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1980 in film

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The year 1980 in film involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Events 2 Top grossing films (U.S.) 3 Awards 4 Films released in 1980 5 Births 6 Deaths

Events

• April 30 - The Roger Daltrey film, McVicar, opens in London, England.
• May 21 - Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is released and is the biggest grosser of the year.
• Sharon Stone makes her film debut in the Woody Allen movie Stardust Memories (released September 26 in USA)

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
• Gamera: Super Monster
• 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
• The Empire Strikes Back
• 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