1984 in film
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Events
- 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
- Ghost Busters, 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
- 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
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
- All of Me
- Amadeus
- Bachelor Party
- Body Double
- Bolero
- The Bostonians
- Cannonball Run II
- Choose Me
- City Heat
- Country
- Dangerous Moves, Academy Award for Foreign Language Film
- Dot + The Bunny (a)
- Dot + Keeto (a)
- Dot + The Whale
- Dune
- Ewok Adventures
- The Fourth Man
- Friday The 13th(4): The Final Chapter
- Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
- The Killing Fields, British Academy Award for Film
- Love Streams, Golden Bear winner
- Micki and Maude
- The Muppets Take Manhattan
- The Natural
- Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind (March 11 - Japan)
- Old Enough, Sundance Grand Jury Prize
- Once Upon a Time in America
- Paris, Texas, Palme d'Or winner
- A Passage To India
- Places in the Heart
- The Pope of Greenwich Village
- Revenge of the Nerds
- The River
- The Terminator
- This is Spinal Tap
- A Soldier's Story
- Stranger Than Paradise
- A Sunday in the Country
- A Year of the Quiet Sun, Golden Lion winnerde:Filmjahr 1984