The Year in Film: 1985


Best Picture
#1: Brazil (dir: Terry Gilliam)
#2: After Hours (dir: Martin Scorsese)
#3: Ran (dir: Akira Kurosawa)
#4: Kiss of the Spider Woman (dir: Hector Babenco)
#5: Clue (dir: Jonathan Lynn)
#6: Death of a Salesman (dir: Volker Schlondorff)
#7: My Life as a Dog (dir: Lasse Hallstrom)
#8: Vagabond
 (dir: Agnes Varda)
#9: Witness
 (dir: Peter Weir)
#10: The Purple Rose of Cairo (dir: Woody Allen)

Honorable Mentions: Prizzi’s Honor
 (dir: John Huston), The Official Story (dir: Luis Puenzo), The Color Purple (dir: Steven Spielberg)Back to the Future (dir: Robert Zemeckis), and Men… (dir: Doris Dorrie).