Jury

• Kirk Douglas
  Kirk Douglas
  Kirk Douglas is an American stage and film actor, film producer and author. His popular films include Out of the Past , Champion , Ace in the Hole , The Bad and the Beautiful , Lust for Life , Paths of Glory , Gunfight at the O.K...
  
   (USA) (president)
• Ken Adam
  Ken Adam
  Sir Kenneth Adam, OBE, born Klaus Hugo Adam , is a motion picture production designer most famous for his set designs for the James Bond films of the 1960s and 1970s.-Childhood in Germany:...
  
   (UK)
• Robert Benayoun
  Robert Benayoun
  Robert Benayoun was a French film critic and author, and one-time member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival of 1980. He wrote books on Tex Avery, Woody Allen, Buster Keaton, the Marx Brothers, and Alain Resnais.He wrote screenplays for and directed three films...
  
   (France)
• Veljko Bulajić
  Veljko Bulajic
  Veljko Bulajić , today is a Croatian film director and actor of Montenegrin descent, most of his life working in Croatia...
  
   (Yugoslavia)
• Leslie Caron
  Leslie Caron
  Leslie Claire Margaret Caron is a French film actress and dancer, who appeared in 45 films between 1951 and 2003. In 2006, her performance in Law and Order: Special Victims Unit won her an Emmy for guest actress in a drama series...
  
   (France)
• Charles Champlin (USA)
• André Delvaux (Belgium)
• Gian Luigi Rondi
  Gian Luigi Rondi
  Gian Luigi Rondi is an Italian screenwriter and film director. He was a member of the jury at the 11th Berlin International Film Festival and the 32nd Berlin International Film Festival. He was also a member of the jury three times at the Cannes Film Festival in 1963, 1967 and 1980.-External links:...
  
   (Italy)
• Michael Spencer (Canada)
• Albina du Boisrouvray
  Albina du Boisrouvray
  Albina du Boisrouvray is a former journalist and film producer who has become a global philanthropist and social entrepreneur working with AIDS orphans and vulnerable children around the world. She is a grandchild of the Bolivian King of Tin, Simón Patiño, who was one of the wealthiest men in the...
  
   (France)

Feature film competition

• All That Jazz
  All That Jazz
  All That Jazz is a 1979 American musical film directed by Bob Fosse. The screenplay by Robert Alan Aurthur and Fosse is a semi-autobiographical fantasy based on aspects of Fosse's life and career as dancer, choreographer and director. The film was inspired by Bob Fosse's manic effort to edit his...
  
  by Bob Fosse
  Bob Fosse
  Robert Louis “Bob” Fosse was an American actor, dancer, musical theater choreographer, director, screenwriter, film editor and film director. He won an unprecedented eight Tony Awards for choreography, as well as one for direction...
  
  
• Being There
  Being There
  Being There is a 1979 American comedy-drama film directed by Hal Ashby. Adapted from the 1971 novella written by Jerzy Kosinski, the screenplay was coauthored by Kosinski and Robert C. Jones. The film stars Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden, Richard A...
  
  by Hal Ashby
  Hal Ashby
  Hal Ashby was an American film director and film editor.-Birth and early years:Born William Hal Ashby in Ogden, Utah, Ashby grew up in a Mormon household and had a tumultuous childhood as part of a dysfunctional family which included the divorce of his parents, his father's suicide and his...
  
  
• The Big Red One
  The Big Red One
  The Big Red One is a World War II war film starring Lee Marvin and Mark Hamill. Written and directed by Samuel Fuller, it was produced by Lorimar and released by United Artists in the US on July 18, 1980...
  
  by Samuel Fuller
  Samuel Fuller
  Samuel Michael Fuller was an American screenwriter, novelist, and film director known for low-budget genre movies with controversial themes.-Personal life:...
  
