37th Venice International Film Festival

37th Venice International Film Festival
	Festival poster
Location	Venice, Italy
Founded	1932
Awards	Golden Lion:; Atlantic City; Gloria
Festival date	28 August – 8 September 1980
Website	Website
Venice Film Festival chronology
	38th 36th

The 37th annual Venice International Film Festival was held on 28 August to 8 September, 1980.^[1]^[2]

Italian screenwriter Suso Cecchi d'Amico was the Jury President of the main competition. The Golden Lion winners were: Atlantic City directed by Louis Malle and Gloria directed by John Cassavetes.

Jury

The following people comprised the 1980 jury:^[3]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
The Age of the Earth	A Idade da Terra	Glauber Rocha	Brazil
Alexander the Great	Ο Μεγαλέξανδρος	Theo Angelopoulos	Greece
Atlantic City		Louis Malle	France, Canada
Eugenio / Turn Around Eugenio	Voltati Eugenio	Luigi Comencini	Italy
Gloria		John Cassavetes	United States
Going in Style		Martin Brest	United States
The Human Factor		Otto Preminger	United Kingdom
The Little Mermaid	La petite sirène	Roger Andrieux	France
Long Days	Al-ayyam al-tawila	Tewfik Saleh	Iraq
Melvin and Howard		Jonathan Demme	United States
Phobia		John Huston	Canada
Richard's Things		Anthony Harvey	United Kingdom
Story of an Unknown Man	Рассказ неизвестного человека	Vytautas Žalakevičius	Soviet Union
Two Lions in the Sun	Deux lions au soleil	Claude Faraldo	France

^ "VENICE FILM FESTIVAL – 1980". Retrieved October 6, 2013.
^ "The 1980s". Archived from the original on September 2, 2012. Retrieved October 8, 2013.
^ "Juries for the 1980s". Archived from the original on 30 August 2012. Retrieved 27 March 2018.