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Top grossing films (U.S.)
| Rank |
Title |
Studio |
Gross |
| 1. |
Beverly Hills Cop |
Paramount |
$234,760,478 |
| 2. |
Ghostbusters |
Columbia |
$229,242,989 |
| 3. |
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom |
Paramount |
$179,870,271 |
| 4. |
Gremlins |
Warner Brothers |
$148,168,459 |
| 5. |
The Karate Kid |
Columbia |
$90,815,558 |
| 6. |
Police Academy |
Warner Brothers |
$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 |
$76,471,046 |
| 10. |
Splash |
Touchstone |
$69,821,334 |
source: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/-yr=1984&p=.htm
Awards
Academy Awards:
- Best Picture: Amadeus
- Best Director: Milo- 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: Peggy Ashcroft - A Passage to India
- Best Foreign Language Film: La diagonale du fou (Dangerous Moves), directed by Richard Dembo, Switzerland
Golden Globe Awards:
- Drama:
- Best Picture: Amadeus
- Best Actor: F. Murray Abraham - Amadeus
- Best Actress: Sally Field - Places in the Heart
- Musical or comedy:
- Best Picture: Romancing the Stone
- Best Actor: Dudley Moore - Micki + Maude
- Best Actress: Kathleen Turner - Romancing the Stone
- Other
- Best Director: Milo- Forman - Amadeus
- Best Foreign English Language Film: A Passage to India, U.K. / U.S.A.
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
- Paris, Texas, directed by Wim Wenders, France / W. Germany
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
- The Year of the Quiet Sun (Rok spokojnego slonca), directed by Krzysztof Zanussi,
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
- Love Streams, directed by John Cassavetes, United States
Films released in 1984
Births
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
- May 21 - Ann Little, actress
- June 18 - Luis Moglia Barth, director
- 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
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