10 лучших фильмов каждого года из 1980-х по версии Roger Ebert:

1980.
01. The Black Stallion (Carroll Ballard)
02. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
03. Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa)
04. Being There (Hal Ashby)
05. Ordinary People (Robert Redford)
06. The Great Santini (Lewis John Carlino)
07. The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner)
08. Coal Miner's Daughter (Michael Apted)
09. American Gigolo (Paul Schrader)
10. Best Boy (Ira Wohl)

1981.
01. My Dinner With Andre (Louis Malle)
02. Chariots of Fire (Hugh Hudson)
03. Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris)
04. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg)
05. Heartland (Richard Pearce)
06. Atlantic City (Louis Malle)
07. Thief (Michael Mann)
08. Body Heat (Lawrence Kasdan)
09. Tess (Roman Polanski)
10. Reds (Warren Beatty)

1982.
01. Sophie's Choice (Alan J. Pakula)
02. Diva (Jean-Jacques Beineix)
03. E.T. (Steven Spielberg)
04a. Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog)
04b. The Burden of Dreams (Les Blank)
05. Personal Best (Robert Towne)
06. Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen)
07. Mephisto (Istvan Szabo)
08. Moonlighting (Jerzy Skolimowski)
09. The Verdict (Sidney Lumet)
10. Wasn't That a Time (James B. Brown)

1983.
01. The Right Stuff (Philip Kaufman)
02. Terms of Endearment (James L. Brooks)
03. The Year of Living Dangerously (Peter Weir)
04. Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
05. Gandhi (Richard Attenborough)
06. El Norte (Gregory Nava)
07. Testament (Lynne Littman)
08. Silkwood (Mike Nicols)
09. Say Amen, Somebody (George T. Nierenberg)
10. Risky Business (Paul Brickman)

1984.
01. Amadeus (Milos Forman)
02. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
03. Love Streams (John Cassavetes)
04. This Is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner)
05. The Cotton Club (Francis Ford Coppola)
06. Secret Honor (Robert Altman)
07. The Killing Fields (Roland Jaffe)
08. Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch)
09. Choose Me (Alan Rudolph)
10. Purple Rain (Albert Magnoli)

1985.
01. The Color Purple (Steven Spielberg)
02. After Hours (Martin Scorsese)
03. The Falcon and the Snowman (John Schlesinger)
04. Prizzi's Honor (John Huston)
05. Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
06. Witness (Peter Weir)
07. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (George Miller/George Ogilvie)
08. Lost in America (Albert Brooks)
09. Streetwise (Martin Bell)
10. Blood Simple (Joel Coen)

1986.
01. Platoon (Oliver Stone)
02. Round Midnight (Bertrand Tavernier)
03. Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
04. Sid & Nancy (Alex Cox)
05. Lucas (David Seltzer)
06. Vagabond (Agnes Varda)
07. Trouble in Mind (Alan Rudolph)
08. Down and Out in Beverly Hills (Paul Mazursky)
09. Peggy Sue Got Married (Francis Ford Coppola)
10. Hard Choices (Rick King)

1987.
01. House of Games (David Mamet)
02. The Big Easy (Jim McBride)
03. Barfly (Barbet Schroeder)
04. The Last Emperor (Bernardo Bertolucci)
05. Moonstruck (Norman Jewison)
06. Prick Up Your Ears (Stephen Frears)
07. Radio Days (Woody Allen)
08. Broadcast News (James L. Brooks)
09. Lethal Weapon (Richard Donner)
10. Housekeeping (Bill Forsyth)

1988.
01. Mississippi Burning (Alan Parker)
02. The Accidental Tourist (Lawrence Kasdan)
03. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Philip Kaufman)
04. Shy People (Andrei Konchalovsky)
05. Salaam Bombay! (Mira Nair)
06. A Fish Called Wanda (Charles Crichton)
07. Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders)
08. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Robert Zemeckis)
09. Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam (Bill Couturie)
10. Running on Empty (Sidney Lumet)

1989.
01. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
02. Drugstore Cowboy (Gus Van Sant)
03. My Left Foot (Jim Sheridan)
04. Born on the Fourth of July (Oliver Stone)
05. Roger & Me (Michael Moore)
06. The Mighty Quinn (Carl Schenkel)
07. Field of Dreams (Phil Alden Robinson)
08. Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)
09. Driving Miss Daisy (Bruce Beresford)
10. Say Anything (Cameron Crowe)