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The Academy Awards Year 1978 was held at Los Angeles, California, USA on April 14 1980

BEST PICTURE 1980 WINNER

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KRAMER VS. KRAMER (1979)

Director : Robert Benton
Writer : Avery Corman (novel), Robert Benton (written by)
Genre : Drama | War
Main Cast : Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Justin Henry, Jane Alexander, Howard Duff

Plot : Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy. When he has learned to adjust his life to these new responsibilities, Joanna resurfaces and wants Billy back. Ted however refuses to give him up, so they go to court to fight for the custody of their son. —IMDb

 

 

 

 

 

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ALL THAT JAZZ (1979)

Director : Bob Fosse
Writer : Robert Alan Aurthur (written by), Bob Fosse (written by)
Genre : Drama | Fantasy | Music
Main Cast : Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Leland Palmer, Ann Reinking, Cliff Gorman

Plot : Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid life of Joe Gideon. Joe Gideon is a hedonistoc workaholic who knocks back a daily dose of amphetamines to juggle a new Broadway production while editing his new movie, not to mention ex-wife Audrey, steady girlfriend Kate, a young daughter, and various conquests. Joe cannot, however, avoid intimations of mortality from white-clad vision Angelique that lead him to look back at his life as he heads for a near-inevitable coronary. —Rottentomatoes

 

 

APOCALYPSE NOW (1979)

Director : Francis Ford Coppola
Writer : John Milius (screenplay), Francis Ford Coppola (screenplay)
Genre : Drama | War
Main Cast : Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest

Plot : Vietnam, 1969. Burnt out Special Forces officer Captain Willard is sent into the jungle with top-secret orders to find and kill renegade Colonel Kurtz who has set up his own army within the jungle. As Willard descends into the jungle, he is slowly over taken by the jungle’s mesmerizing powers and battles the insanity which surrounds him. His boat crew succumbs to drugs and is slowly killed off one by one. As Willard continues his journey he becomes more and more like the man he was sent to kill. —IMDb

 

 

BREAKING AWAY (1979)

Director : Peter Yates
Writer : Steve Tesich (written by)
Genre : Comedy | Drama | Family | Sport
Main Cast : Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Paul Dooley

Plot : Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his 3 friends, The comical Cyril, the warm hearted but short-tempered Moocher, and the athletic,… Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his 3 friends, The comical Cyril, the warm hearted but short-tempered Moocher, and the athletic, spiteful but good-hearted Mike. Now, Dave enjoys racing bikes and hopes to race the Italians one day, and even takes up the Italian culture, much to his friends and parents annoyance. While meanwhile, the 4 friends try to break away from their townie, Indiana reputation while fighting with nearby college snobs. —Rottentomatoes

 

NORMA RAE (1979)

Director : Martin Ritt
Writer : Harriet Frank Jr. (writer), Irving Ravetch (writer)
Genre : Drama
Main Cast : Sally Field, Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman, Pat Hingle

Plot : Norma Rae finds Sally Field cast in the title role, a minimum-wage worker in a cotton mill. The factory has taken too much of a toll on the health of Norma Rae’s family for her to ignore her Dickensian working conditions. After hearing a speech by New York union organizer Reuben (Ron Leibman), Norma Rae decides to join the effort to unionize her shop. This causes dissension at home when Norma Rae’s husband, Sonny (Beau Bridges), assumes that her activism is a result of a romance between herself and Reuben. Despite the pressure brought to bear by management, Norma Rae successfully orchestrates a shutdown of the mill, resulting in victory for the union and capitulation to its demands. Based on a true story, Norma Rae is the film for which Sally Field won her first Oscar. —Allmovie

 

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM WINNER 1979

DIE BLECHTROMMEL (1979)

Also Known As : The Tin Drum
Country : West Germany
Director : Volker Schlöndorff
Writer : Jean-Claude Carrière (writer), Günter Grass (additional dialogue)
Genre : Drama | History | War
Main Cast : Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, David Bennent, Daniel Olbrychski

Plot : Danzig in the 1920s/1930s. Oskar Matzerath, son of a local dealer, is a most unusual boy. Equipped with full intellect right from his birth he decides at his third birthday not to grow up as he sees the crazy world around him at the eve of World War II. So he refuses the society and his tin drum symbolizes his protest against the middle-class mentality of his family and neighborhood, which stand for all passive people in Nazi Germany at that time. However, (almost) nobody listens to him, so the catastrophe goes on.. —IMDb

 

 

 

 

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DIMENTICARE VENEZIA (1979)

Also Known As : To Forget Venice
Country : Italy
Director : Franco Brusati
Writer : Franco Brusati (story), Jaja Fiastri (writer)
Genre : Drama
Main Cast : Erland Josephson, Mariangela Melato, Eleonora Giorgi, David Pontremoli

Plot : There is Marta, the aging but still beautiful opera prima donna who lives in one of the big, ancient country houses that line the mainland near Venice. She has never married, but has adopted a niece, Anna. Marta also has a brother, Nicky. A visit to Venice is planned, and Anna and Nicky, who are both homosexuals, join Marta in the big house. Anna brings along her lover, Claudia, and Nicky brings his lover, Picchio. —Rottentomatoes

 

 

MAMÁ CUMPLE CIEN AÑOS (1979)

Also Known As : Mama Turns 100
Country : Spain
Director : Carlos Saura
Writer : Carlos Saura (story)
Genre : Comedy | Fantasy
Main Cast : Geraldine Chaplin, Amparo Munoz, Rafaela Aparicio, Fernando Fernán Gómez

Plot : Ana is alive and married with Antonio; they arrive in the manor in the countryside of Spain where she worked as a nanny many years ago, for the centennial birthday of the matriarch. In their reunion, she finds that Jose died three years ago; Juan left his wife Luchy; Fernando is still living with his mother and unsuccessfully trying to fly a hang glider; and the three little girls are grown-up. Further, she discovers that the dysfunctional family is completely broken, and Luchy in embezzling mother’s money. When Juan arrives for the celebration, he plots with Fernando and Luchy to kill the mother to get the inheritance. Meanwhile, Antonio has a brief affair with Natalia. —IMDb

 

PANNY Z WILKA (1979)

Also Known As : Young Girls Of Wilko
Country : Poland | France
Director : Andrzej Wajda
Writer : Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz (short story), Kaminski (writer)
Genre : Drama | Romance
Main Cast : Daniel Olbrychski, Anna Seniuk, Christine Pascal, Maja Komorowska

Plot : This Oscar-nominated film from Polish director Andrzej Wajda is an unsentimental but poetic exploration of the ironies of love and hope. After 15 years away, Wiktor returns to his hometown of Wilko, where he encounters five sisters who are forced to reconsider their complicated lives and personal failures. —Rottentomatoes

 

 

 

UNE HISTOIRE SIMPLE (1978)

Also Known As : A Simple Story
Country : France
Director : Claude Sautet
Writer : Jean-Loup Dabadie (dialogue), Claude Sautet (writer)
Genre : Comedy
Main Cast : Romy Schneider, Bruno Cremer, Claude Brasseur, Roger Pigaut

Plot : A simple story about simple people. A 38 year old divorced woman (Marie) has a lover (Serge) but decides to leave him, abort his baby, and then return to her ex-husband (Georges). Their friends have the same typical problems. —IMDb