# 1980 Cannes Film Festival

The 33rd Cannes Film Festival took place from 9 and 23 May 1980. American actor Kirk Douglas served as jury president for the main competition. During the festival the showing of Andrei Tarkovsky's film Stalker was notoriously interrupted by an electricians strike.
The Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, was jointly award to All That Jazz by Bob Fosse and Kagemusha by Akira Kurosawa.
The festival opened with Fantastica by Gilles Carle, and closed with I'm Photogenic by Dino Risi.

## Juries
### Main Competition

* Kirk Douglas, American actor - Jury President
* Ken Adam, British production designer
* Robert Benayoun, French film critic and author
* Veljko Bulajić, Yugoslavian filmmaker
* Leslie Caron, French actress and dancer
* Charles Champlin, American film critic and writer
* André Delvaux, Belgium filmmaker
* Albina du Boisrouvray, French producer
* Gian Luigi Rondi, Italian writer
* Michael Spencer, Canadian producer and filmmaker

## Official selection
### In Competition

The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| All That Jazz | All That Jazz | Bob Fosse | United States |
| Being There | Being There | Hal Ashby | United States |
| The Big Red One | The Big Red One | Samuel Fuller | United States |
| Breaker Morant | Breaker Morant | Bruce Beresford | Australia |
| Bye Bye Brazil | Bye Bye Brasil | Carlos Diegues | Brazil, France, Argentina |
| The Constant Factor | Constans | Krzysztof Zanussi | Poland |
| Dedicatoria | Dedicatoria | Jaime Chávarri | Spain |
| Ek Din Pratidin | এক দিন প্রতিদিন | Mrinal Sen | India |
| Fantastica (opening film) | Fantastica (opening film) | Gilles Carle | France, Canada |
| The Heiresses | Örökség | Márta Mészáros | Hungary |
| Jaguar | Jaguar | Lino Brocka | Philippines |
| Kagemusha | 影武者 | Akira Kurosawa | Japan |
| A Leap in the Dark | Salto nel vuoto | Marco Bellocchio | Italy |
| The Long Riders | The Long Riders | Walter Hill | United States |
| Loulou | Loulou | Maurice Pialat | France |
| The Missing Link | Le Chaînon manquant | Picha | Belgium, France |
| My American Uncle | Mon oncle d'Amérique | Alain Resnais | France |
| Out of the Blue | Out of the Blue | Dennis Hopper | United States, Canada |
| Put on Ice | Kaltgestellt | Bernhard Sinkel | West Germany |
| Every Man for Himself | Sauve qui peut (la vie) | Jean-Luc Godard | France, Austria, West Germany, Switzerland |
| Special Treatment | Посебан третман | Goran Paskaljević | Yugoslavia |
| La terrazza | La terrazza | Ettore Scola | Italy |
| A Week's Vacation | Une semaine de vacances | Bertrand Tavernier | France |

### Un Certain Regard

The following films were selected for the Un Certain Regard section:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Ballad of Tara | چریکه تارا | Bahram Beyzai | Iran |
| The Candidate | Der Kandidat | Volker Schlöndorff | West Germany |
| Christopher's House | Kristoffers hus | Lars Lennart Forsberg | Sweden |
| Csontváry | Csontváry | Zoltán Huszárik | Hungary |
| Days of Dreams | Дани од снова | Vlatko Gilić | Yugoslavia |
| La femme enfant | Die Stumme Liebe | Raphaële Billetdoux | France, West Germany |
| The Gamekeeper | The Gamekeeper | Ken Loach | United Kingdom |
| Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder | Portrait d'un homme 'à 60% parfait': Billy Wilder | Annie Tresgot and Michel Ciment | France |
| The Rabbit Case | Causa králík | Jaromil Jireš | Czechoslovakia |
| Sitting Ducks | Sitting Ducks | Henry Jaglom | United States |
| To Love the Damned | Maledetti vi amerò | Marco Tullio Giordana | Italy |
| Ways in the Night [pl] | Wege in der Nacht | Krzysztof Zanussi | West Germany |
| The Willi Busch Report | Der Willi-Busch-Report | Niklaus Schilling | West Germany |

