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Events

• May 21 - Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is released and is the biggest grosser of the year (just as its predecessor, Star Wars, was three years prior).
• Heaven's Gate becomes one of the biggest box office bombs of all-time and it's colossal faliure makes United Artists bankrupt.
• Friday the 13th is released and shocks audiences around the world hence giving birth to the slasher films.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank	Title	Studio	Actors	Director(s)	Gross
1.	Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back	Lucasfilm/Fox	Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones, Julian Glover, and Alec Guiness	Irvin Kershner	$538,375,067
2.	9 to 5	Fox	Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, Dabney Coleman, and Sterling Hayden	Colin Higgins	$103,290,500
3.	Stir Crazy	Columbia	Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor	Sidney Poitier	$101,300,000
4.	Airplane!	Paramount	Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen, Peter Graves and Robert Stack	David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker	$83,453,539
5	Any Which Way You Can	Warner Bros.	Clint Eastwood	Buddy Van Horn	$70,687,344
6.	Private Benjamin	Warner Bros.	Goldie Hawn, Eileen Brennan, Armand Assante, Barbara Barrie, Robert Webber, Albert Brooks, and Sam Wanamaker	Howard Zieff	$69,847,348
7.	Coal Miner's Daughter	Universal	Sissy Spacek, Beverly D'Angelo and Tommy Lee Jones	Michael Apted	$67,182,787
8.	Smokey and the Bandit II	Universal	Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jerry Reed, and Jackie Gleason	Hal Needham	$66,132,626
9.	The Blue Lagoon	Columbia	Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins	Randal Kleiser	$58,853,106
10.	The Blues Brothers	Universal	John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd	John Landis	$57,229,890
11.	Ordinary People	Paramount Pictures	Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore	Robert Redford	$54,766,923
12.	Popeye	Paramount Pictures	Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall and Ray Walston	Robert Altman	$49,823,037
13.	Urban Cowboy	Paramount Pictures	John Travolta, Debra Winger and Scott Glenn	James Bridges	$46,918,287
14.	The Shining	Warner Bros.	Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd and Scatman Crothers	Stanley Kubrick	$44,017,374
15.	Seems Like Old Times	Columbia Pictures	Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, Charles Grodin and Robert Guillaume	Jay Sandrich	$43,995,918
16.	Cheech & Chong's Next Movie	Universal Studios	Cheech & Chong	Tommy Chong	$41,675,194
17.	Caddyshack	Orion Pictures	Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight and Bill Murray	Harold Ramis	$39,846,344
18.	Friday the 13th	Paramount Pictures	Betsy Palmer, Kevin Bacon, and Adrienne King	Sean S. Cunningham	$39,754,601
19.	Brubaker	20th Century Fox	Robert Redford and Yaphet Kotto	Stuart Rosenberg	$37,121,708
20.	Little Darlings	Paramount Pictures	Tatum O'Neal and Kristy McNichol	Ronald F. Maxwell	$34,326,249

Box office results courtesy of Box Office Mojo.^[1]

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

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

Films released in 1980

By date

Friday, February 1, 1980

• Fatso

Friday, February 8, 1980

• American Gigolo - directed by Paul Schrader, starring Richard Gere
• Cruising, starring Al Pacino
• The Fog - directed by John Carpenter, starring Adrienne Barbeau and Jamie Lee Curtis
• Midnight Madness

Friday, February 15, 1980

• Caligula - starring Malcolm McDowell, John Gielgud, Peter O'Toole and Helen Mirren
• Saturn 3 - directed by Stanley Donen, starring Kirk Douglas, Farrah Fawcett and Harvey Keitel

Friday, February 29, 1980

• Don't Answer the Phone
• Foxes - directed by Adrian Lyne, starring Jodie Foster, Scott Baio and Sally Kellerman

Friday, March 7, 1980

• Coal Miner's Daughter - directed by Michael Apted, starring Sissy Spacek and Tommy Lee Jones

Friday, March 14, 1980

• Defiance

Friday, March 21, 1980

• Little Darlings - starring Tatum O'Neal and Kristy McNichol

Friday, March 28, 1980

• The Changeling - starring George C. Scott
• Don't Go in the House

Friday, May 9, 1980

• Friday the 13th - directed by Sean S. Cunningham, starring Betsy Palmer and Adrienne King
• The Nude Bomb, starring Don Adams

Friday, May 16, 1980

• Breaker Morant - directed by Bruce Beresford, starring Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson and Bryan Brown
• Fame - directed by Alan Parker, starring Irene Cara, Eddie Barth and Lee Curreri
• The Long Riders - directed by Walter Hill, starring Stacy Keach, James Keach, David Carradine and Robert Carradine

Wednesday, May 21, 1980

• Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back - directed by Irvin Kershner, starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Billy Dee Williams

Friday, May 23, 1980

• The Gong Show Movie - directed by Chuck Barris, starring Chuck Barris, Robin Altman, Steve Garvey and Mabel King
• The Shining - directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall

Friday, May 30, 1980

• Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!)
• Joni - directed by James F. Collier, starring Joni Eareckson, Bert Remsen and Katherine De Hetre
• The Hollywood Knights

Friday, June 6, 1980

• Up the Academy
• Urban Cowboy - directed by James Bridges, starring John Travolta, Debra Winger and Scott Glenn

Friday, June 13, 1980

• Mad Max - directed by George Miller, starring Mel Gibson
• The Island - starring Michael Caine and David Warner
• Wholly Moses!

Friday, June 20, 1980

• The Blues Brothers - directed by John Landis, starring John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, John Candy and Carrie Fisher
• Brubaker - directed by Stuart Rosenberg, starring Robert Redford

Friday, June 27, 1980

• The Stunt Man - starring Peter O'Toole, Steve Railsback and Barbara Hershey

Wednesday, July 2, 1980

• Airplane! - directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker, starring Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen and Robert Stack
• Alligator

Friday, July 4, 1980

• The Blue Lagoon - directed by Randal Kleiser, starring Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins

Friday, July 11, 1980

• My Bodyguard
• Oh! Heavenly Dog
• Used Cars - directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Kurt Russell and Jack Warden

Friday, July 18, 1980

• The Big Red One - directed by Samuel Fuller, starring Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill and Robert Carradine
• Cheech & Chong's Next Movie
• Honeysuckle Rose - starring Willie Nelson, Dyan Cannon and Amy Irving
• Prom Night - starring Leslie Nielsen and Jamie Lee Curtis

Friday, July 25, 1980

• Caddyshack - directed by Harold Ramis, starring Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield and Ted Knight
• Dressed to Kill - directed by Brian De Palma, starring Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson and Nancy Allen

Friday, August 1, 1980

• The Final Countdown - directed by Don Taylor, starring Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen and Katharine Ross

Friday, August 8, 1980

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

Friday, August 15, 1980

• The Octagon
• Smokey and the Bandit II - starring Burt Reynolds and Sally Field

Alphabetically

U.S.A. unless stated

#

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

A

• Airplane!, starring Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen, Peter Graves, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
• Alligator, starring Robert Forster
• Altered States, directed by Ken Russell, starring William Hurt and Blair Brown
• American Gigolo, starring Richard Gere
• Any Which Way You Can, starring Clint Eastwood
• The Apple
• Arrebato (Rapture), cult film - (Spain)
• Atlantic City, directed by Louis Malle, starring Burt Lancaster and Susan Sarandon - (Canada/France) - Golden Lion winner

B

• Babylon - (U.K.)
• 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)
• Betty Boop for President: The Movie (TV)
• The Big Brawl, starring Jackie Chan - (Hong Kong/U.S.A.)
• The Big Red One, directed by Samuel Fuller, starring Lee Marvin
• The Black Marble, starring Robert Foxworth, Paula Prentiss, Harry Dean Stanton
• The Blood of Hussain, directed by Jamil Dehlavi - (Pakistan)
• The Blue Lagoon, starring Brooke Shields
• The Blues Brothers, directed by John Landis, starring John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Cab Calloway, Carrie Fisher, John Candy, Henry Gibson
• The Boogeyman
• Breaker Morant, directed by Bruce Beresford, starring Edward Woodward - (Australia)
• Bronco Billy, starring Clint Eastwood and Sondra Locke
• Brubaker, starring Robert Redford, David Keith, Jane Alexander, Yaphet Kotto

C

• Caddyshack, 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)
• Carny, starring Jodie Foster and Gary Busey
• A Change of Seasons, starring Shirley MacLaine, Anthony Hopkins, Bo Derek
• The Changeling, starring George C. Scott
• La Cicala - (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 and Amy Irving
• The Constant Factor (Constans) - (Poland)
• Cruising, directed by William Friedkin, starring Al Pacino
• Cutting It Short (Postřižiny), directed by Jiří Menzel - (Czechoslovakia)

D

• Death Watch (La Mort en direct), directed by Bertrand Tavernier, starring Romy Schneider and Harvey Keitel - (France)
• The Dogs of War, starring Christopher Walken - (U.S.A./U.K.)
• Dressed to Kill, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Michael Caine and Angie Dickinson

E

• Elisita - (Spain)
• The Elephant Man - directed by David Lynch, starring John Hurt and Anthony Hopkins
• Encounters of the Spooky Kind, 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)

F

• The Falls, directed by Peter Greenaway - (U.K.)
• Fame, directed by Alan Parker, starring Irene Cara
• The Final Countdown, starring Kirk Douglas
• 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, starring Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Chaim Topol - (U.S.A./U.K.)
• The Fog, directed by John Carpenter, starring Adrienne Barbeau
• The Formula, starring George C. Scott and Marlon Brando
• Friday the 13th

G

• Galaxina, starring Dorothy Stratten
• The Gamekeeper, directed by Ken Loach - (U.K.)
• Gamera: Super Monster - (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 Julian Temple, featuring The Sex Pistols and Malcolm Mclaren - (U.K.)

H

• Hangar 18, starring Darren McGavin and Robert Vaughn
• The Happy Hooker Goes to Hollywood
• He Knows You're Alone
• Heaven's Gate - directed by Michael Cimino, starring Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, Isabelle Huppert, John Hurt, Jeff Bridges
• Herbie Goes Bananas
• Hero at Large, starring John Ritter and Anne Archer
• Hey Babe!, starring Yasmine Bleeth and Buddy Hackett - (Canada)
• Hopscotch - directed by Ronald Neame, starring Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson
• The Hunter, starring Steve McQueen (in his final film)

IJK

• The Idolmaker – starring Ray Sharkey
• Inferno – directed by Dario Argento - (Italy)
• Inside Moves – directed by Richard Donner, starring John Savage and Diana Scarwid
• It's My Turn, starring Jill Clayburgh and Michael Douglas

• The Jazz Singer, starring Neil Diamond, Lucie Arnaz and Laurence Olivier
• Just Tell Me What You Want, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Ali MacGraw and Alan King

• Karz - (India)
• Kagemusha - directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki and Kenichi Hagiwara - (Japan) - Palme d'Or winner

L

• Ladies' Choice (Dami Kanyat), directed by Ivan Andonov, starring Stefan Danailov - (Bulgaria)
• The Last Flight of Noah's Ark
• The Last Metro (Le dernier metro), directed by François Truffaut, starring Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu - (France)
• 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 and Kristy McNichol
• 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, starring the Keach brothers, Carradine brothers and Quaid brothers
• Loulou, starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu - (France)
• Lulu (1980 film) (not same as above)

M

• The Man with Bogart's Face, starring Robert Sacchi, Misty Rowe, Victor Buono, Yvonne De Carlo, Herbert Lom
• McVicar - directed by Tom Clegg, starring Roger Daltrey, Adam Faith, Cheryl Campbell - (U.K.)
• Melvin and Howard - directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Paul LeMat, Jason Robards, Mary Steenburgen
• Mon oncle d'Amérique - directed by Alain Resnais, starring Gérard Depardieu - (France) - Cannes Special Jury Prize
• Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (Moskva slezam ne verit) - (U.S.S.R.) - (International release)
• Mother's Day
• The Mountain Men, starring Charlton Heston, Brian Keith

N

• The Nest (El Nido) - (Spain)
• Nightkill, starring Robert Mitchum
• Nijinsky, starring George de la Pena and Alan Bates
• The Ninth Configuration- only film to ever win Golden Globe for Best Screenplay and not be nominated for an Academy Award for writing.
• No Child's Land

O

• O Megalexandros - (Greece)
• Oblomov - (U.S.S.R.) - international release
• Oh, God! Book II, starring George Burns
• One Trick Pony, written by and starring Paul Simon, with Blair Brown, Joan Hackett, Rip Torn
• Ordinary People - directed by Robert Redford, starring Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Timothy Hutton, Judd Hirsch
• Out of the Blue, directed by and starring Dennis Hopper - (Canada)

PQ

• Palermo or Wolfsburg - (West Germany) - Golden Bear winner
• Permanent Vacation, directed by Jim Jarmusch
• The Pilot, directed by and starring Cliff Robertson
• Popeye - directed by Robert Altman, starring Robin Williams and Shelley Duvall
• Private Benjamin, starring Goldie Hawn and Eileen Brennan
• The Private Eyes, starring Tim Conway and Don Knotts
• The Pumaman (L’Uomo puma) - (Italy
• Qurbani (Sacrifice), directed by and starring Feroz Khan - (India)

R

• Raging Bull - directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Cathy Moriarty
• Resurrection, starring Ellen Burstyn and Eva Le Gallienne
• The Return of the King
• El Retorno del Hombre Lobo (Return of the Werewolf) - (Spain)
• Le Roi et l'oiseau, an animated film - (France)
• Rockshow, a concert film featuring Paul McCartney and Wings
• Rude Boy - (U.K.)

