All 1985 Film Awards

List of winners and nominees for all of the major movie awards from 1985!

Click through each award to see the full list of nominees and winners!

Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury

Birdy

Alan Parker

Cannes Film Festival – Jury Prize

Colonel Redl

Istv‡n Szab—

Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or

When Father Was Away on Business

Emir Kusturica

DGA Awards – Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film

Amadeus

Milos Forman

Golden Globe Awards – Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical

Romancing the Stone

Golden Globe Awards – Best Motion Picture – Drama

Amadeus

Golden Globe Awards – Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language

A Passage to India

LAFCA Award – Best Foreign Film

Ran

Akira Kurosawa

LAFCA Award – Best Foreign Film

The Official Story

Luis Puenzo

LAFCA Award – Best Picture

Brazil

National Board of Review – Best Film

The Color Purple

New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Film

Prizzi’s Honor

New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Foreign Language Film

Academy Awards – Best Picture

Amadeus

Saul Zaentz

Academy Awards – International Feature Film

Dangerous Moves

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Seattle International Film Festival – Golden Space Needle Award – Best Film

Kiss of the Spider Woman

Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Dramatic

Blood Simple

Joel Coen

Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film

Vagabond

Agns Varda

Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize

Tangos, the Exile of Gardel

Fernando E. Solanas

Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize

The Lightship

Jerzy Skolimowski

Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

The Killing Fields

Bruce Robinson

Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Original Screenplay

Broadway Danny Rose

Woody Allen