Best of the Decade:
1980s

Director of the Decade:
Paul Verhoeven

Spetters (1981, US Release Date), The 4th Man (1984, US Release Date), Flesh + Blood (1985), RoboCop (1987)

Actor of the Decade:
Jack Nicholson

The Shining (1980), The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981), Reds (1981), The Border (1982), Terms of Endearment (1983), Prizzi’s Honor (1985), Heartburn (1986), The Witches of Eastwick (1987), Ironweed (1987), Batman (1989)

Actress of the Decade:
Sandrine Bonnaire

A Nos Amours (1984, US Release Date), Police (1985), Vagabond (1986, US Release Date), Under the Sun of Satan (1989, US Release Date), A Few Days with Me (1989, US Release Date), Monsieur Hire (1989, US Festival Premiere)

New Voice of the Decade:
Spike Lee

Writer/Director: She’s Gotta Have It (1986), School Daze (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989)

Actor: She’s Gotta Have It (1986), School Daze (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989)

Producers of the Decade:
Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, and Frank Marshall

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981; Marshall and Spielberg only), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982; Spielberg and Kennedy only), Poltergeist (1982), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), Gremlins (1984), Back to the Future (1985), Fandango (1985), The Goonies (1985), Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), The Color Purple (1985), The Money Pit (1986), Empire of the Sun (1987), Innerspace (1987), *batteries not included (1987), Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989; Marshall and Spielberg only), Back to the Future Part II (1989), Always (1989)

Screenwriter of the Decade:
Éric Rohmer

The Aviator’s Wife (1981), A Good Marriage (1982), Pauline at the Beach (1983), Full Moon in Paris (1984), The Green Ray (1986), Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987), Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987)

Cinematographer of the Decade:
Chris Menges

Babylon (1980), Looks and Smiles (1981), Made in Britain (1982), Angel (1982), Local Hero (1983), Comfort & Joy (1984), The Killing Fields (1984), Marie (1985), The Mission (1986), Shy People (1987), A World Apart (1988, directed)

Composer of the Decade:
Philip Glass

Koyaanisqatsi (1982), Mishima: A Life in a Four Chapters (1985), Hamburger Hill (1987), Powaqqatsi (1988), The Thin Blue Line (1988), The Church (1989)

Editor of the Decade:
Ronald Sanders

Scanners (1981), Videodrome (1983), The Dead Zone (1983), Firestarter (1984), The Fly (1986), Dead Ringers (1988)

Production Designer of the Decade:
Dean Tavoularis

One from the Heart (1981), The Escape Artist (1982), Hammett (1982), The Outsiders (1983), Rumble Fish (1983), Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), Gardens of Stone (1987), Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)

Costume Designer of the Decade:
James Acheson

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Time Bandits (1981), Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life (1983), Brazil (1985), Highlander (1986), The Last Emperor (1987), Dangerous Liaisons (1988)

Top 20 Films of the Decade

Do the Right Thing (dir: Spike Lee; 1989)
Come and See (dir: Elem Klimov; 1987, US Release Date)
Fanny & Alexander (dir: Ingmar Bergman; 1983 US Release Date)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (dir: Steven Spielberg; 1982)
The Fly (dir: David Cronenberg; 1986)
Blow Out (dir: Brian De Palma; 1981)
A Short Film About Killing (dir: Krzysztof Kieslowski; 1989 US Release Date)
The 4th Man (dir: Paul Verhoeven; 1984 US Release Date)
RoboCop (dir: Paul Verhoeven; 1987)
Mon Oncle d’Amérique (dir: Alain Resnais, 1980)
The Shining (dir: Stanley Kubrick; 1980)
Raging Bull (dir: Martin Scorsese; 1980)
Ms. 45 (dir: Abel Ferrara; 1981)
Fitzcarraldo (dir: Werner Herzog; 1982)
Das Boot (dir: Wolfgang Peterson; 1982 US Release Date)
When Father Was Away on Business (dir: Emir Kusturica; 1985)
Drugstore Cowboy (dir: Gus Van Sant; 1989)
The Right Stuff (dir: Philip Kaufman; 1983)
Baby It's You (dir: John Sayles; 1983)
Dangerous Liaisons (dir: Stephen Frears; 1988)