1980 in film
Events
Top grossing films (U.S.)
| Rank |
Title |
Studio |
Actors |
Director(s) |
Gross |
| 1. |
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back |
Lucasfilm/Fox |
Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones, Julian Glover, and Alec Guiness |
Irvin Kershner |
$538,375,067 |
| 2. |
9 to 5 |
Fox |
Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, Dabney Coleman, and Sterling Hayden |
Colin Higgins |
$103,290,500 |
| 3. |
Stir Crazy |
Columbia |
Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor |
Sidney Poitier |
$101,300,000 |
| 4. |
Airplane! |
Paramount |
Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen, Peter Graves and Robert Stack |
David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker |
$83,453,539 |
| 5 |
Any Which Way You Can |
Warner Bros. |
Clint Eastwood |
Buddy Van Horn |
$70,687,344 |
| 6. |
Private Benjamin |
Warner Bros. |
Goldie Hawn, Eileen Brennan, Armand Assante, Barbara Barrie, Robert Webber, Albert Brooks, and Sam Wanamaker |
Howard Zieff |
$69,847,348 |
| 7. |
Coal Miner's Daughter |
Universal |
Sissy Spacek, Beverly D'Angelo and Tommy Lee Jones |
Michael Apted |
$67,182,787 |
| 8. |
Smokey and the Bandit II |
Universal |
Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jerry Reed, and Jackie Gleason |
Hal Needham |
$66,132,626 |
| 9. |
The Blue Lagoon |
Columbia |
Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins |
Randal Kleiser |
$58,853,106 |
| 10. |
The Blues Brothers |
Universal |
John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd |
John Landis |
$57,229,890 |
Box office results courtesy of Box Office Mojo.[1]
Awards
Academy Awards:
- Best Picture: Ordinary People
- 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
- Golden Globe Award for World film favourite male: Roger Moore -
- Golden Globe Award for World film favourite female: Jane Fonda -
Golden Raspberry Awards:
- Worst Picture: Can't Stop the Music
- Worst Director: Robert Greenwald - Xanadu
- Worst Actor: Neil Diamond - The Jazz Singer
- Worst Actress: Brooke Shields - The Blue Lagoon
- Worst Supporting Actor: John Adames - Gloria; Laurence Olivier - The Jazz Singer
- Worst Supporting Actress: Amy Irving - Honeysuckle Rose
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
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Alphabetically
U.S.A. unless stated
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A
- Airplane!, starring Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen, Peter Graves, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- Alligator, starring Robert Forster
- Altered States, directed by Ken Russell, starring William Hurt and Blair Brown
- American Gigolo, starring Richard Gere
- Any Which Way You Can, starring Clint Eastwood
- The Apple
- Arrebato (Rapture), cult film - (Spain)
- Atlantic City, directed by Louis Malle, starring Burt Lancaster and Susan Sarandon - (Canada/France) - Golden Lion winner
B
- Babylon - (U.K.)
- Bad Timing, directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Harvey Keitel - (U.K.)
- The Baltimore Bullet, starring James Coburn
- Berlin Alexanderplatz, a TV mini-series directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, starring Gunther Lamprecht, Hanna Schygulla, Barbara Sukowa - (West Germany)
- Betty Boop for President: The Movie (TV)
- The Big Brawl, starring Jackie Chan - (Hong Kong/U.S.A.)
- The Big Red One, directed by Samuel Fuller, starring Lee Marvin
- The Black Marble, starring Robert Foxworth, Paula Prentiss, Harry Dean Stanton
- The Blood of Hussain, directed by Jamil Dehlavi - (Pakistan)
- The Blue Lagoon, starring Brooke Shields
- The Blues Brothers, directed by John Landis, starring John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Cab Calloway, Carrie Fisher, John Candy, Henry Gibson
- The Boogeyman
- Breaker Morant, directed by Bruce Beresford, starring Edward Woodward - (Australia)
- Bronco Billy, starring Clint Eastwood and Sondra Locke
- Brubaker, starring Robert Redford, David Keith, Jane Alexander, Yaphet Kotto
C
- Caddyshack, starring Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, Michael O'Keefe, Cindy Morgan, Bill Murray
- The Candidate (Der Kandidat), directed by Volker Schlöndorff - (West Germany)
- Cannibal Holocaust, directed by Ruggero Deodato, starring Robert Kerman - (Italy)
- Carny, starring Jodie Foster and Gary Busey
- A Change of Seasons, starring Shirley MacLaine, Anthony Hopkins, Bo Derek
- The Changeling, starring George C. Scott
- La Cicala - (Italy)
- City of Women (La città delle donne) - directed by Federico Fellini, starring Marcello Mastroianni - (Italy)
- The Club, starring Jack Thompson - (Australia)
- Coal Miner's Daughter, starring Sissy Spacek and Tommy Lee Jones
- The Competition, starring Richard Dreyfuss and Amy Irving
- The Constant Factor (Constans) - (Poland)
- Cruising, directed by William Friedkin, starring Al Pacino
- Cutting It Short (Postřižiny), directed by Jiří Menzel - (Czechoslovakia)
D
E
F
- The Falls, directed by Peter Greenaway - (U.K.)
- Fame, directed by Alan Parker, starring Irene Cara
- The Final Countdown, starring Kirk Douglas
- The First Deadly Sin, starring Frank Sinatra, David Dukes, Martin Gabel, Brenda Vaccaro, Faye Dunaway
- First Family, directed by Buck Henry, starring Bob Newhart, Madeline Kahn, Gilda Radner
- Flash Gordon, starring Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Chaim Topol - (U.S.A./U.K.)
