1984 (57th Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1984 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.

Best Picture

Amadeus, Saul Zaentz Company Production; Orion. (USA, France, Czechoslovakia) Saul Zaentz, Producer.

Actor in a Leading Role

F. Murray Abraham in Amadeus, Saul Zaentz Company Production; Orion. (USA, France, Czechoslovakia)

Actress in a Leading Role

Sally Field in Places in the Heart, Tri-Star Pictures Production; Tri-Star.

Actor in a Supporting Role

Haing S. Ngor in The Killing Fields, Enigma Productions Limited; Warner Bros. (UK)

Actress in a Supporting Role

Peggy Ashcroft in A Passage to India, G.W. Films, Ltd. Production; Columbia. (UK, USA)

Directing

Amadeus, Saul Zaentz Company Production; Orion. (USA, France, Czechoslovakia) Milos Forman.

Art Direction-Set Decoration

Amadeus, Saul Zaentz Company Production; Orion. (USA, France, Czechoslovakia) Art direction by Patrizia Von Brandenstein; set decoration by Karel Cerny.

Cinematography

The Killing Fields, Enigma Productions Limited; Warner Bros. (UK) Chris Menges.

Costume Design

Amadeus, Saul Zaentz Company Production; Orion. (USA, France, Czechoslovakia) Theodor Pistek.

Documentary

(Feature)

The Times of Harvey Milk, Black Sand Educational Productions, Inc. Robert Epstein and Richard Schmiechen, Producers.

(Short Subject)

The Stone Carvers, Paul Wagner Productions. Marjorie Hunt and Paul Wagner, Producers.

Film Editing

The Killing Fields, Enigma Productions Limited; Warner Bros. (UK) Jim Clark.

Foreign Language Film

Dangerous Moves, Arthur Cohn Production. (France, Liechtenstein, Switzerland)

Makeup

Amadeus, Saul Zaentz Company Production; Orion. (USA, France, Czechoslovakia) Paul LeBlanc and Dick Smith.

Music

(Original Score)

A Passage to India, G.W. Films, Ltd. Production; Columbia. (UK, USA) Maurice Jarre.

(Original Song)

I Just Called to Say I Love You from The Woman in Red, Woman in Red Production; Orion. Music and lyric by Stevie Wonder.

(Original Song Score)

Purple Rain, Purple Films Company Production; Warner Bros. Prince.

Short Films

(Animated)

Charade, Sheridan College Production. (Canada) Jon Minnis, Producer.

(Live Action)

Up, Pyramid Films. Mike Hoover, Producer.

Sound

Amadeus, Saul Zaentz Company Production; Orion. (USA, France, Czechoslovakia) Mark Berger, Tom Scott, Todd Boekelheide and Chris Newman.

Special Achievement Award

(Sound Effects Editing)

The River, Universal Pictures Production; Universal. Kay Rose.

Visual Effects

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Lucasfilm, Ltd. Production; Paramount. Dennis Muren, Michael McAlister, Lorne Peterson and George Gibbs.

Writing

(Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium)

Amadeus, Saul Zaentz Company Production; Orion. (USA, France, Czechoslovakia) Peter Shaffer.

(Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)

Places in the Heart, Tri-Star Pictures Production; Tri-Star. Robert Benton.

Honorary Award

To James Stewart for his fifty years of memorable performances. For his high ideals both on and off the screen. With the respect and affection of his colleagues. [ [Statuette]]

To The National Endowment for the Arts in recognition of its 20th anniversary and its dedicated commitment to fostering artistic and creative activity and excellence in every area of the arts. [ [Statuette]]

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

David L. Wolper

Gordon E. Sawyer Award

Linwood G. Dunn

Scientific or Technical Award

(Scientific and Engineering Award)

To Donald A. Anderson and Diana Reiners of 3M Company for the development of “Cinetrak” Magnetic Film #350/351 for motion picture sound recording.

To Barry M. Stultz, Ruben Avila and Wes Kennedy of Film Processing Corporation for the development of FPC 200 PB Fullcoat Magnetic Film for motion picture sound recording.

To Barry M. Stultz, Ruben Avila and Wes Kennedy of Film Processing Corporation for the formulation and application of an improved sound track stripe to 70mm motion picture film, and to John Mosely for the engineering research involved therein.

To Kenneth Richter of Richter Cine Equipment for the design and engineering of the R-2 Auto-Collimator for examining image quality at the focal plane of motion picture camera lenses.

To Gunther Schaidt and Rosco Laboratories, Incorporated, for the development of an improved, non-toxic fluid for creating fog and smoke for motion picture production.

To John Whitney, Jr. and Gary Demos of Digital Productions, Incorporated, for the practical simulation of motion picture photography by means of computer-generated images.

(Technical Achievement Award)

To Nat Tiffen of Tiffen Manufacturing Corporation for the production of high-quality, durable, laminated color filters for motion picture photography.

To Donald Trumbull, Jonathan Erland, Stephen Fog and Paul Burk of Apogee, Incorporated, for the design and development of the “Blue Max” high-power, blue-flux projector for traveling matte composite photography.

To Jonathan Erland and Robert Bealmear of Apogee, Incorporated, for an innovative design for front projection screens and an improved method for their construction.

To Howard J. Preston of Preston Cinema Systems for the design and development of a variable speed control device with automatic exposure compensation for motion picture cameras.