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The year 1979 in film involved many significant events.

Highest-grossing films

United States and Canada

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

Highest-grossing films of 1979 (United States and Canada)
Rank	Title	Distributor	Box-office gross
1	Kramer vs. Kramer	Columbia	$106,260,000^[1]
2	The Amityville Horror	American International	$86,432,520^[2]
3	Rocky II	United Artists	$85,182,160^[3]
4	Apocalypse Now	United Artists	$83,471,511^[4]
5	Star Trek: The Motion Picture	Paramount	$82,258,456^[5]
6	Alien	20th Century Fox	$80,931,801^[6]
7	10	Warner Bros.	$74,865,517^[7]
8	The Jerk	Universal	$73,691,419^[8]
9	Moonraker	United Artists	$70,308,099^[9]
10	The Muppet Movie	Associated Film	$65,200,000^[10]

International

Highest-grossing films of 1979 (international markets)
International market	Title	Distributor	Admissions	Gross revenue		Production country
International market	Title	Distributor	Admissions	Local currency	US$	Production country
China	Gunshots in the CIB	Changchun Film Studio	600,000,000^[11]	CN¥180,000,000^[11]	$116,000,000	China
France	The Gendarme and the Extra-Terrestrials	SNC	6,280,070^[12]	Unknown	Unknown	France
West Germany	The Jungle Book	20th Century Fox	9,103,582^[13]	€32,092,155^[13]	$44,000,000	United States
India	Suhaag	Sharma Cine Associates	Unknown	₹100,000,000^[14]	$12,310,000^[15]	India
Italy	Superman	Columbia-EMI-Warner	904,000^[16]	Unknown	Unknown	United States
Japan	Galaxy Express 999	Toei	Unknown	¥16,500,000,000^[17]	$76,120,000^[18]	Japan
Soviet Union	Sholay (Embers)	R. K. Films	60,000,000^[19]	15,000,000 Rbls^{[n 1]}	$28,200,000^[a]	India
Spain	Superman	Warner Bros.	4,795,628^[21]	₧655,346,759^[21]	$9,763,080^[22]	United States
United Kingdom	Superman	Columbia-EMI-Warner	10,190,000^[23]	£11,547,308^[23]^[24]	$24,455,309^[25]	United States

Major events

March 2 – Buena Vista release their first film since the advent of U.S. movie ratings to not be G-rated, Take Down.
March 5 – Production begins on The Empire Strikes Back.
March – Frank Price becomes president of Columbia Pictures.
May 25 – Alien, a landmark of the science fiction genre, is released.
May 29 - Mary Pickford, a silent screen legend and Hollywood pioneer who was, at the height of her career, the most famous woman in the world, dies of a stroke.
May 31 – The Muppet Movie, Jim Henson's Muppets' first foray into the world of feature-length motion pictures, is released in United Kingdom.
June 11 – John Wayne, a famous Western movie actor, dies at the age of 72 from stomach cancer.
June 27 – 20th Century Fox Pictures president Alan Ladd Jr. and vice-presidents Jay Kanter and Gareth Wigan agree to leave Fox.
June 29 – Moonraker, the 11th film in the James Bond franchise, is released in the United States and goes on to become the highest-grossing film of the year worldwide.
August 15 – Apocalypse Now is released to worldwide critical acclaim and box office success. Heralded as one of the greatest films ever made to this day.
September 19 – Don Bluth and a group of fellow animators resign from The Walt Disney Company's animation department to set up a rival studio, Don Bluth Productions.
October 1 – Alan Ladd Jr., Jay Kanter and Gareth Wigan who agreed to leave Fox earlier in the year formally announce the creation of The Ladd Company.
October 3 – producers Benjamin Melniker and Michael E. Uslan purchase the film rights of Batman from DC Comics. It would be another ten years, before a Batman feature film would be fully realized.
November 1 – Production begins on Raiders of the Lost Ark.
December 7 – Star Trek: The Motion Picture debuts in the United States to mixed reviews but blockbuster box office, launching a film franchise that leads to 9 sequels and 3 reboots over the next 37 years. It also leads to the creation of five spin-off television series based upon Gene Roddenberry's creation.
Allied Artists files for bankruptcy.