  
• Breaker Morant
  Breaker Morant (film)
  Breaker Morant is a 1980 Australian film about the court martial of Breaker Morant, directed by Bruce Beresford and starring British actor Edward Woodward as Harry "Breaker" Morant...
  
  by Bruce Beresford
  Bruce Beresford
  Bruce Beresford is an Australian film director who has made more than 30 feature films over a 40-year career.-Early life:...
  
  
• Bye Bye Brasil
  Bye Bye Brasil
  Bye Bye Brasil is a Brazilian, French, and Argentine 1979 film, directed by Carlos Diegues. The film enjoyed critical success and was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...
  
  by Carlos Diegues
  Carlos Diegues
  Carlos Diegues, also known as Cacá Diegues, is a Brazilian film director. He is best known as a member of the Cinema Novo movement.-Filmography:* 2010 O Grande Circo Místico...
  
  
• Constans
  The Constant Factor
  The Constant Factor is a 1980 Polish film directed by Krzysztof Zanussi. It tells the story of a young man struggling to face the death of his mother and harbouring a desire to climb the Himalayas as his father had done....
  
  by Krzysztof Zanussi
  Krzysztof Zanussi
  Krzysztof Zanussi, is a Polish producer and film director.He is a professor of European film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland where he conducts a summer workshop...
  
  
• Dedicatoria
  Dedicatoria
  Dedicatoria is a 1980 Spanish drama film directed by Jaime Chávarri. It was entered into the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Patricia Adriani* María Amezua* Francisco Casares* José Luis Gómez* Claude Legros* Marie Mansart* Amparo Muñoz...
  
  by Jaime Chávarri
  Jaime Chávarri
  Jaime Chávarri y de la Mora is a Spanish actor, screenwriter and film director. His mother María de la Mora y Maura was a maternal granddaughter of Antonio Maura....
  
  
• Ek Din Pratidin
  Ek Din Pratidin
  Ek Din Pratidin is a 1979 Bengali movie directed by Mrinal Sen. The film stars Mamata Shankar, Gita Sen and Sreela Majumdar, among others...
  
  by Mrinal Sen
  Mrinal Sen
  Mrinal Sen is a Bengali Indian filmmaker. He was born on 14 May 1923, in the town of Faridpur, now in Bangladesh in a Hindu family. After finishing his high school there, he left home to come to Calcutta as a student and studied physics at the well-known Scottish Church College and at the...
  
  
• Fantastica
  Fantastica (film)
  Fantastica is a 1980 French-Canadian musical film directed by Gilles Carle. It was entered into the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Carole Laure - Lorca* Lewis Furey - Paul* Serge Reggiani - Euclide Brown* Claudine Auger - Johanne McPherson...
  
  by Gilles Carle
• Jaguar
  Jaguar (film)
  Jaguar is a 1979 Filipino drama film directed by Lino Brocka. It was entered into the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Phillip Salvador - Poldo* Amy Austria - Cristy* Menggie Cobarrubias - Sonny* Anita Linda - Mother* Johnny Delgado - Direk...
  
  by Lino Brocka
  Lino Brocka
  Catalino Ortiz Brocka is known as one of the greatest film directors of the Philippines. Brocka was openly homosexual and many of his films incorporated LGBT themes into their often dramatic storylines....
  
  
• Kagemusha
  Kagemusha
  is a 1980 film by Akira Kurosawa. The title is a term used for an impersonator. It is set in the Warring States era of Japanese history and tells the story of a lower-class criminal who is taught to impersonate a dying warlord in order to dissuade opposing lords from attacking the newly vulnerable...
  
  by Akira Kurosawa
  Akira Kurosawa
  was a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. Regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, Kurosawa directed 30 filmsIn 1946, Kurosawa co-directed, with Hideo Sekigawa and Kajiro Yamamoto, the feature Those Who Make Tomorrow ;...
  
