1980 in film

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.

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Highest-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten 1980 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1980[1]

Rank	Title	Distributor	Box-office gross
1	The Empire Strikes Back	20th Century Fox	$209,398,025
2	9 to 5		$103,290,500
3	Stir Crazy	Columbia Pictures	$101,300,000
4	Airplane!	Paramount Pictures	$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 Pictures	$67,182,787
8	Smokey and the Bandit II		$66,132,626
9	The Blue Lagoon	Columbia Pictures	$58,853,106
10	The Blues Brothers	Universal Pictures	$57,229,890

Worldwide gross revenue

The following table lists known worldwide gross revenue figures for several high-grossing films that originally released in 1980. Note that this list is incomplete and is therefore not representative of the highest-grossing films worldwide in 1980.

Title	Gross	Source	Country
The Empire Strikes Back	$538,375,067	[2]	United States
The Gods Must Be Crazy	$200,000,000	[3]	South Africa
Airplane!	$158,000,000	[4]	United States
The Blues Brothers	$115,229,890	[5]
The Cannonball Run	$100,000,000	[6]	United States Hong Kong

Events

• April 29 – Sir Alfred Hitchcock, known as "the Master of Suspense", dies at his home in Bel Air, California, at the age of 80.
• May 21 – The Empire Strikes Back is released and is the highest-grossing film 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 9 – Richard Pryor sets himself on fire while free-basing cocaine and drinking 151-proof rum. Pryor ran down his street in Northridge, California, until subdued by police.
• 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.
• Allied Artists is sold to Lorimar Productions.

Awards

Category/Organization	38th Golden Globe Awards January 31, 1981		34th BAFTA Awards March 22, 1981	53rd Academy Awards March 31, 1981
	Drama	Musical or Comedy
Best Film	Ordinary People	Coal Miner's Daughter	The Elephant Man	Ordinary People
Best Director	Robert Redford Ordinary People		Akira Kurosawa Kagemusha	Robert Redford Ordinary People
Best Actor	Robert De Niro Raging Bull	Ray Sharkey The Idolmaker	John Hurt The Elephant Man	Robert De Niro Raging Bull
Best Actress	Mary Tyler Moore Ordinary People	Sissy Spacek Coal Miner's Daughter	Judy Davis My Brilliant Career	Sissy Spacek Coal Miner's Daughter
Best Supporting Actor	Timothy Hutton Ordinary People		N/A	Timothy Hutton Ordinary People
Best Supporting Actress	Mary Steenburgen Melvin and Howard		N/A	Mary Steenburgen Melvin and Howard
Best Screenplay, Adapted	William Peter Blatty The Ninth Configuration		Jerzy Kosinski Being There	Alvin Sargent Ordinary People
Best Screenplay, Original				Bo Goldman Melvin and Howard
Best Original Score	Dominic Frontiere The Stunt Man		John Williams The Empire Strikes Back	Michael Gore Fame
Best Original Song	"Fame" Fame		N/A	"Fame" Fame
Best Foreign Language Film	Tess		N/A	Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears

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, US / 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

United States unless stated

#

• 9 to 5, directed by Colin Higgins, starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, Dabney Coleman

A

• The Agency, starring Robert Mitchum, Lee Majors, Valerie Perrine – (Canada)
• Airplane!, starring Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen, Peter Graves, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
• Alien Dead, directed by Fred Olen Ray, starring Buster Crabbe
• Alligator, directed by Lewis Teague, starring Robert Forster, Robin Riker, and Michael Gazzo
• Altered States, directed by Ken Russell, starring William Hurt and Blair Brown
• American Gigolo, directed by Paul Schrader, starring Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton and Héctor Elizondo
• Antropophagus, directed by Joe D'Amato, starring George Eastman, Tisa Farrow, Zora Kerova, Saverio Vallone, and Serena Grandi (Italy)
• Any Which Way You Can, directed by Buddy Van Horn, starring Clint Eastwood, Geoffrey Lewis, William Smith, Barry Corbin, Ruth Gordon
• Arrebato (Rapture), directed by Ivan Zulueta, starring Eusebio Poncela, and Cecilia Roth (Spain)
• Atlantic City, directed by Louis Malle, starring Burt Lancaster and Susan Sarandon – (Canada/France) – Golden Lion winner
• The Awakening, starring Charlton Heston, Susannah York and Stephanie Zimbalist – (U.K.)

