, Ohio....
  
• Red Dawn
  Red Dawn
  
  Red Dawn is a 1984 in film war film by John Milius about a fictional invasion of the United States by the Soviet Union, Cuba, Nicaragua and other Communist Central American armies, and the resulting guerrilla warfare of a group of American high school students in the town of Calumet, Colorado, Colorado....
  
• Repo Man
  Repo Man
  
  Repo Man is a 1984 in film cult film directed by Alex Cox. It was produced by Jonathan Wacks and Peter McCarthy, with executive producer Michael Nesmith, and stars Emilio Estevez and Harry Dean Stanton....
  
• The Return of Godzilla
  The Return of Godzilla
  
  The Return of Godzilla, released as in Japan and edited into Godzilla 1985 in America, is a 1984 in film Kaiju film. The sixteenth film in Toho's Godzilla series, it was produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka and directed by Koji Hashimoto with special effects by Teruyoshi Nakano....
   (also known as "Godzilla 1985")
• Revenge of the Nerds
  Revenge of the Nerds
  
  Revenge of the Nerds is a 1984 in film United States comedy film starring Robert Carradine and Anthony Edwards, with Curtis Armstrong, Ted McGinley, Julia Montgomery, Brian Tochi, Larry B....
  
• Rhinestone
  Rhinestone (film)
  
  Rhinestone is a 1984 in film 20th Century Fox comedy film film starring Sylvester Stallone and Dolly Parton. Other members of the cast include Richard Farnsworth, Ron Leibman, Tim Thomerson, Stephen Apostle Pec, and Penny Santon....
  
• The River
  The River (1984 film)
  
  The River is a 1984 in film film which tells the story of a struggling farm family in the Tennessee valley trying keep its farm going in the face of bank foreclosures, floods, and other hard times....
  
• Roadhouse 66
  Roadhouse 66
  
  Roadhouse 66 is a 1984 Film starring Willem Dafoe and Judge Reinhold.The film is set entirely in Kingman, Arizona and Oatman, Arizona, two towns on historic U.S....
  
• Romancing the Stone
  Romancing the Stone
  
  Romancing the Stone is a 1984 in film Cinema of the United States action film-adventure film, and has many elements that might categorize it as a romantic comedy film....
   - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
• Sheena (film)
  Sheena (film)
  
  Sheena is a 1984 in film Columbia Pictures film based on the Sheena, Queen of the Jungle of the same name. An Cross-genre of action-adventure and soap opera-style drama, Sheena, shot on location in Kenya, told the tale of a female version of Tarzan who was raised in the fictional African country of Tigora by the equally fictional Za...
  
• Sixteen Candles
  Sixteen Candles
  
  Sixteen Candles is a 1984 in film coming-of-age film starring Molly Ringwald, Michael Schoeffling and Anthony Michael Hall. The film was written and directed by John Hughes , and is often associated with the beginning of the Brat Pack ....
  
• Slapstick of Another Kind
  Slapstick of Another Kind (film)
  
  Slapstick of Another Kind was filmed in 1982. It was released in March 1984 in film by both The S. Paul Company/Serendipity Entertainment Releasing Company and International Film Marketing....
  , starring Jerry Lewis
  Jerry Lewis
  
  Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, producer, writer, director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor on stage, screen and television, his singing ability in a string of music album recordings and his charity fund-raising telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association ....
  
• A Soldier's Story
  A Soldier's Story
  
  A Soldier's Story is a 1984 in film drama film directed by Norman Jewison. It is a story about racism and segregation in a black army regiment with white officers deep in the Jim Crow laws....
  
• Splash
  Splash (film)
  
  Splash is a 1984 in film fantasy film and romantic comedy film directed by Ron Howard and written by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay#1980s....
  
• Starman
  Starman (film)
  
  John Carpenter's Starman is a 1984 in film Science fiction film-fantasy film directed by John Carpenter which tells the story of an extraterrestrial life who has come to earth in response to the invitation found on the Voyager Golden Record installed on one of the Voyager program space probes....
  
• Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
  Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
  
  Star Trek III: The Search for Spock is a 1984 in film motion picture released by Paramount Pictures. The film is the third feature based on the Star Trek science fiction franchise....
  
