42nd Golden Globe Awards

{{Infobox film awards

| number = 42

| award = Golden Globe Awards

| date = January 27, 1985

|site=Beverly Hilton Hotel
Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California|host=Michael York
Raquel Welch| best_film_drama = Amadeus

| best_film_musical_or_comedy = Romancing the Stone

| best_drama_series = Murder, She Wrote

| best_musical_or_comedy_series = The Cosby Show

|most_wins=(4) Amadeus|most_nominations=(6) The Killing Fields | last = 41st

| next = 43rd

}}

The 42nd Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1984, were held on January 27, 1985.

Winners and nominees

File:F Murray.Abraham cropped.jpg — Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama winner]]

File:Sally Field (11205) (cropped).jpg — Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama winner]]

File:Dudley Moore (cropped).jpg — Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical winner]]

File:Kathleen Turner 1.jpg — Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical winner]]

File:Peggy-Ashcroft-1936-3.jpg — Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture, winner]]

File:Tom Selleck at PaleyFest 2014.jpg — Best Actor in a Television Series, Drama winner]]

File:Angela Lansbury (8356239174).jpg — Best Actress in a Television Series, Drama winner]]

File:2011 Bill Cosby.jpg — Best Actor in a Television Series, Comedy or Musical winner]]

File:Shelley Long with Terrie Frankel 1996 Cable Ace Awards (cropped).jpg — Best Actress in a Television Series, Comedy or Musical winner]]

File:'The Good Place' cast and crew visit San Diego Comic Con for a panel (43100198314) (cropped).jpg — Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film, winner]]

File:Ann Margret 1997.jpg — Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film, winner]]

File:Fay Dunaway 1997.jpg — Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television, winner]]

= Film =

style="width=50%" \|Drama ! style="width=50%" \|Comedy or Musical
class="wikitable" style="width=100%" ! colspan="2" \|Best Motion Picture
valign="top" \| *Amadeus* The Cotton Club The Killing Fields Places in the Heart A Soldier's Story \| valign="top" \| *Romancing the Stone* Beverly Hills Cop Ghostbusters Micki & Maude Splash
colspan="2" \|Best Performance in a Motion Picture – Drama
Actor !Actress
valign="top" \| *F. Murray Abraham – Amadeus* as Antonio Salieri** Jeff Bridges – Starman as Starman/Scott Hayden Albert Finney – Under the Volcano as Geoffrey Firmin Tom Hulce – Amadeus as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Sam Waterston – The Killing Fields as Sydney Schanberg \| valign="top" \| *Sally Field – Places in the Heart* as Edna Spalding** Diane Keaton – Mrs. Soffel as Kate Soffel Jessica Lange – Country as Jewell Ivy Vanessa Redgrave – The Bostonians as Olive Chancellor Sissy Spacek – The River as Mae Garvey
colspan="2" \|Best Performance in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
Actor !Actress
valign="top" \| *Dudley Moore – Micki & Maude* as Rob Salinger** Steve Martin – All of Me as Roger Cobb Eddie Murphy – Beverly Hills Cop as Axel Foley Bill Murray – Ghostbusters as Peter Venkman Robin Williams – Moscow on the Hudson as Vladimir Ivanov \| valign="top" \| *Kathleen Turner – Romancing the Stone* as Joan Wilder** Anne Bancroft – Garbo Talks as Estelle Rolfe Mia Farrow – Broadway Danny Rose as Tina Vitale Shelley Long – Irreconcilable Differences as Lucy Van Patten Brodsky Lily Tomlin – All of Me as Edwina Cutwater
colspan="2" \|Best Supporting Performance in a Motion Picture – Drama, Comedy or Musical
Supporting Actor !Supporting Actress
valign="top" \| *Haing S. Ngor – The Killing Fields* as Dith Pran** Adolph Caesar – A Soldier's Story as Sgt. Waters Richard Crenna – The Flamingo Kid as Phil Brody Jeffrey Jones – Amadeus as Emperor Joseph II Pat Morita – The Karate Kid as Mr. Miyagi \| valign="top" \| *Peggy Ashcroft – A Passage to India* as Mrs. Moore** Drew Barrymore – Irreconcilable Differences as Casey Brodsky Kim Basinger – The Natural as Memo Paris Jacqueline Bisset – Under the Volcano as Yvonne Firmin Melanie Griffith – Body Double as Holly Body Christine Lahti – Swing Shift as Hazel Zanussi Lesley Ann Warren – Songwriter as Gilda
colspan=2 \| Other
Best Director !Best Screenplay
valign="top" \| Miloš Forman – Amadeus Francis Ford Coppola – The Cotton Club Roland Joffé – The Killing Fields David Lean – A Passage to India Sergio Leone – Once Upon a Time in America \| valign="top" \| Amadeus – Peter Shaffer The Killing Fields – Bruce Robinson A Passage to India – David Lean Places in the Heart – Robert Benton A Soldier's Story – Charles Fuller
Best Original Score !Best Original Song
valign="top" \| A Passage to India – Maurice Jarre The Killing Fields – Mike Oldfield Once Upon a Time in America – Ennio Morricone The River – John Williams Starman – Jack Nitzsche \| valign="top" \| "I Just Called to Say I Love You" (Stevie Wonder) – The Woman in Red "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" (Phil Collins) – Against All Odds "Footloose" (Kenny Loggins, Dean Pitchford) – Footloose "Ghostbusters" (Ray Parker Jr.) – Ghostbusters "No More Lonely Nights" (Paul McCartney) – Give My Regards to Broad Street "When Doves Cry" (Prince) – Purple Rain
colspan=2 \|Best Foreign Film
colspan=2 style="vertical-align:top;" \| A Passage to India (UK) Carmen (France) Dangerous Moves (Switzerland) Paris, Texas (West Germany/France) A Sunday in the Country (France)

