The 10th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards were announced on 5 December 1984 and given on 24 January 1985.
Winners
*Best Picture:
**''
Amadeus''
**Runner-up: ''
Once Upon a Time in America''
*Best Director:
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Miloš Forman
Jan Tomáš "Miloš" Forman (; ; 18 February 1932 – 13 April 2018) was a Czech Americans, Czech-American film film director, director, screenwriter, actor, and professor who rose to fame in his native Czechoslovakia before emigrating to the Uni ...
- ''
Amadeus''
**Runner-up:
Sergio Leone
Sergio Leone ( ; ; 3 January 1929 – 30 April 1989) was an Italian filmmaker, credited as the pioneer of the spaghetti Western genre. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest directors in the history of cinema.
Leone's film-making style ...
– ''
Once Upon a Time in America''
*Best Actor (tie):
**
F. Murray Abraham – ''
Amadeus''
**
Albert Finney
Albert Finney (9 May 1936 – 7 February 2019) was an English actor. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and worked in the theatre before attaining fame for movie acting during the early 1960s, debuting with '' The Entertainer'' ( ...
– ''
Under the Volcano
''Under the Volcano'' is a novel by the English writer Malcolm Lowry (1909–1957) published in 1947. It tells the story of Geoffrey Firmin, an alcoholic British Consulate general, consul in the Mexican city of Cuernavaca, Quauhnahuac on the D ...
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*Best Actress:
**
Kathleen Turner
Mary Kathleen Turner (born June 19, 1954) is an American actress. Known for her distinctive deep husky voice, she is the recipient of two Golden Globes, as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a Grammy, and two Tony Awards.
After debuting ...
- ''
Crimes of Passion'' and ''
Romancing the Stone''
**Runner-up:
Vanessa Redgrave – ''
The Bostonians''
*Best Supporting Actor:
**
Adolph Caesar - ''
A Soldier's Story''
**Runner-up:
John Malkovich – ''
Places in the Heart'' and ''
The Killing Fields''
*Best Supporting Actress:
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Peggy Ashcroft – ''
A Passage to India''
**Runner-up:
Christine Lahti – ''
Swing Shift''
*Best Screenplay:
**
Peter Shaffer - ''
Amadeus''
**Runner-up:
Alan Rudolph
Alan Steven Rudolph (born December 18, 1943) is an American film director and screenwriter.
Early life
Rudolph was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Oscar Rudolph (1911–1991), a television director and actor, and his wife.
Care ...
– ''
Choose Me''
*Best Cinematography:
**
Chris Menges
Chris Menges BSC, ASC (born 15 September 1940) is a British cinematographer and film director.
He is a member of both the American and British Societies of Cinematographers.
Life and career
Menges was born in Kington, Herefordshire, the ...
– ''
The Killing Fields''
**Runner-up:
Robby Müller – ''
Repo Man'' and ''
Paris, Texas''
*Best Music Score:
**
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone ( , ; 10 November 19286 July 2020) was an Italian composer, Orchestration, orchestrator, conductor, trumpeter, and pianist who wrote music in a wide range of styles. With more than 400 film score, scores for cinema and televisi ...
– ''
Once Upon a Time in America''
**Runner-up: ''
Amadeus''
*Best Foreign Film:
**''
The Fourth Man'' (''De vierde man'') •
Netherlands
, Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...
**Runner-up: ''
The Gods Must Be Crazy'' •
Botswana
Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory part of the Kalahari Desert. It is bordered by South Africa to the sou ...
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South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O ...
*Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award:
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George Kuchar (for the body of his work)
*New Generation Award:
**
Alan Rudolph
Alan Steven Rudolph (born December 18, 1943) is an American film director and screenwriter.
Early life
Rudolph was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Oscar Rudolph (1911–1991), a television director and actor, and his wife.
Care ...
*Career Achievement Award:
**
Rouben Mamoulian
*Special Citation:
**
Andrew Sarris
Andrew Sarris (October 31, 1928 – June 20, 2012) was an American film critic. He was a leading proponent of the auteur theory of film criticism.
Early life
Sarris was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Greek immigrant parents, Themis (née Kat ...
**
François Truffaut
François Roland Truffaut ( , ; ; 6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a French filmmaker, actor, and critic. He is widely regarded as one of the founders of the French New Wave. He came under the tutelage of film critic Andre Bazin as a ...
References
External links
10th Annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
1984
Events
January
* January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888.
* January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeas ...
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Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
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Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
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Its membership comprises film critics from Los Angeles
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