### Out of Competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Breaking Glass | Breaking Glass | Brian Gibson | United Kingdom |
| City of Women | La città delle donne | Federico Fellini | Italy |
| I'm Photogenic (closing film) | Sono fotogenico | Dino Risi | Italy |
| Lightning Over Water | Lightning Over Water | Wim Wenders and Nicholas Ray | West Germany, Sweden |
| Nezha Conquers the Dragon King | 哪吒闹海 | Wang Shuchen, Yan Dingxian, Xu Jingda | China |
| Public Telephone | Téléphone public | Jean-Marie Périer | France |
| The Risk of Living | Le risque de vivre | Gérald Calderon | France |
| Stalker | Сталкер | Andrei Tarkovsky | Soviet Union |
| Stir | Stir | Stephen Wallace | Australia |
| SuperTotò | SuperTotò | Brando Giordani and Emilio Ravel | Italy |

### Short Films Competition

The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:
* Arrêt momentané by Marie-France Siegler
* The Beloved by Michel Bouchard
* The Performer by Norma Bailey
* Grandomaniya by Nikolay Todorov
* Krychle by Zdenek Smetana
* Magyar kepek by Csaba Szórády
* La Petite enfance du cinéma by Joël Farges
* Rails by Manolo Otero
* Scheherazade by Susan Casey and Nancy Naschke
* Seaside Woman by Oscar Grillo
* Sky Dance by Faith Hubley
* Z górki by Marian Cholerek

## Parallel sections
### International Critics' Week

The following feature films were screened for the 19th International Critics' Week (19e Semaine de la Critique):
* Adrien's Story by Jean-Pierre Denis
* Babylon by Franco Rosso
* Best Boy by Ira Wohl
* Immacolata and Concetta: The Other Jealousy by Salvatore Piscicelli
* Provincial Actors by Agnieszka Holland
* The Nineteen Year-Old's Map by Mitsuo Yanagimachi
* Ticket of No Return by Ulrike Ottinger

### Directors' Fortnight

The following films were screened for the 1980 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):
* Afternoon of War by Karl Francis
* Aziza by Abdellatif Ben Ammar
* The Blood Of Hussain by Jamil Dehlavi
* Carny by Robert Kaylor
* Gaijin: Roads to Freedom by Tizuka Yamasaki
* Gal Young Un by Victor Nuñez
* The Handyman by Micheline Lanctôt
* Hazal by Ali Ozgentürk
* Morning Undersea by Lauro Antonio
* Manoa by Solveig Hoogesteijn
* Mater Amatisima by José A. Salgot
* Oggetti Smarriti by Giuseppe Bertolucci
* Opname by Erik van Zuylen and Marja Kok
* Order by Sohrab Shahid Saless
* The Patriotic Woman [fr] by Alexander Kluge
* Pełnia by Andrzej Kondratiuk
* Prostitute by Tony Garnett
* Radio On by Christopher Petit
* Purity of Heart [de] by Robert van Ackeren
* Sunday Children by Michael Verhoeven
* Sunday Daughters by János Rózsa
* Union City by Marcus Reichert
Short films
* Noticiero Incine by Frank Pineda and Ramiro Lacayo
* Ovtcharsko by Christo Kovatchev
* Vietnam, voyage dans le temps by Edgar Telles Ribeiro

## Official Awards
### In Competition

* Palme d'Or:
** All That Jazz by Bob Fosse
** Kagemusha by Akira Kurosawa
* Grand Prix: My American Uncle by Alain Resnais (unanimously)
* Best Screenplay: Ettore Scola, Agenore Incrocci and Furio Scarpelli for La terrazza
* Best Actress: Anouk Aimée for A Leap in the Dark
* Best Actor: Michel Piccoli for A Leap in the Dark
* Best Supporting Actress: Milena Dravić for Special Treatment & Carla Gravina for La terrazza
* Best Supporting Actor: Jack Thompson for Breaker Morant
* Jury Prize: The Constant Factor by Krzysztof Zanussi

### Caméra d'Or

* Adrien's Story by Jean-Pierre Denis

### Short Film Palme d'Or

* Seaside Woman by Oscar Grillo
* Jury Prize: Canada Vignettes: The Performer by Norma Bailey & Krychle by Zdenek Smetana

## Independent Awards
### FIPRESCI Prizes

* My American Uncle by Alain Resnais (In competition)
* Provincial Actors by Agnieszka Holland (International Critics' Week)
* Gaijin: Roads to Freedom by Tizuka Yamasaki (Directors' Fortnight)

### Commission Supérieure Technique

* Technical Grand Prize: Le Risque de vivre by Gérald Calderon (out of competition)

### Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

* The Constant Factor by Krzysztof Zanussi