56th National Board of Review Awards
December 17, 1984
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Best Picture:
A Passage to India
The 56th National Board of Review Awards were announced on 17 December 1984.
Top Ten Films
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A Passage to India''
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Paris, Texas''
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The Killing Fields''
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Places in the Heart''
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Mass Appeal''
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Country''
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A Soldier's Story
''A Soldier's Story'' is a 1984 American mystery drama film directed and produced by Norman Jewison, adapted by Charles Fuller from his Pulitzer Prize-winning '' A Soldier's Play'', an adaptation of Herman Melville's novella '' Billy Budd''. It ...
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Birdy''
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Careful, He Might Hear You''
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Under the Volcano''
Top Foreign films
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A Sunday in the Country''
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Carmen
''Carmen'' () is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the Carmen (novella), novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first perfo ...
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A Love in Germany''
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The Fourth Man''
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The Basileus Quartet''
Winners
*Best Picture:
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A Passage to India''
*Best Foreign Language Film:
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Un dimanche à la campagne (A Sunday in the Country)'',
France
*Best Actor:
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Victor Banerjee - ''
A Passage to India''
*Best Actress:
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Peggy Ashcroft - ''
A Passage to India''
*Best Supporting Actor:
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John Malkovich - ''
Places in the Heart''
*Best Supporting Actress:
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Sabine Azéma
Sabine Azéma (born 20 September 1949) is a French stage and film actress and director.
Born in Paris, she graduated from the Paris Conservatory of Dramatic Arts.
Career
Her film career began in 1975. Azéma appeared in '' A Sunday in the ...
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Un dimanche à la campagne (A Sunday in the Country)''
*Best Director:
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David Lean
Sir David Lean (25 March 190816 April 1991) was an English film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. Widely considered one of the most important figures in British cinema, Lean directed the large-scale epics ''The Bridge on the River ...
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A Passage to India''
*Career Achievement Award:
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John Huston
John Marcellus Huston ( ; August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter, actor and visual artist. He wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered ...
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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 Southeast A ...
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