1979 in film
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Events
- March 5 - Production begins on .
- April 13 - The Adventure of Sudsakorn, Thailand's first (and to this day only) animated feature film is released.
- November 1 - Production begins on Raiders of the Lost Ark.
- December 7 - debuts in the United States to mixed reviews but strong box office, launching a film franchise that would span 10 films over the next 23 years. It also would eventually lead to the creation of four spin-off television series based upon the franchise.
Top grossing films
- North America
- Every Which Way But Loose
- Rocky II, starring Sylvester Stallone
- Alien
- tie, The Amityville Horror and
- Moonraker starring Roger Moore
- The Muppet Movie
- California Suite
- The Deer Hunter
Births
- January 12 - Isidra Vega, actress
- January 8 - Sarah Polley, actress
- January 27 - Rosamund Pike, actress
- February 9 - Mena Suvari, actress
- February 9 - Zhang Ziyi, actress and dancer
- April 4 - Bunko Kanazawa, actress
- April 12 - Claire Danes, actress
- April 19 - Kate Hudson, actress
- April 23 - Jaime King, actress
- May 9 - Rosario Dawson, actress
- May 25 - Monica Keena, actress
- October 4 - Rachael Leigh Cook, actress
- October 8 - Kristanna Loken, actress
- December 23 - Summer Altice, model and actress
Deaths
- February 12 - Jean Renoir, director
- March 1 - Dolores Costello, actress
- March 22 - Ben Lyon, actor, also credited as the person who "discovered" and renamed Marilyn Monroe
- May 29 - Mary Pickford, actress, movie studio founder
- June 11 - John Wayne, actor
- August 17, Vivian Vance, actress
- September 8 - Jean Seberg, actress
- September 12 - Jocelyne LaGarde, Tahitian actress
- December 11 - Adile Nasit, actress, director
Other movies released
- The Adventure of Sudsakorn, Thailand's first and only animated feature film
- Agatha
- Alexandria... Why?
- All That Jazz
- Apocalypse Now, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Dennis Hopper, Harrison Ford, Palme d'Or winner
- Being There, starring Peter Sellers
- Beyond the Posedion Adventure
- The Black Hole
- The Black Stallion
- Caligula, directed by Tinto Brass (with minor additional inserts directed by Bob Guccione and Giancarlo Lui,) written by Gore Vidal (with un-credited re-writes by Tinto Brass and Malcolm McDowell,) starring Malcolm McDowell, Teresa Ann Savoy, Helen Mirren and Peter O'Toole, produced by Bob Guccione and Franco Rossellini
- The China Syndrome
- David, Golden Bear (award) winner
- The Electric Horseman, directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda
- Escape from Alcatraz
- HAIR
- Hardcore, starring George C. Scott
- Hanover Street
- The In-Laws
- The Jerk, starring Steve Martin
- Kramer vs. Kramer, starring Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep, both of whom won Oscars for their performances
- La Cage aux Folles
- Love at First Bite, starring George Hamilton
- Mad Max, starring Mel Gibson
- The Main Event, starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal
- Manhattan
- The Marriage of Maria Braun
- Meatballs, starring Bill Murray
- Monty Python's Life of Brian
- Moonraker starring Roger Moore
- 1941, starring Dan Aykroyd
- Norma Rae
- ("Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht")
- Rock 'n' Roll High School, produced by Roger Corman, featuring The Ramones
- Roller Boogie
- The Rose
- Siberiade
- Soldier of Orange
- 10, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Dudley Moore
- Tess, directed by Roman Polanski, starring Nastassja Kinski
- Time After Time
- The Tin Drum, Palme d'Or winner
- Vengeance is Mine
- The Warriors
- Zulu Dawn
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