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2013 and beyondThe year 1979 in film involved some significant events.
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Major events
- March 5 - Production begins on Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.
- May 25 - Alien, a landmark of the science fiction genre, is released.
- May 31 - The Muppet Movie, Jim Henson's Muppets' first foray into the world of feature length motion pictures, is released in United Kingdom.
- June 11 - John Wayne dies.
- September 19 - Don Bluth and a group of fellow animators resign from The Walt Disney Company's animation department to set up a rival studio, Don Bluth Productions.
- November 1 - Production begins on Raiders of the Lost Ark.
- December 7 - Star Trek: The Motion Picture debuts in the United States to mixed reviews but strong box office, launching a film franchise that lead to 11 films over the next 30 years. It also lead to the creation of four spin-off television series based upon Gene Roddenberry's creation.
Top grossing films (U.S.)
Awards
- Best Picture: Kramer vs. Kramer - Jaffe, Columbia
- Best Director: Robert Benton - Kramer vs. Kramer
- Best Actor: Dustin Hoffman - Kramer vs. Kramer
- Best Actress: Sally Field - Norma Rae
- Best Supporting Actress: Meryl Streep - Kramer vs. Kramer
- Best Supporting Actor: Melvyn Douglas - Being There
- Best Foreign Language Film: The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel), directed by Volker Schlöndorff, W. Germany
- Drama:
- Best Picture: Kramer vs. Kramer
- Best Actor: Dustin Hoffman - Kramer vs. Kramer
- Best Actress: Sally Field - Norma Rae
- Musical or comedy:
- Best Picture: Breaking Away
- Best Actor: Peter Sellers - Being There
- Best Actress: Bette Midler - The Rose
- Other
- Best Director: Francis Ford Coppola - Apocalypse Now
- Best Foreign Language Film: La Cage aux Folles (France)
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
- Apocalypse Now, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, United States
- The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel), directed by Volker Schlöndorff, W. Germany
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
- David, directed by Peter Lilienthal, West Germany
Films released in 1979
- 10, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Dudley Moore, Julie Andrews, Bo Derek
- 1941, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Tim Matheson, Toshiro Mifune, Warren Oates, Robert Stack, Treat Williams
- A Little Romance, directed by George Roy Hill, starring Laurence Olivier, Diane Lane, Sally Kellerman
- A Perfect Couple, directed by Robert Altman, starring Paul Dooley
- L'adolescente
- The Adventure of Sudsakorn, Thailand's first and only cel-animated feature film
- Agatha, directed by Michael Apted, starring Vanessa Redgrave and Dustin Hoffman
- Ah! Nomugi Toge
- Alexandria... Why?
- Alien, directed by Ridley Scott, starring Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Harry Dean Stanton, Yaphet Kotto
- The Alien Encounters
- All That Jazz, directed by Bob Fosse, starring Roy Scheider, Ann Reinking, Ben Vereen, Jessica Lange
- All Quiet on the Western Front, directed by Delbert Mann, starring Richard Thomas and Ernest Borgnine
- An Almost Perfect Affair
- Americathon, starring John Ritter and Harvey Korman
- The Amityville Horror, directed by Stuart Rosenberg, starring James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger
- …And Justice for All, directed by Norman Jewison, starring Al Pacino, John Forsythe, Jack Warden Christine Lahti
- Anti-Clock
- Apocalypse Now, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Dennis Hopper, Harrison Ford, Laurence Fishburne
- The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
- Arabian Adventure
- Ashanti, directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Michael Caine and Peter Ustinov