  
• Kaltgestellt
  Put on Ice
  Put on Ice is a 1980 German thriller film directed by Bernhard Sinkel. It was entered into the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Helmut Griem - Lehrer Brasch* Martin Benrath - V-Mann Körner* Ángela Molina - Franziska Schwarz...
  
  by Bernhard Sinkel
  Bernhard Sinkel
  Bernhard Sinkel is a German film director and screenwriter. He directed seven films between 1975 and 1993.He co-shared the Special Recognition award at the 28th Berlin International Film Festival for the film Germany in Autumn...
  
  
• La terrazza
  La terrazza
  La terrazza is a 1980 Italian drama film directed by Ettore Scola. It is starred by the best of Italian Cinema on those days: Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Serge Reggiani, Stefano Satta Flores, Stefania Sandrelli, Carla Gravina, Ombretta Colli,...
  
  by Ettore Scola
• Le Chaînon manquant
  The Missing Link (film)
  The Missing Link' is a 1980 French–Belgian animated film written and directed by Picha. Though it was not as successful as Picha's previous film, it was entered into the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...
  
  by Picha
  Picha
  Jean-Paul "monda" Walravens is a cartoonist and film director. He was born in Brussels, Belgium.-Biography:Jean-Paul Walravens, quickly fascinated by drawing, performs his studies at the Institute of Fine Arts Saint-Luc...
  
  
• The Long Riders
  The Long Riders
  The Long Riders is a 1980 western film directed by Walter Hill. It was produced by James Keach, Stacy Keach and Tim Zinnemann and featured an original soundtrack by Ry Cooder. Cooder won the Best Music award in 1980 from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards for this soundtrack...
  
  by Walter Hill
• Loulou
  Loulou (film)
  Loulou is a 1980 French drama film directed by Maurice Pialat. It stars Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu. For Loulou, Pialat was nominated for the Golden Palm award at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:*Isabelle Huppert as Nelly...
  
  by Maurice Pialat
  Maurice Pialat
  Maurice Pialat was a French film director, screenwriter and actor noted for the rigorous and unsentimental style of his films...
  
  
• Mon oncle d'Amérique
  Mon oncle d'Amérique
  Mon oncle d'Amérique is a 1980 French film directed by Alain Resnais.- Plot :The didactic film is built around the ideas of French physician, writer and philosopher Henri Laborit, who plays himself in the film...
  
  by Alain Resnais
  Alain Resnais
  Alain Resnais is a French film director whose career has extended over more than six decades. After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s, he went on to direct a number of short films which included Nuit et Brouillard , an influential documentary about the Nazi concentration camps.He began...
  
  
• Örökség
  The Heiresses
  The Heiresses is a 1980 Hungarian drama film directed by Márta Mészáros. It was entered into the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Isabelle Huppert - Irène* Erzsébet Kútvölgyi - Iréne * Lili Monori - Szilvia* Jan Nowicki - Ákos...
  
  by Márta Mészáros
  Márta Mészáros
  Márta Mészáros is a Hungarian film director. She worked as an English Teachersmeaning? filmmaker in the 1960s, but in the following decade began making films drawing on the oppression of both state and gender...
  
  
• Out of the Blue
  Out of the Blue (1980 film)
  Out of the Blue is a 1980 film featuring and directed by Dennis Hopper. The film was written and produced by Gary Jules Jouvenat. It competed for the Palme d'Or at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival...
  
  by Dennis Hopper
  Dennis Hopper
  Dennis Lee Hopper was an American actor, filmmaker and artist. As a young man, Hopper became interested in acting and eventually became a student of the Actors' Studio. He made his first television appearance in 1954 and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant...
  
  
• Poseban tretman
  Special Treatment
  Special Treatment is a 1980 Yugoslavian drama film directed by Goran Paskaljević. It was entered into the 1980 Cannes Film Festival where Milena Dravić won the award for Best Supporting Actress.-Cast:* Ljuba Tadić - Dr...
  
  by Goran Paskaljević
  Goran Paskaljevic
  Goran Paskaljević is a Serbian film director. He was raised by his grandparents in Niš, following the divorce of his parents, and 14 years later returned to Belgrade where he worked in his stepfather's cinema....
  
