1980:
1980 Endy Awards

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. The Big Red One
3. Heaven’s Gate
4. The Shining
5. Dangerous Encounters–First Kind
6. Airplane!
7. The Blues Brothers
8. Popeye
9. The Victim
10. The Fog
11. Caddyshack
12. The Young Master
13. Nine to Five
14. The Sword
15. Kagemusha
16. The Happenings
17. Dressed to Kill
18. Encounters of the Spooky Kind
19. Moana with Sound
20. Ordinary People
21. Mon oncle d’Amérique
22. We’re Going to Eat You
23. The Enigmatic Case
24. Flash Gordon
25. The Spooky Bunch
26. Cute Girl
27. Return to the 36th Chamber
28. The Buddhist Fist
29. Raging Bull
30. Breaker Morant
31. Heroes Shed No Tears
32. The Stunt Man
33. Stardust Memories
34. Clan of the White Lotus
35. Shogun Assassin
36. Superman II
37. Friday the 13th
38. Prom Night
39. American Gigolo
40. Laughing Time
41. The Gods Must Be Crazy
42. Herbie Goes Bananas

1981:
1981 Endy Awards

1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. Excalibur
3. One from the Heart
4. Reds
5. Pennies from Heaven
6. The Story of Woo Viet
7. Modern Romance
8. Le pont du Nord
9. They All Laughed
10. The Aviator’s Wife
11. The Prodigal Son
12. My Young Auntie
13. The Road Warrior
14. Yokohama BJ Blues
15. Thief
16. School in the Crosshairs
17. The Garden of Earthly Delights
18. Cutter’s Way
19. Escape from New York
20. Martial Club
21. Time Bandits
22. The Great Muppet Caper
23. Lola
24. Dreadnaught
25. Das Boot
26. Stripes
27. Security Unlimited
28. Bewitched
29. Blow Out
30. Tower of Death
31. Body Heat
32. The Evil Dead
33. My Dinner with Andre
34. An American Werewolf in London
35. Masked Avengers
36. Gallipoli
37. Clash of the Titans
38. Halloween II
39. For Your Eyes Only
40. Return of the Sentimental Swordsman
41. Victory
42. All the Wrong Clues (…For the Right Solution)
43. On Golden Pond
44. Play While You Play (aka Cheerful Wind)
45. Neighbors
46. Taps
47. Chariots of Fire
48. The Fox and the Hound
49. Dragonslayer

1982:
1982 Endy Awards

1. Nomad
2. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
3. Chan is Missing
4. The Miracle Fighters
5. Fitzcarraldo
6. Conan the Barbarian
7. The Thing
8. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
9. White Dog
10. The Slumber Party Massacre
11. Boat People
12. Ninja in the Dragon’s Den
13. A Good Marriage
14. The Atomic Café
15. The Secret of NIMH
16. Passion
17. The Verdict
18. In Our Time
19. Blade Runner
20. Carry On Pickpocket
21. The Green Green Grass of Home
22. Halloween III: Season of the Witch
23. Une chambre en ville
24. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
25. Buddha’s Palm
26. Burden of Dreams
27. Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid
28. Poltergeist
29. The Dead and the Deadly
30. Legendary Weapons of China
31. First Blood
32. Legend of a Fighter
33. King of Comedy
34. Airplane II: The Sequel
35. An Officer and a Gentleman
36. 48 Hrs
37. Rocky III
38. Sophie’s Choice
39. Human Lanterns
40. Aces Go Places
41. Mercenaries from Hong Kong
42. Cannery Row
43. An Exercise in Discipline – Peel
44. Cat People
45. House of Traps
46. Centipede Horror
47. Tootsie
48. Five Element Ninjas
49. The World According to Garp
50. Gandhi
51. Brave Archer and His Mate
52. Diner
53. Tron
54. Annie
55. The Man from Snowy River
56. Cat vs. Rat
57. The Dark Crystal
58. Pink Floyd: The Wall
59. The Man Who Saves the World (Turkish Star Wars)

