7th Youth in Film Awards


The 7th Youth in Film Awards ceremony, presented by the Youth in Film Association, honored outstanding youth performers under the age of 21 in the fields of film and television for the 1984-1985 season, and took place on December 15, 1985, at the Ambassador Hotel's historical Coconut Grove night club in Los Angeles, California. Hosting the ceremony that year was 10-year-old Drew Barrymore.
Established in 1978 by long-standing Hollywood Foreign Press Association member, Maureen Dragone, the Youth in Film Association was the first organization to establish an awards ceremony specifically set to recognize and award the contributions of performers under the age of 18 in the fields of film, television, theater and music.

Categories

Bold indicates the winner in each category.
Conflicting reports indicates a conflict in information between the Young Artist Awards official website's list of winners for that year and the Daily News of Los Angeles' list of winners published the day after the ceremony. The Young Artist Award's official website states that - "The Internet Movie Database has been used to ensure correct information is maintained on this web site". However, IMDb was launched in 1990 and is largely a user-generated website.

Best Young Performer in a Motion Picture

Best Starring Performance By a Young Actor - Motion Picture

Corey Haim - Silver Bullet
Meredith Salenger - The Journey of Natty Gann
Corey Haim - Firstborn
Sydney Penny - Pale Rider

Best Young Actor Starring in a Television Special or Mini-Series

Chad Allen - Code of Vengeance -
River Phoenix - ' ' -
- The Night They Saved Christmas -
- The Bad Seed -
Joshua Miller - Highway to Heaven
- Not My Kid

Best Young Actor Starring in a Television Series

Emmanuel Lewis - Webster -
Marc Price - Family Ties -
Lisa Bonet - The Cosby Show -
Soleil Moon Frye - Punky Brewster -
Mackenzie Astin - The Facts of Life
Alyssa Milano - Who's the Boss?

Best Young Actor Starring in a New Television Series

Kirk Cameron - Growing Pains
Tracey Gold - Growing Pains -
Tracy Wells - Mr. Belvedere -
Jeremy Miller - Growing Pains
Emily Schulman - Small Wonder

Outstanding Young Actor - Regular Daytime Serial

Brandon Call - Santa Barbara -
David Mendenhall - General Hospital -
Kimberly McCullough - General Hospital

Best Young Actor - Guest in a Television Series

Bumper RobinsonCagney & Lacey
The Twilight Zone

Outstanding Young Actor - Animation Voice-Over

David Mendenhall - The Berenstain Bears
Bettina Bush - The Littles and Rainbow Brite -
- Charlie Brown & Snoopy Show -

Best Family Television Special

A Reason to Live
Growing Pains
The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show
The Heavenly Kid -
Pee-wee's Big Adventure -
Back to the Future
Cocoon

Best Young Actor in a Foreign Film

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Best Young Actress in a Foreign Film

- MacArthur's Children

Best Foreign Family Film

- Directed by Rumle Hammerich