Oscar Alternate 1980s
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1. Ordinary People (1980)
R | 124 min | Drama
The accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father and the guilt-ridden younger son.
Director: Robert Redford | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, Timothy Hutton
Votes: 56,678 | Gross: $54.80M
Best Film
Winner: Ordinary People
Coal Miner's Daughter
The Elephant Man
Raging Bull
The Stunt Man
Tess
2. The Stunt Man (1980)
R | 131 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
A fugitive stumbles onto a movie set just when they need a new stunt man, takes the job as a way to hide out and falls for the leading lady while facing off with his manipulative director.
Director: Richard Rush | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Steve Railsback, Barbara Hershey, Allen Garfield
Votes: 10,456 | Gross: $7.06M
Best Director
Winner: Robert Redford – Ordinary People
David Lynch – The Elephant Man
Martin Scorsese – Raging Bull
Richard Rush – The Stunt Man
Roman Polanski – Tess
Sound: The Empire Strikes Back
Altered States
Coal Miner's Daughter
Fame
Raging Bull
3. Raging Bull (1980)
R | 129 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent
Votes: 380,183 | Gross: $23.38M
Best Actor
Winner: Robert De Niro – Raging Bull
Robert Duvall – The Great Santini
John Hurt – The Elephant Man
Timothy Hutton – Ordinary People
Jack Lemmon – Tribute
Donald Sutherland – Ordinary People
Cinematography: Raging Bull – Michael Chapman
The Blue Lagoon
Coal Miner's Daughter
The Elephant Man
Tess
4. Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
PG | 124 min | Biography, Drama, Music
The fictionalized life of singer Loretta Lynn, a girl who rose from humble beginnings to become a country music star in the 1960s/70s.
Director: Michael Apted | Stars: Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Levon Helm, Phyllis Boyens
Votes: 20,507 | Gross: $67.18M
Best Actress
Winner: Sissy Spacek – Coal Miner's Daughter
Ellen Burstyn – Resurrection
Goldie Hawn – Private Benjamin
Nastassja Kinski – Tess
Mary Tyler Moore – Ordinary People
Gena Rowlands – Gloria
Production: Tess – Pierre Guffroy and Jack Stephens
Coal Miner's Daughter
The Elephant Man
The Empire Strikes Back
Kagemusha
5. The Elephant Man (1980)
PG | 124 min | Biography, Drama
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of kindness, intelligence and sophistication.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud
Votes: 258,421
Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Judd Hirsch – Ordinary People
Anthony Hopkins – The Elephant Man
Michael O'Keefe – The Great Santini
Peter O'Toole – The Stunt Man
Joe Pesci – Raging Bull
Jason Robards – Melvin and Howard
Film Editing: Raging Bull – Thelma Schoonmaker
The Competition
The Elephant Man
Fame
The Stunt Man
6. Melvin and Howard (1980)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
The story of hard-luck Melvin E. Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes.
Director: Jonathan Demme | Stars: Paul Le Mat, Jason Robards, Elizabeth Cheshire, Mary Steenburgen
Votes: 5,303 | Gross: $4.31M
Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Mary Steenburgen – Melvin and Howard
Eileen Brennan – Private Benjamin
Barbara Hershey – The Stunt Man
Eva Le Gallienne – Resurrection
Cathy Moriarty – Raging Bull
Diana Scarwid – Inside Moves
Costume: Tess – Anthony Powell
9 to 5
The Elephant Man
My Brilliant Career
Somewhere in Time
7. Tess (1979)
PG | 186 min | Drama, Romance
A strong-willed young peasant girl attracts the affection of two men.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth, Leigh Lawson, John Collin
Votes: 18,271
Best Screenplay
Original: Melvin and Howard – Bo Goldman
Brubaker
Fame
My Bodyguard
Private Benjamin
Adapted: Ordinary People – Alvin Sargent
Coal Miner's Daughter
The Elephant Man
Raging Bull
The Stunt Man
8. Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1980)
PG | 150 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Three young provincial women come to Moscow in search of what people in all the capitals of the world are looking for - love, happiness and prosperity. Their destinies develop exactly as the character of each of the girls suggests.
Director: Vladimir Menshov | Stars: Vera Alentova, Aleksey Batalov, Irina Muravyova, Aleksandr Fatyushin
Votes: 14,292 | Gross: $2.50M
Best Foreign Film
Winner: Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (Soviet Union) – Vladimir Menshov
Confidence (Hungary)
Kagemusha (Japan)
The Last Metro (France)
The Nest (Spain)
Visual Effect: The Empire Strikes Back
9. Fame (1980)
R | 134 min | Drama, Music, Musical
A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.
Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Eddie Barth, Irene Cara, Lee Curreri, Laura Dean
Votes: 24,685 | Gross: $0.12M
Best Soundtrack
Song: "Fame" Fame – Michael Gore and Dean Pitchford
"Nine to Five" 9 to 5
"On the Road Again" Honeysuckle Rose
"Out Here on My Own" Fame
"People Alone" The Competition
Score: Fame – Michael Gore
Altered States
Dressed to Kill
The Elephant Man
Tess
10. Reds (1981)
PG | 195 min | Biography, Drama, History
A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia, and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.
Director: Warren Beatty | Stars: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann, Jerzy Kosinski
Votes: 24,715 | Gross: $40.38M
Best Film
Winner: Reds
Atlantic City
Chariots of Fire
On Golden Pond
Ragtime
Raiders of the Lost Ark
11. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
PG | 115 min | Action, Adventure
In 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis can obtain its awesome powers.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, John Rhys-Davies
Votes: 1,036,791 | Gross: $248.16M
Best Director
Winner: Warren Beatty – Reds
Louis Malle – Atlantic City
Hugh Hudson – Chariots of Fire
Mark Rydell – On Golden Pond
Steven Spielberg – Raiders of the Lost Ark
Sound: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Blow Out
Outland
Pennies from Heaven
Reds
12. On Golden Pond (1981)
PG | 109 min | Drama
Norman is a curmudgeon with an estranged relationship with his daughter Chelsea. At Golden Pond, he and his wife nevertheless agree to care for Billy, the son of Chelsea's new boyfriend, and a most unexpected relationship blooms.
