1979 in film

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The year 1979 in film involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Events 2 Top grossing films (U.S.) 3 Awards 4 Films released in 1979 5 Births 6 Deaths

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.
• May 25 - Alien, a landmark of the science fiction genre, is released.
• June 22 - The Muppet Movie, Jim Henson's Muppets' first foray into the world of feature length motion pictures, is released.
• July - Production begins on The Blues Brothers.
• September 19 - Don Bluth and a group of fellow animators resign from The Walt Disney Company's animation department to set up a rival studio, Don Bluth Productions.
• 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.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank	Title	Studio	Gross
1.	Kramer vs. Kramer	Columbia	$104,986,000
2.	Alien	20th Century Fox	$78,944,891
3.	Star Trek	Paramount	$56,000,000
4.	The Jerk	Universal	$42,990,000
5.	Rocky II	United Artists	$42,169,000
6.	Apocalypse Now	United Artists	$37,980,000
7.	10	Warner Brothers/Orion	$37,000,000
8.	The Amityville Horror	AIP	$35,000,000
9.	Moonraker	United Artists	$33,924,000
10.	The Muppet Movie	AFD	$32,000,000

source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1979.shtml

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)

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

Films released in 1979

• 10, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Dudley Moore, Julie Andrews and Bo Derek
• 1941, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi
• A Perfect Couple
• The Adventure of Sudsakorn, Thailand's first and only cel-animated feature film
• Agatha
• Alexandria... Why?
• Alien, directed by Ridley Scott, starring Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Harry Dean Stanton and Yaphet Kotto
• Alien Encounters, The
• All That Jazz, directed by Bob Fosse, starring Roy Scheider, Palme d'Or winner
• Americathon
• The Amityville Horror, starring James Brolin and Margot Kidder
• …And Justice for All
• Apocalypse Now, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Dennis Hopper, Harrison Ford, Palme d'Or winner
• Anti-Clock
• Ashanti, starring Michael Caine
• Banjo the Woodpile Cat
• Being There, directed by Hal Ashby, starring Peter Sellers, Melvyn Douglas and Shirley MacLaine
• Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
• The Black Hole
• The Black Stallion, starring Mickey Rooney
• Breaking Away, directed by Peter Yates, starring Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Jackie Earle Haley and Barbara Barrie
• The Brood, directed by David Cronenberg
• Butch and Sundance: The Early Days
• Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
• The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie
• 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 Cat and the Canary
• The Champ (1979 film), starring Jon Voight, Faye Dunaway and Ricky Schroder
• The China Syndrome, starring Jack Lemmon, Jane Fonda and Michael Douglas
• Christ Stopped at Eboli (Cristo si è fermato a Eboliby), by Francesco Rosi
• The Concorde: Airport '79
• David, Golden Bear (award) winner
• Don Giovanni
• Dracula, starring Frank Langella as Dracula and Sir Laurence Olivier as Van Helsing. With Trevor Eve
• The Electric Horseman, directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda
• Escape from Alcatraz, starring Clint Eastwood
• The Fifth Musketeer
• Gal Young 'Un
• The Great Santini
• HAIR , directed by Milos Forman, starring John Savage and Treat Williams
• Hardcore, starring George C. Scott
• Heartland, Golden Bear (award) winner, Sundance Grand Jury Prize
• Hanover Street, starring Harrison Ford and Lesley-Anne Down
• I as in Icarus
• The In-Laws
• The Jerk, starring Steve Martin
• Just You and Me, Kid
• Kramer vs. Kramer, directed by Robert Benton, starring Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep, both of whom won Oscars for their performances, Justin Henry and Jane Alexander
• Love At First Bite, starring George Hamilton
• Mad Max, starring Mel Gibson
• The Main Event, starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal
• Manhattan, directed by Woody Allen, starring Allen, Diane Keaton and Mariel Hemingway
• The Marriage of Maria Braun
• Meatballs, starring Bill Murray
• Meetings with Remarkable Men, Gurdjieff biography directed by Peter Brook
• Monty Python's Life of Brian
• Moonraker (from the James Bond franchise)
• More American Graffiti
• Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears - Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film
• Mr. Mike's Mondo Video
• The Muppet Movie
• Murder by Decree, a Sherlock Holmes mystery starring Christopher Plummer and James Mason
• Norma Rae, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Sally Field and Beau Bridges
• The North Avenue Irregulars
• Nosferatu ("Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht")
• The Odd Angry Shot
• Over the Edge
• Phantasm
• Players
• The Prisoner of Zenda
• Prophecy
• The Prize Fighter
• Quadrophenia
• Rock 'n' Roll High School, produced by Roger Corman, featuring The Ramones
• Rocky II
• Roller Boogie
• The Rose, directed by Mark Rydell, starring Bette Midler, Alan Bates and Frederic Forrest
• Siberiade
• Sisters, or the Balance of Happiness
• Soldier of Orange
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture
• Starting Over, directed by Alan J. Pakula, starring Burt Reynolds, Jill Clayburgh and Candice Bergen
• Stay as you are, starring Nastassja Kinski (U.S. release)
• Take Down
• Tess, directed by Roman Polanski, starring Nastassja Kinski
• The Third Generation
• Time After Time
• The Tin Drum, Palme d'Or winner
• Vengeance Is Mine
• The Warriors
• Wolfman
• Woyzeck
• Zulu Dawn

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 4 - Heath Ledger, actor (d. 2008)
• April 4 - Natasha Lyonne, 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

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 26 - George Brent, actor
• May 29 - Mary Pickford, actress, movie studio founder
• June 11 - John Wayne, actor
• July 8 - Michael Wilding, English actor
• August 17 - Vivian Vance, actress
• September 8 - Jean Seberg, actress
• September 12 - Jocelyne LaGarde, Tahitian actress
• November 23 - Merle Oberon, American actress
• November 30 - Zeppo Marx, comic actor
• December 11 - Adile Nasit, actress, director
• December 13 - Jon Hall, actor

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