1984 in film
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- 3.1 January to March
- 3.2 from April to June
- 3.3 July to September
- 3.4 October to December
- 3.5 day unknown
- 4.1 January to March
- 4.2 from April to June
- 4.3 July to September
- 4.4 October to December
Events
- April 6 premiere of The Neverending Story (directed by Wolfgang Petersen ). This created based on the novel of Michael Ende film later turns out to be the most successful German production in the United States.
- TriStar Pictures, a joint venture of Columbia Pictures, HBO, and CBS publish with Where the Boys Are '84 her first film.
- Places in the Heart and Mark Rydell's people on the river start with Richard Pearce Country, Robert Benton's three U.S. Heimatmelodrame that tell the story of the stubborn and courageous farmers who are determined to defend their family against the claims of the bank. With Sissy Spacek ( people on the river ), Jessica Lange ( Country ) and Sally Field ( Places in the Heart ), all three leading ladies of the so-called "save the farm " films for the prestigious U.S. Film Awards Golden Globe and Oscar nominated.
- The film magazine epd film first appears.
- The winners of the BRAVO Otto Reader's Choice 1984: Category - male movie stars: Gold Harrison Ford, Noah Hathaway silver, bronze Kevin Bacon
- Category - female movie stars: Gold Tami Stronach, Jennifer Beals silver, bronze Lori Singer
Film Awards
Golden Globe Award
On 28 January, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, the Golden Globe Awards take place.
- Best Drama: Terms of Endearment by James L. Brooks
- Best Musical / Comedy: Yentl by Barbra Streisand
- Best Actor ( Drama ): Tom Courtenay in The In-Laws and Robert Duvall in comeback of love
- Best Actress ( Drama ): Shirley MacLaine in Terms of Endearment
- Best Actor (Musical / Comedy ): Michael Caine in Rita wants to know at last
- Best Actress (Musical / Comedy ): Julie Walters in Rita wants to know at last
- Best Supporting Actor: Jack Nicholson in Terms of Endearment
- Best Supporting Actress: Cher in Silkwood
- Best Director: Barbra Streisand for Yentl
- Cecil B. DeMille Award: Paul Newman
Academy Awards
The Oscar ceremony will take place on April 9 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. Presenter is Johnny Carson
- Best Picture: Terms of Endearment by James L. Brooks
- Best Actor: Robert Duvall in comeback of love
- Best Actress: Shirley MacLaine in Terms of Endearment
- Best Director: James L. Brooks for Terms of Endearment
- Best Supporting Actor: Jack Nicholson in Terms of Endearment
- Best Supporting Actress: Linda Hunt in The Year of Living Dangerously
- Best Film Music: Bill Conti for the stuff of which heroes are the
- Best Foreign Language Film: Fanny and Alexander by Ingmar Bergman
- Honorary Award: Hal Roach
Full list of winners
International Film Festival of Cannes 1984
The festival starts on May 11 and ends on May 23 The jury president Dirk Bogarde award the following prizes:
- Palme d'Or: Paris, Texas by Wim Wenders
- Best Actor: Francisco Rabal and Alfredo Landa in the holy fool
- Best Actress: Helen Mirren in Cal
- Best Director: Bertrand Tavernier for A Sunday in the Country
- Grand Jury Prize: Diary of Márta Mészáros my childhood
International Film Festival Berlin 1984
The festival begins on February 17th and ends on February 28. The jury president Liv Ullmann award the following prizes:
- Golden Bear: Love Streams by John Cassavetes
- Best Actor: Albert Finney in The In-Laws
- Best Actress Inna Churikova in front Romance
Film Festival of Venice
The jury president Michelangelo Antonioni award the following prizes:
- Golden Lion: A Year of the Quiet Sun by Krzysztof Zanussi
- Best Actor: Fernando Fernan Gomez in time of illusion
- Best Actress: Claudia Cardinale in Claretta
- Grand Jury Prize: Knight of Darkness by Otar Iosseliani
German Film Prize
- Best Film: Where the Green Ants Dream Werner Herzog