Director: Mark Rydell | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda, Doug McKeon
Votes: 34,858 | Gross: $119.29M
Best Actor
Winner: Henry Fonda – On Golden Pond
Warren Beatty – Reds
Harrison Ford – Raiders of the Lost Ark
Burt Lancaster – Atlantic City
Dudley Moore – Arthur
Paul Newman – Absence of Malice
Cinematography: Reds – Vittorio Storaro
Excalibur
On Golden Pond
Ragtime
Raiders of the Lost Ark
13. Atlantic City (1980)
R | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Kate Reid, Michel Piccoli
Votes: 18,292
Best Actress
Winner: Katharine Hepburn – On Golden Pond
Faye Dunaway – Mommie Dearest
Diane Keaton – Reds
Marsha Mason – Only When I Laugh
Susan Sarandon – Atlantic City
Meryl Streep – The French Lieutenant's Woman
Production: Raiders of the Lost Ark – Norman Reynolds and Leslie Dilley
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Pennies from Heaven
Ragtime
Reds
14. Arthur (1981)
PG | 97 min | Comedy, Romance
Alcoholic billionaire playboy Arthur Bach must marry a woman he does not love, or he will be cut off from his $750,000,000 fortune. But when Arthur falls in love with a poor waitress, he must decide if he wants to choose love or money.
Director: Steve Gordon | Stars: Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli, John Gielgud, Geraldine Fitzgerald
Votes: 31,097 | Gross: $95.46M
Best Supporting Actor
Winner: John Gielgud – Arthur
James Coco – Only When I Laugh
Ian Holm – Chariots of Fire
Jack Nicholson – Reds
Howard E. Rollins Jr. – Ragtime
Nicol Williamson – Excalibur
Film Editing: Raiders of the Lost Ark – Michael Kahn
Arthur
Chariots of Fire
On Golden Pond
Reds
15. Pennies from Heaven (1981)
R | 108 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
During the Great Depression, a sheet-music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent schoolteacher.
Director: Herbert Ross | Stars: Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Jessica Harper, Vernel Bagneris
Votes: 6,179 | Gross: $9.18M
Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Maureen Stapleton – Reds
Karen Allen – Raiders of the Lost Ark
Melinda Dillon – Absence of Malice
Jane Fonda – On Golden Pond
Joan Hackett – Only When I Laugh
Elizabeth McGovern – Ragtime
Costume: Pennies from Heaven – Bob Mackie
Chariots of Fire
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Ragtime
Reds
16. Ragtime (1981)
PG | 155 min | Drama
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
Director: Milos Forman | Stars: James Cagney, Elizabeth McGovern, Howard E. Rollins Jr., Brad Dourif
Votes: 10,555 | Gross: $21.02M
Best Screenplay
Original: Reds – Warren Beatty and Trevor Griffiths
Absence of Malice
Arthur
Atlantic City
Chariots of Fire
Adapted: On Golden Pond – Ernest Thompson
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Pennies from Heaven
Prince of the City
Ragtime
17. Pixote (1980)
TV-MA | 128 min | Crime, Drama
The life of a boy on the streets of Sao Paulo, involved with crimes, prostitution, and drugs.
Director: Hector Babenco | Stars: Fernando Ramos da Silva, Jorge Julião, Gilberto Moura, Edilson Lino
Votes: 9,233
Best Foreign Film
Winner: Pixote (Brazil) – Hector Babenco
Man of Iron (Poland)
Mephisto (Hungary)
Muddy River (Japan)
Three Brothers (Italy)
Makeup: An American Werewolf in London
Heartbeeps
Mommie Dearest
Visual Effect: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Dragonslayer
Outland
18. Chariots of Fire (1981)
PG | 125 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian, are driven to win in the 1924 Olympics as they wrestle with issues of pride and conscience.
Director: Hugh Hudson | Stars: Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nicholas Farrell, Nigel Havers
Votes: 65,884 | Gross: $58.97M
Best Soundtrack
Song: "Best That You Can Do" Arthur – Peter Allen, Burt Bacharach, Christopher Cross and Carole Bayer Sager
"Endless Love" Endless Love
"The First Time It Happens" The Great Muppet Caper
"For Your Eyes Only" For Your Eyes Only
"One More Hour" Ragtime
Score: Chariots of Fire – Vangelis
Dragonslayer
On Golden Pond
Ragtime
Raiders of the Lost Ark
19. Gandhi (1982)
PG | 191 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.
Director: Richard Attenborough | Stars: Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud, Rohini Hattangadi, Roshan Seth
Votes: 240,191 | Gross: $52.77M
Best Film
Winner: Gandhi
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Missing
Sophie's Choice
Tootsie
The Verdict
20. Das Boot (1981)
R | 149 min | Drama, War
A German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II.
Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch
Votes: 264,320 | Gross: $11.49M
Best Director
Winner: Richard Attenborough – Gandhi
Wolfgang Petersen – Das Boot
Steven Spielberg – E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Sydney Pollack – Tootsie
Sidney Lumet – The Verdict
Sound: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Blade Runner
Das Boot
Tootsie
Tron
21. Missing (1982)
PG | 122 min | Biography, Drama, History
When an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, John Shea
Votes: 23,360 | Gross: $14.00M
Best Actor
Winner: Ben Kingsley – Gandhi
Albert Finney – Shoot the Moon
Dustin Hoffman – Tootsie
Jack Lemmon – Missing
Paul Newman – The Verdict
Peter O'Toole – My Favourite Year
Cinematography: Gandhi – Billy Williams and Ronnie Taylor
Blade Runner
Das Boot
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Sophie's Choice
22. Sophie's Choice (1982)
R | 150 min | Drama, Romance
Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live with Nathan, a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust.
Director: Alan J. Pakula | Stars: Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, Rita Karin
Votes: 52,760 | Gross: $30.04M
Best Actress
Winner: Meryl Streep – Sophie's Choice
Julie Andrews – Victor/Victoria
Diane Keaton – Shoot the Moon
Jessica Lange – Frances
Sissy Spacek – Missing
Debra Winger – An Officer and a Gentleman
Production: Blade Runner – Lawrence G. Paull
Gandhi
Sophie's Choice
Tron
Victor/Victoria
23. An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
R | 124 min | Drama, Romance
A young man must complete his work at a Navy Officer Candidate School to become an aviator, with the help of a tough Gunnery Sergeant and his new girlfriend.
Director: Taylor Hackford | Stars: Richard Gere, Debra Winger, David Keith, Robert Loggia
Votes: 62,594 | Gross: $129.80M
Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Louis Gossett Jr. – An Officer and a Gentleman
Charles Durning – Tootsie
Michael Keaton – Night Shift
John Lithgow – The World According to Garp
James Mason – The Verdict
Robert Preston – Victor/Victoria
Film Editing: Gandhi – John Bloom
Das Boot
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
An Officer and a Gentleman
Tootsie
24. Tootsie (1982)
PG | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Michael Dorsey, an unsuccessful actor, disguises himself as a woman in order to get a role on a trashy hospital soap.
Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman
Votes: 114,643 | Gross: $177.20M
Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Jessica Lange – Tootsie
Glenn Close – The World According to Garp
Teri Garr – Tootsie
Lainie Kazan – My Favorite Year
Kim Stanley – Frances
Lesley Ann Warren – Victor/Victoria
Costume: Victor/Victoria – Patricia Norris
Blade Runner
Gandhi
Sophie's Choice
Tron
25. The Verdict (1982)
R | 129 min | Drama
An outcast, alcoholic Boston lawyer sees the chance to salvage his career and self-respect by taking a medical malpractice case to trial rather than settling.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, Jack Warden, James Mason
Votes: 45,974 | Gross: $54.00M
Best Screenplay
Original: Tootsie – Larry Gelbart, Don McGuire, Murray Schisgal and Barry Levinson
Diner
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Gandhi
An Officer and a Gentleman
Adapted: The Verdict – David Mamet
Das Boot
Missing
Sophie's Choice
Victor/Victoria
26. Fitzcarraldo (1982)
PG | 158 min | Adventure, Drama
The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, José Lewgoy, Miguel Ángel Fuentes
Votes: 38,581
Best Foreign Film
Winner: Fitzcarraldo (West Germany) – Werner Herzog
Alsino and the Condor (Nicaragua)
Begin the Beguine (Spain)
Clean Slate (France)
Yol (Switzerland)
Makeup: Quest for Fire
Gandhi
The Thing
Visual Effect: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Blade Runner
Poltergeist
27. E.T. (1982)
PG | 115 min | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape from Earth and return to his home planet.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote, Dee Wallace
Votes: 437,458 | Gross: $435.11M
Best Soundtrack
Song: "Up Where We Belong" An Officer and a Gentleman – Jack Nitzsche, Buffy Sainte-Marie and Will Jennings
"Eye of the Tiger" Rocky III
"How Do You Keep the Music Playing?" Best Friends
"If We Were In Love" Yes, Giorgio
"It Might Be You" Tootsie
Score: E.T. the Extra-Terrestiral – John Williams
Gandhi
An Officer and a Gentleman
Poltergeist
Sophie's Choice
28. Terms of Endearment (1983)
PG | 132 min | Comedy, Drama
Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her daughter's family problems.
Director: James L. Brooks | Stars: Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito
Votes: 65,470 | Gross: $108.42M
Best Film
Winner: Terms of Endearment
The Big Chill
The Dresser
The Right Stuff
Silkwood
Tender Mercies
29. The Dresser (1983)
PG | 118 min | Drama
Personal assistant Norman struggles to get deteriorating veteran actor Sir through a difficult performance of King Lear.
Director: Peter Yates | Stars: Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Edward Fox, Zena Walker
Votes: 5,700 | Gross: $5.31M
Best Director
Winner: James L. Brooks – Terms of Endearment
Peter Yates – The Dresser
Philip Kaufman – The Right Stuff
Mike Nichols – Silkwood
Bruce Beresford – Tender Mercies
Sound: The Right Stuff
Never Cry Wolf
Return of the Jedi
Terms of Endearment
Under Fire
30. Tender Mercies (1983)
PG | 92 min | Drama, Music
A broken-down, middle-aged country singer gets a new wife, reaches out to his long-lost daughter, and tries to put his troubled life back together.
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Robert Duvall, Tess Harper, Betty Buckley, Wilford Brimley
Votes: 12,019 | Gross: $8.44M
Best Actor
Winner: Robert Duvall – Tender Mercies
Michael Caine – Educating Rita
Tom Conti – Reuben, Reuben
Tom Courtenay – The Dresser
Albert Finney – The Dresser
Eric Roberts – Star 80
Cinematography: Flashdance – Don Peterman
Fanny and Alexander
The Right Stuff
Silkwood
Zelig
31. Silkwood (1983)
R | 131 min | Biography, Drama, History
A worker at a plutonium processing plant is purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing worker safety violations at the plant.
Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher, Craig T. Nelson
Votes: 22,198 | Gross: $35.62M
Best Actress
Winner: Shirley MacLaine – Terms of Endearment
Jane Alexander – Testament
Bonnie Bedelia – Heart Like a Wheel
Meryl Streep – Silkwood
Julie Walters – Educating Rita
Debra Winger – Terms of Endearment
Production: The Right Stuff – Geoffrey Kirkland
Fanny and Alexander
Return of the Jedi
Terms of Endearment
Yentl
32. The Right Stuff (1983)
PG | 193 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The U.S. space program's development from the breaking of the sound barrier to selection of the Mercury 7 astronauts, from a group of test pilots with a more seat-of-the-pants approach than the program's more cautious engineers preferred.
Director: Philip Kaufman | Stars: Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid
Votes: 65,342 | Gross: $21.50M
Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Jack Nicholson – Terms of Endearment
Jeff Daniels – Terms of Endearment
Ed Harris – The Right Stuff
Sam Shepard – The Right Stuff
Rip Torn – Cross Creek
Fred Ward – The Right Stuff
Film Editing: The Right Stuff – Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Tom Rolf, Stephen A. Rotter and Douglas Stewart
Blue Thunder
Flashdance
Silkwood
Terms of Endearment
33. The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
PG | 115 min | Drama, Romance, War
A young Australian reporter tries to navigate the political turmoil of Indonesia during the rule of President Sukarno with the help of a diminutive photographer.
Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt, Bembol Roco
Votes: 22,869 | Gross: $10.28M
Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Linda Hunt – The Year of Living Dangerously
Cher – Silkwood
Glenn Close – The Big Chill
Tess Harper – Tender Mercies
Amy Irving – Yentl
Alfre Woodard – Cross Creek
Costume: Heart Like a Wheel – William Ware Theiss
Cross Creek
Fanny and Alexander
Yentl
Zelig
34. The Big Chill (1983)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Drama
A group of seven former college friends gather for a weekend reunion at a South Carolina vacation home after the funeral of another of their college friends.
Director: Lawrence Kasdan | Stars: Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt
Votes: 41,413 | Gross: $56.20M
Best Screenplay
Original: The Big Chill – Lawrence Kasdan and Barbara Benedek
Fanny and Alexander
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Silkwood
Tender Mercies
Adapted: Terms of Endearment – James L. Brooks
The Dresser
Educating Rita
Reuben, Reuben
Testament
35. Fanny and Alexander (1982)
R | 188 min | Drama
Two young Swedish children in the 1900s experience the many comedies and tragedies of their lively and affectionate theatrical family, the Ekdahls.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Bertil Guve, Pernilla Allwin, Kristina Adolphson, Börje Ahlstedt
Votes: 67,488 | Gross: $4.97M
Best Foreign Film
Winner: Fanny and Alexander (Sweden) – Ingmar Bergman
The 4th Man (Netherlands)
Le Bal (Algeria)
Carmen (Spain)
Entre Nous (France)
Makeup: Videodrome
Fanny and Alexander
Return of the Jedi
Visual Effect: Return of the Jedi
The Evil Dead
Zelig
36. Flashdance (1983)
R | 95 min | Drama, Music, Romance
An 18-year-old female amateur dancer who performs nightly at a dancing bar, and works as a welder during the day, dreams of joining the Pittsburgh ballet school.
