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The following is an overview of events in 1980 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths.
Highest-grossing films (U.S.)[]
See also: List of 1980 box office number-one films in the United States
The top ten 1980 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
| Rank | Title | Distributor | Gross |
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| 1. | The Empire Strikes Back | 20th Century Fox | $209,398,025 |
| 2. | 9 to 5 | $103,290,500 | |
| 3. | Stir Crazy | Columbia | $101,300,000 |
| 4. | Airplane! | Paramount | $83,453,539 |
| 5. | Any Which Way You Can | Warner Bros. | $70,687,344 |
| 6. | Private Benjamin | $69,847,348 | |
| 7. | Coal Miner's Daughter | Universal | $67,182,787 |
| 8. | Smokey and the Bandit II | $66,132,626 | |
| 9. | The Blue Lagoon | Columbia | $58,853,106 |
| 10. | The Blues Brothers | Universal | $57,229,890 |
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 prior).
- May 23 - The Shining is released. Notable for being the first "epic" horror film. It has since become one of the most referenced and popular films of all time.
- June 20 – The Blues Brothers is released and in addition to becoming one of the top-grossing films of the year it also became the first feature film to be based on characters created on Saturday Night Live.
- November 19 – Heaven's Gate becomes one of the biggest box office bombs of all-time and its colossal failure bankrupts United Artists.
Awards[]
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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
Notable films released in 1980[]
Births[]
- January 7 - Hele Kõrve, Estonian actress and singer
- January 17 – Zooey Deschanel, American singer-songwriter and actress
- January 18 - Estelle, British singer, songwriter, record producer and actress
- February 12 – Christina Ricci, American actress
- March 9 – Matthew Gray Gubler, American actor
- April 8 – Carrie Savage, American voice actress
- April 13
- Colleen Clinkenbeard, American voice actress
- Kelli Giddish, American actress
- April 26
- Jordana Brewster, American actress
- Channing Tatum, American actor
- May 8
- Jasen Fisher, American former child actor
- Kimberlee Peterson, American actress
- May 22 - Evelin Võigemast, Estonian actress
- June 23 – Melissa Rauch, American actress and comedian
- June 24 – Minka Kelly, American actress
- July 3 – Olivia Munn, American actress
- July 6 – Eva Green, French actress
- July 18 – Kristen Bell, American actress
- August 26
- Chris Pine, American actor
- Macaulay Culkin, American actor
- September 9 – Michelle Williams, American actress
- October 14 – Ben Whishaw, English actor
- October 29 – Ben Foster, American actor
- November 12 – Ryan Gosling, Canadian actor
- December 3 – Anna Chlumsky, American actress
- December 19
- Jake Gyllenhaal, American actor
- Marla Sokoloff, American actress
- December 30 – Eliza Dushku, American actress
Notable deaths[]
| Month | Date | Name | Age | Country | Profession | Notable films |
| January | 14 | Robert Ardrey | 71 | USA | Screenwriter |
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| 17 | Barbara Britton | 60 | USA | Actress |
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| 24 | James Poe | 58 | USA | Screenwriter |
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| 24 | Lil Dagover | 92 | Germany | Actress |
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| 29 | Jimmy Durante | 86 | USA | Actor, Singer |
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| February | 1 | Romolo Valli | 54 | Italy | Actor |
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| 4 | David Whitaker | 52 | UK | Writer |
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| 9 | Renée Houston | 77 | UK | Actress, Writer |
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| 13 | David Janssen | 48 | USA | Actor |
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| 18 | Gale Robbins | 58 | USA | Actress, Singer |
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| 26 | Mario Mattoli | 81 | Italy | Director, Screenwriter |
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| 27 | George Tobias | 78 | USA | Actor |
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| March | 5 | Jay Silverheels | 67 | USA | Actor |
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| 8 | Frank McDonald | 80 | USA | Director |
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| 27 | Steve Fisher | 67 | USA | Screenwriter |
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| 28 | Dick Haymes | 61 | USA | Actor, Singer |
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| April | 9 | Kathleen Burke | 66 | USA | Actress |
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| 10 | Kay Medford | 65 | USA | Actress |
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| 11 | Charlotte Henry | 66 | USA | Actress |
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| 15 | Raymond Bailey | 75 | USA | Actor |
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| 16 | Harry Hutchinson | 87 | Ireland | Actor | Blowup | |
| 17 | Alf Sjöberg | 76 | Sweden | Director |
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| 19 | Tony Beckley | 50 | UK | Actor |
