1979 in film

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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 The Muppet Movie Universal / Associated Film $76,657,000 [7]
8 10 Warner Bros. $74,865,517 [8]
9 The Jerk Universal $73,691,419 [9]
10 Moonraker United Artists $70,308,099 [10]

International

Highest-grossing films of 1979 (international markets)
International
market		TitleDistributor Admissions Gross revenueProduction
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 SNC6,280,070 [12] UnknownUnknown France
West Germany The Jungle Book 20th Century Fox 9,103,582 [13] €32,092,155 [13] $44,000,000 United States
India Suhaag Sharma Cine AssociatesUnknown ₹ 100,000,000 [14] $12,310,000 [15] India
Italy Superman Columbia-EMI-Warner 904,000 [16] UnknownUnknownUnited 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 [a] 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] $24,455,309 [24]

Major events

Awards

Category/Organization 37th Golden Globe Awards
January 26, 1980		 33rd BAFTA Awards
March 20, 1980		 52nd Academy Awards
April 14, 1980
DramaMusical 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

MonthDateNameAgeCountryProfessionNotable films
January11 Jack Soo 61USActor
16 Peter Butterworth 63UKActor, writer
16 Ted Cassidy 46USActor
18 Cyril J. Mockridge 82UKComposer
25 Dick Crockett 63USStuntman, Actor
February12 Jean Renoir 84USDirector, writer, actor
16 Louise Allbritton 58USActress
17 William Gargan 73USActor
19 Leigh Jason 74USDirector
28 Jane Hylton 51UKActress
March1 Dolores Costello 75USActress
2 Edith Craig 71USActress
6 John Robinson 70UKActor
9 Barbara Mullen 64UKActress
19 John Tate 64UKActor Invasion
21 Bomba Tzur 50IsraelActor
22 Ben Lyon 78USActor, writer
24 Yvonne Mitchell 63UKActress
April4 Edgar Buchanan 76USActor
6 Norman Tokar 59USDirector
10 Nino Rota 67ItalyComposer
24 John Carroll 72USActor
May6 Rosemary La Planche 55USActress
8 Victor Saville 83UKProducer, director
10 Beatrice Campbell 56UKActress
11 Joan Chandler 55USActress
26 George Brent 80USActor
29 Mary Pickford 87USActress, producer, writer
June1 Jack Mulhall 91USActor
2 Larisa Shepitko 41Soviet UnionDirector
2 Jim Hutton 45USActor
6 Jack Haley 80USActor
11 John Wayne 72USActor, producer, director
12 Henry Berman 65USEditor, Producer
14 David Butler 84USDirector
16 Nicholas Ray 67USDirector, writer, actor
19 Nick Grinde 86USDirector
21 Julian Orchard 49UKActor, writer
July2 Larisa Shepitko 41USSRDirector, writer, actress
8 Michael Wilding 66UKActor, producer
13 Corinne Griffith 84USActress
22 Kathleen Case 45USActress
25 Eric Pohlmann 66GermanyActor
26 Virginia Brissac 96USActress
27 Ettore Manni 52ItalyActor
27 Shirley Mason 79USActress
28 George Seaton 68USDirector
28 Frederick Stafford 51CzechoslovakiaActor
31 Beatrix Lehmann 76UKActress The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
August?? Betty Henderson 72UKActress
6 Kurt Kasznar 65AustriaActor
7 Vicente Salumbides 85PhilippinesActor, Director
10 Dick Foran 69USActor
17 Vivian Vance 70USActress
21 Stuart Heisler 82USDirector
30 Jean Seberg 40USActress
September1 Doris Kenyon 81USActress
2 Felix Aylmer 90UKActor
12 Les Clark 71USAnimator
12 Jocelyne LaGarde 54TahitiActress Hawaii
17 Willis Goldbeck 80USScreenwriter
22 Frederick Piper 76UKActor
23 Catherine Lacey 75UKActress
26 John Cromwell 91USDirector
26 Arthur Hunnicutt 69USActor
27 Gracie Fields 81UKActress, singer
October1 Dorothy Arzner 82USDirector
3 Dorothy Peterson 81USActress
12 Celia Lovsky 82AustriaActress
17 John Stuart 81UKActor
25 Fernando Soler 83MexicoActor
30Graham Ashley52UKActor
November1 Saro Urzì 66ItalyActor
5 Amedeo Nazzari 71ItalyActor
8 Sydney Tafler 63UKActor
11 Dimitri Tiomkin 85RussiaComposer
20 Michael Darbyshire 62UKActor, writer
21 Paul Wexler 50USActor
22 George Froeschel 88USScreenwriter
23 Merle Oberon 68IndiaActress, producer
30 Barbara von Annenkoff 79GermanyActress
30 Joyce Grenfell 69UKActress
30 Zeppo Marx 78USActor, director
December5 Jesse Pearson 49USActor Bye Bye Birdie
5 Lesley Selander 70USDirector
9 James Neilson 70USDirector
10 Ann Dvorak 68USActress
11 Claire Carleton 66USActress
12 Jon Hall 64USActor, director
22 George Pollock 72UKDirector
23 Ernest B. Schoedsack 86USDirector, cinematographer, producer
25 Michael Collins 57CanadaActor
25 Lee Bowman 64USActor
25 Joan Blondell 73USActress

