// Events February 11 - The Rolling Stones concert film Lets Spend the Night Together opens in New York Top grossing films North America Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi Tootsie Trading Places, starring Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy WarGames, starring Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy Superman III Flashdance... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... See also: 1984 in film, other events of 1985, 1986 in film, list of years in film. Events Top grossing films Back to the Future, starring Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd and Lea Thompson Rambo: First Blood Part II, starring Sylvester Stallone Rocky IV, starring Sylvester Stallone The Color Purple... The 1980s produced many classic films and movies both in Hollywood and other worldwide cinemas. ... This page indexes the individual year in film pages. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed. ...

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

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Top grossing films

North America

1. Ghost Busters, starring Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray
2. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, starring Harrison Ford
3. Gremlins
4. Beverly Hills Cop, starring Eddie Murphy
5. Terms of Endearment (includes some 1983 revenues)
6. The Karate Kid
7. Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
8. Police Academy
9. Romancing the Stone, starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner
10. Sudden Impact (includes some 1983 revenues)
11. Footloose
12. Splash
13. Purple Rain, starring Prince
14. Amadeus
15. The Terminator

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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

Amadeus is the title of both a stage play and a film written in 1979 by Peter Shaffer, both loosely based on the lives of the composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri. ... Wax figure of Miloš Forman at Prague wax museum Jan Tomáš Forman (born February 18, 1932), better known as Miloš Forman, is a film director, actor and script writer. ... Amadeus is the title of both a stage play and a film written in 1979 by Peter Shaffer, both loosely based on the lives of the composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri. ... F. Murray Abraham Fahrid Murray Abraham (born October 24, 1939 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American actor. ... Amadeus is the title of both a stage play and a film written in 1979 by Peter Shaffer, both loosely based on the lives of the composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri. ... Sally Field Sally Margaret Field (born November 6, 1946) is an American movie and television actress. ... Places in the Heart is a 1984 film which 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. ... Dr. Haing S. Ngor (Traditional Chinese: 吳漢) (March 22, 1940 – February 25, 1996) was a Cambodian American physician and actor who is best known for winning a 1985 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the movie The Killing Fields, in which he portrayed journalist and refugee Dith... A commemmorative stupa filled with the skulls of the victims. ... Dame Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft, DBE (22 December 1907–14 June 1991) was an English actress. ... A Passage to India (1924) is a novel by E. M. Forster about the tensions between natives of India and British colonials when a white woman, Adela Quested, accuses a native man, Dr. Aziz, of attempted rape. ...

Births

• January 3 - Maya Ababadjani, actress
• February 12 - Alexandra Dahlstrom, actress

January 3 is the 3rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Maya Ababadjani (born on January 3, 1984) is a Arab-Danish actress. ... February 12 is the 43rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Alexandra Dahlström (born February 12, Swedish 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

January 20 is the 20th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan in Tarzan and His Mate Johnny Weissmuller (June 2, 1904 – January 20, 1984) was a Danube Swabian swimmer and actor born in Austro-Hungary (in a town now in the Romanian Banat), who came with his parents to the United States. ... January 29 is the 29th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Albert Hackett (February 16, 1900 – March 16, 1995) was an American dramatist and screenwriter. ... February 15 is the 46th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Ethel Merman (January 16, 1908 – February 15, 1984) was a star of stage and film musicals, well known for her powerful voice and vocal range. ... March 1 is the 60th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (61st in leap years). ... Jackie Coogan (October 26, 1914 - March 1, 1984) was a American actor who began his movie career as a child actor in silent films. ... March 24 is the 83rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (84th in Leap years). ... Sam Jaffe was born March 8, 1891 in New York City. ... May 16 is the 136th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (137th in leap years). ... Andy Kaufman Andrew Geoffrey Kaufman (January 17, 1949 – May 16, 1984) was a New York-born American entertainer. ... May 21 is the 141st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (142nd in leap years). ... Andrea Leeds (August 14, 1914 – May 21, 1984) was an American film actress. ... July 27 is the 208th day (209th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 157 days remaining. ... James Mason in North by Northwest. ... August 4 is the 216th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (217th in leap years), with 149 days remaining. ... Mary Miles Minter (April 1, 1902 - August 4, 1984) was a U.S. film actor in silent films. ... August 5 is the 217th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (218th in leap years), with 148 days remaining. ... Richard Burton CBE (November 10, 1925 – August 5, 1984) was a Welsh actor from the late 1940s through the 1980s. ... September 17 is the 260th day of the year (261st in leap years). ... Richard Basehart Richard Basehart (August 31, 1914 - September 17, 1984) was an American actor. ... September 25 is the 268th day of the year (269th in leap years). ... Walter Pidgeon (September 23, 1897 – September 25, 1984) was a Canadian actor. ... October 21 is the 294th day of the year (295th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 71 days remaining. ... François Truffaut François Roland Truffaut (born in Paris, on February 6, 1932; died in Neuilly-sur-Seine on October 21, 1984) was one of the founders of the French New Wave in filmmaking, and remains an icon of the French film industry. ... October 23 is the 296th day of the year (297th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 69 days remaining. ... October 25 is the 298th day of the year (299th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 67 days remaining. ... Pascale Ogier (born 26 October 1960 - died 25 October 1984) was a French actress. ... December 24 is the 358th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (359th in leap years). ... The Rat Pack. ... December 28 is the 362nd day of the year (363rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 3 days remaining. ... Sam Peckinpah David Samuel Peckinpah (February 21, 1925 - December 28, 1984) was an American film director, known as Sam Peckinpah, famous for his films with extremely bloody climaxes. ...

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
• 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, British Academy Award for Film
• Love Streams, Golden Bear winner
• Micki and Maude
• Moscow on the Hudson
• The Muppets Take Manhattan
• The Natural
• Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind (March 11 - Japan)
• Neverending Story
• 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
• Places in the Heart
• The Pope of Greenwich Village
• The Return of Godzilla
• 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 winner