1980 in film

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Events

• May 21 - Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is released and is the biggest grosser of the year (just as its predecessor, Star Wars, was three years prior).
• Sharon Stone makes her film debut in the Woody Allen movie Stardust Memories (released September 26 in USA).
• Bruce Willis makes his film debut in the Frank Sinatra movie The First Deadly Sin.
• Heaven's Gate becomes one of the biggest box office bombs of all-time.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank	Title	Studio	Actors	Gross
1.	Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back	Lucasfilm/Fox	Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, and Carrie Fisher	$538,375,067
2.	9 to 5	Fox	Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dolly Parton	$103,290,500
3.	Stir Crazy	Columbia	Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor	$101,300,000
4.	Airplane!	Paramount	Leslie Nielsen	$83,453,539
5	Any Which Way You Can	Warner Bros.	Clint Eastwood	$70,687,344
6.	Private Benjamin	Warner Bros.	Goldie Hawn	$69,847,348
7.	Coal Miner's Daughter	Universal	Sissy Spacek and Tommy Lee Jones	$67,182,787
8.	Smokey and the Bandit II	Universal	Burt Reynolds and Sally Field	$66,132,626
9.	The Blue Lagoon	Columbia	Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins	$58,853,106
10.	The Blues Brothers	Universal	John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd	$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

By date

Friday, February 1, 1980

• Fatso

Friday, February 8, 1980

• American Gigolo - directed by Paul Schrader, starring Richard Gere
• Cruising, starring Al Pacino
• The Fog - directed by John Carpenter, starring Adrienne Barbeau and Jamie Lee Curtis
• Midnight Madness

Friday, February 15, 1980

• Caligula - starring Malcolm McDowell, John Gielgud, Peter O'Toole and Helen Mirren
• Saturn 3 - directed by Stanley Donen, starring Kirk Douglas, Farrah Fawcett and Harvey Keitel

Friday, February 29, 1980

• Don't Answer the Phone
• Foxes - directed by Adrian Lyne, starring Jodie Foster, Scott Baio and Sally Kellerman

Friday, March 7, 1980

• Coal Miner's Daughter - directed by Michael Apted, starring Sissy Spacek and Tommy Lee Jones

Friday, March 14, 1980

• Defiance

Friday, March 21, 1980

• Little Darlings - starring Tatum O'Neal and Kristy McNichol

Friday, March 28, 1980

• The Changeling - starring George C. Scott
• Don't Go in the House

Friday, May 9, 1980

• Friday the 13th - directed by Sean S. Cunningham, starring Betsy Palmer and Adrienne King
• The Nude Bomb, starring Don Adams

Friday, May 16, 1980

• Breaker Morant - directed by Bruce Beresford, starring Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson and Bryan Brown
• Fame - directed by Alan Parker, starring Irene Cara, Eddie Barth and Lee Curreri
• The Long Riders - directed by Walter Hill, starring Stacy Keach, James Keach, David Carradine and Robert Carradine

Wednesday, May 21, 1980

• Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back - directed by Irvin Kershner, starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Billy Dee Williams

Friday, May 23, 1980

• The Gong Show Movie - directed by Chuck Barris, starring Chuck Barris, Robin Altman, Steve Garvey and Mabel King
• The Shining - directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall

Friday, May 30, 1980

• Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!)
• Joni - directed by James F. Collier, starring Joni Eareckson, Bert Remsen and Katherine De Hetre
• The Hollywood Knights

Friday, June 6, 1980

• Up the Academy
• Urban Cowboy - directed by James Bridges, starring John Travolta, Debra Winger and Scott Glenn

Friday, June 13, 1980

• Mad Max - directed by George Miller, starring Mel Gibson
• The Island - starring Michael Caine and David Warner
• Wholly Moses!

Friday, June 20, 1980

• The Blues Brothers - directed by John Landis, starring John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, John Candy and Carrie Fisher
• Brubaker - directed by Stuart Rosenberg, starring Robert Redford

Friday, June 27, 1980

• The Stunt Man - starring Peter O'Toole, Steve Railsback and Barbara Hershey

Wednesday, July 2, 1980

• Airplane! - directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker, starring Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen and Robert Stack
• Alligator

Friday, July 4, 1980

• The Blue Lagoon - directed by Randal Kleiser, starring Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins

Friday, July 11, 1980

• My Bodyguard
• Oh! Heavenly Dog
• Used Cars - directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Kurt Russell and Jack Warden

Friday, July 18, 1980

• The Big Red One - directed by Samuel Fuller, starring Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill and Robert Carradine
• Cheech & Chong's Next Movie
• Honeysuckle Rose - starring Willie Nelson, Dyan Cannon and Amy Irving
• Prom Night - starring Leslie Nielsen and Jamie Lee Curtis

Friday, July 25, 1980

• Caddyshack - directed by Harold Ramis, starring Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield and Ted Knight
• Dressed to Kill - directed by Brian De Palma, starring Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson and Nancy Allen

Friday, August 1, 1980

• The Final Countdown - directed by Don Taylor, starring Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen and Katharine Ross

Friday, August 8, 1980

• Xanadu - starring Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly and Michael Beck

Friday, August 15, 1980

• The Octagon
• Smokey and the Bandit II - starring Burt Reynolds and Sally Field

Alphabetically

#

• 9 to 5 - directed by Colin Higgins, starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, Dabney Coleman

