1980: Year in Review
The Fritz Golden Superlatives

1. Christ Stopped at Eboli (dir: Francesco Rosi; US release date)

2. Raging Bull (dir: Martin Scorsese)

3. The Shining (dir: Stanley Kubrick)

4. Heaven’s Gate (dir: Michael Cimino; 219 minute cut)

5. Mon Oncle d’Amérique (dir: Alain Resnais)

6. Melvin and Howard (dir: Jonathan Demme)

7. The Tin Drum (dir: Volker Schlöndorff; US Release Date)

8. Ordinary People (dir: Robert Redford)

9. My Brilliant Career (dir: Gillian Armstrong; US Release Date)

10. Camera Buff (dir: Krzysztof Kieslowski; US Release Date)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): Airplane! (dir: Jim Abrams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker), Alligator (dir: Lewis Teague), Atlantic City (dir: Louis Malle), The Battle of Chile: Part III (dir: Patricio Guzmán; US Release Date), Bad Timing (dir: Nicolas Roeg), The Big Red One (dir: Samuel Fuller), Charleen (dir: Ross McElwee; US Release Date), Cruising (dir: William Friedkin), Dressed to Kill (dir: Brian De Palma), The Elephant Man (dir: David Lynch), The Empire Strikes Back (dir: Irwin Kurshner), The Fog (dir: John Carpenter), Kagemusha (dir: Akira Kurosawa), The Long Riders (dir: Walter Hill), Manila in the Claws of Light (dir: Lino Brocka; US Release Date), Night of the Hunted (dir: Jean Rollin), Permanent Vacation (dir: Jim Jarmusch), Shogun Assassin (dir: Robert Houston), Stardust Memories (dir: Woody Allen), and Tess (dir: Roman Polanski)

Best Film of the Year: Christ Stopped at Eboli
Director: Francesco Rosi Producer: Nicola Carraro, Franco Cristaldi
US Distributor: Franklin Pictures

Best Director:
Martin Scorsese, Raging Bull
2. Stanley Kubrick, The Shining
3. Michael Cimino, Heaven’s Gate
4. Francesco Rosi, Christ Stopped at Eboli
5. Volker Schlöndorff, The Tin Drum

Best Actor:
1. Robert De Niro, Raging Bull
2. Jerzy Stuhr, Camera Buff
3. Jack Nicholson, The Shining
4. Gian Maria Volentè, Christ Stopped at Eboli
5. Robert Duvall, The Great Santini

Best Actress:
Theresa Russell, Bad Timing
2. Susan Sarandon, Atlantic City
3. Sissy Spacek, Coal Miner’s Daughter 
4. Judy Davis, My Brilliant Career
5. Nastassja Kinski, Tess

Best Supporting Actor:
Donald Sutherland, Ordinary People
2. Jason Robards, Melvin and Howard
3. Joe Pesci, Raging Bull
4. David Carradine, The Long Riders
5. Robert Stack, Airplane!

Best Supporting Actress:
Mary Steenburgen, Melvin and Howard
2. Mary Tyler Moore, Ordinary People
3. Isabelle Huppert, Heaven’s Gate
4. Pamela Reed, The Long Riders
5. Hilda Koronel, Manila in the Claws of Light

Best Original Screenplay:
Mon Oncle d'Amerique — Jean Gruault
2. Airplane! – David Zucker, Jim Abrams and Jerry Zucker
3. Camera Buff — Krzysztof Kieslowski and Jerzy Stuhr
4. The Long Riders — Bill Bryden, Steven Smith, Stacy Keach and James Keach
5. Melvin and Howard – Bo Goldman

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Christ Stopped at Eboli — Francesco Rosi, Tonino Guerra, and Raffaele La Capria
2. Raging Bull– Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin
3. Tess – Roman Polanski, Gerard Brach and John Brownjohn
4. The Tin Drum — Jean-Claude Carrière, Volker Schlöndorff, Franz Seitz and Günter Grass
5. Ordinary People – Alvin Sargent

