Alternate Oscars: 1984

* = winner

BEST PICTURE:

Amadeus

The Hit

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Streets of Fire

This Is Spinal Tap*

BEST DIRECTOR:

Milos Forman, Amadeus

Stephen Frears, The Hit

Walter Hill, Streets of Fire*

Rob Reiner, This Is Spinal Tap

Steven Spielberg, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

BEST ACTOR:

Philip Baker Hall, Secret Honor

John Hurt, The Hit*

Eddie Murphy, Beverly Hills Cop

Terence Stamp, The Hit

Harry Dean Stanton, Paris, Texas

BEST ACTRESS:

Judy Davis, A Passage to India

Mia Farrow, Broadway Danny Rose

Frances McDormand, Blood Simple*

Gena Rowlands, Love Streams

Kathleen Turner, Romancing the Stone

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:

Richard Burton, 1984

Adolph Caesar, A Soldier's Story

Christopher Guest, This Is Spinal Tap

Pat Morita, The Karate Kid

M. Emmet Walsh, Blood Simple*

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

Peggy Ashcroft, A Passage to India

Melanie Griffith, Body Double

Nastassja Kinski, Paris, Texas*

Geraldine Page, The Pope of Greenwich Village

Tuesday Weld, Once Upon a Time in America

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:

Amadeus*

The Killing Fields

Love Streams

Once Upon a Time in America

A Passage to India

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:

Beverly Hills Cop

Blood Simple

The Hit

Stranger than Paradise

This Is Spinal Tap*

BEST ART DIRECTION:

Amadeus*

The Cotton Club

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Once Upon a Time in America

Streets of Fire

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

Amadeus

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Once Upon a Time in America*

Paris, Texas

Streets of Fire

BEST COSTUME DESIGN:

Amadeus*

The Cotton Club

Once Upon a Time in America

Purple Rain

Streets of Fire

BEST FILM EDITING:

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Romancing the Stone

Stop Making Sense*

Streets of Fire

This Is Spinal Tap

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:

Beverly Hills Cop

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

The Natural

Once Upon a Time in America

This Is Spinal Tap*

BEST ORIGINAL SONG:

"Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)" from Against All Odds

"Footloose" from Footloose

"Ghostbusters" from Ghostbusters

"Purple Rain" from Purple Rain

"Tonight Is What It Means to Be Young" from Streets of Fire*

BEST MAKEUP:

Amadeus

Ghostbusters

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

A Nightmare on Elm Street*

Streets of Fire

BEST SOUND:

Amadeus

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Streets of Fire

The Terminator*

This Is Spinal Tap

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:

Dune

Ghostbusters

Gremlins

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom*

The Terminator

BEST STUNTS:

Beverly Hills Cop

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom*

Red Dawn

Streets of Fire

The Terminator

BEST CASTING:

Amadeus

Beverly Hills Cop

Ghostbusters

The Hit

This Is Spinal Tap*

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM: (incomplete lineup)

The Hit*

The Killing Fields

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind