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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.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

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

Razzie Awards

Worst New Star: Brigette Nielsen - Red Sonja

Films released in 1985

• 28 Up

A

• 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 and Meg Tilly
• American Ninja
• Angry Harvest, starring Armin Mueller-Stahl
• The Annihilators
• Avenging Angel

B

• Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend with 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
• Better Off Dead - starring John Cusack
• The Black Cauldron
• The Boys Next Door - starring Maxwell Caulfield, 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 and Paul Gleason
• Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo

C

• Cat's Eye - starring Drew Barrymore
• The Care Bears Movie
• Certain Fury
• A Chorus Line - directed by Richard Attenborough, starring Michael Douglas and Alyson Reed
• Clue
• The Coca-Cola Kid
• Cocaine Wars
• Cocoon - directed by Ron Howard; starring Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Steve Guttenberg, Barret Oliver, Maureen Stapleton and Jessica Tandy
• Code of Silence
• 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 and Oprah Winfrey
• Come and See (Idi i smotri)
• Commando - starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong and Alyssa Milano
• Crazy Construction - starring Tim Allen
• Creature
• Crimewave

D

• Dance with a Stranger - directed by Mike Newell with Rupert Everett and Miranda Richardson
• Day of the Dead - directed by George A. Romero - the final part of Romero's zombie trilogy
• Death Wish 3
• 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
• The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission

E

• 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

F

• The Falcon and the Snowman, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Timothy Hutton and Sean Penn
• Fandango with Kevin Costner
• Final Justice
• Flesh & Blood
• 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
• Fran
• Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning
• Fright Night - starring William Ragsdale, Chris Sarandon, Roddy McDowall and Amanda Bearse

G

• Girls Just Want to Have Fun
• The Goonies - directed by Richard Donner, starring Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Jeff Cohen, Corey Feldman, Jonathan Ke Quan and Martha Plimpton
• Gymkata

H

• Hail Mary, directed by Jean-Luc Godard
• Heaven Help Us
• Here Come the Littles

I

• Insignificance, directed by Nicolas Roeg
• Into the Night - starring Jeff Goldblum and Michelle Pfeiffer
• Invasion U.S.A.

J

• Jagged Edge - directed by Richard Marquand, starring Glenn Close, Jeff Bridges, Robert Loggia and Peter Coyote
• The Jewel of the Nile - directed by Lewis Teague, starring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito
• Joshua Then and Now
• The Journey of Natty Gann

K

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

L

• 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

M

• Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome - starring Mel Gibson and Tina Turner
• The Malibu Bikini Shop
• Man Hunt
• The Man with One Red Shoe
• Mask - directed by Peter Bogdanovich, starring Eric Stoltz, Cher and Sam Elliott
• The Mean Season
• 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

N

• 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

• The Official Story (La historia oficial) - Academy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
• Once Bitten - starring Jim Carrey in his first major role.
• One Magic Christmas
• 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

P

• 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
• Phenomena
• Plenty, starring Meryl Streep
• Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
• Police Story (Ging chat goo si), directed by and starring Jackie Chan
• Porky's Revenge
• Private Resort
• 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

Q

• The Quiet Earth

R

• 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
• Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
• 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 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 and Andy Griffith

S

• Santa Claus: The Movie
• Scorpio Nights
• Secret Admirer
• The Secret of the Sword
• Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird
• The Shooting Party
• Silver Bullet - starring Gary Busey, Corey Haim, Megan Follows and Everett McGill
• Silverado - directed by Lawrence Kasdan, starring Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn and Kevin Costner
• The Slugger's Wife
• Smooth Talk
• 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
• Subway - directed by Luc Besson, starring Isabelle Adjani and Christopher Lambert
• The Sure Thing - directed by Rob Reiner, starring John Cusack and Daphne Zuniga
• Sweet Dreams, a biopic of Patsy Cline starring Jessica Lange and Ed Harris

'T

• Target with Gene Hackman and Matt Dillon
• Teen Wolf - starring Michael J. Fox
• That Was Then... This Is Now
• That's Dancing!
• To Live and Die in L.A. - directed by William Friedkin, starring William Petersen and Willem Dafoe
• Transylvania 6-5000
• The Trip to Bountiful - starring Geraldine Page, John Heard and Rebecca De Mornay
• Tuff Turf
• Turk 182!
• Turtle Diary, starring Glenda Jackson and Ben Kingsley
• Twice in a Lifetime - starring Gene Hackman, Ellen Burstyn, Ann-Margret and Amy Madigan

V

• 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

W

• 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
• 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

Y

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

Z

• 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 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

Film debuts

• Whoopi Goldberg; The Color Purple
• Oprah Winfrey; The Color Purple
• Christian Slater; The Legend of Billie Jean
• Ethan Hawke; Explorers
• LL Cool J; Krush Groove
• Blair Underwood; Krush Groove
• Viggo Mortensen; Witness
• Yeardley Smith; Heaven Help Us
• Sean Astin; The Goonies
• Josh Brolin; The Goonies
• Kerri Green; The Goonies