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Years in film
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Events

• May 21 - The Empire Strikes Back is released and is the biggest grosser of the year (just as its predecessor, Star Wars, was three years before).
• Sharon Stone makes her film début in the Woody Allen movie Stardust Memories (released September 26 in USA).

Top grossing films (U.S.)

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

Friday, February 1, 1980

• Fatso

Friday, February 8, 1980

• American Gigolo
• Cruising
• The Fog
• Midnight Madness

Friday, February 15, 1980

• Caligula
• Saturn 3

Friday, February 29, 1980

• Don't Answer The Phone
• Foxes

Friday, March 7, 1980

• Coal Miner's Daughter

Friday, March 14, 1980

• Defiance

Friday, March 21, 1980

• Forbidden Zone
• Little Darlings

Friday, March 28, 1980

• The Changeling
• Don't Go In The House

Friday, May 9, 1980

• Friday the 13th
• The Nude Bomb

Friday, May 16, 1980

• Breaker Morant
• Fame
• The Long Riders

Wednesday, May 21, 1980

• The Empire Strikes Back

Friday, May 23, 1980

• The Shining

Friday, May 30, 1980

• Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!)
• The Hollywood Knights

Friday, June 6, 1980

• Up the Academy
• Urban Cowboy

Friday, June 13, 1980

• Mad Max
• The Island
• Wholly Moses!

Friday, June 20, 1980

• The Blues Brothers
• Brubaker

Friday, June 27, 1980

• The Stunt Man

Wednesday, July 2, 1980

• Airplane!
• Alligator

Friday, July 4, 1980

• The Blue Lagoon

Friday, July 11, 1980

• My Bodyguard
• Oh! Heavenly Dog
• Used Cars

Friday, July 18, 1980

• The Big Red One
• Cheech & Chong's Next Movie
• Honeysuckle Rose
• Prom Night

Friday, July 25, 1980

• Caddyshack
• Dressed to Kill

Friday, August 1, 1980

• The Final Countdown

Friday, August 8, 1980

• Xanadu

Friday, August 15, 1980

• The Octagon
• Smokey and the Bandit II

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
• Ladies' Choice
• 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
• Nightkill
• 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
• Palermo or Wolfsburg, 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
• Why Would I Lie?
• Windows
• Windwalker
• Zigeunerweisen, directed by Seijun Suzuki

Wide-release movies

Births

• January 17 - Zooey Deschanel, actress
• February 12 - Christina Ricci, actress
• June 24 - Minka Kelly, acress
• 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
• 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

Film debuts

• Jim Carrey
• Tom Hanks
• Michelle Pfeiffer
• Sharon Stone
• Mel Gibson, appearing in his first significant film in the United States and Canada.

References