The 33rd Cannes Film Festival took place from 9 and 23 May 1980. American actor Kirk Douglas served as jury president for the main competition. During the festival the showing of Andrei Tarkovsky's film Stalker was notoriously interrupted by an electricians strike.
The Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, was jointly awarded to All That Jazz by Bob Fosse and Kagemusha by Akira Kurosawa.
The festival opened with Fantastica by Gilles Carle, and closed with I'm Photogenic by Dino Risi.
The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:
The following films were selected for the Un Certain Regard section:
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:
The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:
The following feature films were screened for the 19th International Critics' Week (19e Semaine de la Critique):
The following films were screened for the 1980 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):
Short films