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Events

Top grossing films

Awards

Films released in 1984

Births

Deaths

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
# ''
# ''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:'
: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

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''

★ ''

★ ''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''

★ ''

★ ''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''

★ ''

★ ''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