  
• Salto nel vuoto
  A Leap in the Dark
  A Leap in the Dark is a 1980 Italian film written and directed by Marco Bellocchio. It stars Michel Piccoli and Anouk Aimée, who won the Best Actor and Best Actress prizes respectively at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival. It also won the David di Donatello for Best Director.- Plot :Judge Mauro...
  
  by Marco Bellocchio
• Sauve qui peut (la vie)
  Sauve qui peut (la vie)
  __notoc__Sauve qui peut , which was released as Slow Motion in the UK, and as Every Man for Himself in the U.S., is a film directed, co-written and co-produced by Jean-Luc Godard, which premiered at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival. The film stars Jacques Dutronc, Isabelle Huppert, and Nathalie Baye,...
  
  by Jean-Luc Godard
  Jean-Luc Godard
  Jean-Luc Godard is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He is often identified with the 1960s French film movement, French Nouvelle Vague, or "New Wave"....
  
  
• Une semaine de vacances
  A Week's Vacation
  A Week's Vacation is a 1980 French drama film directed by Bertrand Tavernier. It was entered into the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Nathalie Baye - Laurence Cuers* Gérard Lanvin - Pierre* Flore Fitzgerald - Anne* Michel Galabru - Mancheron...
  
  by Bertrand Tavernier
  Bertrand Tavernier
  Bertrand Tavernier is a French director, screenwriter, actor, and producer.-Life and career:Tavernier was born in Lyon, the son of Geneviève and René Tavernier, a publicist and writer, several years president of the French PEN club. Tavernier wanted to become a filmmaker since the age of thirteen...
  
  

Un Certain Regard

• Causa králík by Jaromil Jireš
• Csontváry by Zoltán Huszárik
  Zoltán Huszárik
  Zoltán Huszárik was an influential Hungarian film director, screenwriter, visual artist and occasional actor, an acclaimed auteur of the European modern art film....
  
  
• Dani od snova
  Days of Dreams
  Days of Dreams is a 1980 Yugoslavian drama film directed by Vlatko Gilic. It competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Vladislava Milosavljevic* Boris Komnenic* Ljiljana Krstic* Svetozar Cvetkovic...
  
  by Vlatko Gilic
• Der Kandidat
  The Candidate (1980 film)
  The Candidate is a 1980 West German documentary film directed by Volker Schlöndorff, Stefan Aust, Alexander Kluge and Alexander von Eschwege. It competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.-Appearences:* Wolf Biermann...
  
  by Volker Schlöndorff
  Volker Schlöndorff
  Volker Schlöndorff is a Berlin-based German filmmaker who has worked in Germany, France and the United States...
  
  
• Der Willi-Busch-Report
  The Willi Busch Report
  The Willi Busch Report is a 1979 German drama film directed by Niklaus Schilling. It competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Tilo Prückner - Willi Busch* Kornelia Boje - Rose-Marie Roth...
  
  by Niklaus Schilling
  Niklaus Schilling
  Niklaus Schilling is a Swiss film director, cinematographer and screenwriter. He directed 13 films between 1967 and 1996.His 1977 film The Expulsion from Paradise was entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival...
  
  
• Kristoffers hus
  Christopher's House
  Christopher's House is a 1979 Swedish drama film directed by Lars Lennart Forsberg. It competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Thommy Berggren - Kristoffer* Agneta Eckemyr - Hanna* Börje Ahlstedt - Börje...
  
  by Lars Lennart Forsberg
• La femme enfant
  La femme enfant
  La femme enfant is a 1980 French drama film directed by Raphaële Billetdoux and starring Klaus Kinski. It competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Klaus Kinski - Marcel* Pénélope Palmer - Élisabeth...
  
  by Raphaële Billetdoux
  Raphaële Billetdoux
  Raphaële Billetdoux is a French novelist.She is the daughter of François Billetdoux, and was a companion of the political journalist Paul Guilbert .She was assistant editor on feature films and television....
  