- Best Director: Josef Rusnak for cold fever and Uwe Schrader for Kanakerbraut
- Best Actress: Marie Colbin for The Fallenbach Meier - No time for tears and Nina Hoger for forward flight
- Best actor: Horst Buchholz for time I am afraid
National film festival of the GDR
- Best Film: The residence of Frank Beyer
- Best Director: Frank Beyer for Staying
- Best Actor: Franciszek Pieczka in Fariaho
- Best Actress: Inge Keller and Judy Winter in doctors and Marion Wiegmann cascaded backward
- Best Supporting Actor: Peter Then in appearance duty
- Best Supporting Actress: Monika Lennartz in Island of Swans and Simone from Zglinicki in appearance duty
César
- Best Film: Le Bal - The Dance Palace by Ettore Scola and on what we love by Maurice Pialat
- Best Director: Ettore Scola for Le Bal - The Dance Palace
- Best Actor: Coluche for On the Edge of Night
- Best Actress: Isabelle Adjani for A Deadly Summer
- Best Supporting Actor: Richard Anconina for On the Edge of Night
- Best Supporting Actress: Suzanne Flon for A Deadly Summer
- Best Foreign Film: Fanny and Alexander by Ingmar Bergman
British Academy Film Award
- Best Film: Rita wants to know at last by Lewis Gilbert
- Best Director: Bill Forsyth for Local Hero
- Best Actor: Michael Caine for Rita wants to know finally and Dustin Hoffman Tootsie
- Best Actress: Julie Walters for Rita wants to know at last
- Best Supporting Actor: Denholm Elliott for Trading Places
- Best Supporting Actress: Jamie Lee Curtis for Trading Places
- Best Foreign Language Film: Danton by Andrzej Wajda
New York Film Critics Circle Award
- Best Film: A Passage to India by David Lean
- Best Director: David Lean for travel to India
- Best Actor: Steve Martin in solo for 2
- Best Actress: Peggy Ashcroft in A Passage to India
- Best Supporting Actor: Ralph Richardson in Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
- Best Supporting Actress: Christine Lahti in Swing Shift - love on time
- Best Cinematography: Chris Menges for The Killing Fields - Crying Country
- Best Foreign Language Film: A Sunday in the Country by Bertrand Tavernier
National Board of Review
- Best Film: A Passage to India by David Lean
- Best Director: David Lean for travel to India
- Best Actor: Victor Banerjee in A Passage to India
- Best Actress: Peggy Ashcroft in A Passage to India
- Best Supporting Actor: John Malkovich in Places in the Heart
- Best Supporting Actress: Sabine Azéma in A Sunday in the Country
- Best Foreign Language Film: A Sunday in the Country by Bertrand Tavernier
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
- Best Film: Amadeus by Milos Forman
- Best Director: Milos Forman Amadeus
- Best Actor: F. Murray Abraham in Amadeus and Albert Finney in Under the Volcano
- Best Actress: Kathleen Turner in Blue China by day and night and Romancing the Stone
- Best Supporting Actor: Adolph Caesar in Sergeant Waters - A Soldiers Story
- Best Supporting Actress: Peggy Ashcroft in A Passage to India
- Best Foreign Language Film: The Fourth Man by Paul Verhoeven
More movie awards and honors
- AFI Life Achievement Award: Lillian Gish
- David di Donatello: Le Bal - The Dance Palace and the Ship Sails On ( Best Italian film) and Fanny and Alexander ( Best Foreign Film )
- German Critics' Prize: Edgar Reitz
- Directors Guild of America Award: James L. Brooks for Terms of Endearment, Orson Welles ( Lifetime Achievement )
- Ernst Lubitsch Prize: Gerhard Polt for Clean Sweep
- Evening Standard British Film Award: The Ploughman 's Lunch by Richard Eyre
- Guild Film Award: Carmen by Carlos Saura and Gandhi by Richard Attenborough (both Gold Foreign Film ), Kehraus by Hanns Christian Müller ( German gold film), The Heartbreakers, Peter F. Bringmann (Silver German film )
- Golden Leopard: Stranger than Paradise by Jim Jarmusch
- Helmut Käutner Price: Wolfgang Staudte
- Jupiter: The Return of the Jedi by Richard Marquand ( Best Film ), Jennifer Beals ( Best Actress ), Dustin Hoffman ( Best Actor )