B

• Babylon, starring Brinsley Forde – (U.K.)
• A Bad Son (un mauvais fils), directed by Claude Sautet – (France)
• Bad Timing, directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Harvey Keitel – (U.K.)
• The Baltimore Bullet, starring James Coburn
• Berlin Alexanderplatz, a TV mini-series directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, starring Gunther Lamprecht, Hanna Schygulla, Barbara Sukowa – (West Germany)
• The Big Brawl, starring Jackie Chan – (Hong Kong/United States)
• The Big Red One, directed by Samuel Fuller, starring Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine
• Bizalom (Confidence), directed by István Szabó – (Hungary)
• The Black Marble, directed by Harold Becker, starring Robert Foxworth, Paula Prentiss, Harry Dean Stanton
• The Blood of Hussain, directed by Jamil Dehlavi – (Pakistan)
• The Blue Lagoon, starring Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins
• The Blues Brothers, directed by John Landis, starring John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Cab Calloway, Carrie Fisher, John Candy, Henry Gibson
• Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!)
• Breaker Morant, directed by Bruce Beresford, starring Edward Woodward – (Australia)
• Bronco Billy, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, with Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, Sam Bottoms, Scatman Crothers
• Brubaker, directed by Stuart Rosenberg, starring Robert Redford, David Keith, Jane Alexander, Yaphet Kotto

C

• Caboblanco, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Charles Bronson, Jason Robards, Dominique Sanda
• Caddyshack, directed by Harold Ramis, starring Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, Michael O'Keefe, Cindy Morgan, Bill Murray
• The Candidate (Der Kandidat), directed by Volker Schlöndorff – (West Germany)
• Cannibal Holocaust, directed by Ruggero Deodato, starring Robert Kerman – (Italy)
• Can't Stop the Music, directed by Nancy Walker, starring Valerie Perrine, Bruce Jenner, Steve Guttenberg, Village People
• Carny, starring Jodie Foster, Gary Busey and Robbie Robertson
• Chann Pardesi, starring Kulbhushan Kharbanda and Om Puri – (India)
• A Change of Seasons, starring Shirley MacLaine, Anthony Hopkins, Bo Derek
• The Changeling, starring George C. Scott – (Canada)
• Cheech & Chong's Next Movie
• Children's Island (Barnens ö) – (Sweden)
• La Cicala (The Cicada), starring Anthony Franciosa and Virna Lisi – (Italy)
• City of Women (La città delle donne), directed by Federico Fellini, starring Marcello Mastroianni – (Italy)
• The Club, starring Jack Thompson – (Australia)
• Coal Miner's Daughter, starring Sissy Spacek and Tommy Lee Jones
• The Competition, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Amy Irving, Lee Remick, Sam Wanamaker
• The Constant Factor (Constans) – (Poland)
• The Crime of Cuenca (El crimen de Cuenca) – (Spain)
• Cruising, directed by William Friedkin, starring Al Pacino
• Cutting It Short (Postřižiny), directed by Jiří Menzel – (Czechoslovakia)

D

• Dadar Kirti (Deeds of My Elder Brother) – (India)
• Death Watch (La Mort en direct), directed by Bertrand Tavernier, starring Romy Schneider and Harvey Keitel – (France)
• Delusion directed by Alan Beattie, starring Patricia Pearcy and Joseph Cotten
• Die Laughing, starring Robby Benson and Bud Cort
• The Dogs of War, starring Christopher Walken – (US/UK)
• Dostana (Friendship), starring Amitabh Bachchan – (India)
• Dressed to Kill, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Michael Caine, Nancy Allen, Keith Gordon, Angie Dickinson

E

• Elisita – (Spain)
• The Elephant Man, directed by David Lynch, starring John Hurt and Anthony Hopkins – (US/UK)
• The Empire Strikes Back, directed by Irvin Kershner, starring Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams
• Encounters of the Spooky Kind (Gui da gui), directed by and starring Sammo Hung – (Hong Kong)
• Every Man for Himself (Sauve qui peut (la vie)), directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Jacques Dutronc and Isabelle Huppert – (France)
• The Exterminator, starring Robert Ginty and Samantha Eggar

F

• Fade to Black, starring Dennis Christopher
• The Falls, directed by Peter Greenaway – (U.K.)
• Fame, directed by Alan Parker, starring Irene Cara
• Fatso, directed by and starring Anne Bancroft, with Dom DeLuise
• The Final Countdown, starring Kirk Douglas, Katharine Ross, Martin Sheen
• The First Deadly Sin, starring Frank Sinatra, David Dukes, Martin Gabel, Brenda Vaccaro, Faye Dunaway
• First Family, directed by Buck Henry, starring Bob Newhart, Madeline Kahn, Gilda Radner
• Flash Gordon, directed by Mike Hodges, starring Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Chaim Topol – (US/UK)
• The Fog, directed by John Carpenter, starring Adrienne Barbeau and Jamie Lee Curtis
• Foolin' Around, starring Gary Busey, Annette O'Toole, Eddie Albert, Cloris Leachman
• The Formula, starring George C. Scott and Marlon Brando
• Foxes, directed by Adrian Lyne, starring Jodie Foster, Cherie Currie, Scott Baio and Adam Faith
• Friday the 13th, directed by Sean S. Cunningham, starring Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King and Harry Crosby

G

• The Gamekeeper, directed by Ken Loach – (U.K.)
• Gamera: Super Monster (Uchu Kaijū Gamera) – (Japan)
• Germany, Pale Mother (Deutschland bleiche Mutter), starring Eva Mattes – (West Germany)
• Gilda Live, starring Gilda Radner, Father Guido Sarducci
• Gloria, directed by John Cassavetes, starring Gena Rowlands – Golden Lion winner
• The Gods Must Be Crazy, directed by Jamie Uys, starring N!xau, Sandra Prinsloo and Marius Weyers – (South Africa)
• Good Riddance (Les Bons débarras) – (Canada)
• The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, a mockumentary directed by Julien Temple, featuring The Sex Pistols and Malcolm McLaren – (U.K.)

H

• Hangar 18, starring Darren McGavin and Robert Vaughn
• Health, a.k.a. H.E.A.L.T.H., directed by Robert Altman, starring Carol Burnett, Lauren Bacall, Glenda Jackson, James Garner
• Heart Beat, starring Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, John Heard
• He Knows You're Alone, starring Don Scardino and Caitlin O'Heaney
• Heaven's Gate, directed by Michael Cimino, starring Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, Isabelle Huppert, John Hurt, Sam Waterston, Jeff Bridges
• Herbie Goes Bananas, directed by Vincent McEveety, starring Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman and Charles Martin Smith
• Hero at Large, starring John Ritter and Anne Archer
• Hey Babe!, starring Yasmine Bleeth and Buddy Hackett – (Canada)
• Hirak Rajar Deshe (Kingdom of Diamonds), directed by Satyajit Ray – (India)
• The Hit (Trhák) – (Czechoslovakia)
• Home Movies, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Kirk Douglas, Vincent Gardenia, Gerrit Graham, Nancy Allen
• Hopscotch, directed by Ronald Neame, starring Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson
• How to Beat the High Cost of Living, starring Susan Saint James, Jessica Lange, Jane Curtin, Dabney Coleman, Richard Benjamin
• Humanoids from the Deep, starring Vic Morrow, Doug McClure, Ann Turkel
• The Hunter, starring Steve McQueen (in his final film), Kathryn Harrold, LeVar Burton, Ben Johnson, Eli Wallach

I

• The Idolmaker, directed by Taylor Hackford, starring Ray Sharkey and Peter Gallagher
• Inferno, directed by Dario Argento – (Italy)
• Inside Moves, directed by Richard Donner, starring John Savage, David Morse, Diana Scarwid
• The Island, directed by Michael Ritchie, starring Michael Caine
• It's My Turn, directed by Claudia Weill, starring Jill Clayburgh, Michael Douglas, Charles Grodin

J-K

• The Jazz Singer, starring Neil Diamond, Lucie Arnaz, Laurence Olivier
• Just Tell Me What You Want, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Ali MacGraw, Alan King, Peter Weller, Myrna Loy
• Karz (In Debt), starring Rishi Kapoor – (India)
• Kagemusha, directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kenichi Hagiwara – (Japan) – Palme d'Or winner
• Khubsoorat, starring Ashok Kumar and Rekha – (India)
• Klondike Fever, starring Jeff East, Rod Steiger, Angie Dickinson, Gordon Pinsent – (Canada)

L

• Ladies' Choice (Dami Kanyat), directed by Ivan Andonov, starring Stefan Danailov – (Bulgaria)
• The Last Flight of Noah's Ark, starring Elliott Gould, Geneviève Bujold, Ricky Schroder
• The Last Married Couple in America, starring Natalie Wood, George Segal, Valerie Harper, Richard Benjamin
• The Last Metro (Le dernier metro), directed by François Truffaut, starring Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu – (France)
• The Last Witness (Choehuui jeungin) – (South Korea)
• The Lathe of Heaven, starring Bruce Davison
• Legend of Tianyun Mountain (Tiān yún shān chuán qí) – (China)
• The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter, a documentary film
• Little Darlings, starring Tatum O'Neal, Kristy McNichol, Armand Assante and Matt Dillon
• Little Miss Marker, starring Walter Matthau, Julie Andrews, Tony Curtis, Bob Newhart
• The Long Good Friday, directed by John Mackenzie, starring Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren – (U.K.)
• The Long Riders, directed by Walter Hill, starring the Keach brothers, Carradine brothers and Quaid brothers
• Loulou, starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu – (France)
• Loving Couples, directed by Jack Smight, starring Shirley MacLaine, James Coburn, Stephen Collins, Susan Sarandon

