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The following is an overview of events in 1984 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths.

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The year's highest-grossing film in the United States and Canada was Beverly Hills Cop . Ghostbusters overtook it, however, with a re-release the following year. It was the first time in five years that the top-grossing film did not involve George Lucas or Steven Spielberg although Spielberg directed and Lucas executive produced/co-wrote the third placed Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (the highest-grossing film worldwide that year); Spielberg also executive produced the fourth placed Gremlins . [1]

U.S. box office grosses reached $4 billion for the first time and it was the first year that two films had returned over $100 million to their distributors with both Ghostbusters and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom achieving this. [1] Beverly Hills Cop made it three for films released in 1984 after its performance during 1985 took it to rentals of $108 million. [2] Other popular films included The NeverEnding Story , which was the most expensive film produced in West Germany, The Karate Kid and Romancing the Stone . A high number of sci-fi/fantasy films were released in 1984.

Highest-grossing films

United States

The top ten 1984 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1984 [3]
RankTitleDistributorBox-office gross
1 Ghostbusters Columbia $229,242,989
2 Beverly Hills Cop Paramount $224,760,478
3 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Paramount $179,870,271
4 Gremlins Warner Bros. $153,083,102
5 The Karate Kid Columbia $90,815,558 [4] [5] [6]
6 Police Academy Warner Bros. $81,198,894
7 Footloose Paramount $80,035,402
8 Romancing the Stone 20th Century Fox $76,572,238
9 Star Trek III: The Search for Spock Paramount $76,471,076
10 Splash Buena Vista $69,821,334

International

International marketTitleDirectorProduction countryRevenueAdmissionsSource(s)
Brazil Gremlins Joe Dante United States $1,505,985— [7]
France Marche à l'ombre Michel Blanc France —6,168,425 [8]
Hong Kong Aces Go Places 3 Tsui Hark Hong Kong HK$29,286,077— [9]
India Tohfa K. Raghavendra Rao India ₹90,000,000— [10]
Italy Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Steven Spielberg United States —838,309 [11]
Japan Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Steven Spielberg United States ¥3,200,000,000— [12]
South Korea Project A Jackie Chan Hong Kong ₩1,189,308,000396,436 [13] [14] [15]
Soviet Union Disco Dancer Babbar Subhash India $75,900,00060,900,000 [n 3] [19]
Spain Gremlins Joe Dante United States $4,255,6423,202,047 [20] [7]
United States and Canada Beverly Hills Cop Martin Brest United States $234,760,47867,150,000 [21]
West Germany Police Academy Hugh Wilson United States —5,187,443 [22]

Events

Awards

Category/Organization 42nd Golden Globe Awards
January 27, 1985		 38th BAFTA Awards
March 5, 1985		 57th Academy Awards
March 25, 1985
DramaComedy or Musical
Best Film Amadeus Romancing the Stone The Killing Fields Amadeus
Best Director Miloš Forman
Amadeus 		Wim Wenders
Paris, Texas 		Miloš Forman
Amadeus
Best Actor F. Murray Abraham
Amadeus 		Dudley Moore
Micki & Maude 		Haing S. Ngor
The Killing Fields 		F. Murray Abraham
Amadeus
Best Actress Sally Field
Places in the Heart 		Kathleen Turner
Romancing the Stone 		Maggie Smith
A Private Function 		Sally Field
Places in the Heart
Best Supporting Actor Haing S. Ngor
The Killing Fields 		Denholm Elliott
A Private Function 		Haing S. Ngor
The Killing Fields
Best Supporting Actress Peggy Ashcroft
A Passage to India 		Liz Smith
A Private Function 		Peggy Ashcroft
A Passage to India
Best Screenplay, Adapted Amadeus
Peter Shaffer 		The Killing Fields
Bruce Robinson 		Amadeus
Peter Shaffer
Best Screenplay, Original Broadway Danny Rose
Woody Allen 		Places in the Heart
Robert Benton
Best Original Score Maurice Jarre
A Passage to India 		Ennio Morricone
Once Upon a Time in America 		Maurice Jarre
A Passage to India
Prince
Purple Rain
Best Original Song"I Just Called to Say I Love You"
The Woman in Red 		"Ghostbusters"
Ghostbusters 		"I Just Called to Say I Love You"
The Woman in Red
Best Foreign Language Film A Passage to India
United Kingdom		 Carmen
France		 Dangerous Moves
Switzerland

Golden Raspberry Awards:

