1979 in film

The year 1979 in film involved many significant events.

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

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[11] CN¥180,000,000[11] $116,000,000 China
France The Gendarme and the Extra-Terrestrials SNC 6,280,070[12] Un­known Un­known France
Germany The Jungle Book 20th Century Fox 9,103,582[13] 32,092,155[13] $44,000,000 United States
India Suhaag Sharma Cine Associates Un­known 100,000,000[14] $12,310,000[15] India
Italy Superman Columbia-EMI-Warner 904,000[16] Un­known Un­known United States
Japan Galaxy Express 999 Toei Un­known ¥16,500,000,000[17] $76,120,000[18] Japan
Soviet Union Sholay (Embers) R. K. Films 60,000,000[19] 15,000,000 Rbls[n 1] $28,200,000[lower-alpha 1] India
Spain Superman Warner Bros. 4,795,628[21] 655,346,759[21] $9,763,080[22] United States
United Kingdom Superman Columbia-EMI-Warner 10,190,000[23] £11,547,308[23][24] $24,455,309[25]

Major events

Awards

Category/Organization37th Golden Globe Awards
January 26, 1980
33rd BAFTA Awards
March 20, 1980
52nd Academy Awards
April 14, 1980
DramaMusical or Comedy
Best FilmKramer vs. KramerBreaking AwayManhattanKramer vs. Kramer
Best DirectorFrancis Ford Coppola
Apocalypse Now
Robert Benton
Kramer vs. Kramer
Best ActorDustin Hoffman
Kramer vs. Kramer
Peter Sellers
Being There
Jack Lemmon
The China Syndrome
Dustin Hoffman
Kramer vs. Kramer
Best ActressSally Field
Norma Rae
Bette Midler
The Rose
Jane Fonda
The China Syndrome
Sally Field
Norma Rae
Best Supporting ActorMelvyn Douglas
Being There
Robert Duvall
Apocalypse Now
Robert Duvall
Apocalypse Now
Melvyn Douglas
Being There
Best Supporting ActressMeryl Streep
Kramer vs. Kramer
Rachel Roberts
Yanks
Meryl Streep
Kramer vs. Kramer
Best Screenplay, AdaptedRobert Benton
Kramer vs. Kramer
Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman
Manhattan
Robert Benton
Kramer vs. Kramer
Best Screenplay, OriginalSteve Tesich
Breaking Away
Best Original ScoreCarmine 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 FilmLa Cage aux FollesN/AThe 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

  • List of American films of 1979
  • List of Argentine films of 1979
  • List of Australian films of 1979
  • List of Bangladeshi films of 1979
  • List of British films of 1979
  • List of Canadian films of 1979
  • List of French films of 1979
  • List of Hong Kong films of 1979
  • List of Indian films of 1979
    • List of Hindi films of 1979
    • List of Kannada films of 1979
    • List of Malayalam films of 1979
    • List of Marathi films of 1979
    • List of Tamil films of 1979
    • List of Telugu films of 1979
  • List of Japanese films of 1979
  • List of Mexican films of 1979
  • List of Pakistani films of 1979
  • List of South Korean films of 1979
  • List of Soviet films of 1979
  • List of Spanish films of 1979

By genre/medium

  • List of action films of 1979
  • List of animated feature films of 1979
  • List of avant-garde films of 1979
  • List of comedy films of 1979
  • List of drama films of 1979
  • List of horror films of 1979
  • List of science fiction films of 1979
  • List of thriller films of 1979
  • List of western films of 1979

Births

  • January 1 – Vidya Balan, Indian actress
  • January 6 – Cristela Alonzo, American comedian, actress, writer and producer
  • January 8
    • Ashraf Barhom, Israeli-Arab actor
    • Sarah Polley, Canadian actress
  • January 16 – Aaliyah, American actress and singer (d. 2001)
  • January 24 – Tatyana Ali, American actress and singer
  • January 26 – Sara Rue, American actress
  • January 29 – Andrew Keegan, American actor
  • February 1 – Rachelle Lefevre, Canadian actress
  • February 2 – Shamita Shetty, Indian actress
  • February 3 – Costa Ronin, Australian actor and cinematographer
  • February 7 - Cerina Vincent, American actress
  • February 8 - Josh Keaton, American actor and musician
  • February 9 – Zhang Ziyi, Chinese actress and dancer
  • February 11 – Brandy Norwood, American actress and singer
  • February 13 – Mena Suvari, American actress
  • February 21
  • March 3 – Patrick Renna, American actor
  • March 5 – Riki Lindhome, American actress, comedian and musician
  • March 9 – Oscar Isaac, Guatemalan-American actor
  • March 10
  • March 17 – Stephen Kramer Glickman, Canadian actor, music producer and stand-up comedian
  • March 18 – Adam Levine, American singer, songwriter, musician and actor
  • March 20
  • March 24 – Lake Bell, American actress, director and screenwriter
  • March 25 – Lee Pace, American actor
  • March 28 – Shakib Khan, Bangladeshi film actor, producer, singer, film organiser and media personalities[26]
  • March 29 – De'Angelo Wilson, American actor and rapper (d. 2008)
  • March 30 - Pete Holmes, American comedian, actor, writer, producer and podcaster
  • April 4
  • April 5 – Josh Boone, American filmmaker
  • April 7 - Nico Santos, Filipino-American actor
  • April 11 – Josh Server, American actor
  • April 12
  • April 15
  • April 17
  • April 19 – Kate Hudson, American actress
  • April 21 – James McAvoy, Scottish actor[27]
  • April 23 – Jaime King, American actress
  • April 26 – Klára Issová, Czech actress
  • April 27 - Tom Davis, English actor and comedian
  • May 5 – Vincent Kartheiser, American actor
  • May 7 – Yōsuke Kubozuka, Japanese actor
  • May 9 – Rosario Dawson, American actress
  • May 12 – Aaron Yoo, Korean-American actor
  • May 19 – Bérénice Marlohe, French actress
  • May 20 - Jana Pallaske, German actress and singer
  • May 22 – Maggie Q, American actress
  • May 23 – Josh Cooley, American animator, screenwriter, director and voice actor
  • May 28
  • June 2 - Morena Baccarin, Brazilian actress
  • June 7 – Anna Torv, Australian actress
  • June 12 - Wil Horneff, American former child actor
  • June 17 – Young Maylay, American rapper, producer and voice actor
  • June 20 - Sarah Stiles, American singer and actress
  • June 21 – Chris Pratt, American actor
  • June 24 – Mindy Kaling, American writer and actress
  • June 25 - Busy Philipps, American actress
  • June 27
    • Martin Bourboulon, French film director and screenwriter[28]
    • Benjamin Speed, Australian film composer
  • June 30 - Rick Gonzalez, American actor and musician
  • July 3 – Ludivine Sagnier, French actress
  • July 5 – Eva Maria Daniels, Icelandic film producer (d. 2023)
  • July 6
    • Kevin Hart, American actor
    • Abdul Salis, British actor
  • July 7 - Benjamin Mitchell, New Zealand actor
  • July 10 – Gong Yoo, South Korean actor
  • July 12 – Omid Abtahi, Iranian-American actor
  • July 14 – Scott Porter, American actor
  • July 16 – Jayma Mays, American actress
  • July 17 – Mike Vogel, American actor and former model
  • July 19 – David Sakurai, Danish-Japanese actor, director and scriptwriter