- Banjo the Woodpile Cat
- Being There, directed by Hal Ashby, starring Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden
- Beyond the Poseidon Adventure, directed by Irwin Allen, starring Michael Caine, Telly Savalas, Sally Field, Telly Savalas, Karl Malden, Shirley Jones
- Birth of The Beatles
- The Black Hole, directed by Gary Nelson, starring Maximilian Schell, Anthony Perkins, Ernest Borgnine
- The Black Stallion, starring Mickey Rooney, Hoyt Axton, Teri Garr, Kelly Reno
- Bloody Kids, directed by Stephen Frears
- Boardwalk, directed by Stephen Verona, starring Ruth Gordon, Lee Strasberg, Janet Leigh, Ruth Gordon
- Breaking Away, directed by Peter Yates, starring Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Jackie Earle Haley, Paul Dooley, Barbara Barrie
- Les bronzes font du ski, directed by Patrice Leconte
- The Brood, directed by David Cronenberg, starring Oliver Reed and Samantha Eggar
- Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
- Buffet froid
- The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie
- Butch and Sundance: The Early Days, starring Tom Berenger and William Katt
- The Butterfly Murders, directed by Tsui Hark
- Bye Bye Brazil
- Caligula, directed by Tinto Brass, written by Gore Vidal, starring Malcolm McDowell, Teresa Ann Savoy, Helen Mirren, Peter O'Toole
- Carry On Emmannuelle, directed by Gerald Thomas, starring Kenneth Williams, Suzanne Danielle, Joan Sims, Kenneth Connor
- The Castle of Cagliostro, Japanese anime film by Hayao Miyazaki
- The Cat and the Canary
- The Champ, starring Jon Voight, Faye Dunaway, Ricky Schroder
- The China Syndrome, directed by James Bridges, starring Jack Lemmon, Jane Fonda, Michael Douglas
- C.H.O.M.P.S., directed by Don Chaffey, starring Wesley Eure, Valerie Bertinelli, Conrad Bain, Chuck McCann, Red Buttons
- Christ Stopped at Eboli (Cristo si è fermato a Eboli), directed by Francesco Rosi, starring Gian Maria Volonté
- The Concorde ... Airport '79, starring Alain Delon, Susan Blakely, Robert Wagner, George Kennedy
- Cuba, directed by Richard Lester, starring Sean Connery, Brooke Adams, Chris Sarandon
- David - Golden Bear winner
- Derek and Clive Get the Horn, starring Peter Cook and Dudley Moore
- Dirty Ho (Lan tou He), starring Gordon Liu
- Don Giovanni, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Ruggero Raimondi, John Macurdy and Kiri Te Kanawa
- Dracula, directed by John Badham, starring Frank Langella as Count Dracula and Laurence Olivier as Van Helsing, with Trevor Eve
- Dreamer, starring Tim Matheson
- Eagle's Wing, starring Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston
- The Electric Horseman, directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda
- Escape from Alcatraz, directed by Don Siegel, starring Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Fred Ward
- Escape to Athena, starring Roger Moore, David Niven, Elliott Gould, Stefanie Powers, Claudia Cardinale, Sonny Bono, Telly Savalas
- The Europeans, directed by James Ivory, starring Lee Remick
- Fast Break, starring Gabe Kaplan and Bernard King
- The Fifth Musketeer, starring Sylvia Kristel, Ursula Andress, Beau Bridges
- Firepower, starring Sophia Loren, James Coburn, O.J. Simpson
- The First Great Train Robbery, starring Sean Connery and Donald Sutherland
- A Force of One, starring Chuck Norris and Jennifer O'Neill
- Gal Young 'Un
- Goldengirl, starring Susan Anton
- The Great Santini, starring Robert Duvall and Michael O'Keefe
- Hair , directed by Milos Forman, starring John Savage, Treat Williams, Beverly D'Angelo
- Hanover Street, directed by Peter Hyams, starring Harrison Ford, Lesley-Anne Down, Christopher Plummer
- Hardcore, starring George C. Scott
- Heartland, directed by Richard Pearce - Golden Bear winner, Sundance Grand Jury Prize
- Hot Stuff, directed by and starring Dom DeLuise with Suzanne Pleshette, Jerry Reed
- H.O.T.S.