M

• The Magician of Lublin, starring Alan Arkin, Valerie Perrine, Louise Fletcher
• The Man with Bogart's Face, starring Robert Sacchi, Misty Rowe, Victor Buono, Yvonne De Carlo, Herbert Lom
• Manila by Night – (Philippines)
• McVicar, directed by Tom Clegg, starring Roger Daltrey, Adam Faith, Cheryl Campbell – (U.K.)
• Melvin and Howard, directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Paul Le Mat, Jason Robards, Mary Steenburgen
• Midnight Madness
• The Mirror Crack'd, directed by Guy Hamilton, starring Angela Lansbury, Elizabeth Taylor, Kim Novak, Tony Curtis, Rock Hudson – (U.K.)
• Mon oncle d'Amérique, directed by Alain Resnais, starring Gérard Depardieu – (France) – Cannes Special Jury Prize
• Motel Hell, starring Rory Calhoun
• Mother's Day, starring Nancy Hendrickson
• The Mountain Men, starring Charlton Heston and Brian Keith
• My Bodyguard, directed by Tony Bill, starring Matt Dillon, Adam Baldwin, Chris Makepeace, Martin Mull

N

• The Nest (El Nido) – (Spain)
• Nightkill, starring Robert Mitchum
• Nijinsky, starring George de la Peña and Alan Bates
• The Ninth Configuration, directed by William Peter Blatty, starring Stacy Keach, Scott Wilson, Jason Miller

O

• O Megalexandros (Alexander the Great), directed by Theodoros Angelopoulos – (Greece)
• Oh, God! Book II, starring George Burns
• One Trick Pony, written by and starring Paul Simon, with Blair Brown, Joan Hackett, Rip Torn
• The Orchestra Conductor (Dyrygent), directed by Andrzej Wajda, starring John Gielgud – (Poland)
• Ordinary People, directed by Robert Redford, starring Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Timothy Hutton, Judd Hirsch, Elizabeth McGovern
• Out of the Blue, directed by and starring Dennis Hopper, with Linda Manz, Raymond Burr – (Canada)

P-Q

• Pepi, Luci, Bom, directed by Pedro Almodóvar – (Spain)
• Palermo or Wolfsburg – (West Germany) – Golden Bear winner
• Permanent Vacation, directed by Jim Jarmusch
• The Pilot, directed by and starring Cliff Robertson, with Diane Baker and Gordon MacRae
• Playing for Time, directed by Daniel Mann, starring Vanessa Redgrave and Jane Alexander
• Popeye, directed by Robert Altman, starring Robin Williams and Shelley Duvall
• Pray TV, starring Dabney Coleman
• Private Benjamin, directed by Howard Zieff, starring Goldie Hawn, Eileen Brennan, Armand Assante, Robert Webber, Harry Dean Stanton
• The Private Eyes, starring Tim Conway and Don Knotts
• Prom Night, starring Leslie Nielsen and Jamie Lee Curtis
• Qurbani (Sacrifice), directed by and starring Feroz Khan – (India)

R

• Raging Bull, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty
• Resurrection, starring Ellen Burstyn and Eva Le Gallienne
• The Return of the King, animated film, voices of Orson Bean, John Huston, William Conrad
• Return of the Secaucus 7, directed by John Sayles
• El Retorno del Hombre Lobo (Return of the Werewolf) – (Spain)
• Roadie, directed by Alan Rudolph, starring Meat Loaf and Kaki Hunter
• Le Roi et l'oiseau (The King and the Mocking Bird), animated film – (France)
• Rockshow, concert film featuring Paul McCartney and Wings – (U.K.)
• Rough Cut, directed by Don Siegel, starring Burt Reynolds, Lesley-Anne Down, David Niven
• Rude Boy, a rockumentary featuring The Clash – (U.K.)

S

• Sällskapsresan (The Charter Trip), directed by and starring Lasse Åberg – (Sweden)
• Saturn 3, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Farrah Fawcett, Kirk Douglas, Harvey Keitel
• The Sea Wolves, starring Gregory Peck, David Niven, Roger Moore – (UK/US/Switzerland)
• See You in the Next War (enja u sledećem ratu) – (Yugoslavia)
• Seems Like Old Times, starring Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase and Charles Grodin
• Serial, starring Martin Mull, Tuesday Weld, Christopher Lee, Bill Macy, Sally Kellerman, Tom Smothers
• The Shining, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers
• Simon, starring Alan Arkin
• A Small Circle of Friends, starring Brad Davis and Karen Allen
• Smokey and the Bandit II, directed by Hal Needham, starring Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed and Dom DeLuise
• Solo Sunny – (East Germany)
• Somewhere in Time, starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour
• Special Treatment (Poseban tretman) – (Yugoslavia)
• Stardust Memories, directed by and starring Woody Allen, with Charlotte Rampling and Jessica Harper
• Stir Crazy, directed by Sidney Poitier, starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder
• Stalker, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky and released in 1979 but later released in 1980
• The Stunt Man, directed by Richard Rush, starring Peter O'Toole, Barbara Hershey, Steve Railsback
• Sunday Lovers, starring Gene Wilder, Roger Moore, Lino Ventura
• Superman II, starring Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, Terence Stamp

