1985 in film

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Events

• 3 December - Roger Moore steps down from the role of James Bond after twelve years and seven films. He is replaced by Timothy Dalton.

Top grossing films

1985 Rank	Title	Studio	Gross
1.	Back to the Future	Universal	$210,609,762
2.	Rambo: First Blood Part II	Tristar	$150,415,432
3.	Rocky IV	United Artist	$127,873,716
4.	The Color Purple	Warner Brothers	$94,175,854
5.	Out Of Africa	Universal	$87,071,205
6.	Cocoon	20th Century Fox	$76,113,124
7.	The Jewel of the Nile	20th Century Fox	$75,973,200
8.	Witness	Paramount	$68,706,993
9.	The Goonies	Warner Brothers	$61,389,680
10.	Spies Like Us	Warner Brothers	$60,088,980

source: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1985&p=.htm

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: Out of Africa - Universal

Best Director: Sydney Pollack - Out of Africa

Best Actor: William Hurt - Kiss of the Spider Woman

Best Actress: Geraldine Page - The Trip to Bountiful

Best Supporting Actor: Don Ameche - Cocoon

Best Supporting Actress: Anjelica Huston - Prizzi's Honor

Best Foreign Language Film: The Official Story (La historia oficial), directed by Luis Puenzo, Argentina

Honorary Award for Lifetime Achievement James Stewart

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: Out of Africa

Best Actor: Jon Voight - Runaway Train

Best Actress: Whoopi Goldberg - The Color Purple

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture: Prizzi's Honor

Best Actor: Jack Nicholson - Prizzi's Honor

Best Actress: Kathleen Turner - Prizzi's Honor

Other

Best Director: John Huston - Prizzi's Honor

Best Foreign Language Film: The Official Story (La historia oficial), Argentina

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

When Father Was Away on Business (Otac na službenom putu), directed by Emir Kusturica, Yugoslavia

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Vagabond (Sans toit ni loi), directed by Agnès Varda, France / U.K.

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Die Frau und der Fremde (The Woman And The Stranger), directed by Rainer Simon, East Germany

Wetherby, directed by David Hare, United Kingdom

Films released in 1985

• The Adventures of a Two-Minute Werewolf
• After Hours
• Back to the Future
• Bad Medicine
• Better Off Dead
• The Black Cauldron
• Brazil
• The Breakfast Club
• Cat's Eye
• The Care Bears Movie
• The Purple Rose of Cairo
• A Chorus Line
• Clue
• The Coca-Cola Kid
• Cocoon
• Code of Silence
• The Color Purple
• Come and See
• Day of the Dead
• Death Wish 3
• Desperately Seeking Susan
• Enemy Mine
• Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
• Explorers
• Fran
• Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning
• Fright Night
• The Malibu Bikini Shop
• Girls Just Want to Have Fun
• The Goonies
• Heaven Help Us
• Insignificance
• Into the Night
• The Jewel of the Nile
• Joshua Then and Now
• King David
• King Solomon's Mines
• Kiss of the Spider Woman
• Ladyhawke
• The Last Dragon
• The Legend of Billie Jean
• Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
• Man Hunt
• The Man with One Red Shoe
• Mask
• National Lampoon's European Vacation
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
• The Official Story (La historia oficial) - Academy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
• One Magic Christmas
• Out of Africa - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture
• My Life as a Dog (Mitt liv som hund) - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film
• National Lampoon's European Vacation
• Pee-wee's Big Adventure
• Phenomena
• Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
• Porky's Revenge
• Prizzi's Honor - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
• Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer
• Rambo: First Blood Part II
• Ran
• Real Genius
• Return of the Living Dead
• Return to Oz
• Rocky IV
• Runaway Train
• Silver Bullet
• The Slugger's Wife
• Smooth Talk
• SpaceBalls
• St. Elmo's Fire
• Subway
• Teen Wolf
• That Was Then... This Is Now
• To Live and Die in L.A.
• Transylvania 6-5000
• The Trip to Bountiful
• 28 Up
• Vagabond (Sans toit ni loi) - Golden Lion award
• ''A View to a Kill'
• Water
• Wetherby - Golden Bear award
• Weird Science
• Wild Geese II (Sir Laurence Olivier's final film role)
• When Father Was Away on Business (Otac na službenom putu) - Palme d'Or award
• Witness
• The Woman And The Stranger (Die Frau und der Fremde) - Golden Bear award

Births

• March 26 - Keira Knightley, actress
• April 16 - Rhiana Griffith, actress
• May 29 - Blake Foster, actor
• June 24 - Kyle Searles, actor

Deaths

• March 21 - Michael Redgrave, actor, father of actresses Vanessa Redgrave & Lynn Redgrave
• April 23 - Kent Smith, actor
• May 16 - Margaret Hamilton, actress, Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz
• August 8 - Louise Brooks, actress
• August 13 - Gale Sondergaard, actress
• August 28 - Ruth Gordon, actress / writer
• September 27 - Lloyd Nolan, actor
• October 2 - Rock Hudson, actor
• October 10 - Yul Brynner, actor
• October 10 - Orson Welles, actor / director
• December 12 - Anne Baxter, actress

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