- International Film Festival Karlovy Vary: Leo Tolstoy by Sergei Gerasimov
- Louis- Delluc Price: Hazardous trains by Richard Dembo
- Nastro d' Argento: Una gita scolastica Pupi Avati of, the Ship Sails of Federico Fellini and Fanny and Alexander by Ingmar Bergman
- National Society of Film Critics Award: The Night of San Lorenzo by Paolo Taviani and Vittorio
- People's Choice Award: The Return of the Jedi by Richard Marquand ( most popular film), Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds ( most popular actor), Meryl Streep (most popular actress)
- Polish Film Festival Gdynia: Austeria by Jerzy Kawalerowicz
- Robert: Skønheden og Nils Malmros udyret of (best Danish film), Sophie's Choice by Alan J. Pakula ( Best Foreign Film )
- Toronto International Film Festival: A Place in the heart of Robert Benton ( Audience Award )
- Writers Guild of America Award: Comeback of Love ( Best Original Screenplay, Drama ), The Big Chill ( Best Original Screenplay, Comedy ) Reuben, Reuben ( Best Adapted Screenplay, Drama ), Terms of Endearment ( Best Adapted Screenplay, Comedy )
- Young Artist Award: The Return of the Jedi by Richard Marquand ( Best Family Film ), Mr. Mom by Stan Dragoti ( Best Family, Comedy ), C. Thomas Howell in The Outsiders, Roxana Zal in Table for Five ( Best Actress )
Birthdays
January to March
- January 07: Max Riemelt, German actor
- March 01: Rob Brown, American actor
- March 08: Nora -Jane Noone, Irish actress
- March 10: Olivia Wilde, Irish- American actress
- 20 March: Christy Carlson Romano, American actress
- March 27: Emily Ann Lloyd, American actress
April-June
- 02 April: Ashley Peldon, American actress
- 05 April: Marshall Allman, American actor
- April 10: Cara DeLizia, American actress
- April 10: Natasha Melnick, American actress
- April 10: Mandy Moore, American pop singer and actress
- April 11: Kelli Garner, American actress
- April 18: America Ferrera, American actress
- April 25: Melonie Diaz, American actress
- 08 May: Julia Whelan, American actress
- MAY 22: Karoline Herfurth German actress
- MAY 23: Adam Wylie, American actor
- 01 June: Taylor Handley, American actor
- JUNE 13: Phillip Van Dyke, American actor
- June 19: Paul Dano, American actor
- JUNE 26: Aubrey Plaza, American comedienne and actress
July to September
- July 08: Alexis Dziena, American actress
- 09 July: Hanna R. Hall, American actress
- JULY 19: Kaitlin Doubleday, American actress
- August 03: Jon Foster, American actor
- August 22: Katie Stuart, American actress
- September 03: Garrett Hedlund, American actor
- September 03: Paz de la Huerta, American actress
- 07 September: Kate Lang Johnson, American actress and former fashion model
- September 14: Adam Lamberg, American actor
- September 16: Sabrina Bryan, American actress
- SEPTEMBER 19: Kevin Zegers, Canadian actor
October to December
- October 03: Chris Marquette, American actor
- October 04: Dana Davis, American actress
- October 10: Chiaki Kuriyama, Japanese actress
- OCTOBER 17: Chris Lowell, American actor
- October 18: Freida Pinto, Indian actress
- OCTOBER 24: Emily Barclay, British actress
- OCTOBER 27: Kelly Osbourne, American musician and actress
- November 02: Tamara Hope, Canadian actress
- November 13: Sarah Rose Karr, American actress
- November 21: Jena Malone, American actress
- November 22: Scarlett Johansson, American actress
- November 23: Lucas Grabeel, American actor
- NOVEMBER 25: Gaspard Ulliel, French actor
- November 28: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, American actress
Day unknown
- Micaela Bara, German actress
- Ryan Rottman, American actor
Deceased
January to March
- January 06: Ernest Laszlo, Hungarian -American cinematographer (* 1898)
- JANUARY 19: Wolfgang Staudte, German director (* 1906)
- January 20: Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (* 1904)