T

• Terror Train, starring Ben Johnson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Hart Bochner
• La terrazza (The Terrace), starring Marcello Mastroianni, Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi – (Italy)
• That Sinking Feeling, directed by Bill Forsyth, starring John Gordon Sinclair – (U.K.)
• Those Lips, Those Eyes, starring Frank Langella, Glynnis O'Connor, Tom Hulce
• Times Square, directed by Allen Moyle, starring Robin Johnson, Trini Alvarado, Tim Curry
• To Love the Damned (Maledetti vi amerò) – (Italy)
• Tom Horn, starring Steve McQueen, Richard Farnsworth, Linda Evans
• Tribute, starring Jack Lemmon – (Canada)
• Twelve Months (Sekai Meisaku Douwa Mori wa Ikiteiru / Dvenadtsat mesyatsev) – (Japan/U.S.S.R.)

UV

• The Unseen, starring Barbara Bach and Stephen Furst
• Up the Academy, directed by Robert Downey Sr.
• Urban Cowboy, directed by James Bridges, starring John Travolta, Debra Winger, Scott Glenn, Madolyn Smith, Barry Corbin
• Used Cars, directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Kurt Russell, Deborah Harmon, Jack Warden, Gerrit Graham
• Virus (Fukkatsu no hi), starring Sonny Chiba and Glenn Ford – (Japan)
• Le Voyage en douce, starring Dominique Sanda and Geraldine Chaplin – (France)

W

• Waiter, Scarper! (Vrchní, prchni!) – (Czechoslovakia)
• The Watcher in the Woods, starring Bette Davis – (UK/US)
• When Time Ran Out, starring Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, William Holden, Burgess Meredith, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons
• Where the Buffalo Roam, directed by Art Linson, starring Bill Murray and Peter Boyle
• Wholly Moses!, starring Dudley Moore, Laraine Newman, Paul Sand, Dom DeLuise
• Who's Singin' Over There? (Ko to tamo peva) – (Yugoslavia)
• Why Would I Lie?, starring Treat Williams, Lisa Eichhorn, Valerie Curtin
• Willie & Phil, directed by Paul Mazursky, starring Margot Kidder, Ray Sharkey, Michael Ontkean
• Windows, starring Talia Shire and Elizabeth Ashley
• Witches' Brew, starring Teri Garr and Richard Benjamin

X

• Xanadu, starring Olivia Newton-John, Michael Beck, Gene Kelly

Y

• The Young Master (Shi di chu ma), directed by and starring Jackie Chan – (Hong Kong)
• Yūgure made – (Japan)

Z

• Zigeunerweisen (Gypsy Airs), directed by Seijun Suzuki – (Japan)

1980 Wide-release movies

United States unless stated

January–March

• January 1980
  • January 18
    • Just Tell Me What You Want
    • Windows
  • January 22
    • In Search of Historic Jesus
  • January 30
    • To All a Goodnight
• February 1980
  • February 1
    • Fatso
  • February 8
    • American Gigolo
    • Hero at Large
    • The Fog
    • The Last Married Couple in America
    • Midnight Madness
  • February 15
    • Caligula
    • Cruising
    • Mad Max
  • February 29
    • Don't Answer the Phone
    • Foxes
    • The Ninth Configuration
• March 1980
  • March 7
    • Coal Miner's Daughter
    • Lady and the Tramp (re-release)
  • March 14
    • Defiance
  • March 21
    • Forbidden Zone
    • Little Miss Marker
  • March 28
    • Serial
    • Tom Horn
    • When Time Ran Out

April–June

• April 1980
  • April 1
    • The Baltimore Bullet
  • April 17
    • The Private Eyes
    • Stalker
  • April 25
    • Where the Buffalo Roam
• May 1980
  • May 9
    • Friday the 13th
    • The Nude Bomb
  • May 16
    • Fame
    • The Long Riders
  • May 21
    • The Empire Strikes Back
  • May 23
    • Carny
    • The Gong Show Movie
    • The Shining
  • May 30
    • Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!)
    • The Hollywood Knights
• June 1980
  • June 1
    • The Mountain Men
  • June 4
    • The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood
  • June 6
    • Galaxina
    • Up the Academy
    • Urban Cowboy
  • June 11
    • Bronco Billy
  • June 13
    • The Children
    • The Island
    • Roadie
    • Wholly Moses!
  • June 19
    • Animalympics
    • Rough Cut
  • June 20
    • The Blues Brothers
    • Brubaker
    • Can't Stop the Music
  • June 25
    • Herbie Goes Bananas
    • The Last Flight of Noah's Ark

