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.
• The Academy Award for Best Picture was won by Out Of Africa, while the highest grossing film was Back to the Future.
• Bliss wins AFI Award for best Movie (Australia).

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank	Title	Studio	Actors	Director	Gross
1.	Back to the Future	Universal	Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, Thomas F. Wilson	Robert Zemeckis	$210,609,762
2.	Rambo: First Blood Part II	TriStar	Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Julia Nickson-Soul	George Pan Cosmatos	$150,415,432
3.	Rocky IV	United Artists	Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Carl Weathers, Burt Young, Brigitte Nielsen, Dolph Lundgren	Sylvester Stallone	$127,873,716
4.	The Color Purple	Warner Bros.	Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Margaret Avery, Oprah Winfrey, Adolph Caesar, Rae Dawn Chong	Steven Spielberg	$94,175,854
5.	Out Of Africa	Universal	Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer	Sydney Pollack	$87,071,205
6.	Cocoon	Fox	Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Brian Dennehy, Steve Guttenberg, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Tahnee Welch	Ron Howard	$76,113,124
7.	The Jewel of the Nile	Fox	Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito	Lewis Teague	$75,973,200
8.	Witness	Paramount	Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Lukas Haas	Peter Weir	$68,706,993
9.	The Goonies	Warner Bros.	Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Jeff Cohen, Corey Feldman, Kerri Green, Martha Plimpton, Ke Huy Quan	Richard Donner	$61,389,680
10.	Spies Like Us	Warner Bros.	Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd	John Landis	$60,088,980

Awards (1986)

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

Razzie Awards

Worst Picture: Rambo: First Blood Part II

Worst Director: Sylvester Stallone - Rocky IV

Worst Actor: Sylvester Stallone - Rambo: First Blood Part II and Rocky IV

Worst Actress: Linda Blair - Night Patrol, Savage Island and Savage Streets

Worst Supporting Actor: Rob Lowe - St. Elmo's Fire

Worst Supporting Actress: Brigitte Nielsen - Rocky IV

Worst New Star: Brigitte Nielsen - Red Sonja and Rocky IV

Films released in 1985

• 28 Up

A-C

• The Adventures of a Two-Minute Werewolf
• The Adventures of Mark Twain
• After Hours, directed by Martin Scorsese; starring Griffin Dunne and Rosanna Arquette
• Agnes of God, directed by Norman Jewison; starring Jane Fonda, Anne Bancroft, Meg Tilly
• Alamo Bay, directed by Louis Malle, starring Ed Harris and Amy Madigan
• American Flyers, starring Kevin Costner
• American Ninja
• Angry Harvest, starring Armin Mueller-Stahl
• The Annihilators
• The Assam Garden, starring Deborah Kerr and Madhur Jaffrey
• Avenging Angel

• Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend, starring Sean Young and William Katt
• Back to the Future, directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd - the first of Back to the Future trilogy
• Bad Medicine, starring Steve Guttenberg
• Better Off Dead, starring John Cusack
• Black Arrow, starring Oliver Reed
• The Black Cauldron
• The Boys Next Door, starring Maxwell Caulfield and Charlie Sheen
• Brazil, directed by Terry Gilliam, starring Jonathan Pryce and Robert De Niro
• The Breakfast Club, directed by John Hughes, starring Emilio Estevez, Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Michael Hall, Paul Gleason
• Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
• Brewster's Millions, starring Richard Pryor and John Candy
• Butterfly and Flowers (Peesua lae dokmai)

• Cat's Eye, starring Drew Barrymore, James Woods, Robert Hays
• The Care Bears Movie
• Certain Fury
• Chicken with Vinegar (Poulet au Vinaigre), directed by Claude Chabrol
• A Chorus Line, directed by Richard Attenborough, starring Michael Douglas and Alyson Reed
• Clue, starring Tim Curry, Eileen Brennan, Michael McKean, Lesley Ann Warren, Christopher Lloyd, Madeline Kahn, Martin Mull
• The Coca-Cola Kid, starring Eric Roberts and Greta Scacchi
• Cocaine Wars
• Cocoon, directed by Ron Howard; starring Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Steve Guttenberg, Barret Oliver, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy
• Code of Silence, directed by Andrew Davis; starring Chuck Norris and Molly Hagan
• Code of Vengeance
• Colonel Redl, directed by Istvan Szabo, starring Klaus Maria Brandauer
• The Color Purple, directed by Steven Spielberg; starring Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Margaret Avery, Adolph Caesar, Rae Dawn Chong, Oprah Winfrey
• Come and See (Idi i smotri)
• Commando, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong, Alyssa Milano
• Compromising Positions, starring Susan Sarandon and Raúl Juliá
• Crazy Construction starring Tim Allen
• Creature
• Crimewave