1983:
1983 Endy Awards

1. Sans soleil
2. The Right Stuff
3. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
4. Pauline at the Beach
5. Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain
6. Videodrome
7. Michael Jackson’s Thriller
8. Scarface
9. Christine
10. Conquest
11. The Dead Zone
12. The Boxer’s Omen
13. The Boys from Fengkuei
14. Three Crowns of the Sailor
15. That Day, On the Beach
16. Return of the Jedi
17. Zelig
18. Trading Places
19. Winners & Sinners
20. WarGames
21. Project A
22. The Hunger
23. Growing Up
24. Aces Go Places II
25. Strange Brew
26. Duel to the Death
27. The Lady is the Boss
28. Something Wicked This Way Comes
29. The Sandwich Man
30. Shaolin Intruders
31. National Lampoon’s Vacation
32. The Keep
33. Eddie Murphy: Delirious
34. Terms of Endearment
35. Shaolin vs. Lama
36. Seeding of a Ghost
37. Risky Business
38. Never Cry Wolf
39. Sleepaway Camp
40. Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
41. The Outsiders
42. A Christmas Story
43. Gorky Park
44. Brainstorm
45. Holy Flame of the Martial World
46. Twilight Zone: The Movie
47. Octopussy
48. Mr. Mom
49. Superman III
50. Never Say Never Again
51. The High Road to China
52. Krull
53. Breathless

1984:
1984 Endy Awards

1. Shanghai Blues
2. Wheels on Meals
3. Stranger Than Paradise
4. The Eight-Diagram Pole Fighter
5. Starman
6. Choose Me
7. Gremlins
8. Stop Making Sense
9. Love in a Fallen City
10. This Is Spinal Tap
11. The Terminator
12. Long Arm of the Law
13. The Karate Kid
14. Body Double
15. Amadeus
16. Ghostbusters
17. Purple Rain
18. Yellow Earth
19. Streets of Fire
20. Radioactive Dreams
21. The Cotton Club
22. Repo Man
23. Love Streams
24. Footloose
25. A Summer at Grandpa’s
26. Full Moon in Paris
27. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
28. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
29. Cherie
30. Blood Simple
31. Boy Meets Girl
32. The Times of Harvey Milk
33. The Natural
34. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
35. Sixteen Candles
36. Furious
37. Once Upon a Time in America
38. Dune
39. The Siamese Twins
40. Broadway Danny Rose
41. The Happy Ghost
42. Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
43. Teppanyaki
44. Red Dawn
45. Paris, Texas
46. Beverly Hills Cop
47. Top Secret!
48. The Bounty
49. The Muppets Take Manhattan
50. Breakin’
51. Drunken Tai Chi
52. Cloak & Dagger
53. Dreamscape
54. Aces Go Places III: Our Man from Bond Street
55. Conan the Destroyer
56. The Last Starfighter
57. Abnormal Family: Older Brother’s Bride
58. Revenge of the Nerds
59. The Killing Fields
60. Romancing the Stone
61. Police Academy
62. Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan
63. 1984
64. The Never Ending Story
65. Splash
66. Supergirl
67. Nightmare on Elm Street
68. Tank

1985:
1985 Endy Awards

1. Ran
2. The Time to Live, The Time to Die
3. Police Story
4. Desperately Seeking Susan
5. Taipei Story
6. To Live and Die in LA
7. After Hours
8. Yes, Madam
9. Lost in America
10. A Room with a View
11. Trouble in Mind
12. My Name Ain’t Suzie
13. Day of the Dead
14. Back to the Future
15. Mr. Vampire
16. The Purple Rose of Cairo
17. Silverado
18. Out of Africa
19. Ladyhawke
20. Clue
21. Working Class
22. Women
23. Come and See
24. The Illegal Immigrant
25. Brazil
26. Return to Oz
27. The Breakfast Club
28. Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure
29. It’s a Drink! It’s a Bomb!
30. The Legend of the Stardust Brothers
31. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
32. Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Stars
33. Explorers
34. Disciples of the 36th Chamber
35. Fletch
36. Commando
37. My Lucky Stars
38. Real Genius
39. The Color Purple
40. The Goonies
41. Rocky IV
42. Witness
43. Puppy Love
44. Weird Science
45. Mismatched Couples
46. That’s Dancing!
47. Happy Ghost II
48. Young Sherlock Holmes
49. National Lampoon’s European Vacation
50. Rambo: First Blood Part II
51. Journey of the Doomed
52. St. Elmo’s Fire
53. The Black Cauldron
54. Teen Wolf
55. Spies Like Us
56. Legend
57. D.A.R.Y.L.
58. White Nights
59. A View to a Kill
60. The Man with One Red Shoe
61. King Solomon’s Mines
62. Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
63. Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
64. The Jewel of the Nile
65. Red Sonja