• Stranger Than Paradise
  Stranger Than Paradise
  
  Stranger Than Paradise is an absurdist comedy film written and directed by American film director Jim Jarmusch in 1984. It stars jazz musician John Lurie, former Sonic Youth drummer-turned-actor Richard Edson and Hungarian-born actress Eszter Balint....
  
• Streets of Fire
  Streets of Fire
  
  Streets of Fire is a 1984 in film directed by Walter Hill and co-written by Hill and Larry Gross. It was described in previews, trailers, and posters as "A Rock & Roll Fable." It is an unusual mix of musical film, action film, drama film, and comedy film with elements both of retro-1950s and 1980s....
  
• A Sunday in the Country
  A Sunday in the Country
  
  A Sunday in the Country is a 1984 French film directed by Bertrand Tavernier....
  
• Supergirl
  Supergirl (film)
  
  Supergirl is a 1984 superhero film. It stars Helen Slater in her first film role in the title role of the DC Comics superheroine Supergirl. Faye Dunaway played the primary villain, Selena....
  
• Swing Shift
  Swing Shift
  
  Swing Shift may refer to:*Swing Shift , a 1997 Jazz album by Rik Emmett*Swing Shift , a 1984 film by Jonathan Demme*Swing Shift, a stop motion short film by Mike Jittlov...
  
• The Terminator
  The Terminator
  
  The Terminator is a 1984 in film Science fiction film/action film directed and co-written by James Cameron. It features Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton and Michael Biehn....
  
• Terror in the Aisles
  Terror in the Aisles
  
  'Terror in the Aisles' is a 1984 in film horror film documentary film featuring clips from Friday the 13th 1 and/or ? 2, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Halloween I and II, Jaws 1 & 2, Alien , The Thing , The Shining , etc....
  
• Thief of Hearts
  Thief of Hearts
  
  Thief of Hearts is a 1984 film produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer. It was written and directed by Douglas Day Stewart.A burglar; Scott , robs the home of a couple....
  
• This Is Spinal Tap
  This Is Spinal Tap
  
  is a 1984 in film mockumentary rockumentary directed by Rob Reiner and starring members of the fictional heavy-metal/hard rock band Spinal Tap....
  
• Under the Volcano
  Under the Volcano (film)
  
  Under the Volcano is a 1984 film directed in Mexico by John Huston with Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews and Katy Jurado heading the cast....
  
• The Warrior and the Sorceress
  The Warrior And The Sorceress
  
  The Warrior and the Sorceress is an 81-minute motion picture directed by John Broderick and starring David Carradine, released in 1984 in film by New Horizons....
  
• Where the Boys Are '84
  Where the Boys Are '84
  
  Where the Boys Are '84 is a 1984 remake of the 1960 Teen film Where the Boys Are, starring Lisa Hartman Black, Lorna Luft, Wendy Schaal and Lynn-Holly Johnson....
  
• Where The Toys Come From
  Where The Toys Come From
  
  Where The Toys Come From is a Disney movie directed by Theodore Thomas created in 1984. It follows the journey of two toys, Zoom and Peepers , as they try to find out where they were made....
  
• Winter Flight
• The Year of the Quiet Sun (Rok spokojnego slonca) - Golden Lion winner

Births

• January 3 - Maya Ababadjani, actress
• February 12 - Alexandra Dahlstrom, actress
• November 22 - Scarlett Johansson
  Scarlett Johansson
  
  Scarlett I. Johansson is an American actor and singer. Johansson rose to fame with her role in 1998's The Horse Whisperer and subsequently gained critical acclaim for her roles in Ghost World , Lost in Translation , and Girl with a Pearl Earring , the latter two earning her Golden Globe Award nominations in 2003....
  , actress
• November 23 - Joseph Hooker
  Joseph Hooker
  
  Joseph Hooker was a career United States Army officer, fought in the Mexican-American War, and was a Major general in the Union Army during the American Civil War....
  , actor
• November 28 - Mary Elizabeth Winstead
  Mary Elizabeth Winstead
  
  Mary Elizabeth Winstead is an American actress. She has been called a scream queen, ? la Jamie Lee Curtis, because of her roles in the horror films Final Destination 3, Black Christmas and Death Proof, but she has also branched out into other genres, including comedy film , drama film and action film ....
  , actress

