Film year 1984

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Film year 1984
Wim Wenders wins the Golden Palm of Cannes with his film Paris, Texas .

Events

April 6th: World premiere of The Neverending Story (Director: Wolfgang Petersen ). This film, based on the novel of the same name by Michael Ende , 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 , is releasing their first film, Where the Boys Are '84 .
With Richard Pearces Country , Robert Benton's Ein Platz im Herz and Mark Rydell's Menschen am Fluss , three American homeland melodramas start telling the story of stubborn and courageous farmers who are determined to defend their family property against the claims of the bank. With Sissy Spacek (People on the River) , Jessica Lange (Country) and Sally Field (A Place in the Heart) , all three leading actresses in the so-called “save the farm” films have been nominated for the prestigious US American film prizes Golden Globe and Oscar .
The film magazine epd Film appears for the first time.
The winners of the BRAVO Otto readers' choice 1984:
- Category - Male Movie Stars: Gold Harrison Ford , Silver Noah Hathaway , Bronze Kevin Bacon
- Category - Female Movie Stars: Gold Tami Stronach , Silver Jennifer Beals , Bronze Lori Singer

Top 10 most successful films

In Germany

The ten most successful films at the German box office by number of visitors (as of November 17, 2018):

space	Movie title	Visitors
1.	Police Academy - Dumber than the police allow	5,187,443
2.	the never ending Story	4,822,676
3.	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom	3,852,364
4th	Amadeus	3,627,063
5.	never say Never	3,583,930
6th	Gremlins - little monsters	3,143,289
7th	All hell has broken loose on the highway again	2,921,895
8th.	Two noses fill up super	2,380,797
9.	Once Upon a Time in America	2,319,953
10.	Didi - the doppelganger	2,191,965

Film awards

Golden Globe Award

The Golden Globe Awards will take place on January 28th at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.

Best Drama: Time of Tenderness by James L. Brooks
Best musical / comedy: Yentl by Barbra Streisand
Best Actor (Drama): Tom Courtenay in Unequal Couple and Robert Duvall in Love's Comeback
Best Actress (Drama): Shirley MacLaine in Tenderness
Best Actor (Musical / Comedy): Michael Caine in Rita finally wants to know
Best Actress (Musical / Comedy): Julie Walters in Rita finally wants to know
Best Supporting Actor: Jack Nicholson in Tenderness
Best Supporting Actress: Cher in Silkwood
Best director: Barbra Streisand for Yentl
Cecil B. DeMille Award : Paul Newman

Academy Awards

The Academy Awards will be held on April 9th at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. The moderator is Johnny Carson

Best Picture: Time of Tenderness by James L. Brooks
Best Actor: Robert Duvall in Love Comeback
Best Actress: Shirley MacLaine in Time of Tenderness
Best Director: James L. Brooks for Tenderness Time
Best Supporting Actor: Jack Nicholson in Tenderness
Best Supporting Actress: Linda Hunt in A Year in Hell
Best score: Bill Conti for The Stuff that Heroes are Made of
Best foreign language film: Fanny and Alexander by Ingmar Bergman
Honorary Oscar: Hal Roach

Complete list of award winners

Cannes International Film Festival 1984

The festival starts on May 11th and ends on May 23rd. The jury under President Dirk Bogarde awards the following prizes:

Golden Palm : Paris, Texas by Wim Wenders
Best Actor: Francisco Rabal and Alfredo Landa in The Holy Fools
Best Actress: Helen Mirren in Cal
Best director: Bertrand Tavernier for A Sunday in the Country
Grand Jury Prize: diary of my childhood by Márta Mészáros

Berlin International Film Festival 1984

The festival starts on February 17th and ends on February 28th. The jury under President Liv Ullmann awards the following prizes:

Golden Bear : Love Streams by John Cassavetes
Best Actor: Albert Finney in An Unequal Couple
Best actress: Inna Churikova in front romance

Venice Film Festival

Pascale Ogier with her award for full moon nights in Venice

The jury under President Michelangelo Antonioni awards the following prizes:

Golden Lion : A year of the dormant sun by Krzysztof Zanussi
Best Actor: Naseeruddin Shah in Couple
Best actress: Pascale Ogier on full moon nights
Grand Jury Prize: The Favorites of the Moon (Les Favoris de la lune) by Otar Iosseliani