Film debuts

Notes

  1. ↑ 60 million tickets sold, [19] average ticket price of 25  kopecks [20]

References

  1. ↑ "Box Office Information for Kramer vs. Kramer". Box Office Mojo . Retrieved June 11, 2010.
  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 The Muppet Movie The Numbers. Retrieved March 31, 2025.
  8. ↑ "Box Office Information for 10". Box Office Mojo . Archived from the original on 4 July 2010. Retrieved June 11, 2010.
  9. ↑ "Box Office Information for The Jerk". Box Office Mojo . Retrieved June 11, 2010.
  10. ↑ "Box Office Information for Moonraker". Box Office Mojo . Archived from the original on 31 May 2010. Retrieved June 11, 2010.
  11. 1 2 王伟杰 (January 2018). 冲突与引导：文化资源开发中的价值选择 (in Chinese). Social Sciences Literature Press. p. 299. ISBN   978-7-5201-2573-4.
  12. ↑ "Les Entrees en France (1979)" [Entries in France (1979)]. JP's Box-Office (in French). Archived from the original on 2017-08-10. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
  13. 1 2 "Top 100 Deutschland 1979" [Top 100 Germany 1979]. Inside Kino (in German). Archived from the original on 2004-05-31. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
  14. ↑ "Box Office 1979". Box Office India . 20 October 2013. Archived from the original on 2013-10-20. Retrieved 2018-03-06.
  15. ↑ "Pacific Exchange Rate Service (8.1258 INR per USD)" (PDF). UBC Sauder School of Business . University of British Columbia. 1979. p. 3. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
  16. ↑ "Les Entrees en Italie: 1979" [Entries in Italy: 1979]. JP's Box-Office (in French). Archived from the original on 2022-04-02. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
  17. ↑ "FEATURE: Japanese Anime Magazine Retrospective: "Animage" in August 1979". Crunchyroll . Retrieved March 19, 2012.
  18. ↑ "Currency converter in the past with official exchange rates from 1953". fxtop. August 4, 1979.
  19. 1 2 "«Месть и закон» (Sholay, 1975)". KinoPoisk (in Russian). Retrieved 3 February 2019.
  20. ↑ Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire that Lost the Cultural Cold War, page 48, Cornell University Press, 2011
  21. 1 2 "Estadística por recaudacion de peliculas extranjeras durante 1979" (PDF). Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sport (in Spanish). p. 741. Retrieved April 3, 2022.
  22. ↑ "Pacific Exchange Rate Service (0.47218 GBP per USD)" (PDF). UBC Sauder School of Business . University of British Columbia. 1979. p. 2. Retrieved April 3, 2022.
  23. 1 2 "The Ultimate Chart: 1–100". British Film Institute. 28 November 2004. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 14 November 2013.
  24. ↑ "Pacific Exchange Rate Service (0.47218 GBP per USD)" (PDF). UBC Sauder School of Business . University of British Columbia. 1979. p. 3. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
  25. ↑ "Happy birthday, Shakib Khan". Daily Sun. 27 March 2018. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  26. ↑ "James McAvoy · BIFA · British Independent Film Awards". BIFA · British Independent Film Awards. 12 October 2018. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  27. ↑ "Martin Bourboulon". Allociné (in French). Retrieved 17 December 2023.
  28. ↑ "Evangeline Lilly". BFI. Archived from the original on January 7, 2019. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
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