Deaths

• January 20 - Johnny Weissmuller
  Johnny Weissmuller
  
  Johnny Weissmuller was an United States swimming and actor who was one of the world's best swimmers in the 1920s, winning five Olympic Games gold medals and one bronze medal....
  , actor
• January 29 - Frances Goodrich
  Frances Goodrich
  
  Frances Goodrich was an American dramatist, screenwriter, and actor most noted for her collaborations with her partner and husband Albert Hackett....
  , screenwriter
• February 15 - Ethel Merman
  Ethel Merman
  
  Ethel Merman was an United States actress and singer known for musical theatre, well known for her powerful voice, and often hailed by critics as "The Grande Dame of the Broadway stage"....
  , singer, actress
• March 1 - Jackie Coogan
  Jackie Coogan
  
  John Leslie Coogan was an United States actor who began his movie career as a child actor in silent film....
  , actor
• March 24 - Sam Jaffe
  Sam Jaffe (actor)
  
  Sam Jaffe was an United States actor, teacher and engineer. In 1951, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Asphalt Jungle and appeared in other classic films such as Ben-Hur and The Day the Earth Stood Still ....
  , actor
• May 16 - Andy Kaufman
  Andy Kaufman
  
  Andrew Geoffrey Kaufman was an United States entertainer, actor and performance artist. While often referred to as a comedian, Kaufman did not consider himself one....
  , comedian
• May 21 - Andrea Leeds
  Andrea Leeds
  
  Andrea Leeds was an Academy Awards-nominated United States film actor.Born Antoinette Lees in Butte, Montana, she began her film career in 1934 playing bit parts and using her given name....
  , actress
• May 21 - Ann Little
  Ann Little
  
  Ann Little was an United States film actress whose career was most prolific during the silent film era of the early 1910s through the early 1920s....
  , actress
• June 18 - Luis Moglia Barth
  Luis Moglia Barth
  
  Luis Moglia Barth was an Argentina film director and screenwriter, and one of the influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era....
  , director
• July 27 - James Mason
  James Mason
  
  James Neville Mason was a three-time Academy Award-nominated British People actor who attained stardom in both United Kingdom and United States films....
  , British actor
• August 4 - Mary Miles Minter
  Mary Miles Minter
  
  Mary Miles Minter was a popular United States silent film actor....
  , actress
• August 5 - Richard Burton
  Richard Burton
  
  Richard Burton, Order of the British Empire was a multi award-winning Wales actor. He was at one time the highest-paid actor in Hollywood....
  , actor
• September 17 - Richard Basehart
  Richard Basehart
  
  John Richard Basehart was an United States actor. He starred in the 1960s television science fiction drama Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea , in the role of Admiral Harriman Nelson....
  , actor
• September 25 - Walter Pidgeon
  Walter Pidgeon
  
  Walter Davis Pidgeon was an American actor of Canada birth, who lived most of his life in the United States, and eventually became a U.S. citizen....
  , actor
• October 21 - François Truffaut
  François Truffaut
  
  Fran?ois Roland Truffaut was an influential filmmaker and one of the founders of the French New Wave; and remains an icon of the Cinema of France industry....
  , French film director
• October 23 - Oskar Werner
  Oskar Werner
  
  Oskar Werner was an Austrian actor. Born Oskar Josef Bschlie?mayer in Vienna, he started off his career as a stage actor for the famous Burgtheater until making his film debut in Der Engel mit der Posaune in 1948....
  , actor
• October 25 - Pascale Ogier
  Pascale Ogier
  
  Pascale Ogier was a France actor.Born Pascale Marguerite Nicolas in Paris, she was the daughter of a musician father and French actress Bulle Ogier....
  , French actress
• December 24 - Peter Lawford
  Peter Lawford
  
  Peter Sydney Lawford was an English-born actor, member of the "Rat Pack," and brother-in-law to President John F. Kennedy, perhaps more noted in later years for his off-screen activities as a celebrity than for his acting....
  , actor
• December 28 - Sam Peckinpah
  Sam Peckinpah
  
  David Samuel "Sam" Peckinpah was an United States film director who achieved iconic status following the release of his 1969 Western epic The Wild Bunch....
  , director