1984 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

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Date December 5, 1984		Best Picture Amadeus

The 10th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards were announced on 5 December 1984 and given on 24 January 1985.

Winners

Best Picture:

Amadeus

Runner-up: Once Upon a Time in America

Best Director:

Miloš Forman - Amadeus

Runner-up: Sergio Leone – Once Upon a Time in America

Best Actor (tie):

F. Murray Abraham – Amadeus

Albert Finney – Under the Volcano

Best Actress:

Kathleen Turner - Crimes of Passion and Romancing the Stone

Runner-up: Vanessa Redgrave – The Bostonians

Best Supporting Actor:

Adolph Caesar - A Soldier's Story

Runner-up: John Malkovich – Places in the Heart and The Killing Fields

Best Supporting Actress:

Peggy Ashcroft – A Passage to India

Runner-up: Christine Lahti – Swing Shift

Best Screenplay:

Peter Shaffer - Amadeus

Runner-up: Alan Rudolph – Choose Me

Best Cinematography:

Chris Menges – The Killing Fields

Runner-up: Robby Müller – Repo Man and Paris, Texas

Best Music Score:

Ennio Morricone – Once Upon a Time in America

Runner-up: Amadeus

Best Foreign Film:

The Fourth Man (De vierde man) • Netherlands

Runner-up: The Gods Must Be Crazy • Botswana/South Africa

Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award:

George Kuchar (for the body of his work)

New Generation Award:

Alan Rudolph

Career Achievement Award:

Rouben Mamoulian

Special Citation:

Andrew Sarris

François Truffaut

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