1980

1. Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme)
2. Airplane! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker)
3. The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner)
4. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
5. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
6. Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma)
7. The Blues Brothers (John Landis)
8. The Stunt Man (Richard Rush)
9. Return of the Secaucus 7 (John Sayles)
10. The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
11. Grown-Ups (Mike Leigh)

Almost There: Altered States (Ken Russell), Bad Timing (Nicolas Roeg), The Fog (John Carpenter), Hopscotch (Ronald Neame), Lightning over Water (Nicholas Ray and Wim Wenders), The Ninth Configuration (William Peter Blatty), Out of the Blue (Dennis Hopper), Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe [short] (Les Blank).

Have Yet to See: The Big Red One (Samuel Fuller), Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa), The Long Riders (Walter Hill), Mon Oncle d'Amerique (Alain Resnais).