1980 Cii Movie Awards

This list and awards compiled March 15, 2013.

                    For the criteria of choosing the awards, click here.

Top 10 Films of 1980

1.  American Gigolo (Paul Schrader)

2.  Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme)

3.  Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

4.  Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)

5.  Bad Timing (Nicolas Roeg)

6.  'Breaker' Morant (Bruce Beresford)

7.  The Changeling (Peter Medak)

8.  Stardust Memories (Woody Allen)

9.  Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa)

10.  Popeye (Robert Altman)

Honorable Mentions: Coal Miner's Daughter (Michael Apted), Spetters (Paul Verhoeven), Poto and Cabengo (Jean-Pierre Gorin), Mon Oncle D'Amerique (Alain Resnais), Airplane! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker & Jerry Zucker), Heaven's Gate (Michael Cimino)

Best Actor

Robert De Niro – Raging Bull

Bob Hoskins – The Long Good Friday

* John Hurt – The Elephant Man

Timothy Hutton – Ordinary People

Günter Lamprecht – Berlin Alexanderplatz

Burt Lancaster – Atlantic City

Best Actress

* Shelley Duvall – Popeye

Mary Tyler Moore – Ordinary People

Theresa Russell – Bad Timing

Sissy Spacek – Coal Miner’s Daughter

Barbara Sukowa – Berlin Alexanderplatz

Best Supporting Actor

Chevy Chase – Caddyshack

* Gottfried John – Berlin Alexanderplatz

Peter O’Toole – The Stunt Man

Joe Pesci – Raging Bull

Jack Thompson – ‘Breaker’ Morant

Best Supporting Actress

Beverly D’Angelo – Coal Miner’s Daughter

Elizabeth McGovern – Ordinary People

Helen Mirren – The Long Good Friday

Cathy Moriarty – Raging Bull

Hanna Schygulla – Berlin Alexanderplatz

* Mary Steenburgen – Melvin and Howard

Best Director

Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Berlin Alexanderplatz

Peter Medak – The Changeling

Paul Schrader – American Gigolo

* Martin Scorsese – Raging Bull

Paul Verhoeven – Spetters

Best Screenplay

Airplane! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker & Jerry Zucker)

* American Gigolo (Paul Schrader)

Melvin and Howard (Bo Goldman)

Ordinary People (Alvin Sargent & Nancy Dowd)

Raging Bull (Paul Schrader & Mardik Martin)

Best Cinematography

Berlin Alexanderplatz (Xaver Schwarzenberger)

* Heaven’s Gate (Vilmos Zsigmond)

Raging Bull (Michael Chapman)

The Shining (John Alcott)

Stardust Memories (Gordon Willis)

Best Editing

Altered States (Eric Jenkins)

* Bad Timing (Tony Lawson)

The Changeling (Lilla Pedersen & Lou Lombardo)

Raging Bull (Thelma Schoonmaker)

The Stunt Man (Carolin Biggerstaff & Jack Hofstra)

Best Film Score

Altered States (John Corigliano)

American Gigolo (Giorgio Moroder)

The Changeling (Rick Wilkins)

Heaven’s Gate (David Mansfield)

* Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (John Williams)

Best Production Design

American Gigolo

* Heaven’s Gate

Kagemusha

Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

Popeye

Best Ensemble Cast Performance

* Berlin Alexanderplatz

Melvin and Howard

Ordinary People

Raging Bull

Spetters

Films Seen -- 1980 (46 features films)

Airplane! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker & Jerry Zucker; 1980)

Alligator (Lewis Teague, 1980)

Altered States (Ken Russell, 1980)

American Gigolo (Paul Schrader, 1980)

Atlantic City (Louis Malle, 1980)

Bad Timing (Nicolas Roeg, 1980)

Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1980)

The Big Red One (Samuel Fuller, 1980)

The Blues Brothers (John Landis, 1980)

The Blue Lagoon (Randal Kleiser, 1980)

‘Breaker’ Morant (Bruce Beresford, 1980)

Caddyshack (Harold Ramis, 1980)

The Changeling (Peter Medak, 1980)

Charleen (Ross McElwee, 1980)

Coal Miner’s Daughter (Michael Apted, 1980)

Cruising (William Friedkin, 1980)

Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma, 1980)

The Elephant Man (David Lynch, 1980)

Flash Gordon (Mike Hodges, 1980)

The Fog (John Carpenter, 1980)

Heaven’s Gate (Michael Cimino, 1980)

Hopscotch (Ronald Neame, 1980)

Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers (Les Blank, 1980)

Gloria (John Cassavetes, 1980)

God’s Angry Man (Werner Herzog, 1980)

The Gods Must Be Crazy (Jamie Uys, 1980)

Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa, 1980)

The Long Good Friday (John Mackenzie, 1980)

Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme, 1980)

Mon Oncle d’Amerique (Alain Resnais, 1980)

Nine to Five (Colin Higgins, 1980)

The Ninth Configuration (William Peter Blatty, 1980)

Ordinary People (Robert Redford, 1980)

Permanent Vacation (Jim Jarmusch, 1980)

Popeye (Robert Altman, 1980)

Poto and Cabengo (Jean-Pierre Gorin, 1980)

Prom Night (Paul Lynch, 1980)

Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)

The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)

Somewhere in Time (Jeannot Szwarc, 1980)

Spetters (Paul Verhoeven, 1980)

Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980)

Stardust Memories (Woody Allen, 1980)

The Stunt Man (Richard Rush, 1980)

Superman II (Richard Lester, 1980)

Used Cars (Robert Zemeckis, 1980)

Xanadu (Robert Greenwald, 1980)