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- Sean Astin - The Goonies
- Lukas Haas - Witness
- Ethan Hawke - Explorers
- Barret Oliver - D.A.R.Y.L.
- Jason Lively - National Lampoon's European Vacation
Best Starring Performance By a Young Actress - Motion Picture
- Fairuza Balk - Return to Oz
- Drew Barrymore - Cat's Eye
- Joyce Hyser - Just One of the Guys
- Amanda Peterson - Explorers
Exceptional Performance By a Young Actor - Motion Picture
- River Phoenix - Explorers '
- Jeff Cohen - The Goonies
- Corey Feldman - The Goonies
- Billy Jacoby - Just One of the Guys
- Gabriel Jarret - Real Genius
- Joey Lawrence - Summer Rental''
Exceptional Performance By a Young Actress - Motion Picture
- Kerri Green - Summer Rental
- Martha Plimpton - The Goonies
- - Return to Oz
Best Young Performer in a Television Special or Mini-Series
Best Young Actor Starring in a Television Special or Mini-Series
★ Chad Allen - Code of Vengeance -★ River Phoenix - ' ' -
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Best Young Actress Starring in a Television Special or Mini-Series
★ - The Night They Saved Christmas -★ - The Bad Seed -
- Missy Francis - CBS Schoolbreak Special -
- - PBS WonderWorks -
Exceptional Performance By a Young Actor in a Television Special or Mini-Series
- David Faustino - '
- Scott Grimes - It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
- - Deadly Intentions
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Exceptional Performance By a Young Actress in a Television Special or Mini-Series
- Bridgette Andersen - '
- Katy Kurtzman - CBS Schoolbreak Special - Student Court
- Heather O'Rourke - '
- Priscilla Weems - Scene of the Crime
Best Young Performer in a Television Series
Best Young Actor Starring in a Television Series
★ Emmanuel Lewis - Webster -★ Marc Price - Family Ties -
- Danny Cooksey - Diff'rent Strokes
- Frederick Koehler - Kate & Allie
- Joey Lawrence - Gimme a Break!
- Alfonso Ribeiro - Silver Spoons
Best Young Actress Starring in a Television Series
★ Soleil Moon Frye - Punky Brewster -
- Tricia Cast - It's Your Move
- Ari Meyers - Kate & Allie
- Allison Smith - Kate & Allie
- Jill Whelan - The Love Boat
Best Young Supporting Actor in a Television Series
- Casey Ellison - Punky Brewster
- Michael Pearlman - Charles in Charge
- Danny Pintauro - Who's the Boss?
- Jonathan Ward - Charles in Charge
Best Young Supporting Actress in a Television Series
- Ami Foster - Punky Brewster
- Cherie Johnson - Punky Brewster
- April Lerman - Charles in Charge
- Shalane McCall - Dallas
Best Young Performer in a New Television Series
Best Young Actor Starring in a New Television Series
★ Kirk Cameron - Growing Pains- Taliesin Jaffe - Hail to the Chief
- - Crazy Like a Fox
- Kristoff St. John - Charlie & Co.
- Jerry Supiran - Small Wonder
Best Young Actress Starring in a New Television Series
★ Tracy Wells - Mr. Belvedere -
- Tiffany Brissette - Small Wonder
- Regina King - 227
- - Charlie & Co.
Best Young Supporting Actor in a New Television Series
- Brice Beckham - Mr. Belvedere
- Jaleel White - Charlie & Co.
Best Young Supporting Actress in a New Television Series
- Maia Brewton - Lime Street
- Mandy Ingber - Detective in the House
Best Young Performer in a Regular Daytime Serial
Outstanding Young Actor - Regular Daytime Serial
★ Brandon Call - Santa Barbara -★ David Mendenhall - General Hospital -
- - Capitol
- - Capitol
- - Another World
Outstanding Young Actress - Regular Daytime Serial
- Kristian Alfonso - Days of Our Lives
- Andrea Barber - Days of Our Lives
- Melissa Brennan - Santa Barbara
- Lisa Trusel - Days of Our Lives
Best Young Performer: Guest in a Television Series
Best Young Actor - Guest in a Television Series
★ Bumper Robinson – Cagney & Lacey- Chad Allen – Webster
- Jason Hervey – Wildside
- Bobby Jacoby – Highway to Heaven
- Taliesin Jaffe – Hell Town
- Danny Nucci – Hotel
- – Hell Town
- Vonni Ribisi – Highway to Heaven
- – Diff'rent Strokes
Best Young Actress - Guest in a Television Series
- – Silver Spoons
- – MacGruder and Loud
- – Trapper John, M.D.
- Missy Francis – Hotel
- – Hotel
- Jenny Lewis – The Twilight Zone
- – Hunter
- – Bobby Vinton Variety Show
- Kristy Swanson – Cagney & Lacey
Best Young Performer: Animation Voice-Over
Outstanding Young Actor - Animation Voice-Over
★ David Mendenhall - The Berenstain Bears- Noah Hathaway - CBS Storybreak Special -
- Christian Jacobs - Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears
- - ABC Weekend Special - The Velveteen Rabbit
- Jeremy Schoenberg - The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show
- - The Littles
Outstanding Young Actress - Animation Voice-Over
★ - Charlie Brown & Snoopy Show -
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- Christina Lange - The Berenstain Bears
- - Inspector Gadget
- - Dungeons & Dragons
Best Family Entertainment
Best Family Television Special
★ A Reason to Live- CBS Schoolbreak Special - Contract for Life: The S.A.D.D. Story
- ABC Afterschool Special - No Greater Gift
- PBS WonderWorks - Words by Heart
Best New Television Series - Comedy or Drama
- Charlie & Company
- Hell Town
- Lime Street
- Mr. Belvedere
- Small Wonder Metromedia
Best Family Animation Series or Special
- The Berenstain Bears
- The Care Bears Movie
- He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
- Mr. T
Best Family Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical
★ Pee-wee's Big Adventure -
- Just One of the Guys
- Real Genius
- Summer Rental
Best Family Motion Picture - Adventure
- D.A.R.Y.L.
- Explorers
- The Goonies
- Ladyhawke
Best Family Motion Picture - Drama
- The Journey of Natty Gann
- Starman
- Sylvester
- Witness
Youth In Film's Special Awards