  
• Maledetti vi amerò
  To Love the Damned
  To Love the Damned is a 1980 Italian drama film directed by Marco Tullio Giordana. It competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival...
  
  by Marco Tullio Giordana
  Marco Tullio Giordana
  Marco Tullio Giordana is an Italian director and scriptwriter. His film Quando sei nato non puoi più nasconderti was entered into the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.-Director:*Maledetti, vi amerò...
  
  
• Portrait d'un homme 'à 60% parfait': Billy Wilder by Annie Tresgot
• Sitting Ducks
  Sitting Ducks (film)
  Sitting Ducks is a 1980 American comedy film directed by Henry Jaglom. The film follows the adventures of two small-time hoods who steal a considerable amount of cash from a gambling syndicate. While fleeing by car down the U.S...
  
  by Henry Jaglom
  Henry Jaglom
  - Life and career :Born January 26, 1941 in London, England to Simon and Marie Jaglom, Henry Jaglom trained with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio in New York, where he acted, wrote and directed off-Broadway theater and cabaret before settling in Hollywood in the late 1960s...
  
  
• Tcherike-ye Tara
  Ballad of Tara
  Ballad of Tara is a 1979 Persian film directed by Bahram Bayzai. It competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Susan Taslimi - Tara* Manuchehr Farid - Historical man* Reza Babak - Ghalich...
  
  by Bahram Bayzai
  Bahram Bayzai
  Bahrām Beyzāi is an Iranian film director, theatre director, screenwriter, playwright, film editor, producer, and researcher....
  
  
• The Gamekeeper
  The Gamekeeper (film)
  The Gamekeeper is a 1980 British drama film directed by Ken Loach. It competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Phil Askham - George Purse* Rita May - Mary* Andrew Grubb - John* Peter Steels - Ian...
  
  by Ken Loach
  Ken Loach
  Kenneth "Ken" Loach is a Palme D'Or winning English film and television director.He is known for his naturalistic, social realist directing style and for his socialist beliefs, which are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as homelessness , labour rights and child abuse at the...
  
  
• Wege in der Nacht by Krzysztof Zanussi
  Krzysztof Zanussi
  Krzysztof Zanussi, is a Polish producer and film director.He is a professor of European film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland where he conducts a summer workshop...
  
  

Films out of competition

• Breaking Glass
  Breaking Glass
  Breaking Glass is a 1980 British film starring Hazel O'Connor, Phil Daniels and Jonathan Pryce. The film was co-produced by Dodi Fayed and written and directed by Brian Gibson. The film was screened out of competition at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival....
  
  by Brian Gibson
• La città delle donne
  City of Women
  City of Women is a 1980 film written and directed by Federico Fellini. Amid Fellini's characteristic combination of dreamlike, outrageous, and artistic imagery, Marcello Mastroianni plays Snàporaz, a man who voyages through male and female spaces toward a confrontation with his own attitudes...
  
  by Federico Fellini
  Federico Fellini
  Federico Fellini, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI , was an Italian film director and scriptwriter. Known for a distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images, he is considered one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century...
  
  
• Le risque de vivre by Gérald Calderon
• Lightning Over Water
  Lightning Over Water
  Lightning Over Water is a 1980 documentary film by Wim Wenders and Nicholas Ray about the last days of Ray's own life; the director was most famous for his 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause. It was screened out of competition at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.- Summary :The film is a collaboration...
  
  by Wim Wenders
  Wim Wenders
  Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders is a German film director, playwright, author, photographer and producer.-Early life:Wenders was born in Düsseldorf. He graduated from high school in Oberhausen in the Ruhr area. He then studied medicine and philosophy in Freiburg and Düsseldorf...
  
  , Nicholas Ray
  Nicholas Ray
  Nicholas Ray was an American film director best known for the movie Rebel Without a Cause....
  
