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The year 1980 in film involved some significant events.

Events

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank Title Studio Gross
1. The Empire Strikes Back 20th Century Fox $209,398,025
2. 9 to 5 20th Century Fox $103,290,500
3. Stir Crazy Columbia $101,300,000
4. Airplane! Paramount $83,453,539
5. Any Which Way You Can Warner Brothers $70,687,344
6. Private Benjamin Warner Bros $69,847,348
7. Coal Miner's Daughter Universal $67,182,787
8. Smokey and the Bandit II Universal $66,132,626
9. The Blue Lagoon Columbia $58,853,106
10. The Blues Brothers Universal $57,229,890
source: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1980&p=.htm

Awards

Academy Awards: » Best Picture: Ordinary People - Wildwood, Paramount


   Best Director: Robert Redford - Ordinary People » Best Actor: Robert De Niro - Raging Bull


   Best Actress: Sissy Spacek - Coal Miner's Daughter » Best Supporting Actor: Timothy Hutton - Ordinary People


   Best Supporting Actress: Mary Steenburgen - Melvin and Howard » Best Foreign Language Film: Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears (Москва Слезам Не Верит), directed by Vladimir Menshov, USSR

Golden Globe Awards: » Drama:


   Best Picture: Ordinary People » Best Actor: Robert De Niro - Raging Bull


   Best Actress: Mary Tyler Moore - Ordinary People » Musical or comedy:


   Best Picture: Coal Miner's Daughter » Best Actor: Ray Sharkey - The Idolmaker


   Best Actress: Sissy Spacek - Coal Miner's Daughter » Other


   Best Director: Robert Redford - Ordinary People » Best Foreign Language Film: Tess, United Kingdom

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival): » All That Jazz, directed by Bob Fosse, United States


   Kagemusha, 影武者 (Shadow Warrior), directed by Akira Kurosawa, Japan Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival): » Atlantic City, directed by Louis Malle, USA / Canada / France


   Gloria, directed by John Cassavetes, United States Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival): » Heartland, directed by Richard Pearce, United States


   Palermo or Wolfsburg (Palermo oder Wolfsburg), directed by Werner Schroeter, West Germany

Films released in 1980

  • 9 to 5, starring Dolly Parton
  • Airplane! (re-released in 2006)
  • Alien Contamination
  • Altered States
  • American Gigolo
  • Any Which Way You Can
  • The Apple
  • Atlantic City, Golden Lion winner
  • Bad Timing, directed by Nicolas Roeg
  • Berlin Alexanderplatz, directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • The Big Red One
  • The Blue Lagoon
  • The Blues Brothers, directed by John Landis, starring John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, James Brown, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin
  • Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!)
  • Breaker Morant
  • Brubaker
  • Caddyshack, starring Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight and others
  • Cannibal Holocaust, directed by Ruggero Deodato, starring Robert Kerman
  • La Cicala
  • City Of Women (La città delle donne), directed by Federico Fellini, starring Marcello Mastroianni
  • The Club
  • Coal Miner's Daughter
  • The Constant Factor
  • Cruising
  • The Elephant Man
  • Fame
  • The Final Countdown
  • Flash Gordon
  • The Fog, directed by John Carpenter, starring Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh, John Houseman and Hal Holbrook
  • Friday the 13th
  • Germany Pale Mother
  • Gilda Live Starring Gilda Radner, Father Guido Sarducci
  • Gloria, Golden Lion winner
  • The Gods Must Be Crazy
  • Heaven's Gate
  • Herbie Goes Bananas
  • Hero at Large
  • Hey Babe!, starring Yasmine Bleeth and Buddy Hackett
  • Honeysuckle Rose
  • Hopscotch
  • The Idolmaker
  • In Search of Historic Jesus, (documentary)
  • Inferno, directed by Dario Argento
  • The Jazz Singer
  • Kagemusha, Palme d'Or winner
  • Little Darlings
  • Little Miss Marker (1980 film) with Jule Andrews
  • Loulou
  • The Long Good Friday
  • Lulu (not same as above)
  • McVicar
  • Melvin and Howard
  • Midnight Madness
  • Mon oncle d'Amérique, Cannes Special Jury Prize
  • No Child's Land
  • O Megalexandros
  • Oh God, Book II
  • Ordinary People
  • Palmero oder Wolsfburg, Golden Bear (award) winner
  • Permanent Vacation
  • Raging Bull, directed by Martin Scorsese
  • Resurrection
  • El Retorno del Hombre Lobo
  • Seems Like Old Times
  • Smokey and the Bandit II
  • The Shining
  • Stardust Memories
  • Stir Crazy, starring Richard Pryor
  • Tess (U.S. release)
  • The Stunt Man
  • Superman II (U.K.)
  • The Young Master
  • Urban Cowboy
  • Virus
  • Wholly Moses!
  • Xanadu
  • Zigeunerweisen, directed by Seijun Suzuki

    Births

  • February 12 - Christina Ricci, actress
  • July 5 - Eva Green, actress
  • December 19 - Jake Gyllenhaal, actor
  • July 18 - Kristen Bell, actress

    Deaths

  • January 24 - Lil Dagover, actress
  • January 29 - Jimmy Durante, actor
  • February 13 - David Janssen, actor
  • March 5 - Jay Silverheels, actor (Tonto)
  • March 28 - Dick Haymes, actor, singer
  • April 29 - Alfred Hitchcock, director
  • July 6 - Gail Patrick, actress
  • July 24 - Peter Sellers, actor
  • July 31 - Bobby Van, actor, dancer
  • August 14 - Dorothy Stratten, actress, Playboy Magazine model
  • August 25 - Gower Champion, actor, dancer, choreographer
  • October 6 - Hattie Jacques, actress
  • November 7 - Steve McQueen, actor
  • November 22 - Mae West, actress
  • November 24 - George Raft, actor
  • November 26 - Rachel Roberts, actress
  • December 8 - John Lennon, singer/songwriter, occasional actor
  • December 31 - Raoul Walsh, director

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