1980 Cannes Film Festival

Jury

• Kirk Douglas Jury President
• Ken Adam
• Robert Benayoun
• Veljko Bulajić
• Leslie Caron
• Charles Champlin
• André Delvaux
• Gian Luigi Rondi
• Michael Spencer
• Albina du Boisrouvray

  Official selection

In competition - Feature film

• All That Jazz by Bob Fosse
• Being There by Hal Ashby
• The Big Red One by Samuel Fuller
• Breaker Morant by Bruce Beresford
• Bye Bye Brasil by Carlos Diegues
• The Constant Factor by Krzysztof Zanussi
• Dedicatoria by Jaime Chávarri
• Ek Din Pratidin by Mrinal Sen
• Fantastica by Gilles Carle
• The Heiresses by Márta Mészáros
• Jaguar by Lino Brocka
• Kagemusha by Akira Kurosawa
• A Leap in the Dark by Marco Bellocchio
• The Long Riders by Walter Hill
• Loulou by Maurice Pialat
• The Missing Link by Picha
• Mon oncle d'Amérique by Alain Resnais
• Out of the Blue by Dennis Hopper
• Put on Ice by Bernhard Sinkel
• Sauve qui peut by Jean-Luc Godard
• Special Treatment by Goran Paskaljević
• La terrazza by Ettore Scola
• A Week's Vacation by Bertrand Tavernier

  Un Certain Regard

• Ballad of Tara by Bahram Bayzai
• The Candidate by Volker Schlöndorff
• Christopher's House by Lars Lennart Forsberg
• Csontváry by Zoltán Huszárik
• Days of Dreams by Vlatko Gilić
• La femme enfant by Raphaële Billetdoux
• The Gamekeeper by Ken Loach
• by Annie Tresgot
• The Rabbit Case by Jaromil Jireš
• Sitting Ducks by Henry Jaglom
• To Love the Damned by Marco Tullio Giordana
• Ways in the Night by Krzysztof Zanussi
• The Willi Busch Report by Niklaus Schilling

  Films out of competition

• Breaking Glass by Brian Gibson
• City of Women by Federico Fellini
• I'm Photogenic by Dino Risi
• Lightning Over Water by Wim Wenders and Nicholas Ray
• Prince Nezha's Triumph Against Dragon King by Yan Ding Xian, Wang Shuchen and Jingda Xu
• Public Telephone by Jean-Marie Périer
• The Risk of Living by Gérald Calderon
• Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky
• Stir by Stephen Wallace
• SuperTotò by Brando Giordani and Emilio Ravel

  Short film competition

• Arrêt momentané by Marie-France Siegler
• The Beloved by Michel Bouchard
• 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
• Z górki by Marian Cholerek

  Parallel sections

International Critics' Week

• Adrien's Story by Jean-Pierre Denis
• Babylon by Franco Rosso
• Best Boy by Ira Wohl
• by Salvatore Piscicelli
• Provincial Actors by Agnieszka Holland
• The Nineteen Year-Old's Map by Mitsuo Yanagimachi
• Ticket of No Return by Ulrike Ottinger

  Directors' Fortnight

• Afternoon of War by Karl Francis
• Aziza by Abdellatif Ben Ammar
• The Blood Of Hussain by Jamil Dehlavi
• Carny by Robert Kaylor
• ' by Tizuka Yamasaki
• Gal Young Un by Victor Nuñez
• The Handyman by Micheline Lanctôt
• Hazal by Ali Ozgentürk
• Morning Undersea by Lauro Antonio
• Manoa by Solveig Hoogesteijn
• Mater Amatisima by José A. Salgot
• Oggetti Smarriti by Giuseppe Bertolucci
• Opname by Erik van Zuylen and Marja Kok
• Order by Sohrab Shahid Saless
• Die Patriotin by Alexander Kluge
• Pełnia by Andrzej Kondratiuk
• Prostitute by Tony Garnett
• Radio On by Christopher Petit
• Die Reinheit des Herzens by Robert van Ackeren
• Sonntagskinder by Michael Verhoeven
• Sunday Daughters by János Rózsa
• Union City by Marcus Reichert

• Noticiero Incine by Frank Pineda and Ramiro Lacayo
• Ovtcharsko by Christo Kovatchev
• Vietnam, voyage dans le temps'' by Edgar Telles Ribeiro

  Awards

Official awards

• Palme d'Or:
• *All That Jazz by Bob Fosse
• *Kagemusha by Akira Kurosawa
• Grand Prix: Mon oncle d'Amérique by Alain Resnais
• Best Screenplay: Ettore Scola, Agenore Incrocci and Furio Scarpelli for La terrazza
• Best Actress: Anouk Aimée for A Leap in the Dark
• Best Actor: Michel Piccoli for A Leap in the Dark
• Best Supporting Actress: Milena Dravić for Special Treatment & Carla Gravina for La terrazza
• Best Supporting Actor: Jack Thompson for Breaker Morant
• Jury Prize: Constans by Krzysztof Zanussi

• Caméra d'Or: Adrien's Story by Jean-Pierre Denis

• Short Film Palme d'Or: Seaside Woman by Oscar Grillo
• Jury Prize: Canada Vignettes: The Performer by Norma Bailey & Krychle by Zdenek Smetana

  Independent awards

• Mon oncle d'Amérique by Alain Resnais
• Provincial Actors by Agnieszka Holland
• ' by Tizuka Yamasaki

• Prize of the Ecumenical Jury: Constans'' by Krzysztof Zanussi

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