Awards

Category/Organization	37th Golden Globe Awards January 26, 1980		33rd BAFTA Awards March 20, 1980	52nd Academy Awards April 14, 1980
Category/Organization	Drama	Musical or Comedy	33rd BAFTA Awards March 20, 1980	52nd Academy Awards April 14, 1980
Best Film	Kramer vs. Kramer	Breaking Away	Manhattan	Kramer vs. Kramer
Best Director	Francis Ford Coppola Apocalypse Now			Robert Benton Kramer vs. Kramer
Best Actor	Dustin Hoffman Kramer vs. Kramer	Peter Sellers Being There	Jack Lemmon The China Syndrome	Dustin Hoffman Kramer vs. Kramer
Best Actress	Sally Field Norma Rae	Bette Midler The Rose	Jane Fonda The China Syndrome	Sally Field Norma Rae
Best Supporting Actor	Melvyn Douglas Being There Robert Duvall Apocalypse Now		Robert Duvall Apocalypse Now	Melvyn Douglas Being There
Best Supporting Actress	Meryl Streep Kramer vs. Kramer		Rachel Roberts Yanks	Meryl Streep Kramer vs. Kramer
Best Screenplay, Adapted	Robert Benton Kramer vs. Kramer		Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman Manhattan	Robert Benton Kramer vs. Kramer
Best Screenplay, Original	Robert Benton Kramer vs. Kramer		Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman Manhattan	Steve Tesich Breaking Away
Best Original Score	Carmine Coppola and Francis Ford Coppola Apocalypse Now		Ennio Morricone Days of Heaven	Georges Delerue A Little Romance Ralph Burns All That Jazz
Best Original Song	"The Rose" The Rose		N/A	"It Goes Like It Goes" Norma Rae
Best Foreign Language Film	La Cage aux Folles		N/A	The Tin Drum