- The Fog, directed by John Carpenter, starring Adrienne Barbeau
- The Formula, starring George C. Scott and Marlon Brando
- Friday the 13th
G
- Galaxina, starring Dorothy Stratten
- The Gamekeeper, directed by Ken Loach - (U.K.)
- Gamera: Super Monster - (Japan)
- Germany Pale Mother (Deutschland, bleiche Mutter), starring Eva Mattes - (West Germany)
- Gilda Live, starring Gilda Radner, Father Guido Sarducci
- Gloria, directed by John Cassavetes, starring Gena Rowlands - Golden Lion winner
- The Gods Must Be Crazy, directed by Jamie Uys, starring N!xau, Sandra Prinsloo and Marius Weyers - (South Africa)
- Good Riddance (Les Bons débarras) - (Canada)
- The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, a mockumentary directed by Julian Temple, featuring The Sex Pistols and Malcolm Mclaren - (U.K.)
H
- Hangar 18, starring Darren McGavin and Robert Vaughn
- The Happy Hooker Goes to Hollywood
- He Knows You're Alone
- Heaven's Gate - directed by Michael Cimino, starring Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, Isabelle Huppert, John Hurt, Jeff Bridges
- Herbie Goes Bananas
- Hero at Large, starring John Ritter and Anne Archer
- Hey Babe!, starring Yasmine Bleeth and Buddy Hackett - (Canada)
- Hopscotch - directed by Ronald Neame, starring Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson
- The Hunter, starring Steve McQueen (in his final film)
IJK
L
- Ladies' Choice (Dami Kanyat) - (Bulgaria)
- The Last Flight of Noah's Ark
- The Last Metro (Le dernier metro), directed by François Truffaut, starring Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu - (France)
- The Lathe of Heaven, starring Bruce Davison
- Legend of Tianyun Mountain (Tiān yún shān chuán qí) - (China)
- The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter, a documentary film
- Little Darlings, starring Tatum O'Neal and Kristy McNichol
- Little Miss Marker, starring Walter Matthau, Julie Andrews, Tony Curtis, Bob Newhart
- The Long Good Friday - directed by John Mackenzie, starring Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren - (U.K.)
- The Long Riders, starring the Keach brothers, Carradine brothers and Quaid brothers
- Loulou, starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu - (France)
- Lulu (1980 film) (not same as above)
M
- The Man with Bogart's Face, starring Robert Sacchi, Misty Rowe, Victor Buono, Yvonne De Carlo, Herbert Lom
- McVicar - directed by Tom Clegg, starring Roger Daltrey, Adam Faith, Cheryl Campbell - (U.K.)
- Melvin and Howard - directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Paul LeMat, Jason Robards, Mary Steenburgen
- Mon oncle d'Amérique - directed by Alain Resnais, starring Gérard Depardieu - (France) - Cannes Special Jury Prize
- Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (Moskva slezam ne verit) - (U.S.S.R.) - (International release)
- Mother's Day
N
O
- O Megalexandros - (Greece)
- Oblomov - (U.S.S.R.) - international release
- Oh, God! Book II, starring George Burns
- One Trick Pony, written by and starring Paul Simon, with Blair Brown, Joan Hackett, Rip Torn
- Ordinary People - directed by Robert Redford, starring Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Timothy Hutton, Judd Hirsch
- Out of the Blue, directed by and starring Dennis Hopper - (Canada)
PQ
R
S
- Sällskapsresan (The Charter Trip), directed by and starring Lasse Åberg - (Sweden)
- The Sea Wolves, starring Gregory Peck, David Niven, Roger Moore - (U.K./U.S.A./Switzerland)
- Seems Like Old Times, starring Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase
- Serial, starring Martin Mull and Tuesday Weld
- The Shining, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall
- Simon, starring Alan Arkin
- A Small Circle of Friends, starring Brad Davis and Karen Allen
- Somewhere in Time, starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour
- Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, starring Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher
- Stardust Memories, directed by and starring Woody Allen with Charlotte Rampling and Jessica Harper
- Stir Crazy, directed by Sidney Poitier, starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder
- The Stunt Man, starring Peter O'Toole, Barbara Hershey, Steve Railsback
- Superman II, starring Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, Terrence Stamp
TUV
W
- Waiter, Scarper! (Vrchní, prchni!) - (Czechoslovakia)
- The Watcher in the Woods, starring Bette Davis - (U.K./U.S.A.)
- When Time Ran Out, starring Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons
- Who Sings Over There (Ko to tamo peva) - (Yugoslavia)
- Why Would I Lie?, starring Richard Pryor
- Windows, starring Talia Shire
Y
Z
Wide-release movies
Births
- January 17 - Zooey Deschanel, actress
- February 12 - Christina Ricci, actress
- June 24 - Minka Kelly, actress
- July 5 - Eva Green, actress
- July 18 - Kristen Bell, actress
- August 26 - Macaulay Culkin, actor
- September 9 - Michelle Williams, actress
- October 12 - Ben Whishaw, actor
- November 12 - Ryan Gosling, actor
- December 3 - Anna Chlumsky, actress
- December 19 - Jake Gyllenhaal, actor
Deaths
- January 24 - Lil Dagover, actress
- January 29 - Jimmy Durante, actor, comedian
- 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, entertainer
- December 31 - Raoul Walsh, director
Film debuts
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