D-F

• Dance with a Stranger, directed by Mike Newell, starring Rupert Everett and Miranda Richardson
• Day of the Dead, directed by George A. Romero - the final part of Romero's zombie trilogy
• Death in a French Garden (Péril en la demeure)
• Death Wish 3, starring Charles Bronson
• Defense of the Realm
• Desperately Seeking Susan - directed by Susan Seidelman, starring Rosanna Arquette, Madonna and Aidan Quinn
• The Devastator
• Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart, directed by Wayne Wang
• The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission

• The Emerald Forest, directed by John Boorman
• Enemy Mine, directed by Wolfgang Petersen; starring Dennis Quaid and Louis Gossett, Jr.
• Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
• Explorers - directed by Joe Dante, starring Ethan Hawke and River Phoenix

• The Falcon and the Snowman, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Timothy Hutton and Sean Penn
• Fandango, starring Kevin Costner
• Fever Pitch, directed by Richard Brooks, starring Ryan O'Neal, Giancarlo Giannini, Chad Everett, Catherine Hicks
• Final Justice, starring Joe Don Baker
• Fire Festival
• Flesh & Blood, starring Rutger Hauer and Jennifer Jason Leigh
• Fletch, starring Chevy Chase
• Follow That Bird, feature film based on Sesame Street, starring Big Bird, Dave Thomas, Joe Flaherty
• Fool for Love, directed by Robert Altman, starring Sam Shepard and Kim Basinger
• Fran
• Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning
• Fright Night, starring William Ragsdale, Chris Sarandon, Roddy McDowall, Amanda Bearse

G-H

• Ghoulies
• Girls Just Want to Have Fun, starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Helen Hunt
• The Goonies - directed by Richard Donner, starring Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Jeff Cohen, Corey Feldman, Jonathan Ke Quan, Martha Plimpton
• Gymkata, starring Kurt Thomas

• Hail Mary, directed by Jean-Luc Godard
• Heaven Help Us, starring Andrew McCarthy and Mary Stuart Masterson
• Here Come the Littles
• The Home and the World (Ghare Baire), directed by Satyajit Ray

I-K

• Insignificance, directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring Theresa Russell, Tony Curtis, Gary Busey
• Into the Night, starring Jeff Goldblum and Michelle Pfeiffer
• Invasion U.S.A., starring Chuck Norris

• Jagged Edge, directed by Richard Marquand, starring Glenn Close, Jeff Bridges, Robert Loggia, Peter Coyote
• The Jewel of the Nile, directed by Lewis Teague, starring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito
• Joshua Then and Now
• The Journey of Natty Gann, starring Meredith Salenger and John Cusack
• Just One of the Guys, starring Joyce Hyser

• King David, starring Richard Gere
• King Solomon's Mines, starring Richard Chamberlain and Sharon Stone
• Kiss of the Spider Woman, directed by Hector Babenco, starring William Hurt, Raúl Juliá, Sonia Braga

L-N

• Ladyhawke, starring Matthew Broderick, Michelle Pfeiffer and Rutger Hauer
• The Last Dragon
• Latino
• Legend, directed by Ridley Scott, starring Tom Cruise, Mia Sara and Tim Curry
• The Legend of Billie Jean, starring Helen Slater
• Letter to Brezhnev
• Lost In America, directed by and starring Albert Brooks with Julie Hagerty

• Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, starring Mel Gibson and Tina Turner
• The Malibu Bikini Shop
• Man Hunt
• The Man with One Red Shoe, starring Tom Hanks
• Mask, directed by Peter Bogdanovich, starring Eric Stoltz, Cher and Sam Elliott
• Maxie, starring Glenn Close, Mandy Patinkin and Valerie Curtin
• The Mean Season, starring Kurt Russell
• Mirch Masala
• Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, directed by Paul Schrader
• Missing in Action 2: The Beginning
• Murphy's Romance, starring Sally Field, James Garner, Brian Kerwin and Corey Haim
• My Beautiful Laundrette, directed by Stephen Frears, starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Gordon Warnecke
• My Life as a Dog (Mitt liv som hund), directed by Lasse Halstrom - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film
• My Science Project

