The year 1980 in film involved some significant events. [edit] Events [edit] Top grossing films (U.S.) | Rank | Title | Studio | Release Date | Gross/Gross after inflation | | 1. | The Empire Strikes Back | 20th Century Fox | May 21, 1980 | $209,398,025
$520,528,946 | | 2. | 9 to 5 | 20th Century Fox | December 19, 1980 | $103,290,500
$256,763,143 | | 3. | Stir Crazy | Columbia | December 12, 1980 | $101,300,000
$251,815,089 | | 4. | Airplane! | Paramount | June 27, 1980 | $83,453,539
$207,451,731 | | 5. | Any Which Way You Can | Warner Bros. | December 17, 1980 | $70,687,344
$175,717,076 | | 6. | Private Benjamin | Warner Bros. | October 10, 1980 | $69,847,348
$173,628,985 | | 7. | Coal Miner's Daughter | Universal | March 7, 1980 | $67,182,787
$167,005,326 | | 8. | Smokey and the Bandit II | Universal | August 15, 1980 | $66,132,626
$164,394,799 | | 9. | The Blue Lagoon | Columbia | June 20, 1980 | $58,853,106
$146,299,113 | | 10. | The Blues Brothers | Universal | June 20, 1980 | $57,229,890
$142,264,065 | source: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1980&p=.htm [edit] 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
[edit] Films released in 1980 Friday, February 08th 1980 Friday, February 15th 1980 Friday, February 29th 1980 Friday, March 07th 1980 Friday, March 14th 1980 Friday, March 21st 1980 Friday, March 28th 1980 Friday, May 09th 1980 Friday, May 16th 1980 Wednesday, May 21st 1980 Friday, May 23rd 1980 Friday, May 30th 1980 Friday, June 06th 1980 Friday, June 13th 1980 Friday, June 20th 1980 Friday, June 27th 1980 Wednesday, July 02nd 1980 Friday, July 04th 1980 Friday, July 11th 1980 Friday, July 18th 1980 Friday, July 25th 1980 Friday, August 01st 1980 Friday, August 08th 1980 Friday, August 15th 1980 [edit] Other movies from 1980 - 9 to 5
- Altered States
- Any Which Way You Can, starring Clint Eastwood
- The Apple
- Atlantic City, Golden Lion winner
- Bad Timing, directed by Nicolas Roeg
- Berlin Alexanderplatz
- The Blues Brothers
- Breaker Morant
- 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
- The Constant Factor
- The Competition
- The Elephant Man, directed by David Lynch, starring John Hurt and Anthony Hopkins
- Flash Gordon
- Galaxina
- Gamera: Super Monster
- Germany Pale Mother
- Gilda Live Starring Gilda Radner, Father Guido Sarducci
- Gloria, directed by John Cassavetes, starring Gena Rowlands, Golden Lion winner
- The Gods Must Be Crazy
- The Happy Hooker Goes to Hollywood
- He Knows You're Alone
- Heaven's Gate, directed by Michael Cimino
- Herbie Goes Bananas
- Hero at Large
- Hey Babe!, starring Yasmine Bleeth and Buddy Hackett
- Hopscotch
- The Idolmaker, starring Ray Sharkey
- In Search of Historic Jesus, (documentary)
- Inferno, directed by Dario Argento
- Inside Moves, directed by Richard Donner, starring John Savage and Diana Scarwid
- It's My Turn
- The Jazz Singer, starring Neil Diamond
- Kagemusha, Palme d'Or winner
- The Last Flight of Noah's Ark
- Little Miss Marker starring Julie Andrews
- Loulou
- The Long Good Friday
- Lulu (not same as above)
- The Man with Bogart's Face
- McVicar
- Melvin and Howard, directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Paul LeMat, Jason Robards and Mary Steenburgen
- Mon oncle d'Amérique, Cannes Special Jury Prize
- No Child's Land
- O Megalexandros
- Oh, God! Book II
- One Trick Pony starring Paul Simon written by Paul Simon
- Ordinary People, directed by Robert Redford, starring Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Timothy Hutton and Judd Hirsch
- Palmero oder Wolsfburg, Golden Bear winner
- Permanent Vacation
- The Pilot
- Popeye, starring Robin Williams and Shelley Duvall
- Private Benjamin, starring Goldie Hawn
- Raging Bull, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Cathy Moriarty
- Resurrection, starring Ellen Burstyn and Eva Le Gallienne
- The Return of the King
- El Retorno del Hombre Lobo
- Seems Like Old Times
- A Small Circle of Friends
- Somewhere in Time starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour
- Stardust Memories
- Stir Crazy, starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder
- Tess (U.S. release)
- Tribute, starring Jack Lemmon
- The Young Master
- Virus
- The Watcher in the Woods
- When Time Ran Out
- Windows
- Windwalker
- Zigeunerweisen, directed by Seijun Suzuki
[edit] Wide-release movies [edit] Births [edit] Deaths - January 24 - Lil Dagover, actress
- January 29 - Jimmy Durante, actor
- February 13 - David Janssen, actor
- February 19 - Bon Scott, musician
- 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
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