42nd Golden Globe Awards

42nd Golden Globe Awards
Date	January 27, 1985
Site	Beverly Hilton Hotel Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California
Hosted by	Michael York Raquel Welch
Highlights
Best Film: Drama	Amadeus
Best Film: Musical or Comedy	Romancing the Stone
Best Drama Series	Murder, She Wrote
Best Musical or Comedy Series	The Cosby Show
Most awards	(4) Amadeus
Most nominations	(6) The Killing Fields
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The 42nd Golden Globe Awards , honoring the best in film and television for 1984, were held on January 27, 1985.

Winners and nominees

F. Murray Abraham — Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama winner

Sally Field — Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama winner

Dudley Moore — Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical winner

Kathleen Turner — Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical winner

Peggy Ashcroft — Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture, winner

Tom Selleck — Best Actor in a Television Series, Drama winner

Angela Lansbury — Best Actress in a Television Series, Drama winner

Bill Cosby — Best Actor in a Television Series, Comedy or Musical winner

Shelley Long — Best Actress in a Television Series, Comedy or Musical winner

Ted Danson — Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film, winner

Ann-Margret — Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film, winner

Faye Dunaway — Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television, winner

Film

Best Motion Picture
Drama	Comedy or Musical
Amadeus The Cotton Club The Killing Fields Places in the Heart A Soldier's Story	Romancing the Stone Beverly Hills Cop Ghostbusters Micki & Maude Splash
Best Performance in a Motion Picture – Drama
Actor	Actress
F. Murray Abraham – Amadeus as Antonio Salieri Jeff Bridges – Starman as Starman/Scott Hayden Albert Finney – Under the Volcano as Geoffrey Firmin Tom Hulce – Amadeus as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Sam Waterston – The Killing Fields as Sydney Schanberg	Sally Field – Places in the Heart as Edna Spalding Diane Keaton – Mrs. Soffel as Kate Soffel Jessica Lange – Country as Jewell Ivy Vanessa Redgrave – The Bostonians as Olive Chancellor Sissy Spacek – The River as Mae Garvey
Best Performance in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
Actor	Actress
Dudley Moore – Micki & Maude as Rob Salinger Steve Martin – All of Me as Roger Cobb Eddie Murphy – Beverly Hills Cop as Axel Foley Bill Murray – Ghostbusters as Peter Venkman Robin Williams – Moscow on the Hudson as Vladimir Ivanov	Kathleen Turner – Romancing the Stone as Joan Wilder Anne Bancroft – Garbo Talks as Estelle Rolfe Mia Farrow – Broadway Danny Rose as Tina Vitale Shelley Long – Irreconcilable Differences as Lucy Van Patten Brodsky Lily Tomlin – All of Me as Edwina Cutwater
Best Supporting Performance in a Motion Picture – Drama, Comedy or Musical
Supporting Actor	Supporting Actress
Haing S. Ngor – The Killing Fields as Dith Pran Adolph Caesar – A Soldier's Story as Sgt. Waters Richard Crenna – The Flamingo Kid as Phil Brody Jeffrey Jones – Amadeus as Emperor Joseph II Pat Morita – The Karate Kid as Mr. Miyagi	Peggy Ashcroft – A Passage to India as Mrs. Moore Drew Barrymore – Irreconcilable Differences as Casey Brodsky Kim Basinger – The Natural as Memo Paris Jacqueline Bisset – Under the Volcano as Yvonne Firmin Melanie Griffith – Body Double as Holly Body Christine Lahti – Swing Shift as Hazel Zanussi Lesley Ann Warren – Songwriter as Gilda
Other
Best Director	Best Screenplay
Miloš Forman – Amadeus Francis Ford Coppola – The Cotton Club Roland Joffé – The Killing Fields David Lean – A Passage to India Sergio Leone – Once Upon a Time in America	Amadeus – Peter Shaffer The Killing Fields – Bruce Robinson A Passage to India – David Lean Places in the Heart – Robert Benton A Soldier's Story – Charles Fuller
Best Original Score	Best Original Song
A Passage to India – Maurice Jarre The Killing Fields – Mike Oldfield Once Upon a Time in America – Ennio Morricone The River – John Williams Starman – Jack Nitzsche	"I Just Called to Say I Love You" (Stevie Wonder) – The Woman in Red "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" (Phil Collins) – Against All Odds "Footloose" (Kenny Loggins, Dean Pitchford) – Footloose "Ghostbusters" (Ray Parker Jr.) – Ghostbusters "No More Lonely Nights" (Paul McCartney) – Give My Regards to Broad Street "When Doves Cry" (Prince) – Purple Rain
Best Foreign Film
A Passage to India (UK) Carmen (France) Dangerous Moves (Switzerland) Paris, Texas (West Germany/France) A Sunday in the Country (France)

The following films received multiple nominations:

Nominations	Title
6	The Killing Fields
5	Amadeus
	A Passage to India
3	Ghostbusters
	Places in the Heart
	A Soldier's Story
2	All of Me
	Beverly Hills Cop
	The Cotton Club
	Irreconcilable Differences
	Micki & Maude
	The River
	Romancing the Stone
	Starman
	Under the Volcano

The following films received multiple wins:

Wins	Title
4	Amadeus
3	A Passage to India
2	Romancing the Stone

Television

Best Television Series
Drama	Musical or Comedy
Murder, She Wrote Cagney & Lacey Dynasty Hill Street Blues St. Elsewhere	The Cosby Show Cheers Fame The Jeffersons Kate & Allie
Best Performance in a Television Series – Drama
Actor	Actress
Tom Selleck - Magnum, P.I. as Thomas Sullivan Magnum III James Brolin - Hotel as Peter McDermott John Forsythe - Dynasty as Blake Carrington Larry Hagman - Dallas as J.R. Ewing Stacy Keach - Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer as Mike Hammer Daniel J. Travanti - Hill Street Blues as Captain Francis "Frank" Furillo	Angela Lansbury - Murder, She Wrote as Jessica Fletcher Joan Collins - Dynasty as Alexis Colby Tyne Daly - Cagney & Lacey as Det. Marry Beth Lacey Linda Evans - Dynasty as Krystle Carrington Sharon Gless - Cagney & Lacey as Det. Sgt. Christine Cagney Kate Jackson - Scarecrow and Mrs. King as Amanda King
Best Performance in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy
Actor	Actress
Bill Cosby - The Cosby Show as Dr. Heathcliff "Cliff" Huxtable Ted Danson - Cheers as Sam Malone Robert Guillaume - Benson as Benson DuBois Sherman Hemsley - The Jeffersons as George Jefferson Bob Newhart - Newhart as Dick Loudon	Shelley Long - Cheers as Diane Chambers Debbie Allen - Fame as Lydia Grant Nell Carter - Gimme a Break! as Nellie "Nell" Ruth Harper Susan Clark - Webster as Katherine Calder-Young Papadopolis Jane Curtin - Kate & Allie as Allie Lowell Isabel Sanford - The Jeffersons as Louise Jefferson
Best Performance in a Miniseries or Television Film
Actor	Actress
Ted Danson - Something About Amelia as Steven Bennett James Garner - Heartsounds as Harold Lear Sam Neill - Reilly: Ace of Spies as Sidney Reilly Jason Robards - Sakharov as Andrei Sakharov Treat Williams - A Streetcar Named Desire as Stanley Kowalski	Ann-Margret - A Streetcar Named Desire as Blanche DuBois Glenn Close - Something About Amelia as Gail Bennett Farrah Fawcett - The Burning Bed as Francine Hughes Jane Fonda - The Dollmaker as Gertie Glenda Jackson - Sakharov as Yelena Bonner
Best Supporting Performance in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film
Supporting Actor	Supporting Actress
Paul Le Mat - The Burning Bed as James Berlin "Mickey" Hughes Pierce Brosnan - Nancy Astor as Robert Gould Shaw John Hillerman - Magnum, P.I. as Johnathan Quayle Higgins III Ben Vereen - Ellis Island as Roscoe Haines Bruce Weitz - Hill Street Blues as Det. Mick Belker	Faye Dunaway - Ellis Island as Maud Chareris Selma Diamond - Night Court as Selma Hacker Marla Gibbs - The Jeffersons as Florence Johnston Gina Lollobrigida - Falcon Crest as Francesca Gioberti Rhea Perlman - Cheers as Carla Tortelli Roxana Zal - Something About Amelia as Amelia Bennett
Best Miniseries or Television Film
Something About Amelia The Burning Bed The Dollmaker Sakharov A Streetcar Named Desire

The following programs received multiple nominations:

Nominations	Title
4	Cheers
	The Jeffersons
	Something About Amelia
3	The Burning Bed
	Cagney & Lacey
	Dynasty
	Hill Street Blues
	Sakharov
	A Streetcar Named Desire
2	The Cosby Show
	The Dollmaker
	Fame
	Kate & Allie
	Magnum P.I.
	Murder, She Wrote

The following programs received multiple wins:

Wins	Title
2	The Cosby Show
	Murder, She Wrote
	Something About Amelia

Ceremony

Presenters

• Christopher Atkins
• Karen Black
• Bruce Boxleitner
• Sonia Braga
• Eileen Brennan
• Diahann Carroll
• Lynda Carter
• Nell Carter
• Joanna Cassidy
• Mary Crosby
• Jamie Lee Curtis
• Angie Dickinson
• Faye Dunaway
• Morgan Fairchild
• Peter Falk
• Peter Fonda
• Glenn Ford
• Elliott Gould
• Stewart Granger
• Engelbert Humperdinck
• Ann Jillian
• Howard Keel
• Kris Kristofferson
• Diane Lane
• Cloris Leachman
• Rich Little
• Tony Lo Bianco
• Rob Lowe
• Marilyn McCoo
• Donna Mills
• Liza Minnelli
• Michael Pare
• Nia Peeples
• George Peppard
• Alfonso Ribeiro
• Ricky Schroder
• William Shatner
• Brooke Shields
• Andrew Stevens
• Cicely Tyson

Cecil B. DeMille Award

Elizabeth Taylor

See also

• 57th Academy Awards
• 5th Golden Raspberry Awards
• 36th Primetime Emmy Awards
• 37th Primetime Emmy Awards
• 38th British Academy Film Awards
• 39th Tony Awards
• 1984 in film
• 1984 in American television

References

• IMDb - 1985 Golden Globe Awards