• Naked Vengeance
• National Lampoon's European Vacation, starring Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
• Nine Deaths of the Ninja

O-Q

• The Official Story (La historia oficial) - Academy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
• Once Bitten, starring Lauren Hutton and Jim Carrey in his first major role.
• One Magic Christmas
• Ordeal by Innocence, starring Donald Sutherland and Christopher Plummer
• Out of Africa directed by Sydney Pollack; starring Meryl Streep, Robert Redford and Klaus Maria Brandauer; Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards
• Out of Control

• Pale Rider, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood with Michael Moriarty and Carrie Snodgress
• The Peanut Butter Solution
• Pee-wee's Big Adventure, directed by Tim Burton, starring Paul Reubens
• Perfect, directed by James Bridges, starring John Travolta and Jamie Lee Curtis
• Phenomena
• Plenty, starring Meryl Streep, Sam Neill, Tracey Ullman, and Sting
• Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment, starring Steve Guttenberg, George Gaynes, Colleen Camp and Bubba Smith
• Police Story (Ging chat goo si), directed by and starring Jackie Chan
• Porky's Revenge
• Private Resort, starring Johnny Depp, Rob Morrow and Andrew Dice Clay
• Prizzi's Honor, directed by John Huston; starring Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, Anjelica Huston and William Hickey; Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
• The Protector
• The Purple Rose of Cairo, directed by Woody Allen, starring Mia Farrow and Jeff Daniels

• The Quiet Earth

R-S

• Radioactive Dreams
• Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer
• Rambo: First Blood Part II, starring Sylvester Stallone
• Ran, directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Tatsuya Nakadai and Mieko Harada
• Re-Animator
• Real Genius, starring Val Kilmer
• Red Sonja, starring Brigitte Nielsen, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sandahl Bergman
• Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, starring Fred Ward, Kate Mulgrew and Joel Grey
• Rendez-vous, starring Juliette Binoche and Jean-Louis Trintignant
• Restless Natives
• Return of the Living Dead
• Return to Oz
• Revolution, directed by Hugh Hudson, starring Al Pacino, Donald Sutherland and Nastassja Kinski
• Rocky IV, starring Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Dolph Lundgren, Carl Weathers, Brigitte Nielsen and Burt Young
• A Room with a View, directed by James Ivory, starring Maggie Smith and Helena Bonham Carter
• Runaway Train, starring Jon Voight, Eric Roberts and Rebecca De Mornay
• Rustlers' Rhapsody, starring Tom Berenger, Marilu Henner, Sela Ward and Andy Griffith

• Santa Claus: The Movie, starring Dudley Moore
• Scorpio Nights
• Secret Admirer, starring C. Thomas Howell
• The Secret of the Sword
• Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird
• The Shooting Party, starring James Mason and John Gielgud
• Silver Bullet, starring Gary Busey, Corey Haim, Megan Follows and Everett McGill
• Silverado, directed by Lawrence Kasdan, starring Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Danny Glover and Kevin Costner
• The Slugger's Wife, directed by Hal Ashby, starring Michael O'Keefe and Rebecca De Mornay
• Smooth Talk, starring Laura Dern and Treat Williams
• Spies Like Us, starring Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase
• St. Elmo's Fire, directed by Joel Schumacher; starring Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy and Mare Winningham
• Starchaser: The Legend of Orin
• Stick, directed by and starring Burt Reynolds with Candice Bergen, Charles Durning and George Segal
• Subway, directed by Luc Besson, starring Isabelle Adjani and Christopher Lambert
• Summer Rental, directed by Carl Reiner, starring John Candy, Rip Torn and Richard Crenna
• The Sure Thing, directed by Rob Reiner, starring John Cusack, Daphne Zuniga and Nicollette Sheridan
• Sweet Dreams, a biopic of Patsy Cline starring Jessica Lange and Ed Harris

