1. Sans Soleil- Chris.Marker
2. Blade Runner- Ridley Scott
3. Fanny and Alexander- Ingmar Bergman
4. The Thing- John Carpenter
5. Tenebrae- Dario Argento
6. Night of the Shooting Stars- Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
7. Pink Floyd: the Wall- Alan Parker
8. So Is This- Michael Snow
9. [White Dog- Sam Fuller]
10. Tootsie- Sydney Pollack
11. Vincent- Tim Burton [short]
12. The Verdict- Sidney Lumet
13. Star Trek: the Wrath of Khan- Nicholas Meyer
14. Burden of Dreams- Les Blank
15. The Year of Living Dangerously- Peter Weir
16. A Good Marriage- Eric Rohmer
17. Veronika Voss- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
18. Fitzcarraldo- Werner Herzog
19. Say Amen, Somebody- George T. Nierenberg
20. Victor/Victoria- Blake Edwards
Ripe for re-appraisal: Conan the Barbarian (John Milius), Diner (Barry Levinson), The Draughtsman’s Contract (Peter Greenaway), One From the Heart (Francis Coppola), Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper), TRON (Steven Lisberger)
Need to see: The Ballad of Narayama (Shohei Imamura), Blind Chance (Krzystzof Kieslowski), Chan Is Missing (Wayne Wang), Danton (Andrzej Wajda), Duel to the Death (Ching Siu-tung), Identification of a Woman (Michelangelo Antonioni), Missing (Costa-Gavras), Moonlighting (Jerzy Skolimowski), On Top of the Whale (Raul Ruiz), Passion (Jean-Luc Godard), The Plague Dogs (Martin Rosen), The State of Things (Wim Wenders), Tex (Tim Hunter), Toute une Nuit (Chantal Akerman), La Truite (Joseph Losey), Ulysse (Agnes Varda), Yol (Yilmaz Guney/Serif Goren)
Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Gandhi (Richard Attenborough)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Gandhi
César Awards, Best Film: La Balance (Bob Swaim)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: (tie) Missing (Costa-Gavras) and Yol
Venice, Golden Lion: The State of Things
Berlin, Golden Bear: Veronika Voss (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Toronto, Audience Award: Tempest (Paul Mazursky)