Director: Adrian Lyne | Stars: Jennifer Beals, Michael Nouri, Lilia Skala, Sunny Johnson
Votes: 59,533 | Gross: $94.90M
Best Soundtrack
Song: "Flashdance... What a Feeling" Flashdance – Giorgio Moroder, Keith Forsey and Irene Cara
"All the Right Moves" All the Right Moves
"Maniac" Flashdance
"Over You" Tender Mercies
"The Way He Makes Me Feel" Yentl
Score: The Right Stuff — Bill Conti
Never Cry Wolf
Terms of Endearment
Under Fire
Yentl
37. Amadeus (1984)
R | 160 min | Biography, Drama, Music
The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was deeply jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.
Director: Milos Forman | Stars: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Roy Dotrice
Votes: 428,000 | Gross: $51.97M
Best Film
Winner: Amadeus
Broadway Danny Rose
The Killing Fields
A Passage to India
Places in the Heart
A Soldier's Story
38. Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
PG | 84 min | Comedy
In his attempts to reconcile a lounge singer with his mistress, a hapless talent agent is mistaken as her lover by a jealous gangster.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Nick Apollo Forte, Sandy Baron
Votes: 26,942 | Gross: $10.60M
Best Director
Winner: Milos Forman – Amadeus
Woody Allen – Broadway Danny Rose
Roland Joffe – The Killing Fields
David Lean – A Passage to India
Robert Benton – Places in the Heart
Sound: Amadeus
2010: The Year We Make Contact
Dune
The Killing Fields
A Passage to India
39. A Soldier's Story (1984)
PG | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An African-American officer investigates a murder in a racially charged situation in World War II.
Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Howard E. Rollins Jr., Adolph Caesar, Art Evans, David Alan Grier
Votes: 11,396 | Gross: $21.82M
Best Actor
Winner: F. Murray Abraham – Amadeus
Jeff Bridges – Starman
Albert Finney – Under the Volcano
Tom Hulce – Amadeus
Steve Martin – All of Me
Sam Waterston – The Killing Fields
Cinematography: The Killing Fields – Chris Menges
Amadeus
The Natural
A Passage to India
Paris, Texas
40. Places in the Heart (1984)
PG | 111 min | Drama
In central Texas in the 1930s, a widow with two small children tries to save her small 40-acre farm with the help of a blind boarder and an itinerant black handyman.
Director: Robert Benton | Stars: Sally Field, Lindsay Crouse, Ed Harris, Amy Madigan
Votes: 13,568 | Gross: $34.90M
Best Actress
Winner: Sally Field – Places in the Heart
Judy Davis – A Passage to India
Mia Farrow – Broadway Danny Rose
Jessica Lange – Country
Sissy Spacek – The River
Kathleen Turner – Romancing the Stone
Production: Amadeus – Patrizia von Brandenstein
2010: The Year We Make Contact
The Cotton Club
The Natural
A Passage to India
41. The Killing Fields (1984)
R | 141 min | Biography, Drama, History
A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians.
Director: Roland Joffé | Stars: Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich, Julian Sands
Votes: 59,161 | Gross: $34.70M
Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Haing S. Ngor – The Killing Fields
Adolph Caesar – A Soldier's Story
John Candy – Splash
Jeffrey Jones – Amadeus
John Malkovich – Places in the Heart
Pat Morita – The Karate Kid
Film Editing: The Killing Fields – Jim Clark
Amadeus
The Cotton Club
A Passage to India
Romancing the Stone
42. A Passage to India (1984)
PG | 164 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox
Votes: 20,853 | Gross: $27.19M
Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Peggy Ashcroft – A Passage to India
Elizabeth Berridge – Amadeus
Glenn Close – The Natural
Lindsay Crouse – Places in the Heart
Christine Lahti – Swing Shift
Geraldine Page – The Pope of Greenwich Village
Costume: Amadeus – Theodor Pistek
2010: The Year We Make Contact
Dune
A Passage to India
Places in the Heart
43. Splash (1983)
PG | 111 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
A young man is reunited with a mermaid he briefly encountered as a boy and falls in love with her without knowing her secret.
Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, Eugene Levy, John Candy
Votes: 83,415 | Gross: $62.10M
Best Screenplay
Original: Places in the Heart – Robert Benton
Beverly Hills Cop
Broadway Danny Rose
Romancing the Stone
Splash
Adapted: Amadeus – Peter Shaffer
The Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
The Killing Fields
A Passage to India
A Soldier's Story
44. Dangerous Moves (1984)
100 min | Drama, Sport, Thriller
During the Cold War, the World Chess Championship clashed complete opposites - personal and political.
Director: Richard Dembo | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Alexandre Arbatt, Liv Ullmann, Leslie Caron
Votes: 1,478
Best Foreign Film
Winner: Dangerous Moves (Switzerland) – Richard Dembo
Beyond the Walls (Israel)
Camila (Argentina)
Double Feature (Spain)
Wartime Romance (Soviet Union)
Makeup: Amadeus
2010: The Year We Make Contact
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Visual Effect: Ghostbusters
2010: The Year We Make Contact
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
45. The Woman in Red (1984)
PG-13 | 87 min | Comedy, Romance
On his way to work, Teddy spots Charlotte, an incredibly beautiful Woman in Red. He really wants to meet her, but what would his wife say?
Director: Gene Wilder | Stars: Gene Wilder, Kelly LeBrock, Charles Grodin, Joseph Bologna
Votes: 17,351 | Gross: $25.31M
Best Soundtrack
Song: "I Just Called to Say I Love You" The Woman in Red – Stevie Wonder
"Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" Against All Odds
"Footloose" Footloose
"Ghostbusters" Ghostbusters
"When Doves Cry" Purple Rain
Score: Purple Rain – Prince
The Natural
Paris, Texas
A Passage to India
The River
46. The Color Purple (1985)
PG-13 | 154 min | Drama
A tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Margaret Avery
Votes: 97,326 | Gross: $98.47M
Best Film
Winner: The Color Purple
Back to the Future
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Out of Africa
Prizzi's Honor
Witness
47. Back to the Future (1985)
PG | 116 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover
Votes: 1,306,608 | Gross: $210.61M
Best Director
Winner: Steven Spielberg – The Color Purple
Hector Babenco – Kiss of the Spider Woman
Sidney Pollack – Out of Africa
John Huston – Prizzi's Honor
Peter Weir – Witness
Sound: Back to the Future
A Chorus Line
Ladyhawke
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Silverado
48. Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
R | 120 min | Drama
A gay man and a political prisoner are together in a prison. The gay man narrates the stories of two fake movies and his own life.
