| 1980 Cannes Film Festival | |
| Number: | 23 (In Competition) |
| Opening: | Fantastica |
| Closing: | I'm Photogenic |
| Location: | Cannes, France |
| Awards: | Palme d'Or
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| Date: | – |
| Founded: | 1946 |
| Main: | Cannes Film Festival |
| Previous: | 1979 |
| Next: | 1981 |
The 33rd Cannes Film Festival took place from 9 and 23 May 1980.[1] American actor Kirk Douglas served as jury president for the main competition. During the festival the showing of Andrei Tarkovsky's film Stalker was notoriously by an electricians strike.[2]
The Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, was jointly award to All That Jazz by Bob Fosse and Kagemusha by Akira Kurosawa.[3]
The festival opened with Fantastica by Gilles Carle,[4] [5] and closed with I'm Photogenic by Dino Risi.[6]
The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:[8]
The following films were selected for the Un Certain Regard section:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ballad of Tara | چریکه تارا | Bahram Beyzai | Iran |
| The Candidate | Der Kandidat | Volker Schlöndorff | West Germany |
| Christopher's House | Kristoffers hus | Lars Lennart Forsberg | Sweden |
| Csontváry | Zoltán Huszárik | Hungary | |
| Days of Dreams | Дани од снова | Vlatko Gilić | Yugoslavia |
| La femme enfant | Die Stumme Liebe | Raphaële Billetdoux | France, West Germany |
| The Gamekeeper | Ken Loach | United Kingdom | |
| Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder | Portrait d'un homme 'à 60% parfait': Billy Wilder | Annie Tresgot and Michel Ciment | France |
| The Rabbit Case | Causa králík | Jaromil Jireš | Czechoslovakia |
| Sitting Ducks | Henry Jaglom | United States | |
| To Love the Damned | Maledetti vi amerò | Marco Tullio Giordana | Italy |
| Wege in der Nacht | Krzysztof Zanussi | West Germany | |
| The Willi Busch Report | Der Willi-Busch-Report | Niklaus Schilling | |
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breaking Glass | Brian Gibson | United Kingdom | ||
| City of Women | La città delle donne | Federico Fellini | Italy | |
| I'm Photogenic (closing film) | Sono fotogenico | Dino Risi | ||
| Lightning Over Water | Wim Wenders and Nicholas Ray | West Germany, Sweden | ||
| Nezha Conquers the Dragon King | 哪吒闹海 | Wang Shuchen, Yan Dingxian, Xu Jingda | China | |
| Public Telephone | Téléphone public | Jean-Marie Périer | France | |
| The Risk of Living | Le risque de vivre | Gérald Calderon | ||
| Stalker | Сталкер | Andrei Tarkovsky | Soviet Union | |
| Stir | Stephen Wallace | Australia | ||
| SuperTotò | Brando Giordani and Emilio Ravel | Italy | ||
The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:
The following feature films were screened for the 19th International Critics' Week (19e Semaine de la Critique):[9]
The following films were screened for the 1980 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):[10]
Short films
My American Uncle by Alain Resnais (unanimously)
Ettore Scola, Agenore Incrocci and Furio Scarpelli for La terrazza
Anouk Aimée for A Leap in the Dark
Michel Piccoli for A Leap in the Dark
The Constant Factor by Krzysztof Zanussi