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

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
14. Amadeus
15. The Terminator

Academy Award Winners

• Best Film  – Amadeus
• Best Director – Miloš 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

Births

• January 3 – Maya Ababadjani, actress
• February 12 – Alexandra Dahlstrom, actress

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
• 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

Other movies released

• 1984
• A Nos Amours
• All of Me
• Amadeus
• Bachelor Party
• Body Double
• Bolero
• The Bostonians
• Cannonball Run II
• Choose Me
• City Heat
• Country
• Dangerous Moves, Academy Award for Foreign Language Film
• Dot + The Bunny (a)
• Dot + Keeto (a)
• Dot + The Whale
• Dune
• Ewok Adventures
• The Fourth Man
• Friday The 13th(4): The Final Chapter
• Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
• The Killing Fields, British Academy Award for Film
• Love Streams, Golden Bear winner
• Micki and Maude
• The Muppets Take Manhattan
• The Natural
• Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind (March 11 – Japan)
• Old Enough, Sundance Grand Jury Prize
• Once Upon a Time in America
• Paris, Texas, Palme d'Or winner
• A Passage To India
• Places in the Heart
• The Pope of Greenwich Village
• Revenge of the Nerds
• The River
• The Terminator
• This is Spinal Tap
• A Soldier's Story
• Stranger Than Paradise
• A Sunday in the Country
• A Year of the Quiet Sun, Golden Lion winner