1980 in film
Top grossing films (U.S.)
Columns: Rank | Title | Studio | Director(s) | Gross
1 | Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back | Lucasfilm / 20th Century Fox | Irvin Kershner | $290,475,067 | 2 | 9 to 5 | 20th Century Fox | Colin Higgins | $103,290,500 | 3 | Stir Crazy | Columbia | Sidney Poitier | $101,300,000 | 4 | Airplane! | Paramount | David Zucker , Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker | $83,453,539 | 5 | Any Which Way You Can | Warner Bros. | Buddy Van Horn | $70,687,344 | 6 | Private Benjamin | Warner Bros. | Howard Zieff | $69,847,348 | 7 | Coal Miner's Daughter | Universal | Michael Apted | $67,182,787 | 8 | Smokey and the Bandit II | Rastar / Universal | Hal Needham | $66,132,626 | 9 | The Blue Lagoon | Columbia | Randal Kleiser | $58,853,106 | 10 | The Blues Brothers | Universal | John Landis | $57,229,890 | 11 | Ordinary People | Paramount | Robert Redford | $54,766,923 | 12 | Popeye | Paramount | Robert Altman | $49,823,037 | 13 | Urban Cowboy | Paramount | James Bridges | $46,918,287 | 14 | The Shining | Warner Bros. | Stanley Kubrick | $44,017,374 | 15 | Seems Like Old Times | Rastar / Columbia | Jay Sandrich | $43,995,918 | 16 | Cheech & Chong's Next Movie | Universal | Tommy Chong | $41,675,194 | 17 | Caddyshack | Orion / Warner Bros. | Harold Ramis | $39,846,344 | 18 | Friday the 13th | Paramount | Sean S. Cunningham | $39,754,601 | 19 | Brubaker | 20th Century Fox | Stuart Rosenberg | $37,121,708 | 20 | Little Darlings | Paramount | Ronald F. Maxwell | $34,326,249 | 21 | Dressed to Kill | Filmways | Brian De Palma | $31,899,000 | 22 | The Jazz Singer | Associated Film Distribution | Richard Fleischer and Sidney J. Furie | $27,118,000 | 23 | Flash Gordon | Universal | Mike Hodges | $27,107,960 | 24 | The Elephant Man | Paramount | David Lynch | $26,010,864 | 25 | Bronco Billy | Warner Bros. | Clint Eastwood | $24,265,659 | 26 | Raging Bull | United Artists | Martin Scorsese | $23,334,953 | 27 | Xanadu | Universal | Robert Greenwald | $22,762,571 | 28 | American Gigolo | Paramount | Paul Schrader | $22,743,674 | 29 | My Bodyguard | 20th Century Fox | Tony Bill | $22,482,952 | 30 | The Fog | Avco Embassy | John Carpenter | $21,378,361 | 31 | Fame | United Artists / MGM | Alan Parker | $21,202,829 | 32 | Tess | Columbia | Roman Polanski | $20,093,330 | 33 | Altered States | Warner Bros. | Ken Russell | $19,853,892 | 34 | Cruising | Lorimar / United Artists | William Friedkin | $19,784,223 | 35 | The Octagon | American Cinema | Eric Karson | $18,971,000 | 36 | Honeysuckle Rose | Warner Bros. | Jerry Schatzberg | $17,815,212 | 37 | Herbie Goes Bananas | Disney | Vincent McEveety | $17,000,000 | 38 | Rough Cut | Paramount | Don Siegel | $16,656,125 | 39 | The Final Countdown | United Artists | Don Taylor | $16,647,800 | 40 | The Hunter | Rastar / Paramount | Buzz Kulik | $16,274,150 | 41 | Hero at Large | MGM / United Artists | Martin Davidson | $15,934,737 | 42 | The Long Riders | United Artists | Walter Hill | $15,795,189 | 43 | The Island | Universal | Michael Ritchie | $15,716,828