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Events

The Walt Disney Company founds Touchstone Pictures to release movies with subject matter deemed inappropriate for the Disney name.
Tri-Star Pictures, a joint venture of Columbia Pictures, HBO, and CBS, releases its first film.
November 26 - Filming starts on Back to the Future
.
Actress Sharon Stone
marries Michael Greenburg
Michael Eisner becomes head of The Walt Disney Company

Top grossing films

:North America # Ghostbusters
, starring Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray # Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
, starring Harrison Ford # Gremlins # Beverly Hills Cop
, starring Eddie Murphy # Terms of Endearment
(includes some 1983 revenues) # The Karate Kid
# Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
# Police Academy
# Romancing the Stone
, starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner # Sudden Impact
(includes some 1983 revenues) # Footloose
# Splash
# Purple Rain, starring Prince # Amadeus
# The Terminator

Academy Award Winners

Best Film - 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 - Dame Peggy Ashcroft
, A Passage To India

Births

January 3 - Maya Ababadjani
, actress
February 12 - Alexandra Dahlstrom, actress

Deaths

January 20 - Johnny Weissmuller
, actor
January 29 - Frances Goodrich, screenwriter
February 15 - Ethel Merman
, singer, actress
March 1 - Jackie Coogan
, actor
March 24 - Sam Jaffe
, actor
May 16 - Andy Kaufman, comedian
May 21 - Andrea Leeds
, actress
July 27 - James Mason
, British actor
August 4 - Mary Miles Minter
, actress
August 5 - Richard Burton
, actor
September 17 - Richard Basehart
, actor
September 25 - Walter Pidgeon
, actor
October 21 - François Truffaut
, French film director
October 23 - Oskar Werner
, actor
October 25 - Pascale Ogier
, French actress
December 24 - Peter Lawford
, actor
December 28 - Sam Peckinpah, director

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