Director: Hector Babenco | Stars: William Hurt, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga, José Lewgoy
Votes: 17,350 | Gross: $17.04M
Best Actor
Winner: William Hurt – Kiss of the Spider Woman
Harrison Ford – Witness
James Garner – Murphy's Romance
Raul Julia – Kiss of the Spider Woman
Jack Nicholson – Prizzi's Honor
Jon Voight – Runaway Train
Cinematography: Out of Africa – David Watkin
Back to the Future
The Color Purple
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Witness
49. Out of Africa (1985)
PG | 161 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.
Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Michael Kitchen
Votes: 86,348 | Gross: $87.10M
Best Actress
Winner: Whoopi Goldberg – The Color Purple
Cher – Mask
Jessica Lange – Sweet Dreams
Geraldine Page – The Trip to Bountiful
Meryl Streep – Out of Africa
Kathleen Turner – Prizzi's Honor
Production: Brazil – Norman Garwood
The Color Purple
Out of Africa
Silverado
Witness
50. Cocoon (1985)
PG-13 | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigor.
Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Brian Dennehy
Votes: 68,817 | Gross: $76.11M
Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Don Ameche – Cocoon
Klaus Maria Brandauer – Out of Africa
Jack Gilford – Cocoon
William Hickey – Prizzi's Honor
Robert Loggia – Jagged Edge
Eric Roberts – Runaway Train
Film Editing: Witness – Thom Noble
Back to the Future
A Chorus Line
Prizzi's Honor
Runaway Train
51. Prizzi's Honor (1985)
R | 130 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Two professional assassins fall in love.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, Robert Loggia, John Randolph
Votes: 26,395 | Gross: $26.70M
Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Anjelica Huston – Prizzi's Honor
Margaret Avery – The Color Purple
Sonia Braga – Kiss of the Spider Woman
Amy Madigan – Twice in a Lifetime
Meg Tilly – Agnes of God
Oprah Winfrey – The Color Purple
Costume: Out of Africa – Milena Canonero
Back to the Future
The Color Purple
Prizzi's Honor
Silverado
52. Witness (1985)
R | 112 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
While protecting an Amish boy - who is the sole witness to a brutal murder - and his mother, a detective is forced to seek refuge within their community when his own life is threatened.
Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Lukas Haas, Josef Sommer
Votes: 104,640 | Gross: $68.71M
Best Screenplay
Original: Witness – William Kelley, Pamela Wallace and Earl W. Wallace
Back to the Future
Brazil
Cocoon
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Adapted: The Color Purple – Menno Meyjes
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Out of Africa
Prizzi's Honor
The Trip to Bountiful
53. When Father Was Away on Business (1985)
R | 136 min | Drama
A family is deeply affected by the father's extramarital affairs and the turbulent consequences of the Tito-Stalin split.
Director: Emir Kusturica | Stars: Moreno De Bartoli, Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Mirjana Karanovic, Mustafa Nadarevic
Votes: 10,099 | Gross: $0.02M
Best Foreign Film
Winner: When Father Was Away on Business (Yugoslavia) – Emir Kusturica
Angry Harvest (West Germany)
Colonel Redl (Hungary)
The Official Story (Argentina)
Three Men and a Cradle (France)
Makeup: Mask
Brazil
The Color Purple
Visual Effect: Back to the Future
Return to Oz
Young Sherlock Holmes
54. White Nights (1985)
PG-13 | 136 min | Drama, Music
A Russian American ballet dancer's airplane is forced to land in USSR, where he's "repatriated". He stays with an American man married to a Russian. Will the American help him flee USSR?
Director: Taylor Hackford | Stars: Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski, Helen Mirren
Votes: 8,218 | Gross: $42.16M
Best Soundtrack
Song: "Say You, Say Me" White Nights – Lionel Richie
"Don't You (Forget About Me)" The Breakfast Club
"Miss Celie's Blues (Sister)" The Color Purple
"The Power of Love" Back to the Future
"Surprise Surprise" A Chorus Line
Score: The Color Purple – Quincy Jones
Back to the Future
Out of Africa
Silverado
Witness
55. Platoon (1986)
R | 120 min | Drama, War
Chris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Keith David
Votes: 439,464 | Gross: $138.53M
Best Film
Winner: Platoon
Blue Velvet
Children of a Lesser God
Hannah and Her Sisters
The Mission
A Room with a View
56. Blue Velvet (1986)
R | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern
Votes: 215,688 | Gross: $8.55M
Best Director
Winner: Oliver Stone – Platoon
David Lynch – Blue Velvet
Woody Allen – Hannah and Her Sisters
Roland Joffe – The Mission
James Ivory – A Room with a View
Sound: Platoon
Aliens
Heartbreak Ridge
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Top Gun
57. Mona Lisa (1986)
R | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A man recently released from prison manages to get a job driving a call girl from customer to customer.
Director: Neil Jordan | Stars: Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Michael Caine, Robbie Coltrane
Votes: 18,702 | Gross: $5.79M
Best Actor
Winner: Bob Hoskins – Mona Lisa
Dexter Gordon – Round Midnight
Gene Hackman – Hoosiers
William Hurt – Children of a Lesser God
Paul Newman – The Color of Money
James Woods – Salvador
Cinematography: The Mission – Chris Menges
Peggy Sue Got Married
Platoon
A Room with a View
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
58. Children of a Lesser God (1986)
R | 119 min | Drama, Romance
A new speech teacher at a school for the deaf falls in love with the janitor, a deaf woman speechless by choice.
Director: Randa Haines | Stars: William Hurt, Marlee Matlin, Piper Laurie, Philip Bosco
Votes: 18,670 | Gross: $31.85M
Best Actress
Winner: Marlee Matlin – Children of a Lesser God
Jane Fonda – The Morning After
Melanie Griffith – Something Wild
Sissy Spacek – Crimes of the Heart
Kathleen Turner – Peggy Sue Got Married
Sigourney Weaver – Aliens
Production: Aliens – Peter Lamont
The Color of Money
Hannah and Her Sisters
The Mission
A Room with a View
59. The Mission (1986)
PG | 125 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Eighteenth-century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.