  • July 26 - Mageina Tovah, American actress
  • July 31
    • Dana Gourrier, American actress
    • B. J. Novak, American writer and actor
  • August 1 – Jason Momoa, American actor and filmmaker
  • August 3 – Evangeline Lilly, Canadian actress[29]
  • August 6 – Dayahang Rai, Nepalese actor
  • August 10 – JoAnna Garcia Swisher, American actress
  • August 12 - Keith Powell, American actor, writer and director
  • August 13 - Kasia Smutniak, Polish-Italian actress and model
  • August 14 - Jamie Parker, English actor and singer
  • August 21 - Kevin Janssens, Belgian actor
  • August 22 – Brandon Adams, American actor
  • August 23 – Claire Grant, American actress, model and producer
  • August 24 – Fabienne Carat, French actress and singer
  • August 25 – Şebnem Bozoklu, Turkish actress
  • August 26 – Erik Valdez, American actor
  • August 27 – Aaron Paul, American actor
  • August 29 – Dan Harris, American screenwriter and director
  • August 31 – Yuvan Shankar Raja, Indian film composer
  • September 1 - Camille Chen, American actress
  • September 8 – Pink, American singer and actress
  • September 11
    • Ariana Richards, American actress
    • Hu Ting-ting, English-born Taiwanese actress
  • September 17 - Billy Miller, American actor (d. 2023)
  • September 18 – Alison Lohman, American former actress
  • September 19 – Noémie Lenoir, French model and actress
  • September 20 – Chris Tardio, American actor
  • September 22 – MyAnna Buring, Swedish-born British actress
  • September 23 – Lisa Loven Kongsli, Norwegian actress
  • September 25 - Stephen Rider, American actor
  • September 26 - Mark Famiglietti, American actor, screenwriter and producer
  • September 27 – Jad Saxton, American voice actress
  • September 30 – Jonathan Kasdan, American screenwriter, director, producer and actor
  • October 1 – Marielle Heller, American film director
  • October 4
  • October 6 – Sareh Bayat, Iranian actress
  • October 7
  • October 8 – Kristanna Loken, American actress
  • October 9
  • October 20 – John Krasinski, American actor and filmmaker
  • October 28 – Natina Reed, American singer-songwriter, rapper and actress (d. 2012)
  • October 29 – Maya Karin, Malaysian actress
  • October 30 - James A. Woods, Canadian actor
  • October 31 – Erica Cerra, Canadian actress
  • November 5 - Leonardo Nam, Australian actor
  • November 8 – Dania Ramirez, Dominican actress
  • November 9 – Matt McCarthy, American comedian, actor and writer
  • November 13 – Riccardo Scamarcio, Italian actor and producer
  • November 14 – Olga Kurylenko, Ukrainian-French actress
  • November 19 – Barry Jenkins, American film director
  • November 22 – Andrew Knott, British actor
  • November 23 – Jonathan Sadowski, American actor
  • November 25 – Joel Kinnaman, Swedish-American actor
  • November 28 – Daniel Henney, American actor and model
  • November 29 - Timo Vuorensola, Finnish director, singer and actor
  • December 3 – Tiffany Haddish, American comedian and actress
  • December 5 – Nick Stahl, American actor
  • December 7
    • Eric Bauza, Canadian-born American voice actor, stand-up comedian and animation artist
    • Sara Bareilles, American actress and singer
  • December 11 – Rider Strong, American actor
  • December 15 – Adam Brody, American actor, writer, musician and producer
  • December 17 - Lil Rel Howery, American actor and comedian
  • December 20 - Ramón Rodríguez, Puerto Rican actor
  • December 23 – Summer Altice, American model and actress
  • December 26 – Chris Daughtry, American actor and singer
  • December 29 – Diego Luna, Mexican actor, director and producer