1986:
1986 Endy Awards

1. The Green Ray
2. The Terrorizers
3. Peking Opera Blues
4. A Better Tomorrow
5. His Motorbike, Her Island
6. The Fly
7. Bound for the Fields, the Mountains and the Seacoast
8. Aliens
9. Big Trouble in Little China
10. Manhunter
11. Dream Lovers
12. Platoon
13. Righting Wrongs
14. The Horse Thief
15. The Seventh Curse
16. Hannah and Her Sisters
17. Love Unto Waste
18. The Millionaires’ Express
19. Peggy Sue Got Married
20. The Mission
21. Dust in the Wind
22. Top Gun
23. Down By Law
24. Hoosiers
25. Royal Warriors
26. The Color of Money
27. Something Wild
28. Sunday in the Park with George
29. Passion
30. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
31. Jimi Plays Monterey
32. Castle in the Sky
33. Pretty in Pink
34. ‘Round Midnight
35. Under the Cherry Moon
36. The Name of the Rose
37. Labyrinth
38. Salvador
39. Martial Arts of Shaolin
40. The Armour of God
41. Happy Ghost III
42. Aces Go Places IV: You Never Die Twice
43. Blue Velvet
44. The Karate Kid Part II
45. Heroes Shed No Tears
46. Three Amigos
47. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
48. The River’s Edge
49. Sherman’s March
50. Stand By Me
51. She’s Gotta Have It
52. Howard the Duck
53. The Transformers: The Movie
54. The Great Mouse Detective
55. Heat
56. The Golden Child
57. The Magic Crystal
58. Down and Out in Beverly Hills
59. Sid and Nancy
60. Happy New Year, Charlie Brown
61. Short Circuit
62. Crocodile Dundee
63. Flight of the Navigator
64. No Retreat, No Surrender
65. SpaceCamp
66. Where’s Officer Tuba?
67. Gung Ho
68. Jumpin’ Jack Flash
69. Wildcats
70. Police Academy 3: Back in Training
71. Iron Eagle
72. Highlander
73. F/X
74. Gothic

1987:
1987 Endy Awards

1. Broadcast News
2. City on Fire
3. The Princess Bride
4. Rouge
5. Ishtar
6. Predator
7. Final Victory
8. Red Sorghum
9. Evil Dead II
10. Eastern Condors
11. Raising Arizona
12. Prince of Darkness
13. An Autumn’s Tale
14. Moonstruck
15. A Chinese Ghost Story
16. My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend
17. Daughter of the Nile
18. RoboCop
19. Mirage
20. Empire of the Sun
21. The Romance of Book and Sword/Princess Fragrance
22. The Witches of Eastwick
23. Neo Tokyo
24. Full Metal Jacket
25. Magnificent Warriors
26. Slumber Party Massacre II
27. Matewan
28. Dirty Dancing
29. Near Dark
30. Project A 2
31. Wings of Desire
32. Radio Days
33. The Living Daylights
34. Prison on Fire
35. No Way Out
36. The Last Emperor
37. Throw Mama from the Train
38. Planes, Trains and Automobiles
39. Roxanne
40. Withnail & I
41. Some Kind of Wonderful
42. Lethal Weapon
43. Babette’s Feast
44. Iron Angels
45. Less than Zero
46. A Better Tomorrow II
47. Innerspace
48. Woman Demon Human
49. The Untouchables
50. Beverly Hills Cop II
51. Spaceballs
52. Adventures in Babysitting
53. Easy Money
54. Dragnet
55. Rich and Famous
56. Heaven
57. Seven Years Itch
58. Wall Street
59. Maurice
60. Tragic Hero
61. The Secret of My Success
62. The Romancing Star
63. Good Morning, Vietnam
64. Fatal Attraction
65. The Lost Boys
66. The Haunted Cop Shop
67. Stakeout
68. The Running Man
69. Three Men and a Baby
70. La Bamba
71. Suspect
72. Batteries Not Included
73. Project X
74. Mannequin
75. Harry and the Hendersons
76. Baby Boom
77. Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold
78. Ernest Goes to Camp
79. Summer School
80. Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
81. Back to the Beach
82. Masters of the Universe
83. Teen Wolf Too
84. Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