- The Human Factor, starring Richard Attenborough, John Gielgud, Derek Jacobi
- I as in Icarus
- In Search of Historic Jesus - (documentary)
- The In-Laws, directed by Arthur Hiller, starring Alan Arkin and Peter Falk
- The Jerk, directed by Carl Reiner, starring Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters
- Jesus, directed by Peter Sykes and John Krisch, starring Brian Deacon
- Just You and Me, Kid, starring George Burns
- The Kids Are Alright
- Killerfair directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring James Coburn
- Kramer vs. Kramer, directed by Robert Benton, starring Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep (both won Oscars), Justin Henry, Jane Alexander
- Last Embrace, starring Roy Scheider and Janet Margolin
- The Late Great Planet Earth - (film only mentioned in article)
- Love at First Bite, starring George Hamilton and Susan Saint James
- Love on the Run, directed by François Truffaut
- Lovers and Liars
- Mad Max, directed by George Miller, starring Mel Gibson
- Magnificent Butcher (Lin shi rong), starring Sammo Hung
- The Main Event, starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal
- Manhattan, directed by Woody Allen, starring Allen, Diane Keaton, Michael Murphy and Mariel Hemingway
- The Marriage of Maria Braun, directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, starring Hanna Schygulla
- Meatballs, directed by Ivan Reitman, starring Bill Murray
- Meetings with Remarkable Men, Gurdjieff biography directed by Peter Brook
- Monty Python's Life of Brian, directed by Terry Jones, starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin
- Moonraker, starring Roger Moore as James Bond
- More American Graffiti, starring Candy Clark, Ron Howard, Paul LeMat, Charles Martin Smith and Cindy Williams
- Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears - Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film
- Mr. Mike's Mondo Video
- The Muppet Movie, made by Jim Henson, with Charles Durning and Dom DeLuise
- Murder by Decree, a Sherlock Holmes mystery starring Christopher Plummer and James Mason
- My Brilliant Career, directed by Gillian Armstrong
- Norma Rae, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Sally Field and Beau Bridges
- The North Avenue Irregulars
- North Dallas Forty, starring Nick Nolte and Mac Davis
- Nosferatu ("Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht"), directed by Werner Herzog, starring Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani and Bruno Ganz
- The Odd Angry Shot
- The Onion Field, starring James Woods and John Savage
- Over the Edge, directed by Jonathan Kaplan, starring Matt Dillon
- Phantasm
- Players, starring Ali MacGraw and Dean Paul Martin
- The Prisoner of Zenda, starring Peter Sellers, Lynne Frederick and Lionel Jeffries
- The Prize Fighter
- Prophecy, starring Talia Shire
- Quadrophenia, directed by Franc Roddam, starring Phil Daniels, Leslie Ash and Ray Winstone with music by The Who
- Real Life, directed by and starring Albert Brooks
- Return of the Secaucus Seven, directed by John Sayles
- Rock 'n' Roll High School, produced by Roger Corman, featuring The Ramones
- Rocky II, starring Sylvester Stallone, Carl Weathers, Talia Shire, Burgess Meredith, Burt Young
- Roller Boogie, starring Linda Blair
- The Rose, directed by Mark Rydell, starring Bette Midler, Alan Bates, Frederic Forrest
- Saint Jack, directed by Peter Bogdanovich, starring Ben Gazzara
- Scavenger Hunt, starring Cloris Leachman, Cleavon Little, Vincent Price, Tony Randall
- Scum, starring Ray Winstone
- She's 19 and Ready
- Siberiade, directed by Andrei Konchalovsky
- Sisters, or the Balance of Happiness
- Soldier of Orange, directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Rutger Hauer and Jeroen Krabbe (International release)
- Stalker, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture, directed by Robert Wise, starring William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy
- Starting Over, directed by Alan J. Pakula, starring Burt Reynolds, Jill Clayburgh, Candice Bergen
- Stay As You Are, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Nastassja Kinski (American release)
- Take Down
- The Tempest, directed by Derek Jarman, starring Toyah Wilcox
- Tess, directed by Roman Polanski, starring Nastassja Kinski
- The Third Generation, directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Tim, starring Mel Gibson and Piper Laurie
- Time After Time, starring Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, and Mary Steenburgen