- JANUARY 21: Roger Blin, French actor (* 1907)
- JANUARY 26: Leny Marenbach, German actress (* 1916)
- JANUARY 28: Sohrab modes, Indian director (* 1897)
- JANUARY 29: Frances Goodrich, American screenwriter (* 1890)
February
- 09 February: Arlette Marchal, French actress (* 1902)
- February 15: Ethel Merman, American actress ( b. 1905 )
- FEBRUARY 23: Walter Jokisch, German actor (* 1914)
March
- March 01: Jackie Coogan, American actor ( born in 1914 )
- March 05: William Powell, American actor (* 1892)
- 06 March: Henry Wilcoxon, British actor ( b. 1905 )
- MARCH 19: Ivo Veit, German actor and cabaret artist (* 1910)
- MARCH 22: Hugo Gottschlich, Austrian actor ( b. 1905 )
- MARCH 24: Sam Jaffe, American actor (* 1891)
April-June
- April 09: Paul Ivano, French cinematographer (* 1900)
- April 15: Glen MacWilliams, American cinematographer (* 1898)
- APRIL 16: Byron Haskin, American film director (* 1899)
- April 18: Leopold Lindtberg, Swiss director (* 1902)
- April 26: May McAvoy, American actress (* 1901)
May
- May 04: Diana Dors, British actress ( born 1931 )
- May 10: Robert Moore, American film director (* 1927)
- MAY 16: Andy Kaufman, American comedian ( b. 1949 )
- MAY 16: Irwin Shaw, American author and screenwriter (* 1913)
- MAY 21: Andrea Leeds, American actress ( born in 1914 )
- MAY 22: John Marley, American actor (* 1907)
June
- 20 June: Estelle Winwood, British actress (* 1883)
- June 22: Joseph Losey, American film director (* 1909)
- 24 June: William Keighley, American film director (* 1889)
- JUNE 26: Carl Foreman, American producer and screenwriter (* 1914)
- June 29: Herbert AE Böhme, German actor (* 1897)
July to September
- 07 July: Flora Robson, British actress (* 1902)
- July 14: Ernest Tidyman, American writer ( b. 1928 )
- JULY 24: Richard Angst, Swiss cinematographer ( b. 1905 )
- July 27: James Mason, British actor (* 1909)
August
- August 04: Mary Miles Minter, American actress (* 1902)
- August 05: Richard Burton, British actor ( b. 1925 )
- 05 August: Hertha Thiele, German actress ( b. 1908 )
- AUGUST 21: Wolfgang Schleif, German director (* 1912)
- August 25: Truman Capote, American author (* 1924)
- AUGUST 26: Hans Tügel, German actor, director and author (* 1894)
- AUGUST 29: Pina Menichelli, Italian actress (* 1890)
September
- September 09: Yılmaz Güney, a Turkish film director and actor ( b. 1937 )
- September 14: Janet Gaynor, American actress (* 1906)
- September 17: Richard Basehart, American actor ( b. 1919 )
- SEPTEMBER 24: Neil Hamilton, American actor (* 1899)
- SEPTEMBER 25: Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (* 1897)
October to December
- 09 October: Heinz von Cleve, German actor (* 1897)
- October 11: Gertrud Fridh, Swedish actress ( b. 1921 )
- OCTOBER 12: Rudolf Beiswanger, German actor and theater director (* 1903)
- October 16: Peggy Ann Garner, American actress ( b. 1932 )
- OCTOBER 18: Jon -Erik Hexum, American actor ( b. 1957 )
- OCTOBER 21: François Truffaut, French film director ( b. 1932 )
- October 23: Oskar Werner, Austrian actor (* 1922)
- October 25: Pascale Ogier, French actress ( b. 1958 )
- October 30: Wolfgang Heinz, German actor ( born 1900 )
November
- November 01: Norman Krasna, American screenwriter (* 1909)
- November 08: Carl Junghans, German director (* 1897)
- November 14: Alexander Hegarth, German actor ( b. 1921 )
- November 24: Paul Dahlke, German actor (* 1904)
- November 26: Flockina von Platen, German actress ( b. 1905 )
December
- December 08: Luther Adler, American actor (* 1903)
- December 10: Georgia Lind, German actress ( b. 1905 )
- December 13: Margaret Livingston, American actress ( born 1900 )
- December 18th: Rudolf Platte, German actor (* 1904)
- December 19: Edward Carrere, American Designer (* 1906)
- December 24: Ian Hendry, English actor ( born 1931 )
- December 24: Peter Lawford, British actor ( b. 1923 )
- December 28: Sam Peckinpah, American film director ( b. 1925 )