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

1979 films

By country/region

By genre/medium

Births

January 1 – Vidya Balan, Indian actress
January 6 – Cristela Alonzo, American comedian, actress, writer and producer
January 8
- Ashraf Barhom, Israeli-Arab actor
- Sarah Polley, Canadian actress
January 16 – Aaliyah, American actress and singer (d. 2001)
January 24 – Tatyana Ali, American actress and singer
January 26 – Sara Rue, American actress
Janaury 28 - Angelique Cabral, American actress
January 29 – Andrew Keegan, American actor
February 1 – Rachelle Lefevre, Canadian actress
February 2 – Shamita Shetty, Indian actress
February 3 – Costa Ronin, Australian actor and cinematographer
February 7 - Cerina Vincent, American actress
February 8 - Josh Keaton, American actor and musician
February 9 – Zhang Ziyi, Chinese actress and dancer
February 11 – Brandy Norwood, American actress and singer
February 12 - Angus Sampson, Australian actor and filmmaker
February 13 – Mena Suvari, American actress
February 21
- Tituss Burgess, American actor and singer
- Maryke Hendrikse, Bahamian-born Canadian voice actress
- Jennifer Love Hewitt, American actress and singer
- Jordan Peele, American actor, comedian, writer, director and producer
March 3 – Patrick Renna, American actor
March 5 – Riki Lindhome, American actress, comedian and musician
March 9 – Oscar Isaac, Guatemalan-American actor
March 10
- Edi Gathegi, Kenyan-American actor
- Danny Pudi, American actor
March 17 – Stephen Kramer Glickman, Canadian actor, music producer and stand-up comedian
March 18 – Adam Levine, American singer, songwriter, musician and actor
March 20
- Freema Agyeman, British actress
- Bianca Lawson, American actress
March 24 – Lake Bell, American actress, director and screenwriter
March 25 – Lee Pace, American actor
March 28 – Shakib Khan, Bangladeshi film actor, producer, singer, film organiser and media personalities^[26]
March 29 – De'Angelo Wilson, American actor and rapper (d. 2008)
March 30 - Pete Holmes, American comedian, actor, writer, producer and podcaster
April 4
- Bunko Kanazawa, Japanese actress
- Heath Ledger, Australian actor (d. 2008)
- Natasha Lyonne, American actress
April 5 – Josh Boone, American filmmaker
April 7 - Nico Santos, Filipino-American actor
April 11 – Josh Server, American actor
April 12
- Claire Danes, American actress
- Jennifer Morrison, American actress, director and producer
- Paul Nicholls, English actor
April 15
- Karen David, Canadian actress and singer-songwriter
- Luke Evans, Welsh actor and singer
April 17
- Mylene Dinh-Robic, Canadian actress
- Ken Duken, German actor and director
April 19 – Kate Hudson, American actress
April 21 – James McAvoy, Scottish actor^[27]
April 23 – Jaime King, American actress
April 26 – Klára Issová, Czech actress
April 27 - Tom Davis, English actor and comedian
May 5 – Vincent Kartheiser, American actor
May 7 – Yōsuke Kubozuka, Japanese actor
May 9 – Rosario Dawson, American actress
May 12 – Aaron Yoo, Korean-American actor
May 19 – Bérénice Marlohe, French actress
May 20 - Jana Pallaske, German actress and singer
May 22 – Maggie Q, American actress
May 23 – Josh Cooley, American animator, screenwriter, director and voice actor
May 28
- Jesse Bradford, American actor
- Monica Keena, American actress
June 2 - Morena Baccarin, Brazilian actress
June 7 – Anna Torv, Australian actress
June 12 - Wil Horneff, American former child actor
June 17 – Young Maylay, American rapper, producer and voice actor
June 20 - Sarah Stiles, American singer and actress
June 21 – Chris Pratt, American actor
June 24 – Mindy Kaling, American writer and actress
June 25 - Busy Philipps, American actress
June 27
- Martin Bourboulon, French film director and screenwriter^[28]
- Benjamin Speed, Australian film composer
June 30 - Rick Gonzalez, American actor and musician
July 3 – Ludivine Sagnier, French actress
July 5 – Eva Maria Daniels, Icelandic film producer (d. 2023)
July 6
- Kevin Hart, American actor
