1980

1. Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
2. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
3. The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner)
4. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
5. Airplane! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker)
6. Atlantic City (Louis Malle)
7. Stardust Memories (Woody Allen)
8. Inferno (Dario Argento)
9. The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
10. Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa)

Honorable Mentions:
The Fog (John Carpenter), Heaven's Gate (Michael Cimino), Dressed To Kill (Brian De Palma), The Big Red One (Sam Fuller), Ordinary People (Robert Redford), American Gigolo (Paul Schrader), Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris), Popeye (Robert Altman), From the Life of the Marionettes (Ingmar Bergman), Altered States (Ken Russell)