ACADEMY AWARD WINNER HISTORY

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The Academy Awards Year 1978 was held at Los Angeles, California, USA on April 9 1984

BEST PICTURE 1985 WINNER

AMADEUS (1984)

Director : Milos Forman
Writer : Peter Shaffer (screenplay)
Genre : Biography | Drama | Music
Main Cast : F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge

Plot : Antonio Salieri believes that Mozart’s music is divine. He wishes he was himself as good a musician as Mozart so that he can praise the Lord through composing. But he can’t understand why God favored Mozart, such a vulgar creature, to be his instrument. Salieri’s envy has made him an enemy of God whose greatness was evident in Mozart. He is set to take revenge. —IMDb

 

 

 

 

 

 

OTHER NOMINEES

THE KILLING FIELDS (1984)

Director : Roland Joffé
Writer : Bruce Robinson (screenplay)
Genre : Drama | History | War
Main Cast : Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich

Plot : Sydney Schanberg is a New York Times journalist covering the civil war in Cambodia. Together with local representative Dith Pran, they cover some of the tragedy and madness of the war. When the American forces leave, Dith Pran sends his family with them, but stays behind himself to help Schanberg cover the event. As an American, Schanberg won’t have any trouble leaving the country, but the situation is different for Pran; he’s a local, and the Khmer Rouge are moving in. —IMDb

 

 

A PASSAGE TO INDIA (1984)

Director : David Lean
Writer : E.M. Forster
Genre : Adventure | Drama | History
Main Cast : Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft

Plot : Tensions between Indians and the colonial British come to a boil when a white female tourist accuses a young Indian doctor of rape during a visit to some caverns. A study of colonial relations and the nature of memory. Based on E. M. Forster’s novel. —IMDb

 

 

 

 

 

PLACES IN THE HEART (1984)

Director : Robert Benton
Writer : Robert Benton
Genre : Drama
Main Cast : Sally Field, Lindsay Crouse, Ed Harris

Plot : Edna Spalding finds herself alone and broke on a small farm in the midst of the Great Depression when her husband the Sheriff is killed in an accident. A wandering black man, Moses, helps her to plant cotton to try and keep her farm and her kids together. She also takes on a blind border, Mr. Will, who lost his sight in the first World War. She must endure storms and harsh labor to try and make her mortgage payment on time. —IMDb

 

 

 

A SOLDIER’S STORY (1984)

Director : Norman Jewison
Writer : Charles Fuller (screenplay)
Genre : Drama | Mystery | War
Main Cast : Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid

Plot : A black soldier is killed while returning to his base in the deep south. The white people of the area are suspected at first. A tough black army attorney is brought in to find out the truth. We find out a bit more about the dead soldier in flashbacks – and that he was unpopular. Will the attorney find the killer ? —IMDb

 

 

 

 

 

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM WINNER 1985

LA DIAGONALE DU FOU (1984)

Also Known As : Dangerous Moves
Country : Switzerland
Director : Richard Dembo
Writer : Richard Dembo (written by)
Genre : Drama | Thriller
Main Cast : Michel Piccoli, Alexandre Arbatt, Liv Ullmann

Plot : This unusual Swiss movie was the surprise winner of the 1985 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. The story is set in Geneva in 1983 during the World Chess Championship. The two players are Akiva Liebskind (Michel Piccoli), a 52-year-old Soviet master who comes to the competition with an inflated ego and an ailing heart, and Pavius Fromm (Alexander Arbatt), an unpredictable 35-year-old Soviet dissident who fled to the West five years ago and cannot wait to make Russia look bad.

 

 

 

OTHER NOMINEES

ME ‘AHOREI HASORAGIM (1984)

Also Known As : Beyond The Law
Country : Israel
Director : Uri Barbash
Writer : Benny Barbash, Uri Barbash
Genre : Drama | Music | Musical | Romance
Main Cast : Arnon Zadok, Mohammed Bakri and Assi Dayan

Plot : In Israel’s Central Prison, the security officer is corrupt, supplying drugs and stirring the hatred between Jewish and Arab prisoners to his advantage. Uri, in for 12 years for armed robbery, and Issan, in for 50 years for PLO violence, command the respect of their cells. When the Arabs are framed for the murder of a Jewish prisoner and a young inmate commits suicide rather than lie about what happened, Uri and Issan form an unlikely partnership, leading the security block on a strike. Prison officials try to break it. In the background are Uri’s daughter and Issan’s wife, women of beauty and passion who embody the distance from inside a cell to the outside. —IMDb

 

CAMILA (1984)

Also Known As : Camila
Country : Argentina
Director : María Luisa Bemberg
Writer : María Luisa Bemberg, Beda Docampo Feijóo et al.
Genre : Drama | History | Romance
Main Cast : Susú Pecoraro, Imanol Arias, Héctor Alterio

Plot : In 1840′s Buenos Aires, Argentina, a beautiful young socialite named Camila falls in love with Ladislao, a Jesuit priest. After several failed attempts at fighting his own feelings, he ultimately succumbs to her. The two later escape to a far off, secluded village where they assume new identities as husband and wife and begin running a children’s school. After several months of relative happiness, the couple’s identity is discovered by a local priest. Under moralistic pressure from both Camila’s family and the Catholic church the authorities apprehend the lovers, and imprison them for sacrilege. —IMDb

 

SESIÓN CONTINUA (1984)

Also Known As : Double Feature
Country : Spain
Director : José Luis Garci
Writer : José Luis Garci
Genre : Drama
Main Cast : Adolfo Marsillach, Jesús Puente, María Casanova

Plot : The film tells the story of the relationship and friendship of two men who are both very much affected by the cinema: Both of them are writers, one of books the other of screenplays.

 

 

 

 

 

VOENNO-POLEVOY ROMAN (1983)

Also Known As : War-Time Romance
Country : Soviet Union
Director : Pyotr Todorovskiy
Writer : Pyotr Todorovskiy
Genre : Drama | Romance
Main Cast : Nikolay Burlyaev, Natalya Andreychenko and Inna Churikova

Plot : This melodrama revolves around the post-war meeting reunion an intelligent front-line officer, now happily married, and a woman street vendor. This encounter reawakens in them submerged feelings of gratitude and tenderness as the officer recalls how they met during the war and what she used to mean to him. Now he learns that she is alone with a small daughter, the girl’s father having been killed at the front. Naturally, he seeks to help them but his wife is not so understanding.