German film award

Best film: Where the green ants dream by Werner Herzog
Best director: Josef Rusnak for Kaltes Fieber and Uwe Schrader for Kanakerbraut
Best leading actress: Marie Colbin for The Bachmeier Case - No Time for Tears and Nina Hoger for Escape Forward
Best Actor: Horst Buchholz for When I'm Afraid

National Feature Film Festival of the GDR

Best Picture: The stay of Frank Beyer
Best director: Frank Beyer for The Stay
Best Actor: Franciszek Pieczka in Fariaho
Best leading actress: Inge Keller and Judy Winter in Ärztinnen and Marion Wiegmann in Kaskade zurück
Best supporting actor: Peter Sodann must appear in the show
Best supporting actress: Monika Lennartz in Insel der Schwans and Simone von Zglinicki in an obligation to appear

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 - Der Tanzpalast
Best Actor: Coluche for On the Edge of Night
Best Actress: Isabelle Adjani for A Murderous Summer
Best Supporting Actor: Richard Anconina for On the Edge of the Night
Best Supporting Actress: Suzanne Flon for A Murderous Summer
Best foreign film: Fanny and Alexander von Ingmar Bergman

British Academy Film Award

Best film: Rita finally wants to know about Lewis Gilbert
Best Director: Bill Forsyth for Local Hero
Best Actor: Michael Caine for Rita finally wants to know and Dustin Hoffman for Tootsie
Best Actress: Julie Walters for Rita finally wants to know
Best Supporting Actor: Denholm Elliott for The Soldiers of Fortune
Best Supporting Actress: Jamie Lee Curtis for The Soldiers of Fortune
Best foreign language film: Danton by Andrzej Wajda

New York Film Critics Circle Award

Best Film: Trip to India by David Lean
Best Director: David Lean for Trip to India
Best Actor: Steve Martin in Solo for 2
Best Actress: Peggy Ashcroft in Trip 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
Best Cinematography: Chris Menges for The Killing Fields
Best Foreign Film: A Sunday in the Country by Bertrand Tavernier

National Board of Review

Best Film: Trip to India by David Lean
Best Director: David Lean for Trip to India
Best Actor: Victor Banerjee in Trip to India
Best Actress: Peggy Ashcroft in Trip to India
Best Supporting Actor: John Malkovich in A Place 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 Miloš Forman
Best director: Miloš Forman for Amadeus
Best Actor: F. Murray Abraham in Amadeus and Albert Finney in Under the Volcano
Best Actress: Kathleen Turner in China Blue by Day and Night and On the Hunt for the Green Diamond
Best Supporting Actor: Adolph Caesar in Sergeant Waters
Best Supporting Actress: Peggy Ashcroft in Trip to India
Best Foreign Language Film: The fourth man of Paul Verhoeven

Further film prizes and awards

AFI Life Achievement Award : Lillian Gish
Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival : Nightmares by Joseph Sargent
David di Donatello : Le Bal - The Dance Palace and Fellini's Ship of Dreams (Best Italian Film) and Fanny and Alexander (Best Foreign Film)
German Critics' Prize : Edgar Reitz
Directors Guild of America Award : James L. Brooks for Tenderness Time , Orson Welles (Lifetime Achievement)
Ernst Lubitsch Prize : Gerhard Polt for Kehraus
Evening Standard British Film Award : The Plowman's Lunch by Richard Eyre
Gilde Film Prize : Carmen by Carlos Saura and Gandhi by Richard Attenborough (both gold foreign film), Kehraus by Hanns Christian Müller (gold German film), The Heartbreakers by Peter F. Bringmann (silver German film)
Golden Leopard : Stranger than Paradise by Jim Jarmusch
Helmut Käutner Prize : Wolfgang Staudte
Jupiter : Return of the Jedi by Richard Marquand (Best Picture), Jennifer Beals (Best Actress), Dustin Hoffman (Best Actor)
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival : Lev Tolstoy by Sergei Gerasimow
Louis Delluc Prize : Dangerous Trains by Richard Dembo
Nastro d'Argento : Una gita scolastica by Pupi Avati , Fellini's ship of dreams by Federico Fellini and Fanny and Alexander by Ingmar Bergman
National Society of Film Critics Award : The Night of San Lorenzo by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
People's Choice Award : 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 : Dear father, I'm sixteen (Skønheden og udyret) by Nils Malmros (Best Danish Film), Sophie's decision 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 Great Frustration (Best Original Screenplay, Comedy), Ruben, Ruben (Best Adapted Screenplay, Drama), Zeit der Tärtlichkeit (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 Film, Comedy), C. Thomas Howell in Die Outsider , Roxana Zal in Table for Five (Best Actress)

