The following is an overview of events in 1984 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. The year's highest-grossing film was Beverly Hills Cop. Ghostbusters overtook it, however, with a re-release the following year. Other popular films included The NeverEnding Story, which was the most expensive film produced in West Germany, The Karate Kid and Romancing the Stone. A high number of sci-fi/fantasy films were released in 1984.
The top ten 1984 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
The Walt Disney Studios establishes Touchstone Pictures to release films with more mature subject matter than the traditional Walt Disney Pictures banner.
Tri-Star Pictures, a joint venture of Columbia Pictures, HBO, and CBS, releases its first film.
Michael Eisner becomes head of Walt Disney Productions, while Frank Wells became chief operating officer and Jeffrey Katzenberg was named chairman.
Prince's first film Purple Rain is released.
Annie's Coming Out wins AFI Award (Australia)
The Motion Picture Association of America institutes the PG-13 rating, as a response to violent movies such as Gremlins and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
Romancing the Stone is released and propelled stars Kathleen Turner, Michael Douglas, and Danny DeVito and director Robert Zemeckis to super-stardom. The film also gave Zemeckis his first box office hit, which gave Universal Pictures confidence to allow him to direct his next film, Back to the Future.
Academy Awards:
Best Picture:
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:
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:
Miloš 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):
A 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
U.S.A. unless stated
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1984, directed by Michael Radford, starring John Hurt and Richard Burton - (U.K.)
2010, directed by Peter Hyams, starring Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Bob Balaban, Dana Elcar, Helen Mirren
A
Aaj Ki Awaaz (Today's Voice) - (India)
Abnormal Family: Older Brother's Bride (Hentai kazoku: Aniki no yomesan) - (Japan)
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, starring Peter Weller and Jeff Goldblum
After the Rehearsal (Efter repetitionen), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Erland Josephson, Ingrid Thulin, Lena Olin - (Sweden)
Against All Odds, directed by Taylor Hackford, starring Jeff Bridges, Rachel Ward, James Woods, Alex Karras, Richard Widmark, Jane Greer
All of Me, directed by Carl Reiner, starring Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin
Alley Cat
Amadeus, directed by Miloš Forman, starring F. Murray Abraham and Tom Hulce - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture
The Ambassador, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Robert Mitchum, Rock Hudson and Ellen Burstyn
American Dreamer, starring JoBeth Williams
Annie's Coming Out, starring Angela Punch McGregor - (Australia)
Another Country, starring Rupert Everett and Colin Firth - (U.K.)
The Annunciation (Angyali üdvözlet) - (Hungary)
Asesinato en el Senado de la Nación (Murder in the Senate) - (Argentina)
B
Bachelor Party, starring Tom Hanks, Adrian Zmed, Tawny Kitaen
Bad Manners, aka Growing Pains, starring Martin Mull and Karen Black
Balkan Spy (Balkanski spijun) - (Yugoslavia)
Ballad of the Little Soldier (Ballade vom kleinen Soldaten), a documentary film about child soldiers directed by Werner Herzog - (West Germany)
The Bay Boy, starring Liv Ullmann and Kiefer Sutherland - (Canada/France) - Genie Award for Best Canadian Motion Picture.
Bayan Ko:This Is My Country (Bayan ko: Kapit sa patalim) - (Philippines)
Beat Street, starring Rae Dawn Chong
Before Stonewall, a documentary film
Best Defense, starring Dudley Moore, Eddie Murphy, Kate Capshaw
Beverly Hills Cop, directed by Martin Brest, starring Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Ronny Cox, John Ashton, Bronson Pinchot
Beyond the Walls (Me'Ahorei Hasoragim) - (Israel)
Bianca, directed by and starring Nanni Moretti - (Italy)
Bicycles Are for the Summer (Las bicycletas son para el verano) - (Spain)
Birdy, directed by Alan Parker, starring Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage, music from Peter Gabriel
Blame It on Rio, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Michael Caine, Joseph Bologna, Demi Moore, Michelle Johnson
Blind Date, starring Kirstie Alley
Blood Simple, directed by Joel and Ethan Coen (debut), starring John Getz, Dan Hedaya, Frances McDormand, M. Emmet Walsh
Body Double, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Craig Wasson, Melanie Griffith, Deborah Shelton, Gregg Henry
Bolero, starring Bo Derek
The Bostonians, directed by James Ivory, starring Christopher Reeve, Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica Tandy - (U.S.A./U.K.)
