1980 Cannes Film Festival

The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1980 feature film competition:^[10]

Feature films

• Kirk Douglas (USA) - Jury President
• Ken Adam (UK)
• Robert Benayoun (France)
• Veljko Bulajić (Yugoslavia)
• Leslie Caron (France)
• Charles Champlin (USA)
• André Delvaux (Belgium)
• Albina du Boisrouvray (France)
• Gian Luigi Rondi (Italy)
• Michael Spencer (Canada)

In competition - Feature film

The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:^[3]

• All That Jazz by Bob Fosse
• Being There by Hal Ashby
• The Big Red One by Samuel Fuller
• Breaker Morant by Bruce Beresford
• Bye Bye Brasil by Carlos Diegues
• The Constant Factor by Krzysztof Zanussi
• Dedicatoria by Jaime Chávarri
• Ek Din Pratidin by Mrinal Sen
• Fantastica by Gilles Carle
• The Heiresses by Márta Mészáros
• Jaguar by Lino Brocka
• Kagemusha by Akira Kurosawa
• A Leap in the Dark by Marco Bellocchio
• The Long Riders by Walter Hill
• Loulou by Maurice Pialat
• The Missing Link by Picha
• Mon oncle d'Amérique by Alain Resnais
• Out of the Blue by Dennis Hopper
• Put on Ice by Bernhard Sinkel
• Sauve qui peut (la vie) by Jean-Luc Godard
• Special Treatment by Goran Paskaljević
• La terrazza by Ettore Scola
• A Week's Vacation by Bertrand Tavernier

Un Certain Regard

The following films were selected for the competition of Un Certain Regard:^[3]

• Ballad of Tara by Bahram Bayzai
• The Candidate by Volker Schlöndorff
• Christopher's House by Lars Lennart Forsberg
• Csontváry by Zoltán Huszárik
• Days of Dreams by Vlatko Gilić
• La femme enfant by Raphaële Billetdoux
• The Gamekeeper by Ken Loach
• Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder by Annie Tresgot
• The Rabbit Case by Jaromil Jireš
• Sitting Ducks by Henry Jaglom
• To Love the Damned by Marco Tullio Giordana
• Ways in the Night [pl] by Krzysztof Zanussi
• The Willi Busch Report by Niklaus Schilling

Films out of competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:^[3]

• Breaking Glass by Brian Gibson
• City of Women by Federico Fellini
• I'm Photogenic by Dino Risi
• Lightning Over Water by Wim Wenders and Nicholas Ray
• Prince Nezha's Triumph Against Dragon King by Yan Ding Xian, Wang Shuchen and Jingda Xu
• Public Telephone by Jean-Marie Périer
• The Risk of Living by Gérald Calderon
• Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky
• Stir by Stephen Wallace
• SuperTotò by Brando Giordani and Emilio Ravel

Short film competition

The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:^[3]

International Critics' Week

The following feature films were screened for the 19th International Critics' Week (19e Semaine de la Critique):^[11]

• 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):^[12]

• 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
• The Patriotic Woman [fr] by Alexander Kluge
• Pełnia by Andrzej Kondratiuk
• Prostitute by Tony Garnett
• Radio On by Christopher Petit
• Purity of Heart [de] 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

The following films and people received the 1980 awards:^[2][5][4]

• Palme d'Or:
  • All That Jazz by Bob Fosse
  • Kagemusha by Akira Kurosawa
• Grand Prix: Mon oncle d'Amérique 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: Constans by Krzysztof Zanussi

Golden Camera

• Caméra d'Or: Adrien's Story by Jean-Pierre Denis

Short films

• 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 Prizes^[13]

• Mon oncle d'Amérique by Alain Resnais (In competition)
• Provincial Actors (Aktorzy prowincjonalni) by Agnieszka Holland (International Critics' Week)
• Gaijin: Roads to Freedom (Gaijin - Caminhos da Liberdade) by Tizuka Yamasaki (Directors' Fortnight)

Commission Supérieure Technique

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

Ecumenical Jury^[14]

• Prize of the Ecumenical Jury: Constans by Krzysztof Zanussi

• 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)

• 1980 Cannes Film Festival (web.archive)
• Official website Retrospective 1980 Archived 2019-01-19 at the Wayback Machine
• Cannes Film Festival:1980 Archived 2009-05-31 at the Wayback Machine at Internet Movie Database