I promise to get back to trashy movies and move away from respectable stuff in the near future, but I've been somewhat busy with a lengthy project that is nearing an end and...
Well, the purpose of this post is call up memories of a Best Picture winner that has been somewhat forgotten (unjustifiably, even if I don't think the BP for the year in question should have gone to another film).
Harkening back to the days of its Roadshow Origins, the Cinerama Theatre premiered Amadeus in San Diego.  This was one of the last great runs the Cinerama would host, and once it ended, Amadeus would make a few returns to the Cinerama when the crap booked to play ended up showing only to bored employees and rats that soon decided they had other things to do (like terrorize the bowling alley next door). I make no effort to hide my love of this theater, and the large project I completed is available at Cinema Treasures- just click on any of the links I've sprinkled in the preceding text.

San Diego Tribune. Friday 21 September 1984.

And for the record, 1984 gave the world Ghostbusters, The Terminator, and Under the Volcano. While I'm not saying any of those deserved the prize, they were worthy.