- The Tin Drum, directed by Volker Schlondorff, starring David Bennent - Palme d'Or winner
- Ultraman
- Ultraman: Great Monster Decisive Battle
- Vengeance Is Mine, directed by Shohei Imamura, starring Ken Ogata
- Wanda Nevada, directed by Peter Fonda, starring Peter Fonda and Brooke Shields
- The Wanderers, starring Ken Wahl and Karen Allen
- The Warriors, directed by Walter Hill, starring Michael Beck, James Remar, David Patrick Kelly and Deborah Van Valkenburgh
- When a Stranger Calls, starring Charles Durning and Carol Kane
- Winter Kills, starring Jeff Bridges, John Huston, Anthony Perkins
- Wolfman
- Woyzeck, directed by Werner Herzog, starring Klaus Kinski and Eva Mattes
- Yanks, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Richard Gere and Vanessa Redgrave
- Zulu Dawn, starring Peter O'Toole, Burt Lancaster and Simon Ward
Births
- January 8 - Sarah Polley, actress
- January 12 - Isidra Vega, actress
- January 27 - Rosamund Pike, actress
- February 9 - Mena Suvari, actress
- February 9 - Zhang Ziyi, actress and dancer
- February 21 - Jennifer Love Hewitt, actress and singer
- April 4 - Bunko Kanazawa, actress
- April 4 - Heath Ledger, actor (d. 2008)
- April 4 - Natasha Lyonne, actress
- April 12 - Claire Danes, actress
- April 19 - Kate Hudson, actress
- April 23 - Jaime King, actress
- May 9 - Rosario Dawson, actress
- May 25 - Monica Keena, actress
- June 27 - Benjamin Speed, film composer
- August 31 - Yuvan Shankar Raja, film composer
- September 23 - Anthony Mackie, actor
- October 4 - Rachael Leigh Cook, actress
- October 8 - Kristanna Loken, actress
- December 23 - Summer Altice, model and actress
Deaths
- January 16 - Peter Butterworth, actor
- February 12 - Jean Renoir, director
- March 1 - Dolores Costello, actress
- March 22 - Ben Lyon, actor, also credited as the man who supposedly "discovered" and renamed Marilyn Monroe
- May 26 - George Brent, actor
- May 29 - Mary Pickford, American actress
- June 11 - John Wayne, American actor
- July 8 - Michael Wilding, English actor
- August 17 - Vivian Vance, American actress
- September 8 - Jean Seberg, actress
- September 12 - Jocelyne LaGarde, Tahitian-born actress
- November 23 - Merle Oberon, actress
- November 30 - Zeppo Marx, American comic actor
- December 11 - Adile Nasit, actress & director
- December 13 - Jon Hall, actor
- December 25 - Joan Blondell, actress
Debuts
- Danny Glover - Escape from Alcatraz
- Diane Lane - A Little Romance
- Mickey Rourke - 1941
- Ray Winstone
- Matt Dillon - Over the Edge
- Patrick Swayze - Skatetown, U.S.A.
- Rick Schroder - The Champ
- Wallace Shawn - Manhattan
- Timothy Spall - Quadrophenia
- Cary Elwes - Yesterday's Hero
- Jeffrey Tambor - ...And Justice for All
- Rosanna Arquette
- Matt Craven - Meatballs
- Ted Danson - The Onion Field
- Corey Feldman - Time After Time
- Daniel Stern
- Martin Short - Lost and Found
- Chris Penn - Charlie and the Talking Buzzard
References
- ^ "Box Office Information for Kramer vs. Kramer". BoxOfficeMojo.com. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=kramervskramer.htm. Retrieved June 11, 2010.
- ^ "Box Office Information for Amityville Horror". wikipedia.org. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amityville_Horror_(1979_film). Retrieved October 19, 2011.
- ^ "Box Office Information for Rocky II". BoxOfficeMojo.com. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=rocky2.htm. Retrieved June 11, 2010.
- ^ "Box Office Information for Apocalypse Now". BoxOfficeMojo.com. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=apocalypsenow.htm. Retrieved June 11, 2010.
- ^ "Box Office Information for Star Trek: The Motion Picture". BoxOfficeMojo.com. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=startrek.htm. Retrieved June 11, 2010.
- ^ "Box Office Information for Alien". BoxOfficeMojo.com. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=alien.htm. Retrieved June 11, 2010.
- ^ "Box Office Information for 10". BoxOfficeMojo.com. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=10.htm. Retrieved June 11, 2010.
- ^ "Box Office Information for The Jerk". BoxOfficeMojo.com. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=jerk.htm. Retrieved June 11, 2010.
- ^ "Box Office Information for Moonraker". BoxOfficeMojo.com. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=moonraker.htm. Retrieved June 11, 2010.
- ^ "Box Office Information for The Muppet Movie". BoxOfficeMojo.com. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=muppetmovie.htm. Retrieved June 11, 2010.
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