Worst Picture: Bolero
Worst Director: John Derek - Bolero
Worst Actor: Sylvester Stallone - Rhinestone
Worst Actress: Bo Derek - Bolero
Worst Supporting Actor: Brooke Shields (with a moustache) - Sahara
Worst Supporting Actress: Lynn-Holly Johnson - Where the Boys Are '84
Worst Screenplay: John Derek - Bolero

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Paris, Texas , directed by Wim Wenders, France / West Germany

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

A Year of the Quiet Sun (Rok spokojnego slonca), directed by Krzysztof Zanussi, Poland

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Love Streams , directed by John Cassavetes, United States

1984 films

By country/region

By genre/medium

Births

Deaths

MonthDateNameAgeCountryProfessionNotable films
January6 Ernest Laszlo 85HungaryCinematographer
11 Jack La Rue 70USActor
20 Johnny Weissmuller 79USActor
29 Frances Goodrich 93USScreenwriter
February11 Arlette Marchal 82FranceActress
15 Ethel Merman 76USSinger, Actress
17 Lucille Benson 69USActress
29 Kenneth Strickfaden 87USSet Designer
March1 Jackie Coogan 69USActor
1 Ronald Culver 83UKActor
4 William E. Snyder 82USCinematographer
5 William Powell 91USActor
6 Henry Wilcoxon 78DominicaActor
10 I. S. Johar 64IndiaActor
18 Paul Francis Webster 76USLyricist
20 Richard L. Van Enger 69USFilm Editor
21 Sam Leavitt 80USCinematographer
24 Sam Jaffe 93USActor
27 Jack Donohue 75USDirector, Choreographer
27 Derek Francis 60UKActor
28 Carmen Dragon 69USComposer
April1 George Glass 73USProducer
2 William C. Thomas 80USProducer, Director
7 Samuel G. Engel 79USProducer, Screenwriter
10 Ray Middleton 77USActor
13 Richard Hurndall 73UKActor
14 Thorold Dickinson 80UKDirector, Film Editor
15 Glen MacWilliams 85USCinematographer
16 Byron Haskin 84USDirector
18 Francis de Wolff 71UKActor
18 John Lee Mahin 81USScreenwriter
25 Richard Benedict 64ItalyActor
26 May McAvoy 84USActress
May4 Diana Dors 52UKActress
10 Robert Moore 57USDirector
12 Ben Roberts 68USScreenwriter
13 Antonio Castillo 75SpainCostume Designer
16 Andy Kaufman 35USActor
16 Irwin Shaw 71USScreenwriter
20 Peter Bull 72UKActor
21 Andrea Leeds 72USActress
21 Ann Little 93USActress
22 John Marley 76USActor
28 D'Urville Martin 45USActor, Director
June1 Ruthelma Stevens 80USActress
15 Ned Glass 78PolandActor
17 Leslie I. Carey 88USSound Engineer
17 Nobuo Nakagawa 79JapanDirector, Screenwriter
18 Luis Moglia Barth 81ArgentinaDirector, Screenwriter
19 Sunny Johnson 30USActress
20 Estelle Winwood 101UKActress
22 Joseph Losey 75USDirector
24 William Keighley 94USDirector
26 Carl Foreman 69USScreenwriter, Producer
30 Lillian Hellman 79USScreenwriter
July2 Lenore Coffee 87USScreenwriter
7 Flora Robson 82UKActress
11 Hugh Morton 81UKActor
14 Ernest Tidyman 56USScreenwriter
23 Lloyd Gough 76USActor
23 Anthony Sharp 69UKActor
24 Vincent Beck 59USActor
25 Akihiko Hirata 56JapanActor
26Roger H. Lewis66USProducer
27 James Mason 75UKActor
29 Woodrow Parfrey 61USActor
August2 Quirino Cristiani 88ArgentinaDirector
4 Walter Burke 75USActor
4 Mary Miles Minter 82USActress
5 Richard Burton 58UKActor
5 Roland Kibbee 70USScreenwriter
8 Richard Deacon 63USActor
14 J. B. Priestley 89UKScreenwriter
19 George Meeker 80USActor
25 Truman Capote 59USScreenwriter, Actor
25 Henry Lynn 89USDirector, Screenwriter
29 Pina Menichelli 94ItalyActress
30 Emil Newman 73USComposer
September3 Arthur Schwartz 83USComposer, Producer
6 E. J. André 76USActor
11 William Sands 61USFilm Editor
14 Janet Gaynor 77USActress
17 Richard Basehart 70USActor
19 June Preisser 64USActress
24 Neil Hamilton 85USActor
25 Walter Pidgeon 87CanadaActor
October9Joan Young84UKActress
10 Leonard Rossiter 57UKActor
11 H. Bruce Humberstone 82USDirector
16 Peggy Ann Garner 52USActress
21 François Truffaut 52FranceDirector, Screenwriter, Actor
23 Oskar Werner 61AustriaActor
24 Walter Woolf King 84USActor
24 Edith Massey 66USActress
25 Pascale Ogier 25FranceActress
30 June Duprez 66UKActress
31 Eduardo De Filippo 84ItalyActor, Screenwriter, Director
November1 Norman Krasna 74USScreenwriter, Director
3Milo Anderson75USCostume Designer
7 George Mathews 73USActor
13 Dorothy Arnold 66USActress
20 Peter Welch 62UKActor
December2 Harry Sukman 72USComposer
7 Jeanne Cagney 65USActress
8 Luther Adler 81USActor
11 Robert E. Kent 73USScreenwriter
11 George Waggner 81USDirector
13 Margaret Livingston 89USActress
19 Edward Carrere 78MexicoArt Director
24 Ian Hendry 53UKActor
24 Peter Lawford 61UKActor
24 Harry Waxman 72UKCinematographer
28 Sam Peckinpah 59USDirector, Screenwriter
29 Leo Robin 84USSongwriter

