1992

1. Glengarry Glen Ross- James Foley
2. Unforgiven- Clint Eastwood
3. Malcolm X- Spike Lee
4. Un Coeur en Hiver- Claude Sautet
5. Raising Cain- Brian DePalma
6. Reservoir Dogs- Quentin Tarantino
7. Lorenzo’s Oil- George Miller
8. The Long Day Closes- Terence Davies
9. The Crying Game- Neil Jordan
10. Lessons of Darkness- Werner Herzog
11. A Tale of Winter- Eric Rohmer
12. Hard Boiled- John Woo
13. The Player- Robert Altman
14. Brother’s Keeper- Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky
15. Dead Alive- Peter Jackson
16. Porco Rosso- Hayao Miyazaki
17. Husbands and Wives- Woody Allen
18. Red Rock West- John Dahl

Notable shorts: It Wasn't Love (Sadie Benning), These Boots (Aki Kaurismäki); Those Were the Days (Aki Kaurismäki)

Ripe for re-appraisal: Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara), Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven), Deep Cover (Bill Duke), Howards End (James Ivory), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch)

Need to see: Actress (Stanley Kwan), Another Girl Another Planet (Michael Almereyda), The Best Intentions (Bille August), Bitter Moon (Roman Polanski), Careful (Guy Maddin), Celine (Jean-Claude Brisseau), Dragon Inn (Raymond Lee), Guelwaar (Ousmane Sembene), The Heroic Trio (Johnnie To), Highway Patrolman (Alex Cox), The Hours and Times (Christopher Munch), Hyenas (Djibril Diop Mambety), Interpolations I-V (Stan Brakhage), L. 627 (Bertrand Tavernier), The Last Bolshevik (Chris Marker), Laws of Gravity (Nick Gomez), Once Upon a Time in China II (Tsui Hark), The Quince Tree of the Sun (Victor Erice), Rebels of the Neon God (Tsai Ming-liang), Rock Hudson’s Home Movies (Mark Rapaport), Savage Nights (Cyril Collard), Stolen Children (Gianni Amelio), The Story of Qiu Ju (Zhang Yimou), Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America (Craig Baldwin), La Vie de Boheme (Aki Kaurismaki)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Unforgiven
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Howards End
César Awards, Best Film: Savage Nights (Cyril Collard)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: The Best Intentions
Venice, Golden Lion: The Story of Qiu Ju
Berlin, Golden Bear: Grand Canyon (Lawrence Kasdan)
Sundance, Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): In the Soup (Alexandre Rockwell)
Toronto, Audience Award: Strictly Ballroom (Baz Luhrmann)