1988:
1988 Endy Awards

1. My Neighbor Totoro
2. Bull Durham
3. School on Fire
4. The Last Temptation of Christ
5. Dangerous Liaisons
6. Distant Voices, Still Lives
7. They Live
8. Die Hard
9. The Moderns
10. Painted Faces
11. As Tears Go By
12. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
13. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
14. Heathers
15. Eight Men Out
16. On the Run
17. Chocolat
18. Beetlejuice
19. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad
20. Tiger Cage
21. Tiger on the Beat
22. Akira
23. Grave of the Fireflies
24. The Thin Blue Line
25. Chicken and Duck Talk
26. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
27. Police Story 2
28. The Eighth Happiness
29. Midnight Run
30. Starry is the Night
31. Dragons Forever
32. Coming to America
33. The Big Heat
34. Stand And Deliver
35. In the Line of Duty III
36. Hairspray
37. A Fish Called Wanda
38. The Milagro Beanfield War
39. Gangs
40. Willow
41. Final Justice
42. Frantic
43. Iron Angels II
44. The Vanishing
45. Gorillas in the Mist
46. Alien Nation
47. Songs from the Life of Leonard Cohen
48. Paper Marriage
49. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
50. The Inspector Wears Skirts
51. Rain Man
52. The Accused
53. License to Drive
54. Young Guns
55. Scrooged
56. Shoot to Kill
57. Working Girl
58. Talk Radio
59. Big
60. Mystic Pizza
61. Comic Book Confidential
62. Twins
63. Biloxi Blues
64. The Seventh Sign
65. Beaches
66. Mississippi Burning
67. Funny Farm
68. The Presidio
69. The Great Outdoors
70. Big Business
71. Red Heat
72. I Love Maria
73. Crocodile Dundee II
74. Rambo III
75. Short Circuit 2
76. Cocktail
77. The Dead Pool
78. Action Jackson
79. Caddyshack II
80. My Stepmother is an Alien
81. Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach

1989:
1989 Endy Awards

1. Do the Right Thing
2. The Killer
3. A City of Sadness
4. Kiki’s Delivery Service
5. Henry V
6. Pedicab Driver
7. A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon
8. When Harry Met Sally. . .
9. My Heart is that Eternal Rose
10. Eight Taels of Gold
11. All About Ah-Long
12. The ‘Burbs
13. God of Gamblers
14. A Fishy Story
15. Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
16. Full Moon in New York
17. Lonesome Dove
18. Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out
19. The Abyss
20. Miracles: Mr. Canton & Lady Rose
21. Field of Dreams
22. Batman
23. Drugstore Cowboy
24. Violent Cop
25. Say Anything. . .
26. Dead Poets Society
27. Mystery Train
28. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
29. Glory
30. In the Line of Duty 4
31. Crimes and Misdemeanors
32. License To Kill
33. Burning Ambition
34. Sweetie
35. Casino Raiders
36. Roger & Me
37. Major League
38. The Decalogue
39. Back to the Future Part II
40. Valmont
41. Road House
42. UHF
43. The Fabulous Baker Boys
44. Wild Search
45. The Iceman Cometh
46. Lethal Weapon 2
47. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
48. Devil Hunters
49. The Blonde Fury
50. Aces Go Places V: The Terracotta Hit
51. Cinema Paradiso
52. Steel Magnolias
53. The Little Mermaid
54. Who Cares
55. Weekend at Bernie’s
56. Parenthood
57. Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
58. Iron Angels III
59. My Left Foot
60. Just Heroes
61. Driving Miss Daisy
62. Princess Madam
63. Family Business
64. The Inspector Wears Skirts II
65. Uncle Buck
66. Troop Beverly Hills
67. The Dream Team
68. Three Fugitives
69. Ghostbusters II
70. Her Alibi
71. Look Who’s Talking
72. The Gods Must Be Crazy II
73. Sex, Lies and Videotape
74. Turner & Hooch
75. See No Evil, Hear No Evil
76. Fletch Lives
77. The Karate Kid Part III
78. The Wizard
79. We’re No Angels
80. K-9
81. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
82. Who’s Harry Crumb?
83. Police Academy 6: City Under Siege