Deaths

MonthDateNameAgeCountryProfessionNotable films
January 11Jack Soo61USActor
16Peter Butterworth63UKActor, writer
16Ted Cassidy46USActor
18Cyril J. Mockridge82UKComposer
25Dick Crockett63USStuntman, Actor
February 12Jean Renoir84USDirector, writer, actor
16Louise Allbritton58USActress
17William Gargan73USActor
19Leigh Jason74USDirector
  • Out of the Blue
  • The Mad Miss Manton
28Jane Hylton51UKActress
March 1Dolores Costello75USActress
2Edith Craig71USActress
6John Robinson70UKActor
9Barbara Mullen64UKActress
  • Jeannie
  • Thunder Rock
19John Tate64UKActorInvasion
21Bomba Tzur50IsraelActor
  • Blaumilch Canal
  • Dalia and the Sailors
22Ben Lyon78USActor, writer
24Yvonne Mitchell63UKActress
  • Woman in a Dressing Gown
  • Johnny Nobody
April 4Edgar Buchanan76USActor
6Norman Tokar59USDirector
10Nino Rota67ItalyComposer
24John Carroll72USActor
May 6Rosemary La Planche55USActress
  • Angels' Alley
  • Jack Armstrong
8Victor Saville83UKProducer, director
10Beatrice Campbell56UKActress
  • Last Holiday
  • The Master of Ballantrae
11Joan Chandler55USActress
26George Brent80USActor
29Mary Pickford87USActress, producer, writer
June 1Jack Mulhall91USActor
  • The Social Buccaneer
  • The Three Musketeers
2Larisa Shepitko41Soviet UnionDirector
  • Wings
  • The Ascent
2Jim Hutton45USActor
  • Walk, Don't Run
  • Who's Minding the Mint?
6Jack Haley80USActor
11John Wayne72USActor, producer, director
12Henry Berman65USEditor, Producer
14David Butler84USDirector
16Nicholas Ray67USDirector, writer, actor
19Nick Grinde86USDirector
  • Million Dollar Legs
  • The Man They Could Not Hang
21Julian Orchard49UKActor, writer
July 2Larisa Shepitko41USSRDirector, writer, actress
  • The Ascent
  • Farewell
8Michael Wilding66UKActor, producer
13Corinne Griffith84USActress
22Kathleen Case45USActress
25Eric Pohlmann66GermanyActor
26Virginia Brissac96USActress
27Ettore Manni52ItalyActor
  • City of Women
  • Le Amiche
27Shirley Mason79USActress
  • Anne Against the World
  • So This Is Love?
28George Seaton68USDirector
28Frederick Stafford51CzechoslovakiaActor
31Beatrix Lehmann76UKActressThe Spy Who Came in from the Cold
August ??Betty Henderson72UKActress
6Kurt Kasznar65AustriaActor
7Vicente Salumbides85PhilippinesActor
10Dick Foran69USActor
17Vivian Vance70USActress
21Stuart Heisler82USDirector
  • Tulsa
  • I Died a Thousand Times
30Jean Seberg40USActress
September 1Doris Kenyon81USActress
  • Alexander Hamilton
  • The Road to Singapore
2Felix Aylmer90UKActor
12Les Clark71USAnimator
12Jocelyne LaGarde54TahitiActressHawaii
17Willis Goldbeck80USScreenwriter
22Frederick Piper76UKActor
23Catherine Lacey75UKActress
26John Cromwell91USDirector
26Arthur Hunnicutt69USActor
27Gracie Fields81UKActress, singer
  • Sally in Our Alley
  • Holy Matrimony
October 1Dorothy Arzner82USDirector
3Dorothy Peterson81USActress
  • That Hagen Girl
  • Payment Deferred
12Celia Lovsky82AustriaActress
17John Stuart81UKActor
25Fernando Soler83MexicoActor
  • Papacito lindo
  • El gran calavera
30Graham Ashley52UKActor
November 2Saro Urzì66ItalyActor
5Amedeo Nazzari71ItalyActor
  • Il bandito
  • The Jester's Supper
8Sydney Tafler63UKActor
11Dimitri Tiomkin85RussiaComposer
20Michael Darbyshire62UKActor, writer
21Paul Wexler50USActor
22George Froeschel88USScreenwriter
23Merle Oberon68IndiaActress, producer
30Joyce Grenfell69UKActress
30Zeppo Marx78USActor, director
December 5Jesse Pearson49USActorBye Bye Birdie
5Lesley Selander70USDirector
9James Neilson70USDirector
10Ann Dvorak68USActress
11Claire Carleton66USActress
  • Girl from Havana
  • Gildersleeve on Broadway
12Jon Hall64USActor, director
22George Pollock72UKDirector
23Ernest B. Schoedsack86USDirector, cinematographer, producer
25Michael Collins57CanadaActor
25Lee Bowman79USActor
25Joan Blondell73USActress

Film debuts

Notes

  1. 60 million tickets sold,[19] average ticket price of 25 kopecks[20]
  1. See List of highest-grossing films in the Soviet Union § Highest-grossing foreign films.

References

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  2. "Box Office Information for The Amityville Horror". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 27, 2012.
  3. "Box Office Information for Rocky II". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved June 11, 2010.
  4. "Box Office Information for Apocalypse Now". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on 24 July 2010. Retrieved June 11, 2010.
  5. "Box Office Information for Star Trek: The Motion Picture". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved June 11, 2010.
  6. "Box Office Information for Alien". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on 21 June 2010. Retrieved June 11, 2010.
  7. "Box Office Information for 10". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on 4 July 2010. Retrieved June 11, 2010.
  8. "Box Office Information for The Jerk". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved June 11, 2010.
  9. "Box Office Information for Moonraker". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on 31 May 2010. Retrieved June 11, 2010.
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