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), a cult Spanish film
• Atlantic City - directed by Louis Malle, starring Burt Lancaster and Susan Sarandon -- Golden Lion winner

B

• Babylon
• Bad Timing - directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Harvey Keitel
• The Baltimore Bullet, starring James Coburn
• Berlin Alexanderplatz - directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, starring Gunther Lamprecht, Hanna Schygulla, Barbara Sukowa
• Betty Boop for President: The Movie (TV)
• The Big Brawl, starring Jackie Chan
• 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
• 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, starring Edward Woodward
• 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
• Cannibal Holocaust - directed by Ruggero Deodato, starring Robert Kerman
• 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
• City of Women (La città delle donne) - directed by Federico Fellini, starring Marcello Mastroianni
• The Club
• Coal Miner's Daughter, starring Sissy Spacek and Tommy Lee Jones
• The Competition, starring Richard Dreyfuss and Amy Irving
• The Constant Factor
• Cruising, directed by William Friedkin, starring Al Pacino

D

• Death Watch (La Mort en direct), directed by Bertrand Tavernier, starring Romy Schneider and Harvey Keitel
• The Dogs of War, starring Christopher Walken
• Dressed to Kill, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Michael Caine and Angie Dickinson

E

• Elisita
• The Elephant Man - directed by David Lynch, starring John Hurt and Anthony Hopkins

F

• The Falls, directed by Peter Greenaway
• Fame, directed by Alan Parker
• 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
• 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
• 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, South African comedy directed by Jamie Uys, starring N!xau, Sandra Prinsloo and Marius Weyers
• The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, directed by Julian Temple, featuring The Sex Pistols and Malcolm Mclaren

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
• Hopscotch - directed by Ronald Neame, starring Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson
• The Hunter, starring Steve McQueen (in his final film)

I

• The Idolmaker – starring Ray Sharkey
• Inferno – directed by Dario Argento
• Inside Moves – directed by Richard Donner, starring John Savage and Diana Scarwid
• It's My Turn, starring Jill Clayburgh and Michael Douglas

J

• The Jazz Singer, starring Neil Diamond, Lucie Arnaz and Laurence Olivier
• Just Tell Me What You Want, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Ali MacGraw and Alan King

K

• Kagemusha - directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki and Kenichi Hagiwara - Palme d'Or winner

L

• Ladies' Choice
• The Last Flight of Noah's Ark
• The Last Metro (Le dernier metro), directed by François Truffaut
• 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
• The Long Riders, starring the Keach brothers, Carradine brothers and Quaid brothers
• Loulou
• 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
• 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 - Cannes Special Jury Prize
• Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (Moskva slezam ne verit) (International release)
• Mother's Day

N

• Nightkill
• Nijinsky, starring George de la Pena and Alan Bates
• The Ninth Configuration- only film to ever win Golden Globe for Best Screenplay and not be nominated for an Academy Award for writing.
• No Child's Land

O

• O Megalexandros
• Oblomov, 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

P

• Palermo or Wolfsburg - Golden Bear winner
• Permanent Vacation
• The Pilot
• Popeye - directed by Robert Altman, starring Robin Williams and Shelley Duvall
• Private Benjamin, starring Goldie Hawn and Eileen Brennan
• The Private Eyes, starring Tim Conway and Don Knotts
• The Pumaman

R

• 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
• Le roi et l'oiseau, a French Animation film
• Rude Boy

S

• The Sea Wolves, starring Gregory Peck, David Niven, Roger Moore
• 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

T

• Tess (U.S. release) - directed by Roman Polanski, starring Nastassja Kinski and Peter Firth
• Tom Horn, starring Steve McQueen, Richard Farnsworth, Linda Evans
• Tribute, starring Jack Lemmon

U

• Urban Cowboy, starring John Travolta and Debra Winger

V

• Virus

W

• The Watcher in the Woods, starring Bette Davis
• When Time Ran Out, starring Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons
• Who Sings Over There (Ko to tamo peva)
• Why Would I Lie?, starring Richard Pryor
• Windows, starring Talia Shire
• Windwalker

Y

• The Young Master (Shi di chu ma)
• Yūgure made

Z

• Zigeunerweisen - directed by Seijun Suzuki

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

• Drew Barrymore - Altered States
• William Hurt - Altered States
• Jeremy Irons - Nijinsky
• Dolly Parton - 9 to 5
• Neil Diamond
• Michael J. Fox - Midnight Madness
• Tom Hanks - He Knows You're Alone
• Michelle Pfeiffer - The Hollywood Knights
• Jean Reno
• Sharon Stone - Stardust Memories
• Robin Williams - Popeye
• Linda Hunt - Popeye
• Bruce Willis - The First Deadly Sin
• Joan Cusack
• Cynthia Nixon - Little Darlings
• Robbie Coltrane - Flash Gordon
• Peter Gallagher - The Idolmaker
• Joe Pantoliano - The Idolmaker
• Timothy Hutton - Ordinary People
• Pierce Brosnan - The Long Good Friday
• David Morse - Inside Moves
• Willem Dafoe - Heaven's Gate
• Terry O'Quinn - Heaven's Gate
• Ralph Macchio - Up the Academy
• Sean Young - Jane Austen in Manhattan
• Adam Baldwin - My Bodyguard
• Jennifer Beals - My Bodyguard
• Catherine O'Hara - Deadly Companion
• William H. Macy - Somewhere in Time

References

1. ^ http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1980&p=.htm