Category:1980, Top Films

1976 -- 1977 -- 1978 -- 1979

-- -- 1980, Top Films -- --

1981 -- 1982 -- 1983 -- 1984

Ranking

My Picks

-- #3. The Elephant Man -- #5. Airplane! -- #7. Kagemusha -- #43. The Gods Must Be Crazy -- #50+. Little Lord Fauntleroy

Limbo

-- #1. The Shining (Kubrick) -- #2. Raging Bull (Scorsese) -- #19. Ordinary People (Redford) <Best Picture & Director>

Critical Reception

MUBI, Best Films

50 Top Films of 1980

-- #3. The Elephant Man -- #5. Airplane! -- #7. Kagemusha -- #43. The Gods Must Be Crazy

-- #1. The Shining -- #2. Raging Bull -- #4. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back -- #6. The Blues Brothers -- #8. Stardust Memories -- #9. Dressed to Kill -- #10. Berlin Alexanderplatz -- #11. The Last Metro -- #12. Bad Timing -- #13. Permanent Vacation -- #14. Talking Heads -- #15. Altered States -- #16. The Fog -- #17. Heaven's Gate -- #18. The Big Red One -- #19. Ordinary People -- #20. Gloria

-- #27. Atlantic City -- #32. The Changeling -- #33. City of Women

-- #46. Coal Miner's Daughter -- #47. Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears -- #49. Superman II

Oscar, Best Films

-- Ordinary People -- Coal Miner's Daughter -- The Elephant Man -- Raging Bull -- Tess -- The Stunt Man -- Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (URSS)

Golden Globe, Best Films

-- Ordinary People -- Coal Miner's Daughter -- Tess (UK) -- Raging Bull -- The Stunt Man -- The Elephant Man -- Fame

National Board of Review

-- Ordinary People -- Raging Bull -- Coal Miner's Daughter -- Tess -- Melvin and Howard -- The Great Santini -- The Elephant Man -- The Stunt Man -- My Bodyguard -- Resurrection

Top Grossing Films

-- The Empire Strikes Back -- 9 to 5 -- Stir Crazy -- Airplane! -- Any Which Way You Can -- Private Benjamin -- Coal Miner's Daughter -- Smokey and the Bandit II -- The Blue Lagoon -- The Blues Brothers

National Film Registry

-- Airplane! -- Atlantic City -- The Blues Brothers -- Coal Miner's Daughter -- The Empire Strikes Back -- Raging Bull -- Return of the Secaucus 7 -- The Shining -- Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers <doc> -- Hours for Jerome: Parts 1 and 2 <short> -- The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter <doc> -- Moon Breath Beat Animated <short>

NYT, Best Films

-- Kagemusha -- Airplane! -- Pixote -- The Elephant Man

-- Bye Bye Brazil -- Coal Miner's Daughter -- Breaker Morant -- The Big Red One -- My American Uncle -- Every Man for Himself -- The Shining -- Dressed to Kill -- Berlin Alexanderplatz -- The Long Good Friday -- Atlantic City -- The Last Metro -- Ordinary People -- Melvin and Howard -- Raging Bull -- Gregory's Girl

TSPDT, Best Films

-- The Elephant Man -- Kagemusha -- Airplane!

-- Raging Bull -- The Shining -- The Empire Strikes Back -- Berlin Alexanderplatz [TV] -- Heaven's Gate -- Sauve qui peut (la vie) -- The Blues Brothers -- Mon oncle d'Amérique -- The Age of the Earth -- Gregory's Girl -- Bad Timing

Top10ner, Best Films

-- The Elephant Man -- Kagemusha -- Airplane!

-- Raging Bull -- The Shining -- The Empire Strikes Back -- The Blues Brothers -- Ordinary People -- The Long Good Friday

Film101, Best Films

-- Kagemusha -- The Elephant Man -- Airplane!

-- Raging Bull -- Atlantic City -- The Big Red One -- Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back -- The Shining -- Ordinary People -- Coal Miner's Daughter -- Mon Oncle d'Amérique -- The Last Metro -- Melvin and Howard -- Breaker Morant -- Berlin Alexanderplatz -- The Long Good Friday

Child Actors, Best Films

-- Airplane! -- Little Lord Fauntleroy

-- My Bodyguard -- The Blue Lagoon -- The Earthling (Australia) -- Fame -- The Last Flight of Noah's Ark -- Touched by Love -- Foxes -- Little Darlings

-- Amigo (Mexico) -- Barna från Blåsjöfjället / The Children from Blue Lake Mountain (Sweden) -- Barnens ö / Children's Island (Sweden) -- De bende van hiernaast (Netherlands) -- Bloody Kids (UK) -- Brontosaurus (Czechoslovakia) -- The Children -- Chissà perché... capitano tutte a me / Everything Happens to Me (Italy) -- Clarence and Angel -- Clown White (Canada) -- The Escape Artist -- Eugenio / Voltati Eugenio (Italy) -- Father Figure -- Fatty Finn (Australia) -- The Ghosts of Buxley Hall -- La guerra de los niños (Spain) -- Harlequin / Dark Forces Australia) -- Haruka naru yama no yobigoe / A Distant Cry from Spring (Japan) -- Une histoire sans importance / A History Without Importance (France) -- The Island -- Kavik, the Wolf Dog (1980) Canada) -- Die Kinder aus No. 67 (Germany) -- Lille Virgil og Orla Frøsnapper (Denmark) -- The Long Days of Summer -- Mystery Island (Australia) -- Priklyucheniya Elektronika (URSS) -- Scout's Honor -- The Shining -- Tendres cousines (France) -- Tiro al aire (Argentina) -- Treasures of the Snow (UK) -- Úteky domu (Czechoslovakia) -- Vi hade i alla fall tur med vädret (Sweden) -- De Witte van Sichem / Whitey (Belgium) -- Za trnkovym kerem / Behind the Sloe-Bush (Czechoslovakia) -- Zielone lata / Salad Days (Poland)