Director: Roland Joffé | Stars: Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally, Aidan Quinn
Votes: 65,686 | Gross: $17.22M
Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Michael Caine – Hannah and Her Sisters
Tom Berenger – Platoon
Willem Dafoe – Platoon
Denholm Elliott – A Room with a View
Dennis Hopper – Blue Velvet
River Phoenix – Stand by Me
Film Editing: Platoon – Claire Simpson
Aliens
Hannah and Her Sisters
The Mission
Top Gun
60. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Drama
Between two Thanksgivings two years apart, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest, Michael Caine, Barbara Hershey
Votes: 76,774 | Gross: $40.08M
Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Dianne Wiest – Hannah and Her Sisters
Laura Dern – Blue Velvet
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio – The Color of Money
Isabella Rossellini – Blue Velvet
Maggie Smith – A Room with a View
Cathy Tyson – Mona Lisa
Costume: A Room with a View – Jenny Beavan and John Bright
Hannah and Her Sisters
The Mission
Peggy Sue Got Married
Pirates
61. A Room with a View (1985)
Not Rated | 117 min | Drama, Romance
Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter) shares a brief romance with George Emerson in Florence. Yet as she tries to move on with her life and look for marriage elsewhere, can she truly forget the events of that summer?
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, Denholm Elliott, Julian Sands
Votes: 47,865 | Gross: $20.97M
Best Screenplay
Original: Hannah and Her Sisters – Woody Allen
Blue Velvet
Crocodile Dundee
My Beautiful Laundrette
Platoon
Adapted: A Room with a View – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Children of a Lesser God
The Color of Money
Crimes of the Heart
Stand by Me
62. The Assault (1986)
PG | 144 min | Drama, History, Romance
A Dutch doctor, haunted by grueling childhood memories of World War II, struggles to find peace as he spends his life looking for answers about the tragic night that shaped him.
Director: Fons Rademakers | Stars: Derek de Lint, Marc van Uchelen, Monique van de Ven, John Kraaijkamp Sr.
Votes: 3,403 | Gross: $0.20M
Best Foreign Film
Winner: The Assault (Netherlands) – Fons Rademakers
'38 - Vienna Before the Fall (Austria)
Betty Blue (France)
The Decline of the American Empire (Canada)
My Sweet Little Village (Czechoslovakia)
Makeup: The Fly
The Clan of the Cave Bear
Legend
Visual Effect: Aliens
The Fly
Little Shop of Horrors
63. Top Gun (1986)
PG | 109 min | Action, Drama
As students at the United States Navy's elite fighter weapons school compete to be best in the class, one daring young pilot learns a few things from a civilian instructor that are not taught in the classroom.
Director: Tony Scott | Stars: Tom Cruise, Tim Robbins, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer
Votes: 502,518 | Gross: $179.80M
Best Soundtrack
Song: "Take My Breath Away" Top Gun – Giorgio Moroder and Tom Whitlock
"Glory of Love" The Karate Kid Part II
"Life in a Looking Glass" That's Life!
"Mean Green Mother from Outerspace" Little Shop of Horrors
"Somewhere Out There" An American Tail
Score: The Mission – Ennio Morricone
Aliens
Hoosiers
Platoon
Round Midnight
64. The Last Emperor (1987)
PG-13 | 163 min | Biography, Drama, History
Bernardo Bertolucci's Oscar-winning dramatisation of the life story of China's last emperor, Pu Yi.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Ruocheng Ying
Votes: 111,501 | Gross: $43.98M
Best Film
Winner: The Last Emperor
Broadcast News
Fatal Attraction
Hope and Glory
Moonstruck
The Untouchables
65. Hope and Glory (1987)
PG-13 | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Bill, a young boy living on the outskirts of London experiences the exhilaration of World War II. During this period, Bill learns about sex, death, love, hypocrisy, and the faults of adults as he prowls the ruins of bombed houses.
Director: John Boorman | Stars: Sarah Miles, David Hayman, Sebastian Rice-Edwards, Geraldine Muir
Votes: 14,596 | Gross: $10.02M
Best Director
Winner: Bernardo Bertolucci – The Last Emperor
James L. Brooks – Broadcast News
Adrian Lyne – Fatal Attraction
John Boorman – Hope and Glory
Norman Jewison – Moonstruck
Sound: The Last Emperor
Empire of the Sun
Lethal Weapon
RoboCop
The Witches of Eastwick
66. Wall Street (1987)
R | 126 min | Crime, Drama
An impatient young stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless, greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Michael Douglas, Tamara Tunie, Franklin Cover
Votes: 165,155 | Gross: $43.85M
Best Actor
Winner: Michael Douglas – Wall Street
Nicolas Cage – Moonstruck
William Hurt – Broadcast News
Steve Martin – Roxanne
Jack Nicholson – Ironweed
Robin Williams – Good Morning, Vietnam
Cinematography: The Last Emperor – Vittorio Storaro
Broadcast News
Empire of the Sun
Hope and Glory
Matewan
67. Moonstruck (1987)
PG | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Loretta Castorini, a bookkeeper from Brooklyn, New York, finds herself in a difficult situation when she falls for the brother of the man she has agreed to marry.
Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Cher, Nicolas Cage, Olympia Dukakis, Danny Aiello
Votes: 68,456 | Gross: $80.64M
Best Actress
Winner: Cher – Moonstruck
Glenn Close – Fatal Attraction
Holly Hunter – Broadcast News
Diane Keaton – Baby Boom
Sally Kirkland – Anna
Meryl Streep – Ironweed
Production: The Last Emperor – Ferdinando Scarifotti
Empire of the Sun
Hope and Glory
Radio Days
The Untouchables
68. The Untouchables (1987)
R | 119 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
During Prohibition, Treasury agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop ruthless Chicago gangster Al Capone, and assembles a small, incorruptible team to help him.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro, Charles Martin Smith
Votes: 330,781 | Gross: $76.27M
Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Sean Connery – The Untouchables
Albert Brooks – Broadcast News
R. Lee Ermey – Full Metal Jacket
Morgan Freeman – Street Smart
Vincent Gardenia – Moonstruck
Denzel Washington – Cry Freedom
Film Editing: The Last Emperor – Gabriella Cristianid
Broadcast News
Empire of the Sun
Fatal Attraction
The Untouchables
69. Fatal Attraction (1987)
R | 119 min | Drama, Thriller
A married man's one-night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.
