Top Films by Year (1980-1983)

**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.

1980

Rank	Title	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	Raging Bull*	Martin Scorsese	29
2	The Empire Strikes Back	Irvin Kershner	36
3	The Shining	Stanley Kubrick	41
4	Airplane!	Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker	164
5	The Blues Brothers	John Landis	343
6	The Elephant Man*	David Lynch	368
7	Caddyshack	Harold Ramis	528
8	The Long Good Friday	John Mackenzie	642
9	The Big Red One	Samuel Fuller	697
10	Atlantic City*	Louis Malle	784
11	Gregory's Girl	Bill Forsyth	904
12	Heaven's Gate	Michael Cimino	910
13	Ordinary People**	Robert Redford	959
14	Superman II	Richard Lester	971
15	Berlin Alexanderplatz	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	1174
16	Friday the 13th	Sean S. Cunningham	1267
17	Flash Gordon	Mike Hodges	1302
18	Coal Miner's Daughter*	Michael Apted	1326
19	Kagemusha	Akira Kurosawa	1416
20	The Fog	John Carpenter	1524
21	Dressed to Kill	Brian De Palma	1538
22	Cruising	William Friedkin	1549
23	Cannibal Holocaust	Ruggero Deodato	1609
24	Altered States	Ken Russell	1626
25	Nine to Five	Colin Higgins	1731
26	The Last Metro	François Truffaut	1896
27	The Long Riders	Walter Hill	1944
28	'Breaker' Morant	Bruce Beresford	2038
29	The Changeling	Peter Medak	2118
30	Fame	Alan Parker	2174
31	The Stunt Man	Richard Rush	2267
32	Stardust Memories	Woody Allen	2269
33	Mon oncle d'Amérique	Alain Resnais	2417
34	Gloria	John Cassavetes	2560
35	Stir Crazy	Sidney Poitier	2629
36	Bad Timing	Nicolas Roeg	2636
37	The Gods Must Be Crazy	Jamie Uys	2641

Rank	Title	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	Raiders of the Lost Ark*	Steven Spielberg	26
2	Das Boot	Wolfgang Petersen	247
3	The Road Warrior	George Miller	295
4	The Evil Dead	Sam Raimi	417
5	An American Werewolf in London	John Landis	436
6	Chariots of Fire**	Hugh Hudson	450
7	Escape from New York	John Carpenter	624
8	Body Heat	Lawrence Kasdan	702
9	Time Bandits	Terry Gilliam	851
10	Blow Out	Brian De Palma	1035
11	Gallipoli	Peter Weir	1135
12	Reds*	Warren Beatty	1204
13	Diva	Jean-Jacques Beineix	1523
14	Arthur	Steve Gordon	1690
15	Possession	Andrzej Zulawski	1719
16	On Golden Pond*	Mark Rydell	1773
17	Thief	Michael Mann	1789
18	Pixote	Hector Babenco	1793
19	Mephisto	István Szabó	1800
20	Victory	John Huston	1809
21	Excalibur	John Boorman	1923
22	My Dinner with Andre	Louis Malle	1996
23	Stripes	Ivan Reitman	2003
24	Scanners	David Cronenberg	2121
25	The Decline of Western Civilization	Penelope Spheeris	2258
26	Clash of the Titans	Desmond Davis	2277
27	The Beyond	Lucio Fulci	2308
28	Lola	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	2352
29	Cutter's Way	Ivan Passer	2436
30	Heavy Metal	Gerald Potterton	2492
31	The Howling	Joe Dante	2536
32	Outland	Peter Hyams	2687
33	Mommie Dearest	Frank Perry	2702
34	The Postman Always Rings Twice	Bob Rafelson	2714

Rank	Title	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	Blade Runner	Ridley Scott	11
2	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial*	Steven Spielberg	27
3	The Thing	John Carpenter	106
4	Fanny and Alexander	Ingmar Bergman	215
5	Tootsie*	Sydney Pollack	320
6	Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan	Nicholas Meyer	393
7	Fitzcarraldo	Werner Herzog	465
8	Gandhi**	Richard Attenborough	482
9	Fast Times at Ridgemont High	Amy Heckerling	536
10	Koyaanisqatsi	Godfrey Reggio	538
11	Poltergeist	Tobe Hooper	560
12	The King of Comedy	Martin Scorsese	604
13	First Blood	Ted Kotcheff	775
14	Tron	Steven Lisberger	874
15	The Verdict*	Sidney Lumet	1075
16	Diner	Barry Levinson	1084
17	The Draughtsman's Contract	Peter Greenaway	1116
18	Sophie's Choice	Alan J. Pakula	1152
19	The Secret of NIMH	Don Bluth	1203
20	Burden of Dreams	Les Blank	1323
21	Victor/Victoria	Blake Edwards	1354
22	Conan the Barbarian	John Milius	1433
23	Pink Floyd the Wall	Alan Parker	1663
24	An Officer and a Gentleman	Taylor Hackford	1664
25	48 Hrs.	Walter Hill	1919
26	The Year of Living Dangerously	Peter Weir	2045
27	Annie	John Huston	2097
28	Rocky III	Sylvester Stallone	2108
29	Personal Best	Robert Towne	2193
30	The Dark Crystal	Jim Henson and Frank Oz	2212
31	Missing*	Costa-Gavras	2295
32	Yol	Serif Gören and Yilmaz Güney	2405
33	The World According to Garp	George Roy Hill	2411
34	My Favorite Year	Richard Benjamin	2453
35	Tenebrae	Dario Argento	2542
36	Liquid Sky	Slava Tsukerman	2725
37	Veronika Voss	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	2799
38	Querelle	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	2806

Rank	Title	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	Scarface	Brian De Palma	202
2	Return of the Jedi	Richard Marquand	236
3	Videodrome	David Cronenberg	349
4	A Christmas Story	Bob Clark	548
5	Sans soleil	Chris Marker	561
6	The Right Stuff*	Philip Kaufman	603
7	Trading Places	John Landis	632
8	Local Hero	Bill Forsyth	894
9	Terms of Endearment**	James L. Brooks	905
10	Nostalgia	Andrei Tarkovsky	943
11	Risky Business	Paul Brickman	1044
12	Zelig	Woody Allen	1328
13	The Big Chill*	Lawrence Kasdan	1429
14	L'Argent	Robert Bresson	1495
15	National Lampoon's Vacation	Harold Ramis	1516
16	Rumble Fish	Francis Ford Coppola	1529
17	À nos amours	Maurice Pialat	1607
18	The Ballad of Narayama	Shôhei Imamura	1670
19	The Man with Two Brains	Carl Reiner	1702
20	The Hunger	Tony Scott	1805
21	The Dead Zone	David Cronenberg	1816
22	The Outsiders	Francis Ford Coppola	1892
23	Silkwood	Mike Nichols	1924
24	Monty Python's The Meaning of Life	Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones	2019
25	Born in Flames	Lizzie Borden	2070
26	Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence	Nagisa Ôshima	2162
27	Yentl	Barbra Streisand	2433
28	Wild Style	Charlie Ahearn	2444
29	El Sur	Víctor Erice	2494
30	El Norte	Gregory Nava	2598
31	Tender Mercies*	Bruce Beresford	2698

**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.