July–September

• July 1980
  • July 2
    • Airplane!
    • Alligator
  • July 5
    • The Blue Lagoon
  • July 11
    • Oh! Heavenly Dog
    • Used Cars
  • July 18
    • Cheech & Chong's Next Movie
    • Honeysuckle Rose
    • The Little Dragons
    • Prom Night
  • July 24
    • The Earthling
  • July 25
    • Caddyshack
    • Dressed to Kill
• August 1980
  • August 1
    • The Final Countdown
    • The Hunter
    • I Go Pogo
    • Loose Shoes
    • Raise the Titanic
  • August 8
    • The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
    • Xanadu
  • August 10
    • Why Would I Lie?
  • August 14
    • The Octagon
  • August 15
    • The Kidnapping of the President
    • Smokey and the Bandit II
    • Those Lips, Those Eyes
• September 1980
  • September 8
    • Battle Beyond the Stars
  • September 9
    • Phobia
  • September 12
    • He Knows You're Alone
  • September 19
    • The Exterminator
    • Melvin and Howard
  • September 26
    • In God We Tru$t
    • My Bodyguard
    • Resurrection
    • Stardust Memories
    • Without Warning

October–December

• October 1980
  • October 3
    • Coast to Coast
    • The First Deadly Sin
    • Oh, God! Book II
    • One-Trick Pony
    • Somewhere in Time
    • Terror Train
  • October 4
    • Superman II
  • October 10
    • The Elephant Man
    • Kagemusha
    • Private Benjamin
  • October 14
    • Fade to Black
  • October 18
    • Motel Hell
  • October 31
    • The Awakening
    • Touched by Love
    • Witches' Brew
• November 1980
  • November 7
    • The Boogeyman
  • November 11
    • Shogun Assassin
  • November 14
    • The Idolmaker
    • Raging Bull
  • November 19
    • Heaven's Gate
  • November 21
    • The Apple
    • Hurray for Betty Boop
    • The Visitor
• December 1980
  • December 1
    • A Change of Seasons
  • December 3
    • The Competition
  • December 5
    • Flash Gordon
  • December 6
    • Popeye
  • December 12
    • Stir Crazy
  • December 17
    • Any Which Way You Can
  • December 19
    • 9 to 5
    • The Formula
    • Inside Moves
    • The Jazz Singer
    • Seems Like Old Times
  • December 25
    • Altered States
    • First Family