S

• Sällskapsresan (The Charter Trip), directed by and starring Lasse Åberg - (Sweden)
• The Sea Wolves, starring Gregory Peck, David Niven, Roger Moore - (U.K./U.S.A./Switzerland)
• Seems Like Old Times, starring Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase
• Serial, starring Martin Mull and Tuesday Weld
• The Shining, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall
• Simon, starring Alan Arkin
• A Small Circle of Friends, starring Brad Davis and Karen Allen
• Somewhere in Time, starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour
• Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, starring Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher
• 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
• The Stunt Man, starring Peter O'Toole, Barbara Hershey, Steve Railsback
• Superman II, starring Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, Terrence Stamp

TUV

• Tess, directed by Roman Polanski, starring Nastassja Kinski and Peter Firth - (U.K./France) (U.S. release)
• Tom Horn, starring Steve McQueen, Richard Farnsworth, Linda Evans
• Tribute, starring Jack Lemmon - (Canada)

• Urban Cowboy, starring John Travolta and Debra Winger
• Used Cars, starring Kurt Russell

• Virus - (Japan)

W

• Waiter, Scarper! (Vrchní, prchni!) - (Czechoslovakia)
• The Watcher in the Woods, starring Bette Davis - (U.K./U.S.A.)
• When Time Ran Out, starring Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons
• Who Sings Over There (Ko to tamo peva) - (Yugoslavia)
• Why Would I Lie?, starring Richard Pryor
• Windows, starring Talia Shire

Y

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

Z

• Zigeunerweisen - directed by Seijun Suzuki - (Japan)

Wide-release movies

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Births

• January 17 - Zooey Deschanel, actress
• February 12 - Christina Ricci, actress
• June 24 - Minka Kelly, actress
• July 5 - Eva Green, actress
• July 18 - Kristen Bell, actress
• August 26 - Macaulay Culkin, actor
• September 9 - Michelle Williams, actress
• October 12 - Ben Whishaw, actor
• November 12 - Ryan Gosling, actor
• December 3 - Anna Chlumsky, actress
• December 19 - Jake Gyllenhaal, actor

Deaths

• January 24 - Lil Dagover, actress
• January 29 - Jimmy Durante, actor, comedian
• February 13 - David Janssen, actor
• March 5 - Jay Silverheels, actor (Tonto)
• March 28 - Dick Haymes, actor, singer
• April 29 - Alfred Hitchcock, director
• July 6 - Gail Patrick, actress
• July 24 - Peter Sellers, actor
• July 31 - Bobby Van, actor, dancer
• August 14 - Dorothy Stratten, actress, Playboy magazine model
• August 25 - Gower Champion, actor, dancer, choreographer
• October 6 - Hattie Jacques, actress
• November 7 - Steve McQueen, actor
• November 22 - Mae West, actress
• November 24 - George Raft, actor
• November 26 - Rachel Roberts, actress
• December 8 - John Lennon, singer/songwriter, entertainer
• December 31 - Raoul Walsh, director

Film debuts

• Drew Barrymore - Altered States
• William Hurt - Altered States
• Jeremy Irons - Nijinsky
• Dolly Parton - 9 to 5
• Neil Diamond
• Michael J. Fox - Midnight Madness
• Tom Hanks - He Knows You're Alone
• Michelle Pfeiffer - The Hollywood Knights
• Jean Reno
• Sharon Stone - Stardust Memories
• Robin Williams - Popeye
• Linda Hunt - Popeye
• Bruce Willis - The First Deadly Sin
• Joan Cusack
• Cynthia Nixon - Little Darlings
• Robbie Coltrane - Flash Gordon
• Peter Gallagher - The Idolmaker
• Joe Pantoliano - The Idolmaker
• Timothy Hutton - Ordinary People
• Pierce Brosnan - The Long Good Friday
• David Morse - Inside Moves
• Willem Dafoe - Heaven's Gate
• Terry O'Quinn - Heaven's Gate
• Ralph Macchio - Up the Academy
• Sean Young - Jane Austen in Manhattan
• Adam Baldwin - My Bodyguard
• Jennifer Beals - My Bodyguard
• Catherine O'Hara - Deadly Companion
• William H. Macy - Somewhere in Time
• John Turturro - Raging Bull
• Cathy Moriarty - Raging Bull
• Pedro Almodóvar (director)
• Dianne Wiest - It's My Turn

See also

• List of American films of 1980
• British films of 1980
• French films of 1980
• List of German films: 1980s
• Bollywood films of 1980
• Italian films of 1980
• Japanese films of 1980
• Swedish films of the 1980s

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