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1 Events
2 Top grossing films (U.S.)
3 Awards
4 Films released in 1985
5 Births
6 Deaths
7 Film debuts

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.)

Rank	Title	Studio	Actors	Gross
1.	Back to the Future	Universal	Michael J. Fox	$210,609,762
2.	Rambo: First Blood Part II	TriStar	Sylvester Stallone	$150,415,432
3.	Rocky IV	United Artists	Sylvester Stallone	$127,873,716
4.	The Color Purple	Warner Brothers	Whoopi Goldberg and Danny Glover	$94,175,854
5.	Out Of Africa	Universal	Meryl Streep and Robert Redford	$87,071,205
6.	Cocoon	20th Century Fox	Don Ameche, Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy	$76,113,124
7.	The Jewel of the Nile	20th Century Fox	Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner	$75,973,200
8.	Witness	Paramount	Harrison Ford	$68,706,993
9.	Prizzi's Honor	20th Century Fox	Jack Nicholson and Kathleen Turner	$61,389,680
10.	A View to a Kill	MGM	Roger Moore, Christopher Walken and Tanya Roberts	$60,088,980

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

1985 films

Argentine · American · Bollywood · British · French · Hong Kong · Italian · Japanese · Mexican · Pakistan · South Korea · Spanish

The Adventures of a Two-Minute Werewolf
The Adventures of Mark Twain
After Hours - directed by Martin Scorsese; starring Griffin Dunne
Agnes of God - directed by Norman Jewison; starring Jane Fonda, Anne Bancroft and Meg Tilly
American Ninja
The Annihilators
Avenging Angel
Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend with Sean Young and William Katt
Back to the Future - starring Michael J. Fox (as Marty McFly) and Christopher Lloyd (as "Doc." Emmett L. Brown); 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 - starring Emilio Estevez, Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Michael Hall, Paul Gleason and John Kapelos
Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
Cat's Eye - starring Drew Barrymore
The Care Bears Movie
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Certain Fury
A Chorus Line
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
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
Commando - starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong and Alyssa Milano
Crazy Construction - starring Tim Allen
Creature
Crimewave
Dance with a Stranger by Mike Newell with Rupert Everett and Miranda Richardson
Day of the Dead
Death Wish 3
Desperately Seeking Susan - starring Rosanna Arquette, Madonna and Aidan Quinn
The Devastator
Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart
The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission
Enemy Mine - directed by Wolfgang Petersen; starring Dennis Quaid and Louis Gossett, Jr.
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
Explorers - starring Ethan Hawke and River Phoenix
Fandango with Kevin Costner
Final Justice
Fletch
Follow That Bird Feature film based on Sesame Street- starring Big Bird, Dave Thomas, Joe Flaherty
Fran
Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning
Fright Night - starring William Ragsdale, Chris Sarandon, Roddy McDowall and Amanda Bearse
The Malibu Bikini Shop
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
The Goonies - starring Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Jeff Cohen, Corey Feldman, Kerri Green, Jonathan Ke Quan and Martha Plimpton
Gymkata
Heaven Help Us
Here Come the Littles
Insignificance
Into the Night - starring Jeff Goldblum and Michelle Pfeiffer
Invasion U.S.A.
Jagged Edge - starring Glenn Close, Jeff Bridges, Robert Loggia and Peter Coyote
The Jewel of the Nile - starring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito
Joshua Then and Now
King David
King Solomon's Mines
Kiss of the Spider Woman - starring William Hurt, Raúl Juliá and Sonia Braga
Ladyhawke - starring Matthew Broderick, Michelle Pfeiffer and Rutger Hauer
The Last Dragon
Legend
The Legend of Billie Jean - starring Helen Slater
Lost In America
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome - starring Mel Gibson and Tina Turner
Man Hunt
The Man with One Red Shoe
Mask - starring Eric Stoltz, Cher and Sam Elliott
The Mean Season
Missing In Action 2: The Beginning
Murphy's Romance - starring Sally Field, James Garner, Brian Kerwin and Corey Haim
My Beautiful Laundrette with Daniel Day Lewis
My Life as a Dog (Mitt liv som hund) - 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
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
Pale Rider - starring Clint Eastwood
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Phenomena
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
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
Radioactive Dreams
Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer
Rambo: First Blood Part II - starring Sylvester Stallone
Ran
Real Genius - starring Val Kilmer
Red Sonja
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
Return of the Living Dead
Return to Oz
Revolution - starring Al Pacino
Rocky IV - starring Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Dolph Lundgren, Carl Weathers and Burt Young
Runaway Train - starring Jon Voight, Eric Roberts and Rebecca De Mornay
Santa Claus: The Movie
The Secret of the Sword
Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird
Silver Bullet - starring Gary Busey, Corey Haim, Megan Follows and Everett McGill
Silverado
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
Subway
The Sure Thing
Sweet Dreams - starring Jessica Lange and Ed Harris
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. - starring William Petersen and Willem Dafoe
Transylvania 6-5000
The Trip to Bountiful - starring Geraldine Page, John Heard and Rebecca De Mornay
Tuff Turf
Twice in a Lifetime - starring Gene Hackman, Ellen Burstyn, Ann-Margret and Amy Madigan
28 Up
Vagabond (Sans toit ni loi) - Golden Lion award
Vampire Hunter D
A View to a Kill
Vision Quest - starring Matthew Modine and Linda Fiorentino
Water
Wetherby - Golden Bear award
Weird Science - starring Kelly LeBrock, Anthony Michael Hall and Ilan Mitchell-Smith
Wild Geese II
When Father Was Away on Business (Otac na službenom putu) - Palme d'Or award
Wheels Of Fire
Witness - 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 by Michael Cimino with Mickey Rourke
Young Sherlock Holmes

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

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

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