1979 in film

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Contents 1 Events 2 Top grossing films 3 Awards 4 Films released in 1979 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Events

• March 5 - Production begins on Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.
• April 13 - The Adventure of Sudsakorn, Thailand's first (and as of 2006 only) animated feature film is released.
• July - Production begins on The Blues Brothers.
• November 1 - Production begins on Raiders of the Lost Ark.
• December 7 - Star Trek: The Motion Picture debuts in the United States to mixed reviews but strong box office, launching a film franchise that would span 10 films over the next 23 years. It also would eventually lead to the creation of four spin-off television series based upon the franchise.

[edit] Top grossing films

North America

1. Every Which Way But Loose
2. Rocky II, starring Sylvester Stallone
3. Alien
4. tie, The Amityville Horror and Star Trek: The Motion Picture
5. Moonraker starring Roger Moore
6. The Muppet Movie
7. California Suite
8. The Deer Hunter

[edit] Awards

ACADEMY AWARDS:

Best Picture: Kramer vs. Kramer - Jaffe, Columbia

Best Director: Robert Benton - Kramer vs. Kramer

Best Actor: Dustin Hoffman - Kramer vs. Kramer

Best Actress: Sally Field - Norma Rae

Best Supporting Actress: Meryl Streep - Kramer vs. Kramer

Best Supporting Actor: Melvyn Douglas - Being There

Best Foreign Language Film: The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel), directed by Volker Schlöndorff, W. Germany

GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS:

Drama:

Best Picture: Kramer vs. Kramer

Best Actor: Dustin Hoffman - Kramer vs. Kramer

Best Actress: Sally Field - Norma Rae

Musical or Comedy:

Best Picture: Breaking Away

Best Actor: Peter Sellers - Being There

Best Actress: Bette Midler - The Rose

Other

Best Director: Francis Ford Coppola - Apocalypse Now

Best Foreign Language Film: La Cage aux Folles (France)

PALM 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

[edit] Films released in 1979

• 10, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Dudley Moore
• 1941, starring Dan Aykroyd
• The Adventure of Sudsakorn, Thailand's first and only animated feature film
• Agatha
• Alexandria... Why?
• Alien
• Alien Encounters, The
• All That Jazz, Palme d'Or winner
• The Amityville Horror
• Apocalypse Now, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Dennis Hopper, Harrison Ford, Palme d'Or winner
• Being There, starring Peter Sellers
• Beyond the Posedion Adventure
• The Black Hole
• The Black Stallion
• Bye Bye Brazil
• Caligula, directed by Tinto Brass, written by Gore Vidal, starring Malcolm McDowell, Teresa Ann Savoy, Helen Mirren and Peter O'Toole
• The China Syndrome
• Christ Stopped at Eboli (Cristo si è fermato a Eboliby), by Francesco Rosi
• David, Golden Bear (award) winner
• Don Giovanni
• The Electric Horseman, directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda
• Escape from Alcatraz
• Gal Young 'Un
• The Great Santini
• HAIR
• Hardcore, starring George C. Scott
• Heartland, Golden Bear (award) winner, Sundance Grand Jury Prize
• Hanover Street
• The In-Laws
• The Jerk, starring Steve Martin
• Kramer vs. Kramer, starring Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep, both of whom won Oscars for their performances
• Love At First Bite, starring George Hamilton
• Mad Max, starring Mel Gibson
• The Main Event, starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal
• Manhattan
• The Marriage of Maria Braun
• Meatballs, starring Bill Murray
• Monty Python's Life of Brian
• Moonraker starring Roger Moore
• Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears - Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film
• The Muppet Movie
• Norma Rae
• Nosferatu ("Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht")
• The Odd Angry Shot
• Quadrophenia
• Rock 'n' Roll High School, produced by Roger Corman, featuring The Ramones
• Rocky II
• Roller Boogie
• The Rose
• Siberiade
• Soldier of Orange
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture
• Tess, directed by Roman Polanski, starring Nastassja Kinski
• Time After Time
• The Tin Drum, Palme d'Or winner
• Vengeance Is Mine
• The Warriors
• Wolfman
• Zulu Dawn

[edit] Births

• January 8 - Sarah Polley, actress
• January 12 - Isidra Vega, actress
• January 27 - Rosamund Pike, actress
• February 9 - Mena Suvari, actress
• February 9 - Zhang Ziyi, actress and dancer
• April 4 - Bunko Kanazawa, actress
• April 12 - Claire Danes, actress
• April 19 - Kate Hudson, actress
• April 23 - Jaime King, actress
• May 9 - Rosario Dawson, actress
• May 25 - Monica Keena, actress
• October 4 - Rachael Leigh Cook, actress
• October 8 - Kristanna Loken, actress
• December 23 - Summer Altice, model and actress

[edit] Deaths

• February 12 - Jean Renoir, director
• March 1 - Dolores Costello, actress
• March 22 - Ben Lyon, actor, also credited as the person who "discovered" and renamed Marilyn Monroe
• May 29 - Mary Pickford, actress, movie studio founder
• June 11 - John Wayne, actor
• August 17, Vivian Vance, actress
• September 8 - Jean Seberg, actress
• September 12 - Jocelyne LaGarde, Tahitian actress
• December 11 - Adile Nasit, actress, director