- Abdul Salis, British actor
July 7 - Benjamin Mitchell, New Zealand actor
July 10 – Gong Yoo, South Korean actor
July 12 – Omid Abtahi, Iranian-American actor
July 14 – Scott Porter, American actor
July 16 – Jayma Mays, American actress
July 17 – Mike Vogel, American actor and former model
July 19 – David Sakurai, Danish-Japanese actor, director and scriptwriter
July 26 - Mageina Tovah, American actress
July 31
- Dana Gourrier, American actress
- B. J. Novak, American writer and actor
August 1 – Jason Momoa, American actor and filmmaker
August 3 – Evangeline Lilly, Canadian actress^[29]
August 6 – Dayahang Rai, Nepalese actor
August 10 – JoAnna Garcia Swisher, American actress
August 12 - Keith Powell, American actor, writer and director
August 13 - Kasia Smutniak, Polish-Italian actress and model
August 14 - Jamie Parker, English actor and singer
August 21 - Kevin Janssens, Belgian actor
August 22 – Brandon Adams, American actor
August 23 – Claire Grant, American actress, model and producer
August 24 – Fabienne Carat, French actress and singer
August 25 – Şebnem Bozoklu, Turkish actress
August 26 – Erik Valdez, American actor
August 27 – Aaron Paul, American actor
August 29 – Dan Harris, American screenwriter and director
August 31 – Yuvan Shankar Raja, Indian film composer
September 1 - Camille Chen, American actress
September 8 – Pink, American singer and actress
September 11
- Ariana Richards, American actress
- Hu Ting-ting, English-born Taiwanese actress
September 17 - Billy Miller, American actor (d. 2023)
September 18 – Alison Lohman, American former actress
September 19 – Noémie Lenoir, French model and actress
September 20 – Chris Tardio, American actor
September 22 – MyAnna Buring, Swedish-born British actress
September 23 – Lisa Loven Kongsli, Norwegian actress
September 25 - Stephen Rider, American actor
September 26 - Mark Famiglietti, American actor, screenwriter and producer
September 27 – Jad Saxton, American voice actress
September 30 – Jonathan Kasdan, American screenwriter, director, producer and actor
October 1 – Marielle Heller, American film director
October 4
- Caitríona Balfe, Irish actress
- Rachael Leigh Cook, American actress
October 6 – Sareh Bayat, Iranian actress
October 7
- Tang Wei, Chinese actress
- Aaron Ashmore and Shawn Ashmore, Canadian actors
October 8 – Kristanna Loken, American actress
October 9
- Chris O'Dowd, Irish actor and comedian
- Brandon Routh, American actor
October 20 – John Krasinski, American actor and filmmaker
October 28 – Natina Reed, American singer-songwriter, rapper and actress (d. 2012)
October 29 – Maya Karin, Malaysian actress
October 30 - James A. Woods, Canadian actor
October 31 – Erica Cerra, Canadian actress
November 5 - Leonardo Nam, Australian actor
November 8 – Dania Ramirez, Dominican actress
November 9 – Matt McCarthy, American comedian, actor and writer
November 13 – Riccardo Scamarcio, Italian actor and producer
November 14 – Olga Kurylenko, Ukrainian-French actress
November 19 – Barry Jenkins, American film director
November 22 – Andrew Knott, British actor
November 23 – Jonathan Sadowski, American actor
November 25 – Joel Kinnaman, Swedish-American actor
November 28 – Daniel Henney, American actor and model
November 29 - Timo Vuorensola, Finnish director, singer and actor
December 3 – Tiffany Haddish, American comedian and actress
December 5 – Nick Stahl, American actor
December 7
- Eric Bauza, Canadian-born American voice actor, stand-up comedian and animation artist
- Sara Bareilles, American actress and singer
December 11 – Rider Strong, American actor
December 15 – Adam Brody, American actor, writer, musician and producer
December 17 - Lil Rel Howery, American actor and comedian
December 20 - Ramón Rodríguez, Puerto Rican actor
December 23 – Summer Altice, American model and actress
December 26 – Chris Daughtry, American actor and singer
December 28 - Noomi Rapace, Swedish actress
December 29 – Diego Luna, Mexican actor, director and producer