The following films received multiple nominations:

class="wikitable"

!Nominations

!Title

|The Killing Fields

rowspan="2" |5

|Amadeus

A Passage to India

rowspan="3" |3

|Ghostbusters

Places in the Heart

A Soldier's Story

rowspan="9" |2

|All of Me

Beverly Hills Cop

The Cotton Club

Irreconcilable Differences

Micki & Maude

The River

Romancing the Stone

Starman

Under the Volcano

The following films received multiple wins:

class="wikitable"

!Wins

!Title

|Amadeus

|A Passage to India

|Romancing the Stone

=Television=

Drama !Musical or Comedy
class="wikitable" ! colspan="2" \|Best Television Series
*Murder, She Wrote* Cagney & Lacey Dynasty Hill Street Blues St. Elsewhere \| *The Cosby Show* Cheers Fame The Jeffersons Kate & Allie
colspan="2" \|Best Performance in a Television Series – Drama
Actor !Actress
*Tom Selleck - Magnum, P.I.* as Thomas Sullivan Magnum III** James Brolin - Hotel as Peter McDermott John Forsythe - Dynasty as Blake Carrington Larry Hagman - Dallas as J.R. Ewing Stacy Keach - Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer as Mike Hammer Daniel J. Travanti - Hill Street Blues as Captain Francis "Frank" Furillo \| *Angela Lansbury - Murder, She Wrote* as Jessica Fletcher** Joan Collins - Dynasty as Alexis Colby Tyne Daly - Cagney & Lacey as Det. Marry Beth Lacey Linda Evans - Dynasty as Krystle Carrington Sharon Gless - Cagney & Lacey as Det. Sgt. Christine Cagney Kate Jackson - Scarecrow and Mrs. King as Amanda King
colspan="2" \|Best Performance in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy
Actor !Actress
*Bill Cosby - The Cosby Show* as Dr. Heathcliff "Cliff" Huxtable** Ted Danson - Cheers as Sam Malone Robert Guillaume - Benson as Benson DuBois Sherman Hemsley - The Jeffersons as George Jefferson Bob Newhart - Newhart as Dick Loudon \| *Shelley Long - Cheers* as Diane Chambers** Debbie Allen - Fame as Lydia Grant Nell Carter - Gimme a Break! as Nellie "Nell" Ruth Harper Susan Clark - Webster as Katherine Calder-Young Papadopolis Jane Curtin - Kate & Allie as Allie Lowell Isabel Sanford - The Jeffersons as Louise Jefferson
colspan="2" \|Best Performance in a Miniseries or Television Film
Actor !Actress
*Ted Danson - Something About Amelia* as Steven Bennett** James Garner - Heartsounds as Harold Lear Sam Neill - Reilly: Ace of Spies as Sidney Reilly Jason Robards - Sakharov as Andrei Sakharov Treat Williams - A Streetcar Named Desire as Stanley Kowalski \| *Ann-Margret - A Streetcar Named Desire* as Blanche DuBois** Glenn Close - Something About Amelia as Gail Bennett Farrah Fawcett - The Burning Bed as Francine Hughes Jane Fonda - The Dollmaker as Gertie Glenda Jackson - Sakharov as Yelena Bonner
colspan="2" \|Best Supporting Performance in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film
Supporting Actor !Supporting Actress
*Paul Le Mat - The Burning Bed* as James Berlin "Mickey" Hughes** Pierce Brosnan - Nancy Astor as Robert Gould Shaw John Hillerman - Magnum, P.I. as Johnathan Quayle Higgins III Ben Vereen - Ellis Island as Roscoe Haines Bruce Weitz - Hill Street Blues as Det. Mick Belker \| *Faye Dunaway - Ellis Island* as Maud Chareris** Selma Diamond - Night Court as Selma Hacker Marla Gibbs - The Jeffersons as Florence Johnston Gina Lollobrigida - Falcon Crest as Francesca Gioberti Rhea Perlman - Cheers as Carla Tortelli Roxana Zal - Something About Amelia as Amelia Bennett
colspan="2" \|Best Miniseries or Television Film
colspan="2" \| *Something About Amelia* The Burning Bed The Dollmaker Sakharov A Streetcar Named Desire