  
• Nezha nao hai
  Prince Nezha's Triumph Against Dragon King
  Prince Nezha's Triumph Against Dragon King is a 1979 Chinese animated film. It was screened out of competition at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...
  
  by Yan Ding Xian, Wang Shuchen, Jingda Xu
• Sono fotogenico
  I'm Photogenic
  I'm Photogenic is a 1980 Italian comedy film directed by Dino Risi. It was screened out of competition at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Renato Pozzetto - Antonio Barozzi* Edwige Fenech - Cinzia Pancaldi* Aldo Maccione - Pedretti - Lawyer...
  
  by Dino Risi
• Stalker
  Stalker (film)
  Stalker is a 1979 science fiction film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, with a screenplay written by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, loosely based on their novel Roadside Picnic...
  
  by Andrei Tarkovsky
  Andrei Tarkovsky
  Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky was a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, writer, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director, widely regarded as one of the finest filmmakers of the 20th century....
  
  
• Stir
  Stir (film)
  Stir is a 1984 Australian film directed by Stephen Wallace in his feature directorial debut. The prison film was written by Bob Jewson, based upon his own experience while incarcerated as the actual prison riot at Bathurst Correctional Complex in 1974 and its subsequent Royal Commission into New...
  
  by Stephen Wallace
  Stephen Wallace
  Stephen Wallace is an Australian director. His 1986 film For Love Alone was entered into the 37th Berlin International Film Festival.He was awarded the A.M...
  
  
• SuperTotò by Brando Giordani, Emilio Ravel
• Téléphone public
  Public Telephone (film)
  Public Telephone is a 1980 French documentary film directed by Jean-Marie Périer. It was screened out of competition at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Jean-Louis Aubert* Louis Bertignac* Félix Bussy* Dominique Forestier* Richard Kolinka...
  
  by Jean-Marie Périer
  Jean-Marie Périer
  Jean-Marie Périer is a French photographer and film director.On 22 June 1963, the magazine Salut les copains organised a concert on Place de la Nation in Paris, with singers such as Johnny Hallyday, Richard Anthony, Eddy Mitchell and Frank Alamo...
  
  

Short film competition

• Arrêt momentané by Marie-France Siegler
• The Beloved by Michel Bouchard
• Canada Vignettes: The Performer by Norma Bailey
• Grandomaniya by Nikolay Todorov
• Krychle by Zdenek Smetana
• Magyar kepek by Csaba Szórády
• La Petite enfance du cinéma by Joël Farges
• Rails by Manolo Otero
• Scheherazade by Susan Casey and Nancy Naschke
• Seaside Woman by Oscar Grillo
• Sky Dance by Faith Hubley
  Faith Hubley
  Faith Hubley was an animator, known for her experimental work both in collaboration with her husband John Hubley, and on her own following her husband's death.-Biography:...
  
  
• Z górki by Marian Cholerek

Awards

• Palme d'Or
  Palme d'Or
  The Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival and is presented to the director of the best feature film of the official competition. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee. From 1939 to 1954, the highest prize was the Grand Prix du Festival International du...
  
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  • All That Jazz
    All That Jazz
    All That Jazz is a 1979 American musical film directed by Bob Fosse. The screenplay by Robert Alan Aurthur and Fosse is a semi-autobiographical fantasy based on aspects of Fosse's life and career as dancer, choreographer and director. The film was inspired by Bob Fosse's manic effort to edit his...
    
    by Bob Fosse
    Bob Fosse
    Robert Louis “Bob” Fosse was an American actor, dancer, musical theater choreographer, director, screenwriter, film editor and film director. He won an unprecedented eight Tony Awards for choreography, as well as one for direction...
    
    
  • Kagemusha
    Kagemusha
    is a 1980 film by Akira Kurosawa. The title is a term used for an impersonator. It is set in the Warring States era of Japanese history and tells the story of a lower-class criminal who is taught to impersonate a dying warlord in order to dissuade opposing lords from attacking the newly vulnerable...
    
    by Akira Kurosawa
    Akira Kurosawa
    was a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. Regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, Kurosawa directed 30 filmsIn 1946, Kurosawa co-directed, with Hideo Sekigawa and Kajiro Yamamoto, the feature Those Who Make Tomorrow ;...
    
