1980 Cannes Film Festival

Juries

Main Competition

• Kirk Douglas, American actor - Jury President
• Ken Adam, British production designer
• Robert Benayoun, French film critic and author
• Veljko Bulajić, Yugoslavian filmmaker
• Leslie Caron, French actress and dancer
• Charles Champlin, American film critic and writer
• André Delvaux, Belgium filmmaker
• Albina du Boisrouvray, French producer
• Gian Luigi Rondi, Italian writer
• Michael Spencer, Canadian producer and filmmaker

Official selection

In Competition

The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:

''Un Certain Regard''

The following films were selected for the Un Certain Regard section:

Out of Competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:

Short Films Competition

The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:

• 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

The following feature films were screened for the 19th International Critics' Week (19e Semaine de la Critique):

• Adrien's Story by Jean-Pierre Denis
• Babylon by Franco Rosso
• Best Boy by Ira Wohl
• Immacolata and Concetta: The Other Jealousy 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

The following films were screened for the 1980 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):

• Afternoon of War by Karl Francis
• Aziza by Abdellatif Ben Ammar
• The Blood Of Hussain by Jamil Dehlavi
• Carny by Robert Kaylor
• Gaijin: Roads to Freedom 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
• ** by Alexander Kluge
• Pełnia by Andrzej Kondratiuk
• Prostitute by Tony Garnett
• Radio On by Christopher Petit
• ** by Robert van Ackeren
• Sunday Children by Michael Verhoeven
• Sunday Daughters by János Rózsa
• Union City by Marcus Reichert

Short films

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

Official Awards

In Competition

• Palme d'Or:
  • All That Jazz by Bob Fosse
  • Kagemusha by Akira Kurosawa
• Grand Prix: My American Uncle by Alain Resnais (unanimously)
• 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: The Constant Factor 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

[[FIPRESCI|FIPRESCI Prizes]]

• My American Uncle by Alain Resnais (In competition)
• Provincial Actors by Agnieszka Holland (International Critics' Week)
• Gaijin: Roads to Freedom by Tizuka Yamasaki (Directors' Fortnight)

''Commission Supérieure Technique''

• Technical Grand Prize: Le Risque de vivre by Gérald Calderon (out of competition)

[[Prize of the Ecumenical Jury]]

• The Constant Factor by Krzysztof Zanussi

References

Media

• INA: Joint Palme d'Or to Akira Kurosawa and Bob Fosse (Dirk Bogarde and Kirk Douglas present the Palme d'Or to Akira Kurosawa for "Kagemusha" and to Bob Fosse for "All That Jazz" - commentary in French)
• INA: Chronicle of the 1980 Festival (commentary in French)

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