57th Academy Awards (1985)

Highlights of 57th Academy Awards ceremony

The 57th Academy Awards honored the best films of 1984.
The award ceremony was held on 25th March 1985 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California.
Jack Lemmon was the anchor of the show.
Amadeus won the Best Picture award.
F Murray Abraham won the Best Actor award for his role in Amadeus.
Sally Field won the Best Actess award for her role in Places in the Heart.
Milos Forman won the Best Director award for Amadeus.
- WINNER

Best Picture

Amadeus - Saul Zaentz
The Killing Fields - David Puttnam
A Passage to India - John Brabourne, Richard Goodwin
Places in the Heart - Arlene Donovan
A Soldier's Story - Norman Jewison, Ronald L. Schwary, Patrick Palmer

Best Director

Amadeus - Milos Forman
Broadway Danny Rose - Woody Allen
Places in the Heart - Robert Benton
The Killing Fields - Roland Joffe
A Passage to India - David Lean

Best Original Screenplay

Amadeus - Peter Shaffer
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes - Michael Austin, Robert Towne
The Killing Fields - Bruce Robinson
A Passage to India - David Lean
A Soldier's Story - Charles Fuller

Best Adapted Screenplay

Places in the Heart - Robert Benton
Beverly Hills Cop - Danilo Bach, Daniel Petrie, Jr.
Broadway Danny Rose - Woody Allen
The North - Gregory Nava, Anna Thomas
Splash - Brian Grazer, Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, Bruce Jay Friedman

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Amadeus - F. Murray Abraham
Starman - Jeff Bridges
Under the Volcano - Albert Finney
Amadeus - Tom Hulce
The Killing Fields - Sam Waterston

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Places in the Heart - Sally Field
A Passage to India - Judy Davis
Country - Jessica Lange
The Bostonians - Vanessa Redgrave
The River - Sissy Spacek

Best Supporting Actor

The Killing Fields - Haing S Ngor
A Soldier's Story - Adolph Caesar
Places in the Heart - John Malkovich
The Karate Kid - Noriyuki Pat Morita
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes - Ralph Richardson

Best Supporting Actress

A Passage to India - Peggy Ashcroft
The Natural - Glenn Close
Places in the Heart - Lindsay Crouse
Swing Shift - Christine Lahti
The Pope of Greenwich Village - Geraldine Page

Best Art Direction

Amadeus - Patrizia von Brandstein, Karel Cerny
2010 - Albert Brenner, Rick Simpson
The Cotton Club - Richard Sylbert, George Gaines, Les Bloom
The Natural - Angelo Graham, Mel Bourne, James J. Murakami, Speed Hopkins, Bruce Weintraub
A Passage to India - John Box, Leslie Tomkins, Hugh Scaife

Best Cinematography

The Killing Fields - Chris Menges
Amadeus - Miroslav Ondricek
The Natural - Caleb Deschanel
A Passage to India - Ernest Day
The River - Vilmos Zsigmond

Best Original Song

The Woman in Red - Stevie Wonder for "I Just Called to Say I Love You"
Against All Odds - Phil Collins for "Take a Look at Me Now"
Footloose - Kenny Loggins, Dean Pitchford for "Footloose"
Footloose - Dean Pitchford, Tom Snow for "Let's Hear It for the Boy"
Ghostbusters - Ray Parker, Jr. for "Ghostbusters"

Best Original Score

A Passage to India - Maurice Jarre
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - John Williams
The Natural - Randy Newman
The River - John Williams
Under the Volcano - Alex North

Best Sound Mixing

Amadeus - Mark Berger, Thomas Scott, Todd Boekelheide, Christopher Newman
2010 - Michael J. Kohut, Aaron Rochin, Carlos De Larios, Gene S. Cantamessa
A Passage to India - Graham V. Hartstone, Nicolas Le Messurier, Michael A. Carter, John Mitchell
The River - Nick Alphin, Robert Thirwell, Richard Portman, David Ronne

Best Visual Effects

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - Dennis Muren, Michael J. McAlister, Lorne Peterson, George Gibbs
2010 - Richard Edlund, Neil Krepela, George Jenson, Mark Stetson
Ghostbusters - Richard Edlund, John Bruno, Mark Vargo, Chuck Gasper

Best Costume Design

Amadeus - Theodor Pistek
2010 - Patricia Norris
The Bostonians - Jenny Beavan, John Bright
A Passage to India - Judy Moorcroft
Places in the Heart - Ann Roth

Best Makeup

Amadeus - Dick Smith, Paul LeBlanc
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes - Rick Baker, Paul Engelen

Best Animated Short Film

Charade - Jon Minnis
Doctor De Soto - Morton Schindel, Michael Sporn
Paradise - Ishu Patel

Best Documentary Feature

The Times of Harvey Milk - Robert Epstein, Richard Schmiechen
High Schools - Charles Guggenheim, Nancy Sloss
In the Name of the People - Alex W. Drehsler, Frank Christopher
Marlene - Karel Dirka, Zev Braun
Streetwise - Cheryl McCall

Best Documentary Short Subject

The Stone Carvers - Marjorie Hunt, Paul Wagner
The Children of Soong Ching Ling - Gary Bush, Paul T.K. Lin
Code Gray - Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing - Ben Achtenberg, Joan Sawyer
The Garden of Eden - Lawrence R. Hott, Roger M. Sherman
Recollections of Pavlovsk - Irina Kalinina

Best Foreign Language Film

Dangerous Moves
Beyond the Walls
Camila
Double Feature
Wartime Romance

Academy Honorary Award

James Stewart for "His fifty years of memorable performances."

Best Live Action Short Film

Up - Mike Hoover
The Painted Door - Michael MacMillan, Janice L. Platt
Tales of Meeting and Parting - Sharon Oreck, Lesli Linka Glatter

Best Film Editing

The Killing Fields - Jim Clark
Amadeus - Nena Danevic, Michael Chandler
The Cotton Club - Barry Malkin, Robert Q. Lovett
A Passage to India - David Lean
Romancing the Stone - Donn Cambern, Frank Morriss

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

David L. Wolper

Best Original Musical or Comedy Score

Purple Rain - Prince
The Muppets Take Manhattan - Jeff Moss
Songwriter - Kris Kristofferson
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