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Everything about 1980 In Film totally explainedThe 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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