Director: Adrian Lyne | Stars: Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, Anne Archer, Ellen Latzen
Votes: 97,086 | Gross: $156.65M
Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Olympia Dukakis – Moonstruck
Norma Aleandro – Gaby: A True Story
Anne Archer – Fatal Attraction
Joan Cusack – Broadcast News
Anne Ramsey – Throw Momma from the Train
Vanessa Redgrave – Prick Up Your Ears
Costume: The Last Emperor – James Acheson
The Dead
Empire of the Sun
The Princess Bride
The Untouchables
70. Broadcast News (1987)
R | 133 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Take two rival television reporters: one handsome, one talented, both male. Add one producer, female. Mix well, and watch the sparks fly.
Director: James L. Brooks | Stars: William Hurt, Albert Brooks, Holly Hunter, Robert Prosky
Votes: 34,114 | Gross: $51.25M
Best Screenplay
Original: Broadcast News – James L. Brooks
Hope and Glory
Moonstruck
Radio Days
Wall Street
Adapted: The Last Emperor – Mark Peploe and Bernardo Bertolucci
Fatal Attraction
Full Metal Jacket
The Princess Bride
The Untouchables
71. Babette's Feast (1987)
G | 103 min | Drama
During the late 19th century, a strict religious community in a Danish village takes in a French refugee from the Franco-Prussian War as a servant to the late pastor's daughters.
Director: Gabriel Axel | Stars: Stéphane Audran, Bodil Kjer, Birgitte Federspiel, Jarl Kulle
Votes: 22,035 | Gross: $4.40M
Best Foreign Film
Winner: Babette's Feast (Denmark) – Gabriel Axel
Au revoir les enfants (France)
The Family (Italy)
Pathfinder (Norway)
Wings of Desire (West Germany)
Makeup: Harry and the Hendersons
Happy New Year
The Last Emperor
Visual Effect: Predator
Innerspace
The Witches of Eastwick
72. Dirty Dancing (I) (1987)
PG-13 | 100 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Spending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle.
Director: Emile Ardolino | Stars: Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Jerry Orbach, Cynthia Rhodes
Votes: 256,377 | Gross: $0.62M
Best Soundtrack
Song: "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" Dirty Dancing – Franke Previte, John DeNicola and Donald Markowitz
"Cry Freedom" Cry Freedom
"Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" Mannequin
"Shakedown" Beverly Hills Cop II
"Storybook Love" The Princess Bride
Score: The Last Emperor – David Byrne, Cong Su and Ryuichi Sakamoto
Cry Freedom
Empire of the Sun
The Untouchables
The Witches of Eastwick
73. Rain Man (1988)
R | 133 min | Drama
After a selfish L.A. yuppie learns his estranged father left a fortune to an autistic-savant brother in Ohio that he didn't know existed, he absconds with his brother and sets out across the country, hoping to gain a larger inheritance.
Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino, Gerald R. Molen
Votes: 546,535 | Gross: $178.80M
Best Film
Winner: Rain Man
The Accidental Tourist
Dangerous Liaisons
A Fish Called Wanda
Mississippi Burning
Working Girl
74. Running on Empty (1988)
PG-13 | 116 min | Crime, Drama, Music
The eldest son of a fugitive family comes of age and wants to live his own life.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: River Phoenix, Christine Lahti, Judd Hirsch, Jonas Abry
Votes: 17,908 | Gross: $2.84M
Best Director
Winner: Barry Levinson – Rain Man
Charles Crichton – A Fish Called Wanda
Alan Parker – Mississippi Burning
Sidney Lumet – Running on Empty
Mike Nichols – Working Girl
Sound: Bird
Die Hard
Gorillas in the Mist
Mississippi Burning
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
75. Mississippi Burning (1988)
R | 128 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Two F.B.I. Agents with wildly different styles arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists.
Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif
Votes: 110,990 | Gross: $34.60M
Best Actor
Winner: Dustin Hoffman – Rain Man
Gene Hackman – Mississippi Burning
Tom Hanks – Big
Edward James Olmos – Stand and Deliver
River Phoenix – Running on Empty
Max von Sydow – Pelle the Conqueror
Cinematography: Mississippi Burning – Peter Biziou
Rain Man
Tequila Sunrise
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
76. The Accused (1988)
R | 111 min | Crime, Drama
After a young woman suffers a brutal gang rape in a bar one night, a prosecutor assists in bringing the perpetrators to justice, including the ones who encouraged and cheered on the attack.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan | Stars: Kelly McGillis, Jodie Foster, Bernie Coulson, Leo Rossi
Votes: 40,019 | Gross: $32.07M
Best Actress
Winner: Jodie Foster – The Accused
Glenn Close – Dangerous Liaisons
Melanie Griffith – Working Girl
Susan Sarandon – Bull Durham
Meryl Streep – A Cry in the Dark
Sigourney Weaver – Gorillas in the Mist
Production: Dangerous Liaisons – Stuart Craig
Beaches
Married to the Mob
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
77. A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Crime
In London, four very different people team up on a jewel heist, then try to double-cross one another for the loot, complicated by their efforts to fool a very proper barrister.
Directors: Charles Crichton, John Cleese | Stars: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin
Votes: 153,900 | Gross: $63.49M
Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Kevin Kline – A Fish Called Wanda
Lou Diamond Phillips – Stand and Deliver
Alec Guinness – Little Dorrit
Martin Landau – Tucker: The Man and His Dream
Tim Robbins – Bull Durham
Dean Stockwell – Married to the Mob
Film Editing: Who Framed Roger Rabbit – Arthur Schmidt
Die Hard
Gorillas in the Mist
Mississippi Burning
Rain Man
78. Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
R | 119 min | Drama, Romance
A scheming widow and her manipulative ex-lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer, Swoosie Kurtz
Votes: 75,131 | Gross: $34.70M
Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Michelle Pfeiffer – Dangerous Liaisons
Joan Cusack – Working Girl
Geena Davis – The Accidental Tourist
Frances McDormand – Mississippi Burning
Mercedes Ruehl – Married to the Mob
Sigourney Weaver – Working Girl
Costume: Dangerous Liaisons – James Acheson
Coming to America
A Handful of Dust
Married to the Mob
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
79. The Accidental Tourist (1988)
PG | 121 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An emotionally distant writer of travel guides must carry on with his life after his son is killed and his marriage crumbles.
Director: Lawrence Kasdan | Stars: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Geena Davis, Amy Wright
Votes: 17,274 | Gross: $32.63M
Best Screenplay
Original: Rain Man – Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow
Big
Bull Durham
A Fish Called Wanda
Running on Empty
Adapted: Dangerous Liaisons – Christopher Hampton
The Accidental Tourist
Gorillas in the Mist
Little Dorrit
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
80. Pelle the Conqueror (1987)
PG-13 | 157 min | Drama
When his wife dies, Lasse takes his 12-year-old son, Pelle, from their home in Sweden to Denmark in search of a better life.
