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The year 1979 in film involved many significant events.

Highest grossing films (U.S.)

See also: List of 1979 box office number-one films in the United States

The top ten 1979 released films by North American gross are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1979
Rank Title Distributor Production company Domestic gross
1. Kramer vs. Kramer Columbia Pictures Stanley R. Jaffe Productions $106,260,000[1]
2. The Amityville Horror American International Pictures Cinema 77 / Professional Films $86,432,520[2]
3. Rocky II United Artists Pictures Chartoff-Winkler Productions $85,182,160[3]
4. Apocalypse Now United Artists Pictures Zoetrope Studios $83,471,511[4]
5. Star Trek: The Motion Picture Paramount Pictures / Cinema International Corporation Century Associates $82,258,456[5]
6. Alien 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation Brandywine Productions $80,931,801[6]
7. 10 Warner Bros. Pictures Orion Pictures $74,865,517[7]
8. The Jerk Universal Studios Aspen Film Society $73,691,419[8]
9. Moonraker United Artists Pictures Eon Productions / Danjaq $70,308,099[9]
10. The Muppet Movie Associated Film Distribution / ITC Film Distributors Ltd. ITC Entertainment Group / Henson Associates $65,200,000[10]

Major events

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

Notable films released in 1979

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Month Date Name Age Country Profession Notable films
January 16 Peter Butterworth 59 UK Actor, Writer Oliver! • The First Great Train Robbery • Robin and Marian • Night and the City • A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum • Murder, She Said • Carry On... Up the Khyber • Carry On Camping • The Day the Earth Caught Fire • Carry On Screaming! • Carry On Doctor • Carry On Abroad
16 Ted Cassidy 46 USA Actor Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid • Mackenna's Gold
25 Dick Crockett 63 USA Stuntman, Actor, Producer Dirty Harry • Spartacus • Blazing Saddles • Diamonds Are Forever • The Pink Panther • The Towering Inferno • The Party • It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World • Batman • The Pink Panther Strikes Again • The Getaway • The Return of the Pink Panther • The Thing from Another World • Around the World in 80 Days • Revenge of the Pink Panther • 10 • The Great Race • Guys and Dolls • Earthquake • The Hunchback of Notre Dame • Harper • The Hindenburg • Across 110th Street • What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? • The Notorious Landlady
February 12 Jean Renoir 84 USA Director, Writer, Actor The Rules of the Game • Grand Illusion
17 William Gargan 73 USA Actor The Bells of St. Mary's • Cheers for Miss Bishop • No Place for a Lady • Miss Annie Rooney
March 1 Dolores Costello 75 USA Actress The Magnificent Ambersons • Little Lord Fauntleroy • This Is the Army
2 Edith Craig 71 USA Actress After the Thin Man • Broadway Bill
6 John Robinson 70 UK Actor Lawrence of Arabia • The Longest Day • Gentleman Prefer Blondes
19 John Tate 64 UK Actor Invasion
22 Ben Lyon 78 USA Actor, Writer Hell's Angels • Night Nurse • Indiscreet • I Cover the Waterfront • Wine of Youth • The Crooked Circle • The Big Timer • Lady with a Past
April 4 Edgar Buchanan 76 USA Actor Shane • Wichita • Destry • Rawhide • McLintock! • Cimarron • The Man from Colorado • Buffalo Bill • Ride the High Country • The Over-the-Hill Gang
6 Norman Tokar 59 USA Director Follow Me, Boys! • The Happiest Millionaire • The Cat from Outer Space • The Apple Dumpling Gang
May 26 George Brent 80 USA Actor Jezebel • 42nd Street • Dark Victory • The Painted Veil • So Big! • The Spiral Staircase • The Great Lie • Tomorrow Is Forever • The Rains Came
29 Mary Pickford 87 USA Actress, Producer, Writer Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ • Coquette
June 2 Larisa Shepitko 41 Soviet Union Director Wings • The Ascent
2 Jim Hutton 45 USA Actor Walk, Don't Run • Who's Minding the Mint? • The Honeymoon Machine • The Horizontal Lieutenant • Bachelor in Paradise • Where the Boys Are • Major Dundee • Hellfighters • The Green Berets