Births

• January 7 – Hele Kõrve, Estonian actress and singer
• January 16 – Lin-Manuel Miranda, American singer-songwriter and actor
• January 17 – Zooey Deschanel, American singer-songwriter and actress
• January 18
  • Estelle, British singer, songwriter, record producer and actress
  • Jason Segel, American actor, comedian, screenwriter, singer, songwriter, author and producer
• January 21
  • Nana Mizuki, Japanese singer and voice actress
  • Kim Sharma, Indian actress
• January 30 – Wilmer Valderrama, American actor
• February 11 – Matthew Lawrence, American actor
• February 12 – Christina Ricci, American actress
• March 2 - Rebel Wilson, American actress, comedian, writer and producer
• March 3 – Katherine Waterston, American actress
• March 7
  • Laura Prepon, American actress
  • Mart Toome, Estonian actor
• March 9 – Matthew Gray Gubler, American actor
• March 31
  • Kate Micucci, American actress
  • Maaya Sakamoto, Japanese singer and voice actress
• 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 2 - Ellie Kemper, American actress and comedian
• May 8
  • Jasen Fisher, American former child actor
  • Kimberlee Peterson, American actress
• May 22 – Evelin Võigemast, Estonian actress
• June 10 - Jessica DiCicco, American film, television and voice actress
• June 16 – Sibel Kekilli, German 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 18 – Preeti Jhangiani, Indian actress
• August 25 – Jackie Tohn, American actress and singer
• August 26
  • Macaulay Culkin, American actor
  • Chris Pine, American actor
• September 9 – Michelle Williams, American actress
• September 13 – Ben Savage, American actor
• September 21 – Kareena Kapoor, Indian actress
• September 29 - Zachary Levi, American actor and singer
• October 8
  • Nick Cannon, American comedian, rapper and television host
  • Nathan Head, British actor
• October 14 – Ben Whishaw, English actor
• October 18 – Erin Dean, American former actress
• October 19 – Benjamin Salisbury, American actor
• October 24 – Monica, American singer-songwriter, producer and actress
• October 29 – Ben Foster, American actor
• November 12 – Ryan Gosling, Canadian actor
• December 3
  • Anna Chlumsky, American actress
  • Jenna Dewan, American actress and dancer
• December 18 - Christina Aguilera, American singer, songwriter, actress and television personality
• 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	US	Screenwriter	The Three Musketeers Khartoum
	17	Barbara Britton	60	US	Actress	The Virginian Captain Kidd
	22	Iris Meredith	64	US	Actress	The Green Archer The Spider's Web
	24	Lil Dagover	92	Germany	Actress	The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Destiny
	24	James Poe	58	US	Screenwriter	Around the World in 80 Days The Big Knife
	26	Dolly Rudeman	77	Netherlands	Film poster designer	Battleship Potemkin City Lights The Divine Woman
	27	Peppino De Filippo	76	Italy	Actor	Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy Boccaccio '70
	28	Erle C. Kenton	83	US	Director	House of Frankenstein Who Done It?
	29	Jimmy Durante	86	US	Actor, Singer	It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World Frosty the Snowman
February	1	Romolo Valli	54	Italy	Actor	The Leopard 1900
	4	David Whitaker	52	UK	Writer	City Under the Sea Daleks – Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.
	9	Renée Houston	77	UK	Actress, Writer	Repulsion The Horse's Mouth
	13	David Janssen	48	US	Actor	The Green Berets The Shoes of the Fisherman
	18	Gale Robbins	58	US	Actress, Singer	Calamity Jane Three Little Words
	26	Mario Mattoli	81	Italy	Director, Screenwriter	Funniest Show on Earth Imputato, alzatevi!
	27	George Tobias	78	US	Actor	The Glenn Miller Story Yankee Doodle Dandy
March	5	Jay Silverheels	67	US	Actor	Broken Arrow The Lone Ranger
	8	Frank McDonald	80	US	Director	Isle of Fury In Old Missouri
	27	Steve Fisher	67	US	Screenwriter	Dead Reckoning Lady in the Lake
	28	Dick Haymes	61	US	Actor, Singer	One Touch of Venus State Fair
	30	David Sharpe	70	US	Stuntman, Actor	Dick Tracy Returns Trail Riders
April	9	Kathleen Burke	66	US	Actress	Island of Lost Souls The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
	10	Kay Medford	65	US	Actress	Funny Girl A Face in the Crowd
	11	Charlotte Henry	66	US	Actress	Alice in Wonderland Babes in Toyland
	15	Raymond Bailey	75	US	Actor	Vertigo The Gallant Hours
	16	Harry Hutchinson	87	Ireland	Actor	Blowup
	17	Alf Sjöberg	76	Sweden	Director	Only a Mother Wild Birds
	19	Tony Beckley	50	UK	Actor	The Italian Job Get Carter
	25	Mario Bava	65	Italy	Director, Screenwriter, Cinematographer	Black Sabbath The Whip and the Body
	26	Cicely Courtneidge	87	UK	Actress, Singer	Take My Tip Under Your Hat
	29	William Clemens	74	US	Director	The Case of the Stuttering Bishop Calling Philo Vance
	29	Alfred Hitchcock	80	UK	Director, Producer	Psycho Rear Window
May	1	Henry Levin	70	US	Director	Murderers' Row Where the Boys Are
	1	Gene Markey	84	US	Screenwriter	On the Avenue Luxury Liner
	2	George Pal	72	Hungary	Producer	War of the Worlds The Time Machine
	4	Kay Hammond	71	UK	Actress	Blithe Spirit Five Golden Hours
	12	Lillian Roth	69	US	Actress, Writer	Animal Crackers Ladies They Talk About
	14	Hugh Griffith	67	Wales	Actor	Ben-Hur Start the Revolution Without Me
June	4	Gloria Saunders	52	US	Actress	Captive Women Northwest Territory
	12	Milburn Stone	75	US	Actor	Captive Wild Woman Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
	18	Terence Fisher	76	UK	Director	Dracula The Curse of Frankenstein
	23	John Laurie	83	UK	Actor	The Reptile Dad's Army
	23	Odile Versois	50	France	Actress	To Paris with Love The Young Lovers
	28	Jose Iturbi	84	Spain	Conductor, Actor	Anchors Aweigh Three Daring Daughters
July	6	Gail Patrick	69	US	Producer, Actress	My Man Godfrey My Favorite Wife
	7	Reginald Gardiner	77	UK	Actor	The Great Dictator The Man Who Came to Dinner
	7	Dore Schary	74	US	Producer, Screenwriter, Studio Executive	Boys Town Sunrise at Campobello
	11	Peggy Knudsen	57	US	Actress	The Big Sleep Half Past Midnight
	24	Peter Sellers	54	UK	Actor	Dr. Strangelove Lolita
	30	Charles McGraw	66	US	Actor	The Narrow Margin Spartacus
	31	Bobby Van	51	US	Actor, Dancer	Kiss Me Kate Lost Horizon
August	1	Strother Martin	61	US	Actor	The Wild Bunch Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
	7	Norman Atkyns	74	UK	Actor	Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
	9	Elliot Nugent	83	US	Director	My Favorite Brunette Up in Arms
	14	Dorothy Stratten	20	US	Actress	Galaxina They All Laughed
	25	Gower Champion	59	US	Actor, Dancer, Director	Show Boat Till the Clouds Roll By
September	3	Barbara O'Neil	70	US	Actress	Gone with the Wind All This, and Heaven Too
	4	Duncan Renaldo	76	US	Actor	Lady Luck The Cisco Kid Returns
	5	Barbara Loden	48	US	Actress, Director	Splendor in the Grass Wanda
	24	Theodor Luts	84	Brazil	Cinematographer, Director	Substitute Wife
	25	Lewis Milestone	84	Russia	Director	All Quiet on the Western Front Ocean's 11
October	6	Hattie Jacques	58	UK	Actress	Scrooge Oliver Twist
	28	Leon Janney	63	Mexico	Actor	Charly Penrod and Sam
November	4	Noel Langley	68	South Africa	Screenwriter	The Wizard of Oz Scrooge
	7	Emilio Cigoli	70	Italy	Actor	Shoeshine Sunday in August
	7	Steve McQueen	50	Mexico	Actor, Producer	The Great Escape Papillon
	9	Carmel Myers	81	US	Actress	All Night Ben-Hur
	15	Bill Lee	64	US	Actor, Singer	Mary Poppins Alice in Wonderland
	22	Mae West	87	US	Actress, Writer	She Done Him Wrong I'm No Angel
	24	George Raft	79	US	Actor	Some Like It Hot They Drive by Night
	26	Rachel Roberts	53	US	Actress	Murder on the Orient Express Picnic at Hanging Rock
December	8	John Lennon	40	US	Actor, Musician, Producer	A Hard Day's Night How I Won the War
	16	Peter Collinson	44	US	Director, Producer, Writer	The Italian Job And Then There Were None
	18	Gabrielle Robinne	94	France	Actress	The Assassination of the Duke of Guise
	20	Ben Sharpsteen	85	US	Director, Producer	Pinocchio Dumbo
	21	Marc Connelly	90	US	Actor	The Spirit of St. Louis Tall Story
	23	Memmo Carotenuto	72	Italy	Actor	Big Deal on Madonna Street Bread, Love and Dreams
	28	Sam Levene	75	US	Actor	Sweet Smell of Success Brute Force
	31	Raoul Walsh	93	US	Director, Writer, Actor	White Heat High Sierra

