1982

1. Sans Soleil- Chris.Marker
2. Blade Runner- Ridley Scott
3. Fanny and Alexander- Ingmar Bergman
4. The Thing- John Carpenter
5. Tenebrae- Dario Argento
6. Night of the Shooting Stars- Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
7. Pink Floyd: the Wall- Alan Parker
8. So Is This- Michael Snow [short]
9. White Dog- Sam Fuller
10. Tootsie- Sydney Pollack
11. The Verdict- Sidney Lumet
12. Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan- Nicholas Meyer
13. The Ballad of Narayama- Shohei Imamura
14. Burden of Dreams- Les Blank
15. The Year of Living Dangerously- Peter Weir
16. Le Beau Mariage- Eric Rohmer
17. Veronika Voss- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
18. Fitzcarraldo- Werner Herzog
19. Say Amen, Somebody- George T. Nierenberg
20. Victor/Victoria- Blake Edwards

Other notable shorts: Vincent (Tim Burton)

Ripe for re-appraisal: Conan the Barbarian (John Milius), Diner (Barry Levinson), The Draughtsman’s Contract (Peter Greenaway), One From the Heart (Francis Coppola), Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper), TRON (Steven Lisberger)

Need to see: Blind Chance (Krzystzof Kieslowski), Chan Is Missing (Wayne Wang), Danton (Andrzej Wajda), Diary For My Children (Marta Meszaros), Duel to the Death (Ching Siu-tung), Eternity (Raymond Red), Forbidden Zone (Richard Elfman), The Grey Fox (Phillip Borsos), Honkytonk Man (Clint Eastwood), The Horse (Ali Ozgenturk), Identification of a Woman (Michelangelo Antonioni), Miracle (Ishmael Bernal), Missing (Costa-Gavras), Moonlighting (Jerzy Skolimowski), On Top of the Whale (Raul Ruiz), Passion (Jean-Luc Godard), The Plague Dogs (Martin Rosen), Q (Larry Cohen), The State of Things (Wim Wenders), Tex (Tim Hunter), Toute une Nuit (Chantal Akerman), La Truite (Joseph Losey), Ulysse (Agnes Varda), Yol (Yilmaz Guney/Serif Goren)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Gandhi (Richard Attenborough)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Gandhi
César Awards, Best Film: La Balance (Bob Swaim)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: (tie) Missing and Yol
Venice, Golden Lion: The State of Things
Berlin, Golden Bear: Veronika Voss (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Toronto, Audience Award: Tempest (Paul Mazursky)