1984 in film
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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
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
- 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
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
- The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
- All of Me
- Amadeus
- Bachelor Party
- Body Double
- Bolero
- The Bostonians
- Cannonball Run II
- Choose Me
- City Heat
- The Coolangatta Gold
- The Company of Wolves
- Country
- Dangerous Moves, ("la diagonale du fou") Academy Award for Foreign Language Film
- Dune
- The Fourth Man
- Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
- Irreconcilable Differences
- The Killing Fields (film), British Academy Award for Film
- The Lonely Guy
- Love Streams, Golden Bear (award) winner
- Micki + Maude
- Moscow on the Hudson
- The Muppets Take Manhattan
- The Natural
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (March 11 - Japan)
- Die Unendliche Geschichte (film)
- 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 (film)
- Places in the Heart
- The Pope of Greenwich Village
- Repo Man
- The Return of Godzilla
- Revenge of the Nerds
- The River
- Sixteen Candles
- A Soldier's Story
- Stranger Than Paradise
- A Sunday in the Country
- Supergirl
- This Is Spinal Tap
- A Year of the Quiet Sun, Golden Lion winner
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