1984: Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

1. The 4th Man (dir: Paul Verhoeven; US Release Date)

2. Nostalghia (dir: Andrei Tarkovsky)

3. Stop Making Sense (dir: Jonathan Demme and the Talking Heads)

4. Body Double (dir: Brian De Palma)

5. Full Moon in Paris (dir: Eric Rohmer)

6. Streetwise (dir: Martin Bell)

7. Paris, Texas (dir: Wim Wenders)

8. The Ballad of Narayama (dir: Shohei Imamura; US Release Date)

9. Amadeus (dir: Milos Forman)

10. Starman (dir: John Carpenter)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): A nos Amours (dir: Maurice Pialat), Blood Simple (dir: Joel Coen), The Brother from Another Planet (dir: John Sayles), Crimes of Passion (dir: Ken Russell), Ghostbusters (dir: Ivan Reitman), Gremlins (dir: Joe Dante), Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (dir: Hayao Miyazaki), The Never-Ending Story (dir: Wolfgang Peterson), A Nightmare on Elm Street (dir: Wes Craven), Once Upon a Time in America (dir: Sergio Leone), Repo Man (dir: Alex Cox), Stranger Than Paradise (dir: Jim Jarmusch), The Terminator (dir: James Cameron) and Under the Volcano (dir: John Huston)

Best Film of the Year: The 4th Man
Director: Paul Verhoeven Producer: Rob Houwer
US Distributor: International Spectrafilm

Best Director:
Andrei Tarkovsky, Nostalghia
2. Paul Verhoeven, The 4th Man  
3. Brian De Palma, Body Double
4. Shohei Imamura, The Ballad of Narayama
5. Milos Forman, Amadeus

Best Actor:
Harry Dean Stanton, Paris, Texas
2. Jeff Bridges, Starman
3. F. Murray Abraham, Amadeus
4. Steve Martin, All of Me
5. Eddie Murphy, Beverly Hills Cop

Best Actress:
Sandrine Bonnaire, A nos Amours
2. Linda Hamilton, The Terminator
3. Kathleen Turner, Crimes of Passion
4. Mia Farrow, Broadway Danny Rose
5. Lily Tomlin, All of Me

Best Supporting Actor:
M. Emmett Walsh, Blood Simple
2. Dean Stockwell, Paris, Texas
3. Rick Moranis, Ghostbusters
4. James Woods, Once Upon a Time in America
5. John Candy, Splash

Best Supporting Actress:
Melanie Griffith, Body Double
2. Sigourney Weaver, Ghostbusters
3. Elizabeth McGovern, Once Upon a Time in America
4. Nastassja Kinski, Paris, Texas
5. Glenn Close, The Natural

Best Original Screenplay:
Full Moon in Paris — Eric Rohmer
2. Repo Man — Alex Cox
3. Starman — Raynold Gideon and Bruce A. Evans
4. Paris, Texas — L.M. Kit Carson and Sam Shepard
5. Crimes of Passion – Barry Sandler

Best Adapted Screenplay:
The Ballad of Narayama — Shohei Imamura
2. Amadeus – Peter Shaffer
3. The 4th Man — Gerard Soeteman
4. A Passage to India — David Lean
5. Once Upon a Time in America — Leonardo Benevenuti, Piero De Bernardi, Enrico Medioli, Franco Arcalli, Franco Ferrini, Sergio Leone, and Stuart Kaminsky

Best Cinematography:
The 4th Man — Jan de Bont
2. Blood Simple – Barry Sonnenfeld
3. Body Double — Stephen H. Burum
4. Under the Volcano – Gabriel Figueroa
5. Paris, Texas – Robby Müller

Best Original Score:
Body Double — Pino Donaggio
2. Dune — Toto and Brian Eno
3. Once Upon a Time in America — Ennio Morricone
4. Paris, Texas — Ry Cooder
5. Starman — Jack Nitzsche

Best Film Editing:
Amadeus — Michael Chandler, Nena Danevic, and T.M. Christopher
2. Gremlins  – Tina Hirsch
3. The Terminator – Mark Goldblatt
4. Blood Simple — Don Wiegmann, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
5. A Nightmare on Elm Street — Rick Shaine and Patrick McMahon

Best Production Design:
The Never-Ending Story – Rolf Zehetbauer
2. Amadeus – Patrizia von Brandenstein and Josef Svoboda
3. Dune — Anthony Masters and Giorgio Desideri
4. A Passage to India — John Box and Hugh Scaife
5. Under the Volcano – Gunther Gerszo, Martin Cardenas and Theresa Watche

Best Costume Design:
Amadeus — Theodor Pistek
2. Dune — Bob Ringwood
3. Purple Rain – Marie France
4. A Passage to India — Judy Moorcroft
5. Ghostbusters — Theoni V. Aldredge and Suzy Bezinger

Best Visual Effects
The Never-Ending Story
2. 2010
3. Ghostbusters

Best Sound
Amadeus
2. Ghostbusters
3. Gremlins

Best Makeup
Amadeus
2. Iceman
3. Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan

Best Documentary Feature:
Martin Bell, Streetwise

Best Animated Feature:
Hayao Miyazaki, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Best Ensemble Cast: 
Once Upon a Time in America

Orson Welles' Best First Feature:
Joel Coen, Blood Simple

Best Ensemble Cast (dir: Sergio Leone; in alphabetical order): Danny Aiello, Brian Bloom, Richard Bright, Julie Cohen, Jennifer Connelly, Adrian Curran, Robert De Niro (pictured), Darlene Fluegel, William Forsythe (pictured), Robert Harper, James Hayden, Rusty Jacobs, Elizabeth McGovern, Dutch Miller, Noah Moazezi, Mike Monetti, Joe Pesci, Larry Rapp, James Russo, Scott Tiler, Tuesday Weld (pictured), Treat Williams, James Woods (pictured), and Burt Young

Best First Feature: M. Emmett Walsh (pictured) in Joel Coen's Blood Simple. 

RECAP

W I N S :

Amadeus — 4,
The 4th Man — 2, Body Double — 2, Blood Simple — 2, Never-Ending Story — 2, Ballad of Narayama — 1, Full Moon in Paris — 1, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind — 1, A nos Amours —1, Nostalghia — 1, Once Upon a Time in America — 1, Paris, Texas — 1, Streetwise — 1

M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S :

Amadeus — 8,
Paris, Texas — 7, Body Double — 5, Ghostbusters — 5, Once Upon a Time in America — 5, The 4th Man — 4, Blood Simple — 4, Starman — 4, Ballad of Narayama — 3, Dune — 3, Passage to India — 3, All of Me — 2, Crimes of Passion — 2, Full Moon in Paris — 2, Gremlins — 2, The Never-Ending Story — 2, Nostalghia — 2, Streetwise — 2, The Terminator — 2, Under the Volcano — 2

the year-end project:
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Best of the Decade:
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