1989

1) Do The Right Thing
2) The Cook, The Thief, The Wife and Her Lover
3) My Left Foot
4) Crimes And Misdemeanors
5) Drugstore Cowboy
6) Dead Poets Society
7) Casualties Of War
8) The Killer
9) The War Of The Roses
10) Enemies: A Love Story

Runners-Up: Sex, Lies and Videotape, Batman, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Back to the Future Part II, Born on the Fourth of July, Kill Me Again, Weekend at Bernie's, Road House, Roger and Me, Major League, Glory

1988

1) Die Hard
2) Who Framed Roger Rabbit
3) The Last Temptation of Christ
4) Rain Man
5) A Fish Called Wanda
6) Big
7) The Vanishing
8) Midnight Run
9) They Live
10) Eight Men Out

Runners-Up: Married to the Mob, Mississippi Burning, Women on the Verge of A Nervous Breakdown, Naked Gun, Coming to America, Dead Ringers, The Accidental Tourist, Frantic, Tucker: A Man and His Dream, Working Girl

1987

1) Broadcast News
2) The Princess Bride
3) Raising Arizona
4) Full Metal Jacket
5) The Untouchables
6) Near Dark
7) Radio Days
8) River's Edge
9) House of Games
10) Predator/RoboCop

Runners-Up: Evil Dead II, No Way Out, Fatal Attraction, Robocop, Dirty Dancing, Wall Street, Delirious, Tin Men, Hope and Glory

1986

1) Blue Velvet
2) The Fly 
3) Something Wild
4) Aliens
5) Platoon
6) Hannah And Her Sisters
7) Ferris Bueller's Day Off
8) My Beautiful Laundrette
9) Salvador 
10) Manhunter

Runners-Up: Sid, and Nancy, Down By Law, Mona Lisa, Three Amigos, Hoosiers, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, The Color of Money, Nothing in Common, Peggy Sue Got Married, Ruthless People, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Pretty in Pink, The Green Ray, Back to School

1985

1) Brazil
2) Back To The Future 
3) After Hours 
4) Witness 
5)  The Purple Rose Of Cairo
6) Prizzi's Honor
7) Ran
8) Mask
9) To Live and Die in L.A
10) Blood Simple

Runners-Up:  The Falcon and the Snowman, The Hit, Runaway Train, Lost in America, Day of the Dead, Pale Rider, The Breakfast Club, Shoah, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure

1984

1) Amadeus
2) The Terminator
3) This is Spinal Tap
4) The Temple of Doom
5) Broadway Danny Rose
6) Body Double 
7) The Killing Fields
8) Stranger Than Paradise
9) Tightrope
10) The Karate Kid

Runners-Up: The Natural, Secret Honor, A Soldier's Story, Police Academy, The Times of Harvey Milk, Places in the Heart, Ghostbusters, Repo Men, Nightmare on Elm Street, Paris Texas, Beverly Hills Cop, Once Upon A Time in America, Stop Making Sense, Love Streams

1983

1) The King of Comedy
2) Fanny & Alexander
3) Videodrome
4) Terms of Endearment
5) Zelig
6) Silkwood
7) Risky Business
8) WarGames
9) The Dead Zone
10) Bad Boys

Runners-Up: Star 80, Tender Mercies, A Christmas Story, Trading Places, Baby It's You, Return of the Jedi, Scarface, Tenebrae, Local Hero, Possession, L'Argent, A Nos Amours

1982

1) Gandhi
2) Missing
3) The Thing
4) The Verdict
5) Tootsie
6) Moonlighting
7) Shoot the Moon
8) The Year of Living Dangerously
9) The Road Warrior
10) The Atomic Cafe

Runners-Up: An Officer and a Gentleman, Sophie's Choice, Blade Runner, First Blood, Diner, White Dog, Fast Times at Ridgemont High