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The year 1980 in film involved some significant events.
Events
Top grossing films
1980
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
- 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
- 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
- Heaven's Gate
- Herbie Goes Bananas
- Hero at Large
- Hey Babe!, starring Yasmine Bleeth and Buddy Hackett
- Hopscotch
- The Idolmaker
- 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
- Nine to Five, starring Dolly Parton
- 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
- The Shining
- Stardust Memories
- The Empire Strikes Back
- Stir Crazy, starring Richard Pryor
- The Stunt Man
- Superman II (U.K.)
- The Young Master
- Urban Cowboy
- Virus
- Wholly Moses!
- Xanadu
- Zigeunerweisen, directed by Seijun Suzuki
Births
Deaths
- 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, directorde:Filmjahr 1980
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