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Good Movies List of 1980


Urban Cowboy
Mad Max
The Great Santini

The Elephant Man

The Gods Must Be Crazy

Coal Miner's Daughter

The Empire Strikes Back
The Shining

Airplane!

Raging Bull

Oh, God

 

New Movies List of 1980

 

Fatso
American Gigolo
Cruising
The Fog
Midnight Madness
Saturn 3
Don't Answer Phone
Foxes
Defiance
Forbidden Zone
Little Darlings
The Changeling
Don't Go In The House
Friday the 13th
The Nude Bomb
Breaker Morant
Fame
The Long Riders
The Hollywood Knights
Up the Academy
The Island
Wholly Moses!
Brubaker
The Stunt Man
Alligator
My Bodyguard
Oh! Heavenly Dog
Used Cars
The Big Red One
Cheech & Chong's Next Movie
Honeysuckle Rose
Prom Night
Caddyshack
Dressed to Kill

Watcher in the Woods
When Time Ran Out
Windwalker
Tribute

The Final Countdown
Xanadu
The Octagon

Smokey and the Bandit II
9 to 5
Altered States
Any Which Way You Can
Atlantic City
Flash Gordon
Gamera: Super Monster
Gloria
Happy Hooker to Hollywood
He Knows You're Alone
Herbie Goes Bananas
Hero at Large
Hey Babe!
Hopscotch
The Idolmaker
The Jazz Singer
Ladies' Choice
Little Miss Marker
The Long Good Friday
The Man with Bogart's Face
Melvin and Howard
Nightkill
One Trick Pony
Ordinary People
Permanent Vacation
Popeye
Private Benjamin
Resurrection
Seems Like Old Times
A Small Circle of Friends
Somewhere in Time
Stardust Memories
Stir Crazy



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Entertainment News 1980


The Empire Strikes Back is released and is the biggest grosser of the year (just as its predecessor, Star Wars, was three years before).

 

The Blues Brothers

 

Heaven's Gate

 

The Blue Lagoon

Caligula

 

Academy Awards 1980


Picture: "ORDINARY PEOPLE", "Coal Miner's Daughter", "The Elephant Man", "Raging Bull", "Tess"

Actor: ROBERT DE NIRO in "Raging Bull", Robert Duvall in "The Great Santini", John Hurt in "The Elephant Man", Jack Lemmon in "Tribute", Peter O'Toole in "The Stunt Man"

Actress: SISSY SPACEK in "Coal Miner's Daughter", Ellen Burstyn in "Resurrection", Goldie Hawn in "Private Benjamin", Mary Tyler Moore in "Ordinary People", Gena Rowlands in "Gloria"

Supporting Actor: TIMOTHY HUTTON in "Ordinary People", Judd Hirsch in "Ordinary People", Michael O'Keefe in "The Great Santini", Joe Pesci in "Raging Bull", Jason Robards in "Melvin and Howard"

Supporting Actress: MARY STEENBURGEN in "Melvin & Howard", Eileen Brennan in "Private Benjamin", Eva Le Gallienne in "Resurrection", Cathy Moriarty in "Raging Bull", Diana Scarwid in "Inside Moves"

Director: ROBERT REDFORD for "Ordinary People", David Lynch for "The Elephant Man", Roman Polanski for "Tess", Richard Rush for "The Stunt Man", Martin Scorsese for "Raging Bull"

 

The Razzies List 1980

 

WORST PICTURE: CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC

WORST ACTOR: Neil Diamond/THE JAZZ SINGER

WORST ACTRESS: Brooke Shields/THE BLUE LAGOON

WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR: (tie)John Adames/GLORIA (tie) Laurence Olivier/THE JAZZ SINGER

WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Amy Irving/HONEYSUCKLE ROSE

WORST DIRECTOR: Robert Greenwald/XANADU

 

Top Box Office List of 1980


1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. 9 to 5
3. Stir Crazy
4. Airplane!
5. Any Which Way You Can
6. Private Benjamin
7. Coal Miner's Daughter
8. Smokey and the Bandit II
9. The Blue Lagoon
10. The Blues Brothers

 

 

  

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