1980

1. The Shining- Stanley Kubrick
2. Out of the Blue- Dennis Hopper
3. The Stunt Man- Richard Rush
4. Raging Bull- Martin Scorsese
5. The Aviator's Wife- Eric Rohmer
6. Dressed to Kill- Brian DePalma
7. Airplane!- David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker
8. The Ninth Configuration- William Peter Blatty
9. Kagemusha- Akira Kurosawa
10. Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession- Nicolas Roeg
11. Stardust Memories- Woody Allen
12. The Long Good Friday- John MacKenzie
13. Atlantic City- Louis Malle
14. Melvin and Howard- Jonathan Demme
15. The Elephant Man- David Lynch
16. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back- Irvin Kershner
17. Coal Miner’s Daughter– Michael Apted

Ripe for re-appraisal: The Big Red One (Sam Fuller), Inferno (Dario Argento), Popeye (Robert Altman), Return of the Secaucus Seven (John Sayles), Sauve qui peut [la vie] (Jean-Luc Godard)

Need to see: Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Bronco Billy (Clint Eastwood), Carny (Robert Kaylor), The Competition (Joel Oliansky), Deathwatch (Bertrand Tavernier), The Falls (Peter Greenaway), Flash Gordon (Mike Hodges), The Great Rock’n’Roll Swindle (Julien Temple), Grown-Ups (Mike Leigh), Hardly Working (Jerry Lewis), Hopscotch (Ronald Neame), The Long Riders (Walter Hill), Loulou (Maurice Pialat), Lucifer Rising (Kenneth Anger), Manila by Night (Ishmael Bernal), Mon Oncle d’Amerique (Alain Resnais), Pepi, Luci, Bom… and Other Girls Like Mom (Pedro Almodovar), Shogun Assassin (Kenji Misumi and Robert Houston), Spetters (Paul Verhoeven), Zigeunerweisen (Seijun Suzuki)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Ordinary People (Robert Redford)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: The Elephant Man
César Awards, Best Film: The Last Metro (Francois Truffaut)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: (tie) All That Jazz (Bob Fosse) and Kagemusha
Venice, Golden Lion: (tie) Atlantic City and Gloria (John Cassavetes)
Berlin, Golden Bear: (tie) Heartland (Richard Pearce) and Palermo or Wolfsburg (Werner Schroeter)
Toronto, Audience Award: Bad Timing