1984 in film

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

Top Grossing Films of the Year

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

Academy Award Winners

• Best Film - Amadeus
• Best Director - Milos 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

Deaths

• January 20 - Johnny Weissmuller, actor
• February 15 - Ethel Merman, singer, actress
• March 1 - Jackie Coogan, actor
• March 24 - Sam Jaffe, actor
• May 16 - Andy Kaufman, comedian
• 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
• December 24 - Peter Lawford, actor
• December 28 - Sam Peckinpah, director

Other Movies Released

• 1984
• 2010 The Year We Make Contact
• Amadeus
• Cannonball Run II
• Ewok Adventures
• The Killing Fields, British Academy Award for Film
• The Muppets Take Manhattan
• Once Upon a Time in America
• Places in the Heart
• Revenge of the Nerds
• This is Spinal Tap
• The Terminator
• Dune
• A Passage To India
• All of Me
• City Heat
• Choose Me
• Bolero
• Old Enough, Sundance Grand Jury Prize
• Love Streams, Golden Bear winner
• A Year of the Quiet Sun, Golden Lion winner
• Paris, Texas, Palme d'Or winner
• Dangerous Moves, Academy Award for Foreign Language Film
• The Fourth Man
• Stranger Than Paradise
• The Bostonians
• Body Double
• A Sunday in the Country
• The River
• Micki and Maude
• Country
• The Natural
• The Pope of Greenwich Village
• A Soldier's Story