Birthdays

January to March

Olivia Wilde (born March 10th)

Jaimie Alexander (born March 12)

January

0January 6: Kate McKinnon American actress and comedian
0January 7th: Max Riemelt , German actor
January 12: Taraneh Alidoosti , Iranian actress
January 15: Julia Kaufmann , German voice actress
January 20: Daniel Roesner , German actor
January 29: Robert Gwisdek , German actor

February

February 14: Matt Barr , American actor
February 14: Stephanie Leonidas , British actress

March

0March 1: Rob Brown , American actor
0March 8: Nora-Jane Noone , Irish actress
March 10: Olivia Wilde , Irish-American actress
March 12: Jaimie Alexander , American actress
March 20: Christy Carlson Romano , American actress
March 27: Emily Ann Lloyd , American actress

April to June

Aubrey Plaza (born June 26)

April

0April 2: Ashley Peldon , American actress
0April 4th: Anja Stadlober , Austrian actress and voice actress
0April 5: 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 16: Claire Foy , British actress
April 18: America Ferrera , American actress
April 25: Melonie Diaz , American actress

May

0May 2nd: Marie-Luise Schramm , German actress and voice actress
0May 8: Julia Whelan , American actress
May 22: Karoline Herfurth , German actress
May 23: Adam Wylie , American actor

June

0June 1: Taylor Handley , American actor
June 13: Phillip Van Dyke , American actor
June 19: Paul Dano , American actor
June 26: Aubrey Plaza , American comedian and actress

July to September

Amber Rayne (born September 19)

Laura Vandervoort (born September 22nd)

July

0July 8: Alexis Dziena , American actress
0July 9: Hanna R. Hall , American actress
July 10: Aviva Farber , American actress
July 11: Rachael Taylor , Australian actress and model
July 19: Kaitlin Doubleday , American actress
July 28: Manuel Straube , German voice actor

August

0August 3: Jon Foster , American actor
August 15: Quinton Aaron , American actor
August 22nd: Katie Stuart , American actress
August 28: Sarah Roemer , American actress
August 31: Wolfgang Cerny , Austrian actor

September

0September 3: Garrett Hedlund , American actor
0September 3: Paz de la Huerta , American actress
0September 7th: Kate Lang Johnson , American actress
September 14: Adam Lamberg , American actor
September 16: Sabrina Bryan , American actress
September 19: Amber Rayne , American porn actress († 2016)
September 19: Kevin Zegers , Canadian actor
September 22: Laura Vandervoort , Canadian actress

October to December

Scarlett Johansson (born November 22)

Jackson Rathbone (born December 14)

October

0October 1: Josh Brener , American actor
0October 3: Chris Marquette , American actor
0October 4th: Dana Davis , American actress
October 10: Chiaki Kuriyama , Japanese actress
October 17: Chris Lowell , American actor
October 18: Freida Pinto , Indian actress
October 18: Jennifer Ulrich , German actress
October 23: Franziska Arnold , German actress
October 24th: Emily Barclay , British actress
October 27: Kelly Osbourne , American musician and actress

November

0November 2nd: Tamara Hope , Canadian actress
November 13: Sarah Rose Karr , American actress
November 21: Jena Malone , American actress
November 22nd: Scarlett Johansson , American actress
November 23: Lucas Grabeel , American actor
November 25: Gaspard Ulliel , French actor
November 28: Mary Elizabeth Winstead , American actress

December

December 14th: Jackson Rathbone , American actor
December 17th: Shannon Woodward , American actress
December 25: Hal Scardino , American actor
December 26th: Julia Jelinek , Austrian actress
December 26th: Jennifer Sipes , American actress

Day unknown

Micaela Bara , German actress
Ryan Rottman , American actor