See also: 1983 in film, other events of 1984, 1985 in film, list of 'years in film'.

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Top Grossing Films of the Year 3 Academy Award Winners 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 Other Movies Released

Events

• November 26 - Filming starts on Back to the Future.

1. Ghost Busters, starring Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray
2. Beverly Hills Cop, starring Eddie Murphy
3. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, starring Harrison Ford
4. Gremlins
5. The Karate Kid
6. Police Academy
7. Footloose
8. Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
9. Romancing the Stone, starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner
10. Purple Rain, starring Prince

• 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 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