1980 in film

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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:

## 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

**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
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

## 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

## 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

## References

1. ↑ "1980 Domestic Grosses". *Box Office Mojo*. Retrieved 7 April 2014.

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