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| 25 | Mario Bava | 65 | Italy | Director, Screenwriter, Cinematographer |
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| 29 | William Clemens | 74 | USA | Director |
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| 29 | Alfred Hitchcock | 80 | UK | Director, Producer | ||
| May | 1 | Henry Levin | 70 | USA | Director |
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| 2 | George Pal | 72 | Hungary | Producer |
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| 4 | Kay Hammond | 71 | UK | Actress |
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| 12 | Lillian Roth | 69 | USA | Actress, Writer |
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| 14 | Hugh Griffith | 67 | Wales | Actor |
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| June | 12 | Milburn Stone | 75 | USA | Actor |
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| 18 | Terence Fisher | 76 | UK | Director |
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| 23 | John Laurie | 83 | UK | Actor |
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| July | 6 | Gail Patrick | 69 | USA | Producer, Actress |
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| 7 | Reginald Gardiner | 77 | UK | Actor |
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| 11 | Peggy Knudsen | 57 | USA | Actress |
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| 24 | Peter Sellers | 54 | UK | Actor | ||
| 30 | Charles McGraw | 66 | USA | Actor |
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| 31 | Bobby Van | 51 | USA | Actor, Dancer |
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| August | 1 | Strother Martin | 61 | USA | Actor | |
| 7 | Norman Atkyns | 74 | UK | Actor | Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell | |
| 14 | Dorothy Stratten | 20 | USA | Actress |
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| 25 | Gower Champion | 59 | USA | Actor, Dancer, Director |
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| September | 3 | Barbara O'Neil | 70 | USA | Actress |
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| 4 | Duncan Renaldo | 76 | USA | Actor |
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| 24 | Theodor Luts | 84 | Brazil | Cinematographer, Director | The Substitute Wife | |
| 25 | Lewis Milestone | 84 | Russia | Director | ||
| October | 6 | Hattie Jacques | 58 | UK | Actress |
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| 28 | Leon Janney | 63 | Mexico | Actor |
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| November | 4 | Noel Langley | 68 | South Africa | Screenwriter |
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| 7 | Steve McQueen | 50 | Mexico | Actor, Producer | ||
| 15 | Bill Lee | 64 | USA | Actor, Singer | ||
| 22 | Mae West | 87 | USA | Actress, Writer |
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| 24 | George Raft | 79 | USA | Actor |
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| 26 | Rachel Roberts | 53 | USA | Actress |
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| December | 8 | John Lennon | 40 | USA | Actor, Musician, Producer |
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| 16 | Peter Collinson | 44 | USA | Director, Producer, Writer |
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| 18 | Gabrielle Robinne | 94 | France | Actress | The Assassination of the Duke of Guise | |
| 20 | Ben Sharpsteen | 85 | USA | Director, Producer | ||
| 28 | Sam Levene | 75 | USA | Actor |
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| 31 | Raoul Walsh | 93 | USA | Director, Writer, Actor |
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Film debuts[]
- Adam Baldwin – My Bodyguard
- Drew Barrymore – Altered States
- Jennifer Beals – My Bodyguard
- Pierce Brosnan – The Long Good Friday
- Robbie Coltrane – Flash Gordon
- Joan Cusack – My Bodyguard
- Willem Dafoe – Heaven's Gate
- Tony Danza – The Hollywood Knights
- Neil Diamond – The Jazz Singer
- Charles Fleischer – Die Laughing
- Michael J. Fox – Midnight Madness
- Peter Gallagher – The Idolmaker
- Tom Hanks – He Knows You're Alone
- Linda Hunt – Popeye
- William Hurt – Altered States
- Timothy Hutton – Ordinary People
- Jeremy Irons – Nijinsky
- Ralph Macchio – Up the Academy
- William H. Macy – Somewhere in Time
- Christopher McDonald – The Hearse
- Cathy Moriarty – Raging Bull
- David Morse – Inside Moves
- Cynthia Nixon – Little Darlings
- Catherine O'Hara – Deadly Companion
- Terry O'Quinn – Heaven's Gate
- Joe Pantoliano – The Idolmaker
- Dolly Parton – 9 to 5
- Michelle Pfeiffer – The Hollywood Knights
- Paul Reubens – Pray TV
- Sharon Stone – Stardust Memories
- David Strathairn – Return of the Secaucus 7
- John Turturro – Raging Bull
- Dianne Wiest – It's My Turn
- Robin Williams – Popeye
- Bruce Willis – The First Deadly Sin
- Sean Young – Jane Austen in Manhattan
See also[]
- List of American films of 1980
- List of British films of 1980
- List of French films of 1980
- List of German films of the 1980s
- List of Bollywood films of 1980
- List of Italian films of 1980
- List of Japanese films of 1980
- List of Swedish films of the 1980s
Notes[]
References[]
- ↑ "1980 Domestic Grosses". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
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