6 Jack Haley 80 USA Actor The Wizard of Oz • Alexander's Ragtime Band • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm • Higher and Higher • That's Entertainment!
11 John Wayne 72 USA Actor, Producer, Director The Searchers • Red River • Stagecoach • Sands of Iwo Jima • Pittsburgh • They Were Expendable • Fort Apache • She Wore a Yellow Ribbon • 3 Godfathers • They Were Expendable • Tycoon • Blood Alley • Wake of the Red Witch • The Quiet Man • The High and the Mighty • Hondo • Hatari! • Rio Bravo • The Alamo • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance • North to Alaska • The Longest Day • In Harm's Way • Donovan's Reef • True Grit • The Sons of Katie Elder • Brannigan • McQ • El Dorado • Chisum • Rio Lobo • Hellfighters • Cahill U.S. Marshal • Big Jake • The Train Robbers • McLintock! • The Green Berets • Rooster Cogburn • The Cowboys • The Shootist
14 David Butler 84 USA Director Road to Morocco • Calamity Jane • Tea for Two • Captain January • San Antonio • Kentucky • By the Light of the Silvery Moon • The Story of Seabiscuit • King Richard and the Crusaders • April in Paris
16 Nicholas Ray 67 USA Director, Writer, Actor Rebel Without a Cause • In a Lonely Place • Johnny Guitar • Bigger Than Life • King of Kings • 55 Days at Peking • They Live by Night • On Dangerous Ground • Flying Leathernecks • Knock on Any Door • Macao
21 Julian Orchard 49 UK Actor, Writer Revenge of the Pink Panther • The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother • Carry On Doctor • The Slipper and the Rose • Don't Lose Your Head • Carry On Henry • Follow That Camel
July 8 Michael Wilding 66 UK Actor, Producer Stage Fright • Waterloo • Under Capricorn • In Which We Serve • The Egyptian • The Naked Edge • The World of Suzie Wong
25 Eric Pohlmann 66 Germany Actor The Third Man • From Russia with Love • Thunderball • The Return of the Pink Panther • Lust for Life • Anastasia
28 George Seaton 68 USA Director The Country Girl • Airport • Miracle on 34th Street • Teacher's Pet • The Proud and Profane • 36 Hours • What's So Bad About Feeling Good?
31 Beatrix Lehmann 76 UK Actress The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
August ?? Betty Henderson 72 UK Actress The 39 Steps • The Maggie • Upstairs and Downstairs • Home to Danger
10 Dick Foran 69 USA Actor The Petrified Forest • Ride 'Em Cowboy • Keep 'Em Flying • Cowboy from Brooklyn • The Mummy's Hand • Donovan's Reef
17 Vivian Vance 70 USA Actress The Great Race • The Lorax
21 Stuart Heisler 82 USA Director Tulsa • I Died a Thousand Times • The Glass Key • Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman • Blue Skies • Storm Warning • The Star • Along Came Jones • Chain Lightning • Tokyo Joe • Dallas
30 Jean Seberg 40 USA Actress Breathless • Airport • Paint Your Wagon • Lilith • Saint Joan • A Fine Madness • The Mouse That Roared • Bonjour Tristesse
September 2 Felix Aylmer 90 UK Actor Becket • Hamlet • The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp • Quo Vadis • Exodus • Ivanhoe • Anastasia • Henry V • Separate Tables • The Mummy • Night Train to Munich • Knights of the Round Table • The Road to Hong Kong • No Highway in the Sky • Caesar and Cleopatra • From the Terrace • The Citadel • The Chalk Garden • So Long at the Fair • The Way to the Stars • Prince of Foxes • Major Barbara • Edward, My Son • The Master of Ballantrae
12 Jocelyne LaGarde 54 Tahiti Actress Hawaii
22 Frederick Piper 76 UK Actor The 39 Steps • The Man Who Knew Too Much • Becket
23 Catherine Lacey 75 UK Actress The Lady Vanishes • The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes • I Know Where I'm Going!
26 Arthur Hunnicutt 69 USA Actor The Tall T • El Dorado • The Big Sky • Cat Ballou
October 15 Geoffrey Moon ?? ?? Actor Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope • The Hound of the Baskervilles
17 John Stuart 81 UK Actor Superman • Village of the Damned • Sink the Bismarck! • The Mummy • Number Seventeen • The Revenge of Frankenstein • Quatermass 2 • Young Winston • Royal Flash • Paranoiac • The Pleasure Garden • The Naked Truth • The Magic Box • Too Many Crooks • Four Sided Triangle • Madonna of the Seven Moons • Elstree Calling • The Scarlet Blade • Hindle Wakes • Mine Own Executioner • Mr. Denning Drives North • L'Atlantide • The Men of Sherwood Forest