Film debuts

• Christopher Atkins – The Blue Lagoon
• 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
• Michael J. Fox – Midnight Madness
• Peter Gallagher – The Idolmaker
• Julie Hagerty – Airplane!
• 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
• Gabriel Macht – Why Would I Lie?
• William H. Macy – Somewhere in Time
• Sophie Marceau – La Boum
• Christopher McDonald – The Hearse
• Elizabeth McGovern – Ordinary People
• 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
• Harold Ramis – Caddyshack (actor)
• Judge Reinhold – Running Scared
• Paul Reubens – Pray TV
• Sharon Stone – Stardust Memories
• David Strathairn – Return of the Secaucus 7
• Meg Tilly – Fame
• John Turturro – Raging Bull
• Dianne Wiest – It's My Turn
• Bruce Willis – The First Deadly Sin
• Mare Winningham – One-Trick Pony
• Nicholas Woodeson – Heaven's Gate
• 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

1. "1980 Domestic Grosses". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
2. "The Empire Strikes Back (1980)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved May 13, 2013.
3. Gorelik, Boris (12 July 2014). "Jamie se treffer: Met Uys, ja – die wêreld in". Rapport. Media24. Retrieved 2014-07-14.
4. Dawes, Amy (February 7, 1991). "Directors Guild Gives Capra Nod To Howard Koch". Daily Variety. p. 1.
5. "The Blues Brothers". Box Office Mojo. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved December 16, 2008.
6. Rovin, Jeff (1997). The Essential Jackie Chan Source Book. Simon and Schuster. p. 456. ISBN 9781439137116. Say what you will about this film, Cannonball Run grossed over $100 million in worldwide box office at a time when few films did.