    
• Grand Prix
  Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival)
  The Grand Prix is an award of the Cannes Film Festival bestowed by the jury of the festival on one of the competing feature films. It is the second-most prestigious prize of the festival after the Palme d'Or...
  
  : Mon oncle d'Amérique
  Mon oncle d'Amérique
  Mon oncle d'Amérique is a 1980 French film directed by Alain Resnais.- Plot :The didactic film is built around the ideas of French physician, writer and philosopher Henri Laborit, who plays himself in the film...
  
  by Alain Resnais
  Alain Resnais
  Alain Resnais is a French film director whose career has extended over more than six decades. After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s, he went on to direct a number of short films which included Nuit et Brouillard , an influential documentary about the Nazi concentration camps.He began...
  
   (unanimously)
• Jury Prize
  Jury Prize (Cannes Film Festival)
  The Jury Prize is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of movies at the festival. It is considered the third most prestigious prize at the film festival, after the Palme d'Or and the Grand Prix....
  
  : Constans
  The Constant Factor
  The Constant Factor is a 1980 Polish film directed by Krzysztof Zanussi. It tells the story of a young man struggling to face the death of his mother and harbouring a desire to climb the Himalayas as his father had done....
  
  by Krzysztof Zanussi
  Krzysztof Zanussi
  Krzysztof Zanussi, is a Polish producer and film director.He is a professor of European film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland where he conducts a summer workshop...
  
  
• Best Actor
  Best Actor Award (Cannes Film Festival)
  The Best Actor Award is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of movies at the festival. It was first awarded in 1946.- Award Winners :-External links:* * ....
  
  : Michel Piccoli for Salto nel vuoto
  A Leap in the Dark
  A Leap in the Dark is a 1980 Italian film written and directed by Marco Bellocchio. It stars Michel Piccoli and Anouk Aimée, who won the Best Actor and Best Actress prizes respectively at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival. It also won the David di Donatello for Best Director.- Plot :Judge Mauro...
  
  
• Best Actress
  Best Actress Award (Cannes Film Festival)
  The Best Actress Award is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of films at the festival. It was first awarded in 1946.-Award Winners:-External links:* * ....
  
  : Anouk Aimée
  Anouk Aimée
  Anouk Aimée is a French film actress. Aimée has appeared in 70 films since 1947. She began her film career in 1947 at age 14. In 1958 she portrayed the tragic artist Jeanne Hébuterne in the film Les Amants de Montparnasse...
  
   for Salto nel vuoto
  A Leap in the Dark
  A Leap in the Dark is a 1980 Italian film written and directed by Marco Bellocchio. It stars Michel Piccoli and Anouk Aimée, who won the Best Actor and Best Actress prizes respectively at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival. It also won the David di Donatello for Best Director.- Plot :Judge Mauro...
  
  
• Best Supporting Actor: Jack Thompson
  Jack Thompson (actor)
  Jack Thompson, AM is an Australian actor and one of the major figures of Australian cinema. He was educated at University of Queensland, before embarking on his acting career. In 2002, he was made an honorary member of the Australian Cinematographers Society...
  
   for Breaker Morant
  Breaker Morant (film)
  Breaker Morant is a 1980 Australian film about the court martial of Breaker Morant, directed by Bruce Beresford and starring British actor Edward Woodward as Harry "Breaker" Morant...
  
  
• Best Supporting Actress:
  • Milena Dravić
    Milena Dravic
    Milena Dravić is a Serbian actress.Born in Belgrade, Dravić was involved with the performing arts from the age of four: first with dance and later classical ballet...
    
     for Poseban tretman
    Special Treatment
    Special Treatment is a 1980 Yugoslavian drama film directed by Goran Paskaljević. It was entered into the 1980 Cannes Film Festival where Milena Dravić won the award for Best Supporting Actress.-Cast:* Ljuba Tadić - Dr...
    