30 Graham Ashley 52 UK Actor Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope • Hennessy • Adventures of a Taxi Driver • The Tell-Tale Heart • The Black Panther • Adventures of a Private Eye
November 2 Saro Urzi 66 Italy Actor The Godfather • Beat the Devil • The Sucker
8 Sydney Tafler 63 UK Actor The Spy Who Loved Me • Alfie • The Lavender Hill Mob • Sink the Bismarck! • Passport to Pimlico • Reach for the Sky • Fire Maidens from Outer Space • Carry On Regardless • Berserk! • The Cockleshell Heroes • Cottage to Let • Make Mine Mink • It Always Rains on Sunday • Too Many Crooks • A Kid for Two Farthings • The 7th Dawn • The Adventurers
11 Dmitri Tiomkin 85 Russia Composer High Noon • The High and the Mighty • Gunfight at the O.K. Corral • Rio Bravo • The Alamo • The War Wagon • The Guns of Navarone
20 Michael Darbyshire 62 UK Actor, Writer Chitty Chitty Bang Bang • The Slipper and the Rose
23 Merle Oberon 68 USA Actress, Producer Wuthering Heights • The Scarlet Pimpernel • The Dark Angel • Desiree • A Song to Remember • The Lodger • Temptation • Berlin Express • Lydia • The Price of Fear • Night Song • Hotel
30 Joyce Grenfell 69 UK Actress The Americanization of Emily • Blue Murder at St. Trinian's • The Yellow Rolls-Royce • The Old Dark House • The Million Pound Note
30 Zeppo Marx 64 USA Actor, Director Duck Soup • Monkey Business • Horse Feathers • Animal Crackers
December 5 Jesse Pearson 49 USA Actor Bye Bye Birdie
10 Ann Dvorak 68 USA Actress Scarface • Three on a Match • Flame of Barbary Coast • The Secret of Convict Lake
12 Jon Hall 64 USA Actor, Director The Hurricane • Charlie Chan in Shanghai • The Invisible Man's Revenge • Invisible Agent
23 Ernest B. Schoedsack 86 USA Director, Cinematographer, Producer King Kong • The Most Dangerous Game • Mighty Joe Young • The Son of Kong
24 Michael Collins 58 Canada Actor Goldfinger • The Battle of the River Plate • Bear Island
25 Lee Bowman 79 USA Actor Love Affair • Cover Girl • Tonight and Every Night • Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
25 Joan Blondell 73 USA Actress Grease • The Public Enemy • Gold Diggers of 1933 • Dames • The Crowd Roars • Bullets or Ballots • The Blue Veil • Desk Set • Nightmare Alley • Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? • Opening Night • The Champ • The Cincinnati Kid

Debuts

References

  1. ^ "Box Office Information for Kramer vs. Kramer". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved June 11, 2010.
  2. ^ "Box Office Information for The Amityville Horror". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 27, 2012.
  3. ^ "Box Office Information for Rocky II". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved June 11, 2010.
  4. ^ "Box Office Information for Apocalypse Now". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on 24 July 2010. Retrieved June 11, 2010. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  5. ^ "Box Office Information for Star Trek: The Motion Picture". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved June 11, 2010.
  6. ^ "Box Office Information for Alien". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on 21 June 2010. Retrieved June 11, 2010. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  7. ^ "Box Office Information for 10". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on 4 July 2010. Retrieved June 11, 2010. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  8. ^ "Box Office Information for The Jerk". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved June 11, 2010.
  9. ^ "Box Office Information for Moonraker". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on 31 May 2010. Retrieved June 11, 2010. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  10. ^ "The Muppet Movie". Box Office Mojo. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved April 7, 2014.
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