1979 in film

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The year 1979 in film involved many significant events.

Highest-grossing films

United States and Canada

The top ten 1979 released films by North American gross are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1979 (United States and Canada)
Rank Title Distributor Box-office gross
1 Kramer vs. Kramer Columbia $106,260,000
2 The Amityville Horror American International $86,432,520
3 Rocky II United Artists $85,182,160
4 Apocalypse Now $83,471,511
5 Star Trek: The Motion Picture Paramount $82,258,456
6 Alien 20th Century Fox $80,931,801
7 10 Warner Bros. $74,865,517
8 The Jerk Universal $73,691,419
9 Moonraker United Artists $70,308,099
10 The Muppet Movie Associated Film $65,200,000

International

Highest-grossing films of 1979 (international markets)
International
market
Title Distributor Admissions Gross revenue Production
country
Local currency US$
China Gunshots in the CIB Changchun Film Studio 600,000,000 CN¥180,000,000 $116,000,000 China
France The Gendarme and the Extra-Terrestrials SNC 6,280,070 Un­known Un­known France
Germany The Jungle Book 20th Century Fox 9,103,582 32,092,155 $44,000,000 United States
India Suhaag Sharma Cine Associates Un­known 100,000,000 $12,310,000 India
Italy Superman Columbia-EMI-Warner 904,000 Un­known Un­known United States
Japan Galaxy Express 999 Toei Un­known ¥16,500,000,000 $76,120,000 Japan
Soviet Union Sholay (Embers) R. K. Films 60,000,000 15,000,000Rbls $28,200,000 India
Spain Superman Warner Bros. 4,795,628 655,346,759 $9,763,080 United States
United Kingdom Superman Columbia-EMI-Warner 10,190,000 £11,547,308 $24,455,309

Major events

Awards

Category/Organization 37th Golden Globe Awards
January 26, 1980
33rd BAFTA Awards
March 20, 1980
52nd Academy Awards
April 14, 1980
Drama Musical or Comedy
Best Film Kramer vs. Kramer Breaking Away Manhattan Kramer vs. Kramer
Best Director Francis Ford Coppola
Apocalypse Now
Robert Benton
Kramer vs. Kramer
Best Actor Dustin Hoffman
Kramer vs. Kramer
Peter Sellers
Being There
Jack Lemmon
The China Syndrome
Dustin Hoffman
Kramer vs. Kramer
Best Actress Sally Field
Norma Rae
Bette Midler
The Rose
Jane Fonda
The China Syndrome
Sally Field
Norma Rae
Best Supporting Actor Melvyn Douglas
Being There
Robert Duvall
Apocalypse Now
Robert Duvall
Apocalypse Now
Melvyn Douglas
Being There
Best Supporting Actress Meryl Streep
Kramer vs. Kramer
Rachel Roberts
Yanks
Meryl Streep
Kramer vs. Kramer
Best Screenplay, Adapted Robert Benton
Kramer vs. Kramer
Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman
Manhattan
Robert Benton
Kramer vs. Kramer
Best Screenplay, Original Steve Tesich
Breaking Away
Best Original Score Carmine Coppola and Francis Ford Coppola
Apocalypse Now
Ennio Morricone
Days of Heaven
Georges Delerue
A Little Romance
Ralph Burns
All That Jazz
Best Original Song "The Rose"
The Rose
N/A "It Goes Like It Goes"
Norma Rae
Best Foreign Language Film La Cage aux Folles N/A The Tin Drum

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Apocalypse Now, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, United States
The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel), directed by Volker Schlöndorff, W. Germany