    
  • Carla Gravina
    Carla Gravina
    Carla Gravina is an Italian film actress. She appeared in 40 films between 1957 and 1998. She won the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in La terrazza at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.-Selected filmography:...
    
     for La terrazza
    La terrazza
    La terrazza is a 1980 Italian drama film directed by Ettore Scola. It is starred by the best of Italian Cinema on those days: Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Serge Reggiani, Stefano Satta Flores, Stefania Sandrelli, Carla Gravina, Ombretta Colli,...
    
    
• Best Screenplay: Ettore Scola, Agenore Incrocci
  Agenore Incrocci
  Agenore Incrocci , best known as Age, was an Italian screenwriter, considered one of the fathers of the commedia all'italiana as one of the two members of the duo Age & Scarpelli, together with Furio Scarpelli....
  
   and Furio Scarpelli
  Furio Scarpelli
  Furio Scarpelli , also called Scarpelli, was an Italian screenwriter, famous for his collaboration on numerous Commedia all'italiana films with Agenore Incrocci, forming the duo Age & Scarpelli....
  
   for La terrazza
  La terrazza
  La terrazza is a 1980 Italian drama film directed by Ettore Scola. It is starred by the best of Italian Cinema on those days: Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Serge Reggiani, Stefano Satta Flores, Stefania Sandrelli, Carla Gravina, Ombretta Colli,...
  
  
• Technical Grand Prize: Le Risque de vivre by Gérald Calderon (which was shown out of competition)
• Short Film Palme d'Or
  Short Film Palme d'Or
  The Short Film Palme d'Or is the highest prize given to a short film at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the same jury of the Cinéfondation....
  
  : Seaside Woman by Oscar Grillo
• Jury Prize - Best Short Film:
  • Canada Vignettes: The Performer by Norma Bailey
  • Krychle by Zdenek Smetana
• Caméra d'Or
  Caméra d'Or
  The Caméra d'Or is an award of the Cannes Film Festival for the best first feature film presented in one of the Cannes' selections ....
  
  : Adrien's Story by Jean-Pierre Denis
  Jean-Pierre Denis
  Jean-Pierre Denis is a French film director and screenwriter. He has directed six films between 1980 and 2005. His film Field of Honor was entered into the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Histoire d'Adrien...
  
  
• FIPRESCI Prize: Mon oncle d'Amérique
  Mon oncle d'Amérique
  Mon oncle d'Amérique is a 1980 French film directed by Alain Resnais.- Plot :The didactic film is built around the ideas of French physician, writer and philosopher Henri Laborit, who plays himself in the film...
  
  by Alain Resnais
  Alain Resnais
  Alain Resnais is a French film director whose career has extended over more than six decades. After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s, he went on to direct a number of short films which included Nuit et Brouillard , an influential documentary about the Nazi concentration camps.He began...
  
  
• FIPRESCI Prize - Special Mention: Gaijin - Os Caminhos da Liberdade by Tizuka Yamasaki
• Prize of the Ecumenical Jury:
  • Constans
    The Constant Factor
    The Constant Factor is a 1980 Polish film directed by Krzysztof Zanussi. It tells the story of a young man struggling to face the death of his mother and harbouring a desire to climb the Himalayas as his father had done....
    
    by Krzysztof Zanussi
    Krzysztof Zanussi
    Krzysztof Zanussi, is a Polish producer and film director.He is a professor of European film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland where he conducts a summer workshop...
    
    
  • Stalker
    Stalker (film)
    Stalker is a 1979 science fiction film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, with a screenplay written by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, loosely based on their novel Roadside Picnic...
    
    by Andrei Tarkovsky
    Andrei Tarkovsky
    Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky was a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, writer, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director, widely regarded as one of the finest filmmakers of the 20th century....
    
     (special award)

External links

• 1980 Cannes Film Festival
• Cannes Film Festival:1980 at Internet Movie Database
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