1984 Academy Award® Nominations: winners are underlined.

Best Picture: Amadeus The Killing Fields A Passage to India Places in the Heart A Soldier's Story

Best Director: Woody Allen, Broadway Danny Rose Robert Benton, Places in the Heart Milos Forman, Amadeus Roland Joffé, The Killing Fields David Lean, A Passage to India

Best Actor: F. Murray Abraham, Amadeus Jeff Bridges, Starman Albert Finney, Under the Volcano Tom Hulce, Amadeus Sam Waterston, The Killing Fields

Best Actress: Judy Davis, A Passage to India Sally Field, Places in the Heart Jessica Lange, Country Vanessa Redgrave, The Bostonians Sissy Spacek, The River

Best Supporting Actor: Adolph Caesar, A Soldier's Story John Malkovich, Places in the Heart Pat Morita, The Karate Kid Haing S. Ngor, The Killing Fields Ralph Richardson, Greystoke

Best Supporting Actress: Peggy Ashcroft, A Passage to India Glenn Close, The Natural Lindsay Crouse, Places in the Heart Christine Lahti, Swing Shift Geraldine Page, The Pope of Greenwich Village

Best Original Screenplay:
Woody Allen, Broadway Danny Rose
Robert Benton, Places in the Heart
Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, Bruce Jay Friedman, Brian Grazer, Splash
Daniel Petrie Jr., Danilo Bach, Beverly Hills Cop
Gregory Nava, Anna Thomas, El Norte

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Charles Fuller, A Soldier's Story
David Lean, A Passage to India
Bruce Robinson, The Killing Fields
Peter Shaffer, Amadeus
Robert Towne, Michael Austin, Greystoke

Best Foreign Film: Camila, Argentina La Diagonale du fou, Switzerland Me'Ahorei Hasoragim, Israel Sesión continua, Spain Voyenno-polevoj roman, Soviet Union

Best Cinematography: Amadeus The Killing Fields The Natural A Passage to India The River

Visual Effects: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Ghost Busters 2010

Original Song Score: Purple Rain The Muppets Take Manhattan Songwriter

Best Makeup: Amadeus Greystoke 2010

Best Costumes: Amadeus The Bostonians A Passage to India Places in the Heart 2010

Best Sound: Amadeus Dune A Passage to India The River 2010

Film Editing: Amadeus The Cotton Club The Killing Fields A Passage to India Romancing the Stone

Best Art Direction: Amadeus The Cotton Club The Natural A Passage to India 2010

Best Original Score:
Maurice Jarre, A Passage to India
Randy Newman, The Natural
Alex North, Under the Volcano
John Williams, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
John Williams, The River

Best Original Song:
Phil Collins, "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" from Against All Odds
Kenny Loggins, Dean Pitchford, "Footloose" from Footloose
Ray Parker Jr., "Ghost Busters" from Ghostbusters
Tom Snow, Dean Pitchford, "Let's Hear It for the Boy" from Footloose
Stevie Wonder, "I Just Called to Say I Love You" from The Woman in Red

Documentary Feature: High Schools In the Name of the People Marlene Streetwise The Times of Harvey Milk

Documentary, Short Subject: The Children of Soong Ching Ling Code Gray: Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing The Garden of Eden Recollections of Pavlovsk The Stone Carvers

Live Action Short Film: The Painted Door Tales of Meeting and Parting Up

Animated Short Film: Charade Doctor DeSoto Paradise

The Academy Award® ceremonies were held on March 25th, 1985


Winners:
(12 movies)
Amadeus (8) - Picture, Director, Actor, Adapted Screenplay, Makeup, Costumes, Sound, Art Direction
The Killing Fields (3) - Supporting Actor, Cinematography, Editing
A Passage to India (2) - Supporting Actress, Original Score
Places in the Heart (2) - Actress, Original Screenplay
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1) - Visual Effects
Purple Rain (1) - Original Song Score
The Woman in Red (1) - Original Song
La Diagonale du fou (1) - Foreign Film
The Times of Harvey Milk (1) - Documentary Feature
The Stone Carvers (1) - Documentary, Short Subject
Up (1) - Live Action Short Film
Charade (1) - Animated Short Film

Nomination Totals:
(52 movies)
Commercial English language films:
Against All Odds (1) - Original Song
Amadeus (11) - Picture, Director, Actor, Actor, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Makeup, Costumes, Sound, Editing, Art Direction
The Bostonians (2) - Actress, Costumes
Beverly Hills Cop (1) - Original Screenplay
Broadway Danny Rose (2) - Director, Original Screenplay
The Cotton Club (2) - Editing, Art Direction
Country (1) - Actress
Dune (1) - Sound
El Norte (1) - Original Screenplay
Footloose (2) - Original Song, Original Song
Ghost Busters (2) - Visual Effects, Original Song
Greystoke (3) - Supporting Actor, Adapted Screenplay, Makeup
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (2) - Visual Effects, Original Score
The Karate Kid (1) - Supporting Actor
The Killing Fields (7) - Picture, Director, Actor, Supporting Actor, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing
The Muppets Take Manhattan (1) - Song Score
The Natural (4) - Supporting Actress, Cinematography, Art Direction, Original Score
A Passage to India (11) - Picture, Director, Actress, Supporting Actress, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Costumes, Sound, Editing, Art Direction, Original Score
Places in the Heart (7) - Picture, Director, Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Original Screenplay, Costumes
The Pope of Greenwich Village (1) - Supporting Actress
Purple Rain (1) - Song Score
The River (4) - Actress, Cinematography, Sound, Original Score
Romancing the Stone (1) - Editing
A Soldier's Story (4) - Picture, Supporting Actor, Adapted Screenplay, Adapted Screenplay
Songwriter (1) - Song Score
Splash (1) - Original Screenplay
Starman (1) - Actor
Swing Shift (1) - Supporting Actress
2010 (5) - Visual Effects, Makeup, Costumes, Sound, Art Direction
Under the Volcano (2) - Actor, Original Score
The Woman in Red (1) - Original Song

Foreign language films:
Camila (1) - Foreign Film
La Diagonale du fou (1) - Foreign Film
Me'Ahorei Hasoragim (1) - Foreign Film
Sesión continua (1) - Foreign Film
Voyenno-polevoj roman (1) - Foreign Film

Documentaries and short films:
Charade (1) - Animated Short Film
The Children of Soong Ching Ling (1) - Documentary, Short Subject
Code Gray: Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing (1) - Documentary, Short Subject
Doctor DeSoto (1) - Animated Short Film
The Garden of Eden (1) - Documentary, Short Subject
High Schools (1) - Documentary Feature
In the Name of the People (1) - Documentary Feature
Marlene (1) - Documentary Feature
The Painted Door (1) - Live Action Short Film
Paradise (1) - Animated Short Film
Recollections of Pavlovsk (1) - Documentary, Short Subject
The Stone Carvers (1) - Documentary, Short Subject
Streetwise (1) - Documentary Feature
Tales of Meeting and Parting (1) - Live Action Short Film
The Times of Harvey Milk (1) - Documentary Feature
Up (1) - Live Action Short Film

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