Film debuts

Notes

  1. ↑ Disco Dancer: 60 million Soviet rubles in 1984, [16] 0.791 rubles per US dollar in 1984 [17]
  2. ↑ 12.43 Indian rupees per US dollar in 1984 [18]
  3. ↑ Disco Dancer in Soviet Union: US$75.9 million [n 1] (₹94.34 crore) [n 2] in 1984

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References

  1. 1 2 "'Ghostbusters' Tops Comedies". Variety . January 16, 1985. p. 16.
  2. ↑ "Nobody Climbed $100-Mil Mountain". Variety . January 1986.
  3. ↑ "1984 Domestic Grosses". Box Office Mojo . Retrieved 7 April 2014.
  4. ↑ Thomas, Bob (November 6, 1985). "The Karate Kid Returns". AP News . Associated Press . Retrieved 8 June 2020. It is the film location for Columbia Pictures' "Karate Kid II," a sequel to Hollywood's biggest sleeper of 1984. "The Karate Kid" surprised almost everyone by amassing a domestic gross of $100 million. That's phenomenal for a modest film with no stars and a title that sounded like a combination of Bruce Lee and a kidflick.
  5. ↑ Siskel, Gene (15 June 1986). "Ralph Macchio's Baby Face Can't Mask Maturing Talent". Chicago Tribune . Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  6. ↑ Hurlburt, Roger (20 June 1986). "'Karate Kid II' Kayos Legacy Of Predecessor". Sun-Sentinel . Archived from the original on 2020-09-21. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  7. 1 2 "'Gremlins' Hits In Int'l Marts". Daily Variety . February 15, 1985. p. 43. highest-grossing film ever by WB in Iberia, taking in $4,255,642
    $1,505,985 in five weeks of release, making it the highest-grossing film [in Brazil] in 1984
  8. ↑ "Bilan Annuel France - 1984". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  9. ↑ "Hong Kong Film Archive". Hong Kong Film Archive . Archived from the original on 24 July 2020. Retrieved 26 April 2019.
  10. ↑ "Box Office 1984". Box Office India . Archived from the original on 15 January 2013. Retrieved 15 January 2013.
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  12. ↑ "1984年（1月～12月）". Eiren. Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  13. ↑ "【ジャッキーチェン興行成績】 第10回：韓国での興行収入". KungFu Tube (in Japanese). 5 September 2010. Retrieved 7 December 2018.
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  15. ↑ Park, Seung Hyun (2000). A Cultural Interpretation of Korean Cinema, 1988-1997. Indiana University. p. 119. Average Ticket Prices in Korea, 1974-1997 [...] * Source: Korea Cinema Yearbook (1997-1998) * Currency: won [...] Foreign [...] 1984 [...] 3,000
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  19. ↑ Indian Films in Soviet Cinemas: The Culture of Movie-going After Stalin, page 211, Indiana University Press, 2005
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  23. ↑ "Tootsie". Box Office Mojo . Retrieved May 30, 2018.
  24. ↑ "Ghostbusters". Box Office Mojo . Retrieved May 30, 2018.
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