Top 10 Films of 1980...

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:crybaby: We lost "The Master" himself when Hitch departed us for that big MacGuffin in the sky :crybaby: - :crybaby: One of music's greatest geniuses, John Lennon was senselessly killed outside of his New York home :crybaby: - Who woulda thunk it...the U.S. Olympic Hockey team defeated the mighty Soviets in the semifinals, something that history would remember as the "Miracle on Ice"

Please try to do a top 10 in order (hard as it may be) with an optional two or three "honorable mentions".

The Callaghan Best Films of 1980 List:

01 The Empire Strikes Back
02 The Shining
03 Airplane!
04 Raging Bull
05 Caddyshack
06 Superman II
07 The Blues Brothers
08 Somewhere in Time
09 The Elephant Man
10 Dressed to Kill

Honorable Mentions:

-Popeye (Why so many - including Robin Williams himself - hate this film I’ll never get)

-Coal Miner’s Daughter

-Ordinary People


Also...

The Oscars; Who Won, and Who Shoulda Won IMHO

Best Picture
Who Won: Ordinary People
Shoulda Won: The Empire Strikes Back *Not even nominated
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Best Director
Who Won: Robert Redford (Ordinary People)
Shoulda Won: Irvin Kershner (The Empire Strikes Back) *Not even nominated
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Best Actor
Who Won: Robert De Niro (Raging Bull)
Shoulda Won: Jack Nicholson (The Shining) *Not even nominated
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Best Actress
Who Won: Sissy Spacek (Coal Miner’s Daughter)
Shoulda Won: I concur

Best Supporting Actor
Who Won: Timothy Hutton (Ordinary People)
Shoulda Won: Anthony Hopkins (The Elephant Man) *Not even nominated
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Best Supporting Actress
Who Won: Mary Steenburgen (Melvin and Howard)
Shoulda Won: Cathy Moriarty (Raging Bull)

Best Cinematography
Who Won: Geoffrey Unsworth and Ghislain Cloquet (Tess)
Shoulda Won: Peter Suschitzky (The Empire Strikes Back) *Not even nominated
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Best Score
Who Won: Michael Gore (Fame)
Shoulda Won: John Williams (The Empire Strikes Back)


Forgot Which Films Came Out That Year?
Have No Fear - The IMDB Is Here...
http://us.imdb.com/List?year=1980&&...ing=7;Most popular titles;1980 by total votes

-and-

The Oscar Nods & Winners...
http://us.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Academy_Awards_USA/1981
 
01 Coal Miners Daughter
02 Breaker Morant
03 Mad Max (using John's criteria)
04 Empire Strikes Back
05 The Shining
06 The Gods Must Be Crazy
07 The Fog
08 Airplane!
09 The Elephant Man
 
01. Breaker Morant
02. Caddyshack
03. Tom Horn
04. The Shining
05. Raging Bull
06. The Big Red One
07. The Empire Strikes Back
08. Airplane!
09. Used Cars
10. The Ninth Configuration
 
The Empire Strikes Back
Elephant Man
Raging Bull
Atlantic City
Airplane!
The Fog
My Bodyguard
The Stunt Man
9 to 5
The Shining
 
01 Raging Bull
02 The Empire Strikes Back
03 The Shining
04 Blues Brothers
05 Airplane!
06 Superman II
07 Caddyshack
08 Coal Miners Daughter
09 The Elephant Man
10 Ordinary People

Honorable Mentions:

-Somewhere in Time


Also...

The Oscars; Who Won, and Who Shoulda Won IMHO

Best Picture
Who Won: Ordinary People
Shoulda Won: Raging Bull

Best Director
Who Won: Robert Redford (Ordinary People)
Shoulda Won: Martin Scorsese (Raging Bull)

Best Actor
Who Won: Robert De Niro (Raging Bull)
Shoulda Won: I concur

Best Actress
Who Won: Sissy Spacek (Coal Miner’s Daughter)
Shoulda Won: I concur

Best Supporting Actor
Who Won: Timothy Hutton (Ordinary People)
Shoulda Won: Joe Pesci (Raging Bull)

Best Supporting Actress
Who Won: Mary Steenburgen (Melvin and Howard)
Shoulda Won: Cathy Moriarty (Raging Bull)

Best Cinematography
Who Won: Geoffrey Unsworth and Ghislain Cloquet (Tess)
Shoulda Won: Michael Chapman (Raging Bull)

Best Score
Who Won: Michael Gore (Fame)
Shoulda Won: John Williams (The Empire Strikes Back)
 
Raging Bull (scorsese)
The Elephant Man (lynch)
From the Life of the Marionettes (bergman)
Gates of Heaven (morris) *
Gloria (cassavettes)
Return of the Secaucus 7 (sayles)
The Shining (kubick)
Kagemusha (kurosawa)
The Fog (carpenter)
Dressed to Kill (de palma)


* honorable mention... Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe - (from imdb.com) A film exactly described by its title. German film director Herzog had made a bet with fledgling director Errol Morris that, if Morris could finish his film, Herzog would eat his shoe. Morris went on to complete 'Gates of Heaven', so Herzog kept his promise. While eating the boiled shoe, Herzog carries on a dialogue with the film premier audience on film, art, and life.
 
The HUdson Best Films of 1980 List:

01 The Empire Strikes Back
02 Raging Bull
03 Shining, The
04 Elephant Man, The
05 Dressed to Kill
06 My Bodyguard
07 Mad Max (Released in America this year you crazy kids)
08 The Final Countdown
09 Island, The
10 Big Red One, The

Honorable Mentions:
- Fog, The
- Fridaythe 13th
- Superman II

Also...
The Oscars; Who Won, and Who Shoulda Won IMHO

Best Picture
Who Won: Ordinary People
Shoulda Won: The Empire Strikes Back *Not even nominated

Best Director
Who Won: Robert Redford (Ordinary People)
Shoulda Won: Martin Scorsese (Raging Bull)

Best Actor
Who Won: Robert De Niro (Raging Bull)
Shoulda Won: Jack Nicholson (The Shining) *Not even nominated

Best Actress
Who Won: Sissy Spacek (Coal Miner’s Daughter)
Shoulda Won: I concur

Best Supporting Actor
Who Won: Timothy Hutton (Ordinary People)
Shoulda Won: John Hurt (The Elephant Man)

Best Supporting Actress
Who Won: Mary Steenburgen (Melvin and Howard)
Shoulda Won: Cathy Moriarty (Raging Bull)

Best Cinematography
Who Won: Geoffrey Unsworth and Ghislain Cloquet (Tess)
Shoulda Won: Michael Chapman (Raging Bull)

Best Score
Who Won: Michael Gore (Fame)
Shoulda Won: John Williams (The Empire Strikes Back)
 
John, John, John... look as hard as I might, I see neither Caddyshack nor Airplane! You don't like comedy?
 
I like it when I am watching it but Comedy is the least favorite of my genres. Usually, because it rarely comes across as real or plausible.

I love comedy like A Fish Called Wanda and Young Frankenstein (And incidentally History of the World and Blazing Saddles are favorites) and most recently loved Shaun of the Dead but yeah; not a favorite genre of mine
 
I agree that comedy is the only genre that has to, for all intensive purposes, be segregated into "best of" lists of its own...

but if it happens to be one (or in the case of this year, THREE) of the absolute best comedies of all bloody time...well, then I haveta include it (them).
 
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