T-V

• Target, starring Gene Hackman and Matt Dillon
• Teen Wolf, starring Michael J. Fox
• That Was Then... This Is Now, starring Emilio Estevez
• That's Dancing!
• To Live and Die in L.A., directed by William Friedkin, starring William Petersen and Willem Dafoe
• Transylvania 6-5000, starring Jeff Goldblum, Ed Begley, Jr. and Geena Davis
• The Trip to Bountiful, starring Geraldine Page, John Heard and Rebecca De Mornay
• Trouble in Mind, starring Kris Kristofferson, Genevieve Bujold and Keith Carradine
• Tuff Turf
• Turk 182!, starring Timothy Hutton, Robert Urich and Kim Cattrall
• Turtle Diary, starring Glenda Jackson and Ben Kingsley
• Twice in a Lifetime, starring Gene Hackman, Ellen Burstyn, Ann-Margret and Amy Madigan

• Vagabond (Sans toit ni loi), directed by Agnes Varda - Golden Lion award
• Vampire Hunter D
• A View to a Kill, starring Roger Moore as James Bond with Christopher Walken, Tanya Roberts and Grace Jones
• Vision Quest, starring Matthew Modine and Linda Fiorentino
• Volunteers, starring Tom Hanks, John Candy and Rita Wilson

W-Z

• Water
• Wetherby, directed by David Hare, starring Vanessa Redgrave and Ian Holm - Golden Bear award
• Weird Science, directed by John Hughes, starring Kelly LeBrock, Anthony Michael Hall and Ilan Mitchell-Smith
• Wild Geese II
• Wheels Of Fire
• When Father Was Away on Business (Otac na službenom putu) - Palme d'Or award
• White Nights, directed by Taylor Hackford, starring Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines and Helen Mirren
• Witness, directed by Peter Weir, starring Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis and Lukas Haas
• The Woman and the Stranger (Die Frau und der Fremde) - Golden Bear award

• Year of the Dragon, directed by Michael Cimino, starring Mickey Rourke and John Lone
• Young Sherlock Holmes, directed by Barry Levinson, starring Nicholas Rowe, Alan Cox and Anthony Higgins

• A Zed and Two Noughts, directed by Peter Greenaway

Births

• January 18 - Sidney Thomas, actor
• February 7 - Tina Majorino, American actress
• March 13 - Emile Hirsch, American actor
• March 15 - Eva Amurri, American actress
• March 15 - Kellan Lutz, American actor
• March 26 - Keira Knightley, British actress
• April 16 - Rhiana Griffith, actress
• May 10 - Odette Yustman, American actress
• May 28 - Carey Mulligan, English actress
• May 29 - Blake Foster, actor
• June 24 - Kyle Searles, actor
• July 2 -Ashley Tisdale, American actress and singer
• July 18 - Chace Crawford, American actor
• September 16 - Madeline Zima, American actress
• October 11 - Michelle Trachtenberg, American actress
• November 30 - Kaley Cuoco, American actress
• December 3 - Amanda Seyfried, American actress and singer
• December 5 - Frankie Muniz, American actor
• December 10 - Raven-Symone, American actress and singer

Deaths

• February 20 - Clarence Nash, voice actor
• 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
• May 22 - Wolfgang Reitherman, director, 101 Dalmatians
• 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
• November 1 - Phil Silvers, actor
• November 15 - Dimitar Panov, actor / director
• December 12 - Anne Baxter, actress
• December 26 - Margarete Schön, actress

Film debuts

• Sean Astin - The Goonies
• Josh Brolin - The Goonies
• Linda Fiorentino - Vision Quest
• Whoopi Goldberg - The Color Purple
• Ethan Hawke - Explorers
• LL Cool J - Krush Groove
• Viggo Mortensen - Witness
• Brigitte Nielsen - Red Sonja
• River Phoenix - Explorers
• Billy Zane - Back to the Future
• Christian Slater - The Legend of Billie Jean
• Yeardley Smith - Heaven Help Us
• Blair Underwood - Krush Groove
• Oprah Winfrey - The Color Purple
• Miranda Richardson - Dance with a Stranger
• Stephen Fry - The Good Father
• John Leguizamo - Mixed Blood
• Rob Morrow - Private Resort
• Patrick Dempsey; Heaven Help Us
• Elias Koteas - One Magic Christmas
• Stanley Tucci - Prizzi's Honor
• Kyra Sedgwick
• Danny Trejo - Runaway Train
• Tom Lister, Jr. - Runaway Train
• Joan Allen - Compromising Positions