Director: Bille August | Stars: Pelle Hvenegaard, Max von Sydow, Erik Paaske, Björn Granath
Votes: 11,860 | Gross: $2.05M
Best Foreign Film
Winner: Pelle the Conqueror (Denmark) – Bille August
Hanussen (Hungary)
The Music Teacher (Belgium)
Salaam Bombay! (India)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Spain)
Makeup: Beetlejuice
Coming to America
Scrooged
Visual Effect: Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Die Hard
Willow
81. Working Girl (1988)
R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an opportunity to steal it back by pretending she has her boss' job.
Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, Alec Baldwin
Votes: 62,403 | Gross: $64.00M
Best Soundtrack
Song: "Let the River Run" Working Girl – Carly Simon
"Calling You" Bagdad Cafe
"Kokomo" Cocktail
"Twins" Twins
"Two Hearts" Buster
Score: Dangerous Liaisons – George Fenton
The Accidental Tourist
Gorillas in the Mist
The Milagro Beanfield War
Rain Man
82. Do the Right Thing (1989)
R | 120 min | Comedy, Drama
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson
Votes: 112,403 | Gross: $27.55M
Best Film
Winner: Do the Right Thing
Born on the Fourth of July
Dead Poets Society
Driving Miss Daisy
Field of Dreams
My Left Foot
83. Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
R | 145 min | Biography, Drama, War
The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country for which he fought.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Tom Cruise, Bryan Larkin, Raymond J. Barry, Caroline Kava
Votes: 115,927 | Gross: $70.00M
Best Director
Winner: Oliver Stone – Born on the Fourth of July
Woody Allen – Crimes and Misdemeanors
Peter Weir – Dead Poets Society
Spike Lee – Do the Right Thing
Jim Sheridan – My Left Foot
Sound: Born on the Fourth of July
The Abyss
Black Rain
Glory
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
84. My Left Foot (1989)
R | 103 min | Biography, Drama
Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.
Director: Jim Sheridan | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Alison Whelan, Kirsten Sheridan
Votes: 79,779 | Gross: $14.74M
Best Actor
Winner: Daniel Day-Lewis – My Left Foot
Kenneth Branagh – Henry V
Tom Cruise – Born on the Fourth of July
Billy Crystal – When Harry Met Sally...
Morgan Freeman – Driving Miss Daisy
Martin Landau – Crimes and Misdemeanors
Cinematography: Glory – Freddie Francis
The Abyss
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Born on the Fourth of July
The Fabulous Baker Boys
85. Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
PG | 99 min | Comedy, Drama
An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd, Patti LuPone
Votes: 117,548 | Gross: $106.59M
Best Actress
Winner: Jessica Tandy – Driving Miss Daisy
Pauline Collins – Shirley Valentine
Jessica Lange – Music Box
Andie MacDowell – sex, lies, and videotape
Michelle Pfeiffer – The Fabulous Baker Boys
Meg Ryan – When Harry Met Sally...
Production: Batman – Anton Furst
The Abyss
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Glory
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
86. Glory (1989)
R | 122 min | Biography, Drama, History
Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.
Director: Edward Zwick | Stars: Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes, Morgan Freeman
Votes: 144,417 | Gross: $26.83M
Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Denzel Washington – Glory
Danny Aiello – Do the Right Thing
Dan Aykroyd – Driving Miss Daisy
Sean Connery – Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Jack Nicholson – Batman
Robin Williams – Dead Poets Society
Film Editing: Born on the Fourth of July – David Brenner and Joe Hutshing
Do the Right Thing
The Fabulous Baker Boys
Glory
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
87. Dead Poets Society (1989)
PG | 128 min | Comedy, Drama
Maverick teacher John Keating returns in 1959 to the prestigious New England boys' boarding school where he was once a star student, using poetry to embolden his pupils to new heights of self-expression.
Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Josh Charles
Votes: 545,876 | Gross: $95.86M
Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Brenda Fricker – My Left Foot
Anjelica Huston – Enemies, A Love Story
Lena Olin – Enemies, A Love Story
Julia Roberts – Steel Magnolias
Laura San Giacomo – sex, lies, and videotape
Dianne Wiest – Parenthood
Costume: Henry V – Phyllis Dalton
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Driving Miss Daisy
Enemies, A Love Story
Harlem Nights
88. Field of Dreams (1989)
PG | 107 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella is inspired by a voice he can't ignore to pursue a dream he can hardly believe. Supported by his wife, Ray begins the quest by turning his ordinary cornfield into a place where dreams can come true.
Director: Phil Alden Robinson | Stars: Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones, Ray Liotta, Amy Madigan
Votes: 128,080 | Gross: $64.43M
Best Screenplay
Original: Do the Right Thing – Spike Lee
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Dead Poets Society
sex, lies, and videotape
When Harry Met Sally...
Adapted: Born on the Fourth of July – Oliver Stone and Ron Kovic
Driving Miss Daisy
Enemies, A Love Story
Field of Dreams
My Left Foot
89. Cinema Paradiso (1988)
R | 174 min | Drama, Romance
A filmmaker recalls his childhood when falling in love with the pictures at the cinema of his home village and forms a deep friendship with the cinema's projectionist.
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Enzo Cannavale, Antonella Attili, Isa Danieli
Votes: 282,864 | Gross: $11.99M
Best Foreign Film
Winner: Cinema Paradiso (Italy) – Giuseppe Tornatore
Camille Claudel (France)
A City of Sadness (Taiwan)
Jesus of Montreal (Canada)
Memories of a Marriage (Denmark)
Makeup: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Batman
Driving Miss Daisy
Visual Effect: The Abyss
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
90. The Little Mermaid (1989)
G | 83 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
A mermaid princess makes a Faustian bargain in an attempt to become human and win a prince's love.
Directors: Ron Clements, John Musker | Stars: Jodi Benson, Samuel E. Wright, Rene Auberjonois, Christopher Daniel Barnes
Votes: 290,942 | Gross: $111.54M
Best Soundtrack
Song: "Part of Your World" The Little Mermaid – Alan Menken and Howard Ashman
"After All" Chances Are
"Fight the Power" Do the Right Thing
"I Love To See You Smile" Parenthood
"Kiss the Girl" The Little Mermaid
Score: The Fabulous Baker Boys – Dave Grusin
Born on the Fourth of July
Driving Miss Daisy
Field of Dreams
The Little Mermaid
Tell Your Friends