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	The Shining	Stanley Kubrick	22
2	The Empire Strikes Back	Irvin Kershner	29
3	Raging Bull*	Martin Scorsese	44
4	Airplane!	Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker	196
5	The Blues Brothers	John Landis	351
6	The Elephant Man*	David Lynch	385
7	Caddyshack	Harold Ramis	563
8	Superman II	Richard Lester	723
9	Friday the 13th	Sean S. Cunningham	738
10	The Long Good Friday	John Mackenzie	834
11	The Big Red One	Samuel Fuller	863
12	Heaven's Gate	Michael Cimino	1107
13	Gregory's Girl	Bill Forsyth	1131
14	Dressed to Kill	Brian De Palma	1174
15	Ordinary People**	Robert Redford	1249
16	Cruising	William Friedkin	1270
17	Kagemusha	Akira Kurosawa	1326
18	The Fog	John Carpenter	1455
19	Flash Gordon	Mike Hodges	1508
20	Coal Miner's Daughter*	Michael Apted	1552
21	Nine to Five	Colin Higgins	1559
22	Atlantic City*	Louis Malle	1574
23	Fame	Alan Parker	1641
24	The Changeling	Peter Medak	1681
25	Berlin Alexanderplatz	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	1684
26	Cannibal Holocaust	Ruggero Deodato	1888
27	Altered States	Ken Russell	2064
28	Pixote	Hector Babenco	2329
29	The Last Metro	François Truffaut	2452
30	'Breaker' Morant	Bruce Beresford	2497
31	The King and the Mockingbird	Paul Grimault	2625
32	Gloria	John Cassavetes	2662
33	Mon oncle d'Amérique	Alain Resnais	2675
34	The Long Riders	Walter Hill	2722
35	The Stunt Man	Richard Rush	2829
36	Bad Timing	Nicolas Roeg	3053

Rank	Title	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	Raiders of the Lost Ark*	Steven Spielberg	28
2	Das Boot	Wolfgang Petersen	217
3	The Road Warrior	George Miller	325
4	The Evil Dead	Sam Raimi	397
5	An American Werewolf in London	John Landis	431
6	Chariots of Fire**	Hugh Hudson	504
7	Escape from New York	John Carpenter	528
8	Time Bandits	Terry Gilliam	821
9	Blow Out	Brian De Palma	872
10	Body Heat	Lawrence Kasdan	957
11	Gallipoli	Peter Weir	1137
12	Possession	Andrzej Zulawski	1176
13	The Decline of Western Civilization	Penelope Spheeris	1461
14	On Golden Pond*	Mark Rydell	1497
15	Thief	Michael Mann	1506
16	Excalibur	John Boorman	1736
17	Reds*	Warren Beatty	1837
18	Victory	John Huston	1901
19	Scanners	David Cronenberg	2024
20	The Beyond	Lucio Fulci	2046
21	Diva	Jean-Jacques Beineix	2167
22	The Howling	Joe Dante	2191
23	My Dinner with Andre	Louis Malle	2192
24	Mommie Dearest	Frank Perry	2608
25	Stripes	Ivan Reitman	2614
26	Heavy Metal	Gerald Potterton	2647
27	Clash of the Titans	Desmond Davis	2695
28	Ms. 45	Abel Ferrara	2838
29	Mephisto	István Szabó	2886
30	Polyester	John Waters	2966
31	Arthur	Steve Gordon	3025
32	The Fox and the Hound	Ted Berman, Richard Rich, and Art Stevens	3026
33	Outland	Peter Hyams	3059

Rank	Title	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	Blade Runner	Ridley Scott	12
2	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial*	Steven Spielberg	27
3	The Thing	John Carpenter	63
4	Fanny and Alexander	Ingmar Bergman	253
5	Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan	Nicholas Meyer	317
6	Tootsie*	Sydney Pollack	359
7	Poltergeist	Tobe Hooper	398
8	Gandhi**	Richard Attenborough	626
9	Fast Times at Ridgemont High	Amy Heckerling	640
10	Koyaanisqatsi	Godfrey Reggio	704
11	Fitzcarraldo	Werner Herzog	712
12	The King of Comedy	Martin Scorsese	875
13	First Blood	Ted Kotcheff	1011
14	Sophie's Choice	Alan J. Pakula	1075
15	Tron	Steven Lisberger	1134
16	The Secret of NIMH	Don Bluth	1156
17	The Verdict*	Sidney Lumet	1346
18	Conan the Barbarian	John Milius	1410
19	Victor/Victoria	Blake Edwards	1636
20	Diner	Barry Levinson	1677
21	The Draughtsman's Contract	Peter Greenaway	1707
22	An Officer and a Gentleman	Taylor Hackford	1721
23	Burden of Dreams	Les Blank	1866
24	Annie	John Huston	1935
25	Personal Best	Robert Towne	1982
26	Pink Floyd the Wall	Alan Parker	2081
27	The Dark Crystal	Jim Henson and Frank Oz	2100
28	Missing*	Costa-Gavras	2477
29	Losing Ground	Kathleen Collins	2541
30	The World According to Garp	George Roy Hill	2559
31	The Year of Living Dangerously	Peter Weir	2591
32	Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains	Lou Adler	2606
33	Rocky III	Sylvester Stallone	2611
34	Querelle	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	2659
35	Wild Style	Charlie Ahearn	2661
36	Yol	Serif Gören and Yilmaz Güney	2669
37	Creepshow	George A. Romero	2683
38	Liquid Sky	Slava Tsukerman	2725
39	My Favorite Year	Richard Benjamin	2767
40	48 Hrs.	Walter Hill	2821
41	The Last Unicorn	Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin Jr.	2990

Rank	Title	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	Return of the Jedi	Richard Marquand	219
2	Scarface	Brian De Palma	220
3	Videodrome	David Cronenberg	421
4	The Right Stuff*	Philip Kaufman	589
5	A Christmas Story	Bob Clark	624
6	Sans soleil	Chris Marker	700
7	Trading Places	John Landis	818
8	Terms of Endearment**	James L. Brooks	894
9	Local Hero	Bill Forsyth	1088
10	The Outsiders	Francis Ford Coppola	1255
11	L'Argent	Robert Bresson	1257
12	Nostalgia	Andrei Tarkovsky	1478
13	Zelig	Woody Allen	1493
14	National Lampoon's Vacation	Harold Ramis	1509
15	The Big Chill*	Lawrence Kasdan	1656
16	Born in Flames	Lizzie Borden	1759
17	Rumble Fish	Francis Ford Coppola	1784
18	Risky Business	Paul Brickman	1907
19	The Dead Zone	David Cronenberg	1990
20	Silkwood	Mike Nichols	2112
21	The Hunger	Tony Scott	2115
22	Yentl	Barbra Streisand	2168
23	The Ballad of Narayama	Shôhei Imamura	2190
24	Splash	Ron Howard	2208
25	À nos amours	Maurice Pialat	2210
26	Monty Python's The Meaning of Life	Terry Jones	2375
27	Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence	Nagisa Ôshima	2588
28	The Man with Two Brains	Carl Reiner	2873
29	The Fourth Man	Paul Verhoeven	2946
30	El Sur	Víctor Erice	2980
31	Sleepaway Camp	Robert Hiltzik	3049

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