Best Cinematography:
Heaven’s Gate — Vilmos Zsigmond
2. Dressed to Kill — Ralf Bode
3. The Shining – John Alcott 
4. Altered States – Jordan Cronenweth
5. Raging Bull – Michael Chapman

Best Original Score:
The Shining – Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind
2. The Empire Strikes Back — John Williams
3. City of the Living Dead – Fabio Frizzi
4. The Fog – John Carpenter
5. The Long Riders – Ry Cooder

Best Film Editing:
Raging Bull – Thelma Schoonmaker
2. Mon Oncle d'Amerique – Albert Jurgenson
3. Altered States — Eric Jenkins
4. The Tin Drum — Suzanne Baron
5. Shogun Assassin — Lee Percy and Toshio Taniguchi

Best Production Design:
Heaven’s Gate — Tambi Larsen, Jim Berkey, and Josie MacAvin
2. Tess – Pierre Guffroy and Jack Stephens
3. The Empire Strikes Back – Norman Reynolds and Michael Ford
4. The Tin Drum — Piotr Dudzinski and Zeljko Senecic
5. The Shining – Roy Walker and Les Tomkins

Best Costume Design:
Tess — Anthony Powell
2. The Elephant Man — Patricia Norris
3. Heaven’s Gate — Allen Highfill
4. Somewhere in Time — Jean-Pierre Dorleac
5. My Brilliant Career — Anna Senior

Best Visual Effects
The Empire Strikes Back
2. The Shining
3. Altered States

Best Sound
Heaven’s Gate
2. The Shining
3. Raging Bull

Best Makeup:
The Elephant Man
2. Raging Bull
3. Dressed to Kill

Best Documentary Feature:
Patricio Guzmán, The Battle of Chile: Part III

Best Animated Feature: 
György Kovásznai, Foam Bath

Best Ensemble Cast: 
Airplane!

Orson Welles' Best First Feature:
Robert Redford, Ordinary People

Best Ensemble Cast (dir: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker; in alphabetical order): Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Frank Ashmore, Jonathan Banks, Barbara Billingsley, Lee Bryant, Joyce Bulifant, Lloyd Bridges, Norman Alexander Gibbs, Peter Graves, Robert Hays (pictured), Julie Haggerty (pictured), Rossie Harris, Ethel Merman, Leslie Nielsen (pictured), Lona Patterson, Nicholas Pryor, Robert Stack, Jim Whelan and Al White

Best First Feature: Timmothy Hutton in Robert Redford’s Ordinary People

RECAP

W I N S :

Heaven’s Gate — 4,
Raging Bull— 3, Christ Stopped at Eboli — 2, Ordinary People — 2, The Shining — 2, Airplane! — 1, Bad Timing — 1, The Battle of Chile: Part III — 1, The Elephant Man — 1, The Empire Strikes Back — 1, Foam Bath — 1, Melvin and Howard — 1, Mon Oncle d’Amerique — 1, Tess — 1

M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S :

Raging Bull — 9,
The Shining — 8, Heaven’s Gate – 7, The Tin Drum — 6, Ordinary People — 5, Christ Stopped at Eboli — 4, Long Riders — 4, Melvin and Howard — 4, Tess — 4, Airplane! — 3, Altered States — 3, Camera Buff — 3, The Empire Strikes Back — 3, Mon Oncle d’Amerique — 3, My Brilliant Career — 3, Dressed to Kill — 2, The Elephant Man — 2

the year-end project:

2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1983, 1982, 1981, 1980, 1979, 1978, 1977, 1976, 1975, 1974, 1973, 1972, 1971, 1970, 1969, 1968, 1967, 1966, 1965, 1964, 1963, 1962, 1961, 1960, 1959, 1958, 1957, 1956, 1955, 1954, 1953, 1952, 1951, 1950, 1940 - 1949, 1930 - 1939, 1920 - 1929 + Superlatives Index

Best of the Decade:
2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s