Deaths

Month	Date	Name	Age	Country	Profession	Notable films
January	11	Jack Soo	61	US	Actor	Flower Drum Song The Oscar
	16	Peter Butterworth	63	UK	Actor, writer	Oliver! The First Great Train Robbery
	16	Ted Cassidy	46	US	Actor	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Mackenna's Gold
	18	Cyril J. Mockridge	82	UK	Composer	Desk Set The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
	25	Dick Crockett	63	US	Stuntman, Actor	Dirty Harry Spartacus
February	12	Jean Renoir	84	US	Director, writer, actor	The Rules of the Game La Grande Illusion
	16	Louise Allbritton	58	US	Actress	Pittsburgh Sitting Pretty
	17	William Gargan	73	US	Actor	The Bells of St. Mary's Cheers for Miss Bishop
	19	Leigh Jason	74	US	Director	Out of the Blue The Mad Miss Manton
	28	Jane Hylton	51	UK	Actress	It Started in Paradise Circus of Horrors
March	1	Dolores Costello	75	US	Actress	The Magnificent Ambersons Little Lord Fauntleroy
	2	Edith Craig	71	US	Actress	After the Thin Man Broadway Bill
	6	John Robinson	70	UK	Actor	Lawrence of Arabia The Longest Day
	9	Barbara Mullen	64	UK	Actress	Jeannie Thunder Rock
	19	John Tate	64	UK	Actor	Invasion
	21	Bomba Tzur	50	Israel	Actor	Blaumilch Canal Dalia and the Sailors
	22	Ben Lyon	78	US	Actor, writer	Hell's Angels Night Nurse
	24	Yvonne Mitchell	63	UK	Actress	Woman in a Dressing Gown Johnny Nobody
April	4	Edgar Buchanan	76	US	Actor	Shane Wichita
	6	Norman Tokar	59	US	Director	Follow Me, Boys! The Happiest Millionaire
	10	Nino Rota	67	Italy	Composer	The Godfather The Leopard
	24	John Carroll	72	US	Actor	Go West Flying Tigers
May	6	Rosemary La Planche	55	US	Actress	Angels' Alley Jack Armstrong
	8	Victor Saville	83	UK	Producer, director	Goodbye, Mr. Chips Kim
	10	Beatrice Campbell	56	UK	Actress	Last Holiday The Master of Ballantrae
	11	Joan Chandler	55	US	Actress	Humoresque Rope
	26	George Brent	80	US	Actor	Jezebel 42nd Street
	29	Mary Pickford	87	US	Actress, producer, writer	Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ Coquette
June	1	Jack Mulhall	91	US	Actor	The Social Buccaneer The Three Musketeers
	2	Larisa Shepitko	41	Soviet Union	Director	Wings The Ascent
	2	Jim Hutton	45	US	Actor	Walk, Don't Run Who's Minding the Mint?
	6	Jack Haley	80	US	Actor	The Wizard of Oz Alexander's Ragtime Band
	11	John Wayne	72	US	Actor, producer, director	The Searchers Red River
	12	Henry Berman	65	US	Editor, Producer	Swing Time Grand Prix
	14	David Butler	84	US	Director	Road to Morocco Calamity Jane
	16	Nicholas Ray	67	US	Director, writer, actor	Rebel Without a Cause In a Lonely Place
	19	Nick Grinde	86	US	Director	Million Dollar Legs The Man They Could Not Hang
	21	Julian Orchard	49	UK	Actor, writer	Revenge of the Pink Panther The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
July	2	Larisa Shepitko	41	USSR	Director, writer, actress	The Ascent Farewell
	8	Michael Wilding	66	UK	Actor, producer	Stage Fright Waterloo
	13	Corinne Griffith	84	US	Actress	The Divine Lady Back Pay
	22	Kathleen Case	45	US	Actress	Human Desire Running Wild
	25	Eric Pohlmann	66	Germany	Actor	The Third Man From Russia with Love
	26	Virginia Brissac	96	US	Actress	Dressed to Kill Rebel Without a Cause
	27	Ettore Manni	52	Italy	Actor	City of Women Le Amiche
	27	Shirley Mason	79	US	Actress	Anne Against the World So This Is Love?
	28	George Seaton	68	US	Director	The Country Girl Airport
	28	Frederick Stafford	51	Czechoslovakia	Actor	Topaz Dirty Heroes
	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
	6	Kurt Kasznar	65	Austria	Actor	Kiss Me Kate Lili
	7	Vicente Salumbides	85	Philippines	Actor	Ibong Adarna Florante at Laura
	10	Dick Foran	69	US	Actor	The Petrified Forest Ride 'Em Cowboy
	17	Vivian Vance	70	US	Actress	The Great Race
	21	Stuart Heisler	82	US	Director	Tulsa I Died a Thousand Times
	30	Jean Seberg	40	US	Actress	Breathless Airport
September	1	Doris Kenyon	81	US	Actress	Alexander Hamilton The Road to Singapore
	2	Felix Aylmer	90	UK	Actor	Becket Hamlet
	12	Les Clark	71	US	Animator	Fantasia One Hundred and One Dalmatians
	12	Jocelyne LaGarde	54	Tahiti	Actress	Hawaii
	17	Willis Goldbeck	80	US	Screenwriter	Young Dr. Kildare The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
	22	Frederick Piper	76	UK	Actor	The 39 Steps The Man Who Knew Too Much
	23	Catherine Lacey	75	UK	Actress	The Lady Vanishes The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
	26	John Cromwell	91	US	Director	Of Human Bondage The Enchanted Cottage
	26	Arthur Hunnicutt	69	US	Actor	The Tall T El Dorado
	27	Gracie Fields	81	UK	Actress, singer	Sally in Our Alley Holy Matrimony
October	1	Dorothy Arzner	82	US	Director	Craig's Wife Dance, Girl, Dance
	3	Dorothy Peterson	81	US	Actress	That Hagen Girl Payment Deferred
	12	Celia Lovsky	82	Austria	Actress	Foxfire I Mobster
	17	John Stuart	81	UK	Actor	Superman Village of the Damned
	25	Fernando Soler	83	Mexico	Actor	Papacito lindo El gran calavera
	30	Graham Ashley	52	UK	Actor	Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope Hennessy
November	2	Saro Urzì	66	Italy	Actor	The Godfather Beat the Devil
	5	Amedeo Nazzari	71	Italy	Actor	Il bandito The Jester's Supper
	8	Sydney Tafler	63	UK	Actor	The Spy Who Loved Me Alfie
	11	Dimitri Tiomkin	85	Russia	Composer	High Noon The High and the Mighty
	20	Michael Darbyshire	62	UK	Actor, writer	Chitty Chitty Bang Bang The Slipper and the Rose
	21	Paul Wexler	50	US	Actor	The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze
	22	George Froeschel	88	US	Screenwriter	Mrs. Miniver Scaramouche
	23	Merle Oberon	68	India	Actress, producer	Wuthering Heights The Scarlet Pimpernel
	30	Joyce Grenfell	69	UK	Actress	The Americanization of Emily Blue Murder at St Trinian's
	30	Zeppo Marx	78	US	Actor, director	Duck Soup Monkey Business
December	5	Jesse Pearson	49	US	Actor	Bye Bye Birdie
	5	Lesley Selander	70	US	Director	Blackmail Flight to Mars
	9	James Neilson	70	US	Director	The Moon-Spinners Bon Voyage!
	10	Ann Dvorak	68	US	Actress	Scarface Three on a Match
	11	Claire Carleton	66	US	Actress	Girl from Havana Gildersleeve on Broadway
	12	Jon Hall	64	US	Actor, director	The Hurricane Kit Carson
	22	George Pollock	72	UK	Director	Murder, She Said Ten Little Indians
	23	Ernest B. Schoedsack	86	US	Director, cinematographer, producer	King Kong The Most Dangerous Game
	25	Michael Collins	57	Canada	Actor	Goldfinger The Battle of the River Plate
	25	Lee Bowman	79	US	Actor	Love Affair Cover Girl
	25	Joan Blondell	73	US	Actress	Grease The Public Enemy