The Bounty, directed by Roger Donaldson, starring Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Daniel Day-Lewis, Liam Neeson - (U.K.)
Breakin'
Broadway Danny Rose - directed by and starring Woody Allen, with Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello
The Brother from Another Planet, directed by John Sayles, starring Joe Morton
The Buddy System, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Sarandon, Wil Wheaton, Nancy Allen
C
C.H.U.D., starring John Heard and Daniel Stern
Cal, starring John Lynch and Helen Mirren - (U.K.)
Camila, directed by María Luisa Bemberg - (Argentina)
Cannonball Run II, starring Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Shirley MacLaine, Sammy Davis, Jr., Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra
Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure, a television film starring Warwick Davis
Carmen, a cinematic opera directed by Francesco Rosi, starring Plácido Domingo - (France/Italy)
The Chain, directed by Jack Gold - (U.K.)
Chaos (Kaos) - (Italy)
The Children (Les enfants), directed by Marguerite Duras - (France)
Children of the Corn, starring Peter Horton and Linda Hamilton
Choose Me, directed by Alan Rudolph, starring Lesley Ann Warren, Geneviève Bujold, Keith Carradine
Ciske de Rat (Ciske the Rat) - (Netherlands)
City Heat, directed by Richard Benjamin, starring Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, Madeline Kahn, Jane Alexander, Richard Roundtree, Rip Torn
Cloak & Dagger, starring Henry Thomas and Dabney Coleman
Comfort and Joy, directed by Bill Forsyth, starring Bill Paterson - (U.K.)
The Company of Wolves, directed by Neil Jordan, starring Stephen Rea, Angela Lansbury, Sarah Patterson - (U.K.)
Conan the Destroyer, directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Wilt Chamberlain, Grace Jones, Olivia d'Abo
The Coolangatta Gold - (Australia)
Le Cop, starring Philippe Noiret - (France)
The Cotton Club, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane, James Remar, Bob Hoskins, Fred Gwynne, Nicolas Cage
Country, directed by Richard Pearce, starring Jessica Lange and Sam Shepard
Crackers, directed by Louis Malle, starring Donald Sutherland and Sean Penn
Crimes of Passion, directed by Ken Russell, starring Kathleen Turner and Anthony Perkins
D
The Dark Glow of the Mountains (Gasherbrum - Der leuchtende Berg), directed by Werner Herzog - (West Germany)
The Descendant of the Snow Leopard (Potomok belogo barsa) - (U.S.S.R.)
La diagonale du fou (Dangerous Moves), starring Michel Piccoli - (France/Switzerland) - Academy Award for Foreign Language Film
Diary for My Children (Napló gyermekeimnek) - (Hungary)
Dreamscape, starring Dennis Quaid, Kate Capshaw, Max von Sydow, Christopher Plummer
Dune, directed by David Lynch, starring Kyle MacLachlan, Sting, Sean Young, Francesca Annis, Jürgen Prochnow, Kenneth McMillan, José Ferrer, Max von Sydow
E
Electric Dreams, starring Virginia Madsen and Bud Cort
The Element of Crime (Forbrydelsens element), directed by Lars von Trier - (Denmark)
The Evil That Men Do, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Charles Bronson
F
Falling in Love, directed by Ulu Grosbard, starring Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep
Farewell to the Ark (Saraba hakobune) - (Japan)
Fear City, directed by Abel Ferrara, starring Tom Berenger and Billy Dee Williams
Finders Keepers, starring Michael O'Keefe, Beverly D'Angelo, Louis Gossett, Jr.
Firestarter, directed by Mark L. Lester, starring Drew Barrymore, David Keith, George C. Scott, Martin Sheen, Heather Locklear
Firstborn, starring Peter Weller, Christopher Collet, Teri Garr
The Flamingo Kid, directed by Garry Marshall, starring Matt Dillon and Héctor Elizondo
Flashpoint, starring Kris Kristofferson and Treat Williams
Flowers of Reverie (Szirmok, virágok, koszorúk) - (Hungary)
Flügel und Fesseln, directed by Helma Sanders-Brahms - (West Germany)
Footloose, directed by Herbert Ross, starring Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer, John Lithgow, Chris Penn, Dianne Wiest
Formula of Love (Formula lyubvi) - (U.S.S.R.)
Frankenweenie, directed by Tim Burton
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, directed by Joseph Zito, starring Kimberly Beck and Corey Feldman
Full Moon in Paris (Les Nuits de la pleine lune), directed by Éric Rohmer - (France)
The Funeral aka Death Japanese Style - (Japan)
G
Gallavants
Garbo Talks, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Anne Bancroft, Ron Silver, Carrie Fisher, Catherine Hicks
Ghostbusters, directed by Ivan Reitman, starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Sigourney Weaver, Rick Moranis, Ernie Hudson
Give My Regards to Broad Street - written by and starring Paul McCartney, with Ringo Starr - (U.K.)
Grandview, U.S.A., starring Jamie Lee Curtis, C. Thomas Howell, Patrick Swayze
Gremlins, directed by Joe Dante, starring Zach Galligan and Phoebe Cates
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, directed by Hugh Hudson, starring Christopher Lambert, Andie MacDowell, Ralph Richardson in his final role - (U.K.)
H
Hard to Hold, starring Rick Springfield
Harry & Son, directed by and starring Paul Newman, with Robby Benson, Ellen Barkin, Judith Ivey, Ossie Davis, Joanne Woodward
Heartbreakers, starring Peter Coyote, Nick Mancuso, Kathryn Harrold, Max Gail, Carol Wayne
Henry IV (Enrico IV), starring Marcello Mastroianni and Claudia Cardinale - Italy
The Hit, directed by Stephen Frears, starring John Hurt and Terence Stamp - (U.K.)
The Holy Innocents (Los santos inocentes) - (Spain)
The Hotel New Hampshire, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Rob Lowe, Jodie Foster, Nastassja Kinski, Beau Bridges, Matthew Modine
I
Iceman, directed by Fred Schepisi, starring Timothy Hutton, John Lone, Lindsay Crouse
The Ice Pirates, starring Robert Urich and Mary Crosby
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Harrison Ford and Kate Capshaw
Irreconcilable Differences, starring Ryan O'Neal, Shelley Long, Drew Barrymore
J
The Jesse Owens Story, starring Dorian Harewood
John the Fearless (Jan zonder vrees) - (Belgium)
Johnny Dangerously, starring Michael Keaton, Marilu Henner, Joe Piscopo, Danny DeVito, Maureen Stapleton, Peter Boyle
Just the Way You Are, starring Kristy McNichol
K
The Karate Kid, directed by John G. Avildsen, starring Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita
Kidco, starring Scott Schwartz
The Killing Fields, directed by Roland Joffé, starring Sam Waterston, John Malkovich, Haing S. Ngor - (U.K.) - British Academy Award for Best Film
Klassenverhältnisse, directed by Straub-Huillet - (France/West Germany)
L
Lassiter, starring Tom Selleck and Jane Seymour
The Last Days of Pompeii, TV miniseries, starring Laurence Olivier, Olivia Hussey, Siobhán McKenna, Franco Nero, Ned Beatty, Nicholas Clay, Ernest Borgnine
The Last Starfighter, starring Lance Guest, Robert Preston, Catherine Mary Stewart
The Little Drummer Girl, directed by George Roy Hill, starring Diane Keaton
Little House: The Last Farewell
Little House: Bless All the Dear Children
Loafing and Camouflage (Lufa ke Paralayi) - (Greece)
The Lonely Guy, starring Steve Martin and Charles Grodin
Love and Pigeons (Lyubov i golubi) - (U.S.S.R.)
Love Letters, starring Jamie Lee Curtis
Love Streams, directed by and starring John Cassavetes, with Gena Rowlands and Seymour Cassel - Golden Bear award winner
M
MacArthur's Children (Setouchi Shōnen Yakyū-dan) - (Japan)
Macross: Do You Remember Love? (Chōjikū Yōsai Makurosu: Ai Oboete Imasu ka) - (Japan)
Making the Grade, starring Judd Nelson
The Man from Majorca (Mannen från Mallorca), directed by Bo Widerberg - (Sweden)
A Man of Principle (Cóndores no entierran todos los días) - (Colombia)
Man Under Suspicion (Morgen in Alabama), starring Maximilian Schell - (West Germany)
Maria's Lovers, starring Nastassja Kinski, John Savage, Robert Mitchum
Mashaal, starring Dilip Kumar and Anil Kapoor - (India)
Mass Appeal, starring Jack Lemmon, Željko Ivanek, Charles Durning
Mermaid Legend (Ningyo Densetsu) - (Japan)
Micki & Maude, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Dudley Moore, Ann Reinking, Amy Irving
Mike's Murder, directed by James Bridges, starring Debra Winger
The Miracle of Joe Petrel (Umitsubame Jyo no kiseki) - (Japan)
Missing in Action, starring Chuck Norris
Misunderstood, starring Henry Thomas and Gene Hackman
Monster Dog (Leviatán), starring Alice Cooper - (Spain)
Moscow on the Hudson, directed by Paul Mazursky, starring Robin Williams
Mrs. Soffel, directed by Gillian Armstrong, starring Diane Keaton and Mel Gibson
The Muppets Take Manhattan, directed by Frank Oz
My First Wife, starring John Hargreaves - (Australia)
N
The Naked Face, starring Roger Moore, Rod Steiger, Elliott Gould, Anne Archer, Art Carney
The Natural, directed by Barry Levinson, starring Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Barbara Hershey, Kim Basinger, Wilford Brimley, Richard Farnsworth
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Kaze no Tani no Naushika) - (Japan)
The NeverEnding Story (Die Unendliche Geschichte) - directed by Wolfgang Petersen, starring Barret Oliver and Noah Hathaway - (West Germany)
Night of the Comet, starring Catherine Mary Stewart and Robert Beltran
A Nightmare on Elm Street, directed by Wes Craven, starring Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon, Ronee Blakley
The Ninja Mission (Misja ninja) - (Sweden)
Nothing Lasts Forever, starring Zach Galligan, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd
Nothing Left to Do But Cry
O
Oh, God! You Devil, starring George Burns
Old Enough, starring Rainbow Harvest and Danny Aiello, Sundance Grand Jury Prize
On the Top of the Cherry Tree (Gore na chereshata) - (Bulgaria)
Once Upon a Time in America, directed by Sergio Leone, starring Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Joe Pesci, Tuesday Weld, Treat Williams - (Italy/U.S.A.)
Opasen char (Dangerous Charm) - (Bulgaria)
Over the Brooklyn Bridge, starring Elliott Gould, Shelley Winters, Sid Caesar
Oxford Blues, starring Rob Lowe, Ally Sheedy, Gail Strickland
P-Q
Paris, Texas, directed by Wim Wenders, starring Harry Dean Stanton and Nastassja Kinski - Palme d'Or winner
A Passage to India, directed by David Lean, starring Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox - (U.K.) - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film
Pehlivan - (Turkey)
The Philadelphia Experiment, starring Michael Paré and Nancy Allen
Places in the Heart, directed by Robert Benton, starring Sally Field, Danny Glover, John Malkovich, Ed Harris, Lindsay Crouse, Amy Madigan
Police Academy, directed by Hugh Wilson, starring Steve Guttenberg, Kim Cattrall, Bubba Smith
The Pope of Greenwich Village, directed by Stuart Rosenberg, starring Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke, Daryl Hannah, Kenneth McMillan, Geraldine Page
A Private Function, directed by Malcolm Mowbray, starring Michael Palin and Maggie Smith - (U.K.)
Protocol, starring Goldie Hawn, Chris Sarandon, Gail Strickland
Purple Hearts, directed by Sidney J. Furie, starring Ken Wahl and Cheryl Ladd
Purple Rain, starring Prince
Quilombo - (Brazil)
R
Raaj Tilak, starring Raaj Kumar, Sunil Dutt, Dharmendra - (India)
The Razor's Edge, starring Bill Murray, Theresa Russell, Catherine Hicks, Denholm Elliott
Reckless, starring Aidan Quinn and Daryl Hannah
Red Dawn, directed by John Milius, starring Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, Lea Thompson
Repentance (Pokayaniye) - (U.S.S.R.)
Repo Man, directed by Alex Cox, starring Emilio Estevez, Dick Rude, Harry Dean Stanton
The Return of Godzilla (also known as "Godzilla 1985") - (Japan)
Revenge of the Nerds, starring Robert Carradine, Anthony Edwards, Curtis Armstrong, Timothy Busfield
Rhinestone, starring Sylvester Stallone and Dolly Parton
The River, directed by Mark Rydell, starring Sissy Spacek and Mel Gibson
The Road to Bresson (De weg naar Bresson), starring Robert Bresson, Louis Malle, Andrei Tarkovsky, Orson Welles - (Netherlands)
Roadhouse 66, starring Willem Dafoe and Judge Reinhold
Romancing the Stone, directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
Ronia, the Robber's Daughter (Ronja Rövardotter) - (Sweden)
Runaway, directed by Michael Crichton, starring Tom Selleck
S
Saaransh (The Gist), directed by Mahesh Bhatt - (India)
Secret Honor, directed by Robert Altman, starring Philip Baker Hall
Sharaabi (Drunkard), directed by Prakash Mehra, starring Amitabh Bachchan - (India)
Sheena, starring Tanya Roberts
Silent Night, Deadly Night
Sixteen Candles, written and directed by John Hughes, starring Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Michael Schoeffling, Gedde Watanabe
Slapstick of Another Kind, starring Jerry Lewis, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman
Slunce, seno, jahody - (Czechoslovakia)
A Soldier's Story, directed by Norman Jewison, starring Howard E. Rollins, Jr., Adolph Caesar, Denzel Washington
The Snowdrop Festival (Slavnosti sněženek), directed by Jiří Menzel - (Czechoslovakia)
Solomon Northup's Odyssey
Songwriter, starring Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Lesley Ann Warren
Splash, directed by Ron Howard, starring Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, John Candy
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, directed by and starring Leonard Nimoy, with William Shatner, DeForest Kelley, Christopher Lloyd, Judith Anderson
Starman, directed by John Carpenter, starring Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen
Stop Making Sense, a concert film directed by Jonathan Demme featuring Talking Heads
Stranger Than Paradise, directed by Jim Jarmusch
Strangler vs. Strangler (Davitelj protiv davitelja) - (Yugoslavia)
Streets of Fire, directed by Walter Hill, starring Michael Paré, Diane Lane, Rick Moranis, Amy Madigan, Willem Dafoe
A Summer at Grandpa's (Dong–dong de jia qi) - (Taiwan)
A Sunday in the Country (Un dimanche à la campagne), directed by Bertrand Tavernier - (France)
Supergirl, starring Helen Slater, Faye Dunaway, Peter O'Toole
Swing Shift, directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Christine Lahti, Ed Harris, Fred Ward
Szaffi - (Hungary)
T
The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Skazka o tsare Saltanye) - (U.S.S.R.)
Tank, starring James Garner and Shirley Jones
Le Tartuffe, directed by and starring Gérard Depardieu - (France)
Teachers, starring Nick Nolte, JoBeth Williams, Judd Hirsch
The Terminator, directed by James Cameron, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton
Terror in the Aisles, starring Donald Pleasence and Nancy Allen
Thief of Hearts, starring Steven Bauer, Barbara Williams, George Wendt
This Is My Country (Bayan ko: Kapit sa patalim) - (Philippines)
This Is Spinal Tap, directed by Rob Reiner, starring Harry Shearer, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest
Tightrope, starring Clint Eastwood and Geneviève Bujold
Top Secret!, directed by Jim Abrahams and starring Val Kilmer
U-V
Ultraman Story (Urutoraman Sutōr) - (Japan)
Ultraman Zoffy: Ultra Warriors vs. the Giant Monster Army - (Japan)
Under the Volcano, directed by John Huston, starring Albert Finney and Jacqueline Bisset
Unfaithfully Yours, starring Dudley Moore, Nastassja Kinski, Armand Assante, Albert Brooks
Until September, starring Karen Allen
Up the Creek, starring Tim Matheson and Jennifer Runyon
Veneno para las hadas (Poison for the Fairies) - (Mexico)
Vigil - (New Zealand)
Voyage to Cythera (Taxidi sta Kythira) - (Greece)
W
W's Tragedy (W no higeki) - (Japan)
What Have I Done to Deserve This? (¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto?), directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Carmen Maura - (Spain)
Wheels on Meals (Fai Chan Tse), starring Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung - (Hong Kong)
When the Raven Flies (Hrafninn flýgur) - (Iceland)
Where the Boys Are '84, starring Lisa Hartman, Lorna Luft, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Wendy Schaal
Where the Green Ants Dream (Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen), directed by Werner Herzog - (West Germany)
Where the Toys Come From
The Wild Life, starring Chris Penn, Eric Stoltz and Lea Thompson
The Woman in Red, directed by and starring Gene Wilder, with Gilda Radner, Charles Grodin, Judith Ivey, Kelly Le Brock
Wreaths at the Foot of the Mountain (Gao shan xia de hua huan) - (China)
Y
A Year of the Quiet Sun (Rok spokojnego slonca) - (Poland) - Golden Lion winner
Yellow Earth (Huáng tǔdì), directed by Chen Kaige - (China)
U.S.A. unless stated
January 1984
January 13
Angel
Hot Dog…The Movie
January 20
The Buddy System
January 27
Broadway Danny Rose
El Norte
The Lonely Guy
February 1984
February 3 - Reckless
February 10 - Unfaithfully Yours
February 17
Blame It on Rio
Crackers
Footloose
Lassiter
March 1984
March 2
Against All Odds
Harry & Son
Repo Man
This Is Spinal Tap
March 9
Children of the Corn
The Hotel New Hampshire
Mike's Murder
Pete's Dragon (re-release)
Splash
March 16 - Tank
March 23
Police Academy
Racing with the Moon
March 30
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Misunderstood
Purple Hearts
Romancing the Stone
April 1984
April 6
Moscow on the Hudson
The Stone Boy
Up the Creek
Where the Boys Are '84
April 13
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
Iceman
Kidco
Phar Lap
Swing Shift
April 27
Love Letters
May 1984
May 4
Alphabet City
The Bounty
Breakin'
Sixteen Candles
May 11
Firestarter
The Natural
May 23 - Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
June 1984
June 1
Once Upon a Time in America
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Streets of Fire
June 6 - Beat Street
June 8
Ghostbusters
Gremlins
Top Secret!
June 15 - Under the Volcano
June 22
The Karate Kid
Rhinestone
June 29
Bachelor Party
Cannonball Run II
Conan the Destroyer
July 1984
July 13
The Last Starfighter
The Muppets Take Manhattan
July 20
Best Defense
Revenge of the Nerds
July 27
The Jungle Book (re-release)
Purple Rain
August 1984
August 2 - The Bostonians
August 3
Grandview, U.S.A.
The Philadelphia Experiment
August 10
Cloak & Dagger
Red Dawn
August 15
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
The Woman in Red
August 17
Dreamscape
Sheena
Tightrope
August 24 - Oxford Blues
August 29 - Choose Me
August 31
Bolero
C.H.U.D.
Flashpoint
September 1984
September 7 - The Brother from Another Planet
September 14 - A Soldier's Story
September 19 - Amadeus
September 21
All of Me
Places in the Heart
Windy City
September 28
The Wild Life
Irreconcilable Differences
Country
October 1984
October 5
Code Name: Wild Geese
Teachers
October 10
1984 (U.K.)
October 12
Garbo Talks
Songwriter
October 19
Crimes of Passion
The Razor's Edge
Stop Making Sense
Thief of Hearts
October 26
American Dreamer
Body Double
Give My Regards to Broad Street
Paris, Texas
The Terminator
Terror in the Aisles
November 1984
November 2 - The Killing Fields
November 9
A Nightmare on Elm Street
No Small Affair
Oh, God! You Devil
Silent Night, Deadly Night
November 16
Just the Way You Are
Missing in Action
Night of the Comet
November 21
Falling in Love
Supergirl
November 25 - Gallavants
December 1984
December 5
Beverly Hills Cop
December 7
2010
City Heat
December 14
The Cotton Club
Dune
1984
A Passage to India
Starman
Runaway
December 15
The Return of Godzilla (Japan)
December 17
The River
December 21
Birdy
The Flamingo Kid
Johnny Dangerously
Micki & Maude
Pinocchio (re-release)
December 26 - Mrs. Soffel
January 6 - Priit Loog, Estonian actor
January 25 - Kaiji Tang, voice actor
January 30 - Michael Aloni, Israeli actor
January 30 - Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi (Kid Cudi) American recording artist
February 12 - Alexandra Dahlström, Swedish actress
February 13 - Brina Palencia, voice actress
February 24 - Nicholas Saputra, Indonesian actor
March 2 - Ian Sinclair, voice actor
March 7 - Brandon T. Jackson, American stand-up comedian, rapper, actor, and writer
March 10 - Olivia Wilde, American actress
March 20 - Christy Carlson Romano, American stage and film actress and singer
March 25 - Katharine McPhee, American singer and actress
April 2 - Ashley Peldon, American actress
April 8
Kirsten Storms, American actress
Taran Noah Smith, American actor
April 10
Mandy Moore, American singer-songwriter and actress
Cara DeLizia, American actress
April 18 - America Ferrera, American actress
April 21- Praveenprem, South Indian actor
June 13 - Phillip Van Dyke, American actor
June 19 - Paul Dano, American actor
June 24 - Lucien Dodge, voice actor
June 30 - Fantasia Barrino, American singer and actress
July 7 - Ross Malinger, American actor
July 11 - Serinda Swan, Canadian actress
July 14 - Britta Soll, Estonian actress
July 19 - Andrea Libman, Canadian actress, voice actress, pianist, and singer
July 27
Kenny Wormald, American actor
Taylor Schilling, American actress
September 3 - Garrett Hedlund, American actor
September 18 - Nina Arianda, American actress
September 19 - Kevin Zegers, Canadian actress and model
September 22 - Laura Vandervoort, Canadian actress
September 23 - Anneliese van der Pol, Dutch-American actress and singer
September 27 - Avril Lavigne, Canadian singer-songwriter
October 3 - Ashlee Simpson, American actress and singer
October 25 - Katy Perry, American singer-songwriter and actress
October 27 - Kelly Osbourne, English actress and singer
November 16 - Kimberly J. Brown, American actress
November 17 - Lauren Maltby, American actress
November 21
Jena Malone, American actress
Lindsey Haun, American actress and singer
November 22 - Scarlett Johansson, American actress
November 23 - Lucas Grabeel, American actor and singer
November 28 - Mary Elizabeth Winstead, American actress
December 5 - Lauren London, American actress
Jesse Bradford - Falling in Love
Jennifer Connelly - Once Upon a Time in America
Jon Cryer - No Small Affair
Johnny Depp - A Nightmare on Elm Street
Tate Donovan - No Small Affair
Colin Firth - Another Country
Rupert Everett - Another Country
Sarah Michelle Gellar - Over the Brooklyn Bridge
Heather Graham - Mrs. Soffel
Seth Green - Billions for Boris
Jennifer Grey - Reckless
Val Kilmer - Top Secret!
Andie MacDowell - Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Kyle MacLachlan - Dune
John Malkovich - Places in the Heart
Frances McDormand - Blood Simple
Connie Nielsen - Par où t'es rentré ? On t'a pas vu sortir
Martha Plimpton - The River Rat
Prince - Purple Rain
Aidan Quinn - Reckless
Lou Diamond Phillips - Interface
Tim Robbins - No Small Affair
Tim Roth - The Hit
Charlie Sheen - Red Dawn
Elisabeth Shue - The Karate Kid
Helen Slater - Supergirl
Ice-T - Breakin'
Jennifer Tilly - No Small Affair
Marisa Tomei - The Flamingo Kid
Jean-Claude Van Damme - Breakin'
Lars von Trier (director)
Ken Watanabe - MacArthur's Children
Damon Wayans - Beverly Hills Cop
Michelle Yeoh - The Owl vs Bombo
Daphne Zuniga - The Initiation