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

David, directed by Peter Lilienthal, West Germany

1979 films

By country/region

By genre/medium

Births

Deaths

Month Date Name Age Country Profession Notable films
January 11 Jack Soo 61 US Actor
16 Peter Butterworth 63 UK Actor, writer
16 Ted Cassidy 46 US Actor
18 Cyril J. Mockridge 82 UK Composer
25 Dick Crockett 63 US Stuntman, Actor
February 12 Jean Renoir 84 US Director, writer, actor
16 Louise Allbritton 58 US Actress
17 William Gargan 73 US Actor
19 Leigh Jason 74 US Director
28 Jane Hylton 51 UK Actress
March 1 Dolores Costello 75 US Actress
2 Edith Craig 71 US Actress
6 John Robinson 70 UK Actor
9 Barbara Mullen 64 UK Actress
19 John Tate 64 UK Actor Invasion
21 Bomba Tzur 50 Israel Actor
22 Ben Lyon 78 US Actor, writer
24 Yvonne Mitchell 63 UK Actress
April 4 Edgar Buchanan 76 US Actor
6 Norman Tokar 59 US Director
10 Nino Rota 67 Italy Composer
24 John Carroll 72 US Actor
May 6 Rosemary La Planche 55 US Actress
8 Victor Saville 83 UK Producer, director
10 Beatrice Campbell 56 UK Actress
11 Joan Chandler 55 US Actress
26 George Brent 80 US Actor
29 Mary Pickford 87 US Actress, producer, writer
June 1 Jack Mulhall 91 US Actor
2 Larisa Shepitko 41 Soviet Union Director
2 Jim Hutton 45 US Actor
6 Jack Haley 80 US Actor
11 John Wayne 72 US Actor, producer, director
12 Henry Berman 65 US Editor, Producer
14 David Butler 84 US Director
16 Nicholas Ray 67 US Director, writer, actor
19 Nick Grinde 86 US Director
21 Julian Orchard 49 UK Actor, writer
July 2 Larisa Shepitko 41 USSR Director, writer, actress
8 Michael Wilding 66 UK Actor, producer
13 Corinne Griffith 84 US Actress
22 Kathleen Case 45 US Actress
25 Eric Pohlmann 66 Germany Actor
26 Virginia Brissac 96 US Actress
27 Ettore Manni 52 Italy Actor
27 Shirley Mason 79 US Actress
28 George Seaton 68 US Director
28 Frederick Stafford 51 Czechoslovakia Actor
31 Beatrix Lehmann 76 UK Actress The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
August ?? Betty Henderson 72 UK Actress
6 Kurt Kasznar 65 Austria Actor
7 Vicente Salumbides 85 Philippines Actor
10 Dick Foran 69 US Actor
17 Vivian Vance 70 US Actress
21 Stuart Heisler 82 US Director
30 Jean Seberg 40 US Actress
September 1 Doris Kenyon 81 US Actress
2 Felix Aylmer 90 UK Actor
12 Les Clark 71 US Animator
12 Jocelyne LaGarde 54 Tahiti Actress Hawaii
17 Willis Goldbeck 80 US Screenwriter
22 Frederick Piper 76 UK Actor
23 Catherine Lacey 75 UK Actress
26 John Cromwell 91 US Director
26 Arthur Hunnicutt 69 US Actor
27 Gracie Fields 81 UK Actress, singer
October 1 Dorothy Arzner 82 US Director
3 Dorothy Peterson 81 US Actress
12 Celia Lovsky 82 Austria Actress
15 Geoffrey Moon ?? ?? Actor
17 John Stuart 81 UK Actor
30 Graham Ashley 52 UK Actor
November 2 Saro Urzì 66 Italy Actor
5 Amedeo Nazzari 71 Italy Actor
8 Sydney Tafler 63 UK Actor
11 Dimitri Tiomkin 85 Russia Composer
20 Michael Darbyshire 62 UK Actor, writer
21 Paul Wexler 50 US Actor
22 George Froeschel 88 US Screenwriter
23 Merle Oberon 68 India Actress, producer
30 Joyce Grenfell 69 UK Actress
30 Zeppo Marx 78 US Actor, director
December 5 Jesse Pearson 49 US Actor Bye Bye Birdie
5 Lesley Selander 70 US Director
9 James Neilson 70 US Director
10 Ann Dvorak 68 US Actress
11 Claire Carleton 66 US Actress
12 Jon Hall 64 US Actor, director
22 George Pollock 72 UK Director
23 Ernest B. Schoedsack 86 US Director, cinematographer, producer
25 Michael Collins 57 Canada Actor
25 Lee Bowman 79 US Actor
25 Joan Blondell 73 US Actress

Film debuts


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