Film debuts

Rosanna Arquette – More American Graffiti
Tobin Bell - Manhattan
Lorraine Bracco – Duos sur canapé
David Bradley – The Frisco Kid
Grand L. Bush – Hair
Frances Conroy – Manhattan
Matt Craven – Meatballs
Denise Crosby – 10
Ted Danson – The Onion Field
Keith David – Disco Godfather
Matt Dillon – Over the Edge
Lisa Eichhorn – The Europeans
Cary Elwes – Yesterday's Hero
Giancarlo Esposito – Running
Christopher Fairbank – Agatha
Danny Glover – Escape from Alcatraz
Bruce Greenwood – Bear Island
Linda Hamilton – Night Flowers
Dennis Haysbert – Scoring
Stephen McKinley Henderson – A Pleasure Doing Business
James Horner (film composer) – The Lady in Red
Anna Maria Horsford – An Almost Perfect Affair
Lucinda Jenney – Impostors
Michael Jeter – Hair
Sam J. Jones – 10
David Keith – The Great Santini
David Patrick Kelly – The Warriors
Wayne Knight – The Wanderers
Christine Lahti – ...And Justice for All
Laurene Landon – Bitter Heritage
Diane Lane – A Little Romance
Fredric Lehne – Being There
Carl Lumbly – Escape from Alcatraz
Tzi Ma – Cocaine Cowboys
Hayao Miyazaki (director) – The Castle of Cagliostro
Bill Nighy – The Bitch
Will Patton – Minus Zero
David Paymer – The In-Laws
Elizabeth Peña – El Super
Chris Penn – Charlie and the Talking Buzzard
Rhea Perlman – Swap Meet
Clarke Peters – The Music Machine
CCH Pounder – All That Jazz
Mickey Rourke – 1941
Jay O. Sanders – Starting Over
Raynor Scheine – Something Short of Paradise
Wallace Shawn – Manhattan
Martin Short – Lost and Found
J. Smith-Cameron – Gal Young Un
John Snyder – The Warriors
Timothy Spall – Quadrophenia
Mike Starr – Squeeze Play!
Daniel Stern – Breaking Away
Emma Suárez – Memoirs of Leticia Valle
Patrick Swayze – Skatetown, U.S.A.
Jean-Claude Van Damme – Woman Between Wolf and Dog
Christoph Waltz – Breakthrough
Peter Weller – Butch and Sundance: The Early Days
Joanne Whalley – Birth of the Beatles
JoBeth Williams – Kramer vs. Kramer
Michael Wincott – Title Shot
Ray Winstone – That Summer!

Notes

^ 60 million tickets sold,^[19] average ticket price of 25 kopecks^[20]

^ See List of highest-grossing films in the Soviet Union § Highest-grossing foreign films.

References

External links

List of 1979 films at IMDb
1979 Domestic Grosses at Box Office Mojo
List of 1979 deaths at IMDb
List of 1979 births at IMDb

[21] 60 million tickets sold,^[19] average ticket price of 25 kopecks^[20]

[22] See List of highest-grossing films in the Soviet Union § Highest-grossing foreign films.

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