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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.

Highest-grossing films (U.S.)

See also: List of 1984 box office number-one films in the United States

The top ten 1984 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1984

Rank	Title	Studio	Domestic gross
1.	Ghostbusters	Columbia Pictures	$238,632,124
2.	Beverly Hills Cop	Paramount Pictures	$234,760,478
3.	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom	Paramount Pictures / Lucasfilm	$179,870,271
4.	Gremlins	Warner Bros.	$153,083,102
5.	The Karate Kid	Columbia Pictures	$90,815,558
6.	Police Academy	Warner Bros. / The Ladd Company	$81,198,894
7.	Footloose	Paramount Pictures	$80,035,402
8.	Romancing the Stone	20th Century Fox	$76,572,238
9.	Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	Paramount Pictures	$76,471,076
10.	Splash	Touchstone Pictures	$69,821,334

Events

• 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 The Walt Disney Company
• 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.

Awards

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

Notable films released in 1984

U.S.A. unless stated

#

• 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 Lee
• 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

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
• 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
• 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)
• 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)

1984 film releases

U.S.A. unless stated

January–March

• January 1984
  • January 13
    • Angel
    • Hot Dog…The Movie
  • January 27
    • Broadway Danny Rose
    • El Norte
    • The Lonely Guy
    • Love Letters
• February 1984
  • February 3 - Reckless
  • February 10 - Unfaithfully Yours
  • February 17
    • Blame It on Rio
    • Crackers
    • Footloose
    • Lassiter
  • February 24 -
• March 1984
  • March 2
    • Against All Odds
    • Repo Man
    • This Is Spinal Tap
  • March 9
    • Children of the Corn
    • The Hotel New Hampshire
    • Splash
  • March 16 - Tank
  • March 23
    • Police Academy
    • Racing with the Moon
  • March 30
    • Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
    • Romancing the Stone

April–June

• April 1984
  • April 6
    • Moscow on the Hudson
    • Up the Creek
  • April 13
    • Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
    • Phar Lap
    • Swing Shift

• May 1984
  • May 4
    • The Bounty
    • Breakin'
    • The Buddy System
    • 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–September

• July 1984
  • July 13
    • The Last Starfighter
    • The Muppets Take Manhattan
  • July 20
    • Best Defense
    • Revenge of the Nerds
  • July 27
    • Purple Rain
    • The Jungle Book (1967 film) (re-release)

• August 1984
  • August 2 - The Bostonians
  • August 3
    • Grandview, U.S.A.
    • The Philadelphia Experiment
  • August 10 - Red Dawn
  • August 15 - The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
  • August 17
    • Dreamscape
    • Sheena
    • Tightrope
  • August 24 - Oxford Blues
  • August 31
    • Bolero
    • C.H.U.D.

• 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
  • September 28
    • The Wild Life
    • Country

October–December

• October 1984
  • October 5
    • Teachers
  • October 10
    • 1984 (U.K.)
  • October 19
    • The Razor's Edge
  • October 26
    • American Dreamer
    • Body Double
    • The Terminator

• November 1984
  • November 2 - Killing Fields
  • November 9 -
    • A Nightmare on Elm Street
    • Silent Night, Deadly Night
  • November 16 - Just the Way You Are
  • November 21 - Supergirl
  • November 25 - The Ewok Adventure
• December 1984
  • December 5
    • Beverly Hills Cop
  • December 7
    • 2010
    • City Heat
  • December 14
    • 1984
    • The Cotton Club
    • Dune
    • Starman
  • December 15
    • The Return of Godzilla (Japan)
  • December 21
    • Birdy
    • The Flamingo Kid
    • Johnny Dangerously
    • Micki & Maude
    • Pinocchio (1940 film) (re-release)
  • December 26 - Mrs. Soffel

Births

• 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
  • Cara DeLizia, American actress
  • Mandy Moore, American singer-songwriter and actress
• April 18 - America Ferrera, American actress
• June 24 - Lucien Dodge, voice actor
• June 30 - Fantasia Barrino, American singer and actress
• July 11 - Serinda Swan, Canadian actress
• July 19 - Andrea Libman, Canadian actress, voice actress, pianist, and singer
• July 27
  • Kenny Wormald, American actor
  • Taylor Schilling, American actresses
• September 3 - Garrett Hedlund, American actor
• 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
• 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

Notable deaths

Month	Date	Name	Age	Country	Profession	Notable films
January	20	Johnny Weissmuller	79	Mexico	Actor	Tarzan the Ape Man Tarzan and His Mate
	29	Frances Goodrich	93	USA	Writer	It's a Wonderful Life Father of the Bride
February	15	Ethel Merman	76	USA	Singer, Actress	Airplane! It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
March	1	Jackie Coogan	69	USA	Actor, Director	The Kid Cahill U.S. Marshal
	5	William Powell	91	USA	Actor	The Thin Man My Man Godfrey
	12	Arnold Ridley	88	UK	Actor, Writer, Director	A Man for All Seasons Carry On Girls
	24	Sam Jaffe	93	USA	Actor	Ben-Hur The Day the Earth Stood Still
	27	Jack Donohue	75	USA	Director	Marriage on the Rocks Assault on a Queen
	27	Derek Francis	60	UK	Actor	Jabberwocky A Christmas Carol
April	1	George Glass	73	USA	Producer, Production Manager	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner One-Eyed Jacks
	13	Richard Hurndall	73	UK	Actor	I, Monster
	16	Byron Haskin	84	USA	Director	The War of the Worlds I Walk Alone
	18	Francis de Wolff	71	UK	Actor	From Russia with Love Carry On Cleo
May	4	Diana Dors	52	UK	Actress	Lady Godiva Rides Again The Unholy Wife
	16	Andy Kaufman	35	USA	Actor	God Told Me To Heartbeeps
	16	Irwin Shaw	71	USA	Screenwriter, Author	The Talk of the Town The Young Lions'
	20	Peter Bull	72	UK	Actor	Dr. Strangelove The Africian Queen
	21	Andrea Leeds	72	UK	Actress	Stage Door Anna Karenina
	21	Ann Little	93	USA	Actress	The Roaring Road The Invaders
	22	John Marley	76	USA	Actor	The Godfather Love Story
June	15	Ned Glass	78	USA	Actor	North by Northwest West Side Story
	18	Luis Moglia Barth	81	Argentine	Director, Writer, Producer	¡Tango!
	20	Estelle Winwood	101	UK	Actress	The Misfits The Producers
	22	Joseph Losey	75	USA	Director	The Damned Accident
July	11	Hugh Morton	81	UK	Actor	Man of the Moment
	23	Carl Foreman	69	USA	Writer, Producer	High Noon The Guns of Navarone
	25	Akihiko Hirata	56	Japan	Actor	Sanjuro Godzilla
	27	James Mason	75	Switzerland	Actor, Producer	North by Northwest Lolita
August	4	Mary Miles Minter	82	USA	Actress	Anne of Green Gables Nurse Marjorie
	4	Howard Culver	66	Hong Kong	Actor	Halloween II The Bad News Bears
	5	Richard Burton	58	Switzerland	Actor, Producer, Director	Who Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Nineteen Eighty-Four
	8	Richard Deacon	63	USA	Actor	The Young Philadelphians The Spirit of St. Louis
	25	Truman Capote	59	USA	Writer, Actor	Breakfast at Tiffany's In Cold Blood
	29	Pina Menichelli	94	Italy	Actress
September	14	Janet Gaynor	77	USA	Actress	A Star Is Born 7th Heaven
	17	Richard Basehart	70	USA	Actor, Director	Being There La Strada
	25	Walter Pidgeon	87	USA	Actor	Forbidden Planet How Green Was My Valley
October	10	Leonard Rossiter	57	UK	Actor	2001: A Space Odyssey Barry Lyndon
	10	Joan Young	84	UK	Actress	Suddenly, Last Summer The Fallen Idol
	11	H. Bruce Humberstone	82	USA	Director	I Wake Up Screaming Charlie Chan at the Olympics
	21	François Truffaut	52	France	Director, Producer, Actor	The 400 Blows Jules and Jim
	23	Oskar Werner	61	Germany	Actor, Writer	Fahrenheit 451 Jules and Jim
	25	Pascale Ogier	25	France	Actress, Production Manager	Full Moon in Paris
	26	Noel Howlett	81	UK	Actor	Lawrence of Arabia Scrooge
November	1	Norman Krasna	74	USA	Screenwriter, Director	Who Was That Lady? Sunday in New York
	20	Peter Welch	62	UK	Actor	The Admirable Crichton The Secret Partner
December	2	Patty Elder	48	USA	Stuntman, Actor	Diamonds Are Forever What's Up, Doc?
	3	Charles R. Davis	47	USA	Art Director, Production Designer	Bustin' Loose
	8	Luther Adler	81	USA	Actor	House of Strangers D.O.A.
	11	George Waggner	81	USA	Director	The Wolf Man Horror Island
	24	Ian Hendry	53	UK	Actor	Repulsion Get Carter
	24	Peter Lawford	61	USA	Actor, Producer	The Longest Day Ocean's 11
	24	Harry Waxman	72	UK	Cinematographer	The Wicker Man The Pink Panther Strikes Again
	28	Sam Peckinpah	59	USA	Director, Producer	The Wild Bunch Straw Dogs

Film debuts

• 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
• Aidan Quinn - Reckless
• Lou Diamond Phillips - Interface
• Tim Roth - The Hit
• Charlie Sheen - Red Dawn
• Elisabeth Shue - The Karate Kid
• Helen Slater - Supergirl
• 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

See also

• List of American films of 1984
• List of British films of 1984
• List of French films of 1984
• List of German films of the 1980s
• List of Bollywood films of 1984
• List of Italian films of 1984
• List of Japanese films of 1984
• List of Swedish films of the 1980s

External links

• "Was 1984 the